yes! The latest update went to patrons last Friday and should be up on this page in a month or so. We’ll announce the specific date in a couple of weeks!
Yes we are okay and alive! Thank you for thinking of us. 💕
We’ve spent the last several years caught in a vortex of client work on other indie games to stay afloat and build our game development experience and relationships— coming up on this holiday season we’ve had an early break on QA work, which is financially somewhat concerning… but has left an open space to devote time and energy to finally putting out Elsie’s chapter 2 content, then to spend NaNoWriMo on Nikolai, then Vivietta and Deka.
I’m hoping someday we can make enough from our original work to be able to devote time more regularly with more stability, but in the meantime at least one update is coming publicly at the end of November, and others will see progress! We’ll aim to make devlogs more frequently again in the future so you can hear more of what is happening with it.
Hi there! I don't know if this is still being worked on actively, however I discovered a bug a while ago while playing. In the scene in chapter two where francis is talking to you about your date with Deka, when the option to say either it was or wasn't a date comes up, both of the options lead to a bug screen. I decided to investigate this on my own and I believe I found the problem!
It said ""plot/ch2/ch2_03_frances_doubt.rpyc", line 116, in script" had an issue defining name "d". It seems that in the file "characters.rpyc" you defined a lot of charaters, such as nikolai, as a letter like "n" however it seems like Deka was left out of that list, meaning there wasn't a line defining Deka as "d". I could be completely wrong with this, as I don't actually make games and I was using an online tool to view the files, but it was just something I wanted to check out.
Thank you for letting us know about this! Your investigation did properly identify the source of the problem: Because Deka doesn’t speak verbally, no character was defined ‘d’ for just ‘deka’, and instead there are two; ‘dw’ for ‘deka writing’ and ‘dt’ for ‘deka typewriter’. So, when we went to track the character in the romance/friend list, it was too easy to pick the wrong one.
Thanks to your comment, the issue is fixed internally as of today! It didn’t make it into the most recent Patreon build (from last Friday, 10/27), but will be in the public release of Elsie’s chapter 2 content- which should be coming out around the end of November.
WOOOOOOO! I am so excited! I was starting to think this would be an abandoned project, but I am so glad it isn't! I am also very happy that I was able to help, I have always wanted to do something to help with a video game, so thats one item off my bucket list.
I really love this game and I think about it 24/7 lol. I'm madly in love with Cailean I wanna smooch da handsome man- I wonder if the next update will come this year
It will! Elsie’s second date was released on Patreon last Friday, so should be publicly available around the end of November. There isn’t much new in it for Cailean- but Tremaine has a full sprite with expressions, which makes a big difference to the experience of every scene he’s in. Feel threatened by an overprotective elder brother figure… now in HD color ✨
I’m also excited to hear it’s made such an impact for you! If you’re ever looking for more content/info or feel like you’d like to chat with other people who are thinking about it A Lot, Discord is our most active community— and I know there’s at least one 24/7 Cailean Treasurer there who might enjoy some additional camaraderie against the red-feathered flock. 🐦
I played this game around when it first came out and kept track of all the early updates, I was a little disappointed to see that updates haven't made in awhile after revisiting it but I joined the discord and it looks like they are still working on the game and it hasn't been abandoned! They have just been focusing on other work and are resuming working on Monstrata as of a few months ago
Thank you so much for vouching for us! I know it’s disappointing for everyone that things have been silent for so long. I promise, it won’t be forever!
I remember this game in 2018 before my old laptop croaked. I have a new one now and there doesn't appear to be any updates? The discord and merch links no longer work and the patreon hasn't been updated since June 2021. Very sad to see such a great project being abandoned.
Oh dear- I saw that the merch link had broken when we updated the website, but I had no idea the discord link was also having issues. When I click it it takes me to the server, and it seems to be listed as an active invite. What do you see? The discord server is still active and the location we check most frequently.
I’m really glad you consider our work to be a great project, and although there has been a long break we plan to soon have more content for you to play on your new laptop. 🙂
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anyone know where you meet viviette
I'M SO EXCITED!!!
honestly… me too!!!
-v
Are you guys still working on this vn? it looks promising!
yes! The latest update went to patrons last Friday and should be up on this page in a month or so. We’ll announce the specific date in a couple of weeks!
-v
Anyone has news of the devs ? I remember that they used to make dev logs pretty frequently... I hope they are okay
Yes we are okay and alive! Thank you for thinking of us. 💕
We’ve spent the last several years caught in a vortex of client work on other indie games to stay afloat and build our game development experience and relationships— coming up on this holiday season we’ve had an early break on QA work, which is financially somewhat concerning… but has left an open space to devote time and energy to finally putting out Elsie’s chapter 2 content, then to spend NaNoWriMo on Nikolai, then Vivietta and Deka.
I’m hoping someday we can make enough from our original work to be able to devote time more regularly with more stability, but in the meantime at least one update is coming publicly at the end of November, and others will see progress! We’ll aim to make devlogs more frequently again in the future so you can hear more of what is happening with it.
-v
Hi there! I don't know if this is still being worked on actively, however I discovered a bug a while ago while playing. In the scene in chapter two where francis is talking to you about your date with Deka, when the option to say either it was or wasn't a date comes up, both of the options lead to a bug screen. I decided to investigate this on my own and I believe I found the problem!
It said ""plot/ch2/ch2_03_frances_doubt.rpyc", line 116, in script" had an issue defining name "d". It seems that in the file "characters.rpyc" you defined a lot of charaters, such as nikolai, as a letter like "n" however it seems like Deka was left out of that list, meaning there wasn't a line defining Deka as "d". I could be completely wrong with this, as I don't actually make games and I was using an online tool to view the files, but it was just something I wanted to check out.
Thank you for letting us know about this! Your investigation did properly identify the source of the problem: Because Deka doesn’t speak verbally, no character was defined ‘d’ for just ‘deka’, and instead there are two; ‘dw’ for ‘deka writing’ and ‘dt’ for ‘deka typewriter’. So, when we went to track the character in the romance/friend list, it was too easy to pick the wrong one.
Thanks to your comment, the issue is fixed internally as of today! It didn’t make it into the most recent Patreon build (from last Friday, 10/27), but will be in the public release of Elsie’s chapter 2 content- which should be coming out around the end of November.
WOOOOOOO! I am so excited! I was starting to think this would be an abandoned project, but I am so glad it isn't! I am also very happy that I was able to help, I have always wanted to do something to help with a video game, so thats one item off my bucket list.
I really love this game and I think about it 24/7 lol. I'm madly in love with Cailean I wanna smooch da handsome man- I wonder if the next update will come this year
It will! Elsie’s second date was released on Patreon last Friday, so should be publicly available around the end of November. There isn’t much new in it for Cailean- but Tremaine has a full sprite with expressions, which makes a big difference to the experience of every scene he’s in. Feel threatened by an overprotective elder brother figure… now in HD color ✨
I’m also excited to hear it’s made such an impact for you! If you’re ever looking for more content/info or feel like you’d like to chat with other people who are thinking about it A Lot, Discord is our most active community— and I know there’s at least one 24/7 Cailean Treasurer there who might enjoy some additional camaraderie against the red-feathered flock. 🐦
-v
I played this game around when it first came out and kept track of all the early updates, I was a little disappointed to see that updates haven't made in awhile after revisiting it but I joined the discord and it looks like they are still working on the game and it hasn't been abandoned! They have just been focusing on other work and are resuming working on Monstrata as of a few months ago
Thank you so much for vouching for us! I know it’s disappointing for everyone that things have been silent for so long. I promise, it won’t be forever!
Thank you for your continued support. ❤❤❤
- Ren
So glad to know you are still working on it!!! It's an amazing project!
I remember this game in 2018 before my old laptop croaked. I have a new one now and there doesn't appear to be any updates? The discord and merch links no longer work and the patreon hasn't been updated since June 2021. Very sad to see such a great project being abandoned.
Oh dear- I saw that the merch link had broken when we updated the website, but I had no idea the discord link was also having issues. When I click it it takes me to the server, and it seems to be listed as an active invite. What do you see? The discord server is still active and the location we check most frequently.
I’m really glad you consider our work to be a great project, and although there has been a long break we plan to soon have more content for you to play on your new laptop. 🙂
- Val
Is this game completed already?? :(
No, sorry!! :( It will still be a while yet. - Val