Ahh, thank you so much ^-^ It means a lot that you took the time to play through and find all of the endings, and then to come and write such a lovely comment/feedback too! Thank you <3

I do kind of wish I had time to learn more about text effects for this project because I would have loved to do more in that sort of arena, but it’s one of those things I don’t know much about still >.< haha. 

Getting the loop right on the background was killing me x3 I tried so many combinations but the loop point just refused to behave in Unity even if it looked seamless in the video player T_T I had to put an extra effect in the end to try and make it look less jarring xD but I’m glad it worked out in the end cos I was kinda anxious it still looked bad at the point of looping!

Vivian did indeed do the most epic job of bringing Styx to life :D The game wouldn’t be the same without her amazing voice talent :3 I’m glad you think that the effects I applied added to the voice rather than taking from it because I spent a long time trying to get the balance to sound right, haha. In the beginning, it was just too much and overpowering the performance, so I had to do a lot of tweaking to try and get it to a place where it didn’t feel so heavy.

It always means so much when fellow devs have fun with anything I’ve made cos you guys know how much effort it takes to make these things, even if they’re just small like this one, haha, so it means heaps when you can see all the thought and details that have gone into stuff :3

It’s funny you should mention Styx calling the player “Friend” because in the first draft of the script, I had used the word a lot more than what made it into the final version, and a big part of the reason I cut down on the use of it was because I couldn’t get The Inbetweeners out of my head xD Every time I saw the word “friend” all I heard was the silly boys repeating the word in the silly voice that they do in the show x3

I’m glad you liked endings 2 & 3 because I almost cut one of them in favour of expanding one of the others, just because of their similarities, but decided to keep em both in the end, haha.

And I’m just super happy in general that you found it enjoyable overall :D I’ve had Karamu on my backlog of stuff I wanna play for a while now! I just never give myself enough time to actually play games, so my backlog is kinda huge T_T It looks so damn good though!!

Also, I just checked your profile again and saw MindMindMind which looks 1000% my cup of tea, so that’s on the backlog too now x3 I’m so behind T_T I wanted to check out everything from Stained Red and YanJam, but I’ve not even started yet.

It’s my own fault cos I keep jumping from one jam to the next without any breaks like an idiot >.< My PC is broken now though, so I’m hoping I might get to play some of my backlog on the potato laptop if it can handle it!

Weirdly, I thought I was already following you, but I must’ve come across your page in the past while I wasn’t logged in or something, so I’m gonna go rectify that right now, haha. 

Thanks so much again for taking the time to play & leaving such a lovely comment :3

Huzzah :D Super glad you had fun with it!! Cheers for checking it out <3

Yeah, it just wouldn’t be the same without Vivian’s epic voice acting x3 As soon as I had the idea for the character, I knew I desperately wanted to cast her, haha. I’d been dying to work with her for a while, and I really hope we end up having the opportunity to work together again :3

I’m so glad you like the music too ^-^ 

I’m still excited to check out Our Lighthouse! I haven’t had much of a chance to play many of the O2A2 games yet cos I’ve spent most of this past week on remote support sessions with the tech team from where I got my new PC, and ultimately, it’s being sent back for a refund >.< The courier picked it up this morning, so I’m without a PC for the foreseeable future.

The lil potato laptop should still be able to run it at least :3 I just need a night where it’s not boiling hot in bed to chill out and play some O2A2 stuff! Haha. I have this weird habit where I can’t play games during daylight hours x3 Or if I do, I don’t enjoy them as much as playing in the dark!

Glad you had fun with it :D Believe me, I was surprised myself xD It was just one of those spontaneous things, haha. Probably not the wisest decision, but it’s done now x3

I can’t really push myself much now anyways since my PC is dead again and being shipped back to the company for a refund T_T haha. I can use the potato laptop for some tasks, but it’s so slow that it’s impossible to achieve a great deal with it >.<

Thank you for always being so sweet :3 I hope you’re doing well yourself!

Yay ^-^ I’m so glad you had fun with it! And that's so cool you included it in your video too! :D 

That was a lot of a fun moving the sprite like that, haha. It made me feel kinda lazy for not including much sprite movement in my longer projects, but it was so much work just for a short game T_T haha. Also, I feel like the movement suits Styx, but if I did that with human characters it would just look really weird anyways x3

Thanks so much for checking out the lil game <3

PS. I adore the thumbnail for the vid! It looks so cooool ^-^

And literal headaches too cos I was tanking ibuprofen for most of last week xD (with food, ofc, I’m not a total idiot x3)

Thank you, though :3 That really does mean a lot. I felt fairly proud of the lil project as things were coming to a close and I was testing, but when my PC died & it came to actually releasing it, I was suddenly filled with an all-encompassing dread that perhaps it was awful, or chock full of bugs since I didn’t get to test as much as I would have liked! >.<

That’s such a relief to hear about the VA and the effects I put on the voice too because that’s always in the back of my mind whenever I try to make FX for characters! The last thing I want to do is lose the actual performance the VA put in >.< so I’m super conscious of trying to ensure the FX aren’t overbearing. I couldn’t really tell with this one whether they were or not.

I know when I was testing different FX combos, I ruled a few out because they did seem like too much, haha. With there being around 5 different FX on Styxs’ regular voice in the final version though, I still worried it was too much x3 I did purposefully set them to come through at about 50% strength rather than full though to try and offset their power.

Thank you again! You are beyond amazing <3 I tried to rest over the weekend cos I had a migraine for most of it, and then when I felt better, I thought I’d go on a nice walk with my pops, but managed to fall over into some stinging nettles xD I think the world has it in for me at the moment, haha. Hope you got to have a decent weekend!!

The best kind of rain :D Well, besides maybe a downpour of quokkas or something cos that would obviously be superior x3 I'm so excited to play a bunch of O2A2 entries! Since my main PC is buggered and even the potato laptop should be able to handle micro VNs, it's the perfect excuse to dive in later as a weekend treat :3

Ahh, yeah, that's why I figured I better make a guide cos I imagined ending 01 would be the one that is most commonly found, and with no save/load, I could see it getting kinda frustrating to keep going round in circles getting the same ending >.< haha. 

I tried to make it sorta similar to last year's O2A2 project but simplify it more since I saw a few people got a little confused with The Hostage x3 but then I worried that maybe I made The Shuddering too simple to the point that it might be boring to try and see all the endings >.< So I'm glad to hear that wasn't the case at least :D 

I could ramble forever about how much fun I had making that music track x3 I didn't realise it had gotten so long though xD Cos there was a point where it was pretty short, and I kept thinking to myself, I need to make this a little longer, and then somehow it ended up being probably the longest track I've ever made, haha. I think I just got a bit lost in it, which I guess is appropriate for the theme of the game!

I had been dying to work with Vivian on something for a while, so the second Styx popped into my head, so did Vivian's voice :D I was just worried it might not work out with everything being such short notice and a tight deadline, but Vivian was incredible :3

It was quite fun to try and match the sprite movements and expressions with the voice acting! I rarely use the easing parameters in Naninovel cos anything other than the default option for shifting sprites usually looks odd x3 so it was nice to mess around with that more here where it fit, haha.

Loving the puns x3 I would throw some back but my brain is barely functioning at this point! Although, there's a sort of unintentional one in the first paragraph xD

Thanks for checking this one out + always being so kind :3 It means a hell of a lot!