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I'm so sorry this comment somehow ended up in the manual quarantine, I don't know why -- and itch doesn't notify me about this, I just had to randomly go in and see it LOL 😑

But thank you so much ahhh!!! That's so sweet!! I really appreciate that so much. I'm so glad you enjoyed the game and characters so much!! 💕

LOL I'm not sure... maybe??? He plays some shooters but not a lot, so I can't say for sure, but if you want him to have played it, then he has 😂

Oh thank you!! 🥰 I'm glad it's making it fun to read! And I'm really touched you're enjoying it so much!! Thank you for playing and for the sweet comment 💕

You're not alone in that -- I have thought about it too 😆 And yes, Iggy is ace!! It's a bigger part of the original game the chars are from (like a major theme is him figuring himself out) but even in this AU I found it coming to the forefront simply because of the themes and rather inherent sexual-ness that comes with vampires and biting ppl lol even though it's not said directly. 

And thank you!! I shall do my best 💕

SOB thank you for this sweet comment!! This is really lovely ;--; 💕 I'm really so happy that you've enjoyed the game so much!! And thank you also for the encouraging words. I've been going through a lot lately but I am still trying to do my best, even though sometimes I still have a lot of hard days. Hearing things like this from people who enjoy my characters and stories really lifts me up, so thank you so much 😊

You're so welcome!! 🤭 And ahhhh I hope you'll enjoy it!! I'm working hard to finish up the remaster!! 💕

Ahhhh that's so sweet!! ;--; I'm honored my chars could live rent-free in your head for a while 💕 And I'm so happy that you enjoyed the game so much. Thank you so much for playing and for such a sweet comment!! 🥰

AHHHH THANK YOU!!! 😭💕 I'm so glad you enjoyed it!! And I'm glad you liked the music too. Thank you so much for playing and the sweet comment!

Yay I'm so glad!!! 🥰 I'm doing my best to finish it. I hope the launch can go well later this year!

Thank yooooooooooou (`°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥｀)💕

SORRY FOR MAKING YOU CRY 💔 But I'm really glad you enjoyed it!! Thanks so much for playing and for the sweet comment 🥰

LOLOL sob that sounds so fun. I'm so glad both of you had such a good time and enjoyed the game! That means a lot!! Thanks so much for the sweet comment, it made my night!! 😊💕

AhhhhHHHH thank you!! I'm so glad you like them so much! Thanks for playing! 🥰

The backgrounds are photos that I applied filters to in GIMP, yes. I don't and will never use AI in any of my projects. Unfortunately as I make all my games for free with no budget I don't have money to pay someone to draw professional quality VN backgrounds, so I use photos from royalty-free photo sites so that I can still make games for people to enjoy.

Thank you for playing!! I'm really glad that you enjoyed it!

The next game will end up having pocket-sized Genzou 🤣

And thank yoooooou 💕 That means a lot.

THIS IS SO INTENSE?????? 🤣

I'm sobbing thank you!! I'm so glad you enjoyed it so much! Thanks for playing! 💕

I'm so sorry, I don't have any money to be able to translate the game into Spanish 😭

Ahhhhh thank you!!! That's incredibly sweet ;---; 💕 I'm so glad you enjoyed it so much -- I'd love to see them if you do end up drawing any!! Thank you so much for playing and for the lovely message!!

Help????? Now that would be something LOL 🤣

Thank yoooooooouuuuu!!! That means so much!! And I hope it will be a great experience on Steam Deck!! I feel like I should get one just for the chance to play OW on it LOL (I've actually wanted one for a while anyway but haven't been able to justify it enough for the price 🤣)

I really hope it'll do well! I'm trying my best to do everything I can to spread the word and make it the best release I can. Thank you for all your support and kindness!! 💕

That just made me smile so much reading that!! I'm so touched the announcement could give you such excitement! I'm really excited (but nervous), too. I really hope this release can be a second chance at life for the game!! 💕

LOLOL I'm glad that the announcement could elicit such a visceral reaction!! 🤣

Thank yoooooou!! It's been a very anxious journey LOL And I really hope so! I mean... just about anything would be better than the situation right now on itch hahahaaa... but still, I do really hope that the release on Steam can go well!

Thank you!!! (´◡`)💕

I HAD MY BREATH HELD THIS WHOLE MONTH SOB. I'm just so glad it was all right in the end. I tend to stress and catastrophize about everything to begin with... 😅 But thank yooooooou!! 💕 I'm really excited but also nervous. I hope that it can do well on Steam!!

WEEP THANK YOU!! ;--; 💕 That means so much. LMAO TRUE everyone's in-game time will be visible after this 🤣 I hope it will be fun for people to have these kinds of stats and achievements and such!

THANK YOOOOOOOOOOUUUUU!!!!!!!! °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°

Thank you so much!! That means the world!! 😭💕

Could stuff my spacesuit full of 10 servings of mabo doufu (my favorite food), 10/10 A+ game no notes.

LOL but seriously this was a ton of fun and I had more than a few laughs with it. The dialogue was so silly and random and kept suddenly making me laugh out loud. The final boss fight actually had me shedding tears in laughter (I won't spoil it, but make sure you use a certain item and you won't regret it LOL). The book on game design was also hilarious. Loved all the silly little interactions you could have with stuff in each area. Isaac was a silly cutie the whole time, especially his ramblings. I think there was a line when going up the final stairs from him that made me spit out my coffee, too.

All in all, an incredibly fun and entertaining experience that was a lovely little bright spot in my day 💕

I'M SORRY I ONLY JUST SAW YOUR COMMENT IN MY "PENDING COMMENTS" SECTION IN MY ITCHIO BACKEND (it doesn't give me any notifications about this... I just have to happen to go look there... )

THIS FANART IS SO CUTE?????????? I'M GOING TO WEEP AHHHHHHHHHH I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!! ;-----; 💕💕💕

LOOK HOW TINY GENZOU LOOKS I'M DYING HAHAHAHA oh my gosh.... and the little rabbit and bat forms.... this is too much...

This really made my whole day!! I got such a big smile out of it. Thank you so much!!!! 💕💕💕

And thank you for playing the game!! I'm so happy that you enjoyed it so much!!! It means so much to hear, especially as I love these two so much!! 💕

I'm sorry I just found this. Thank you so much for writing it. This is still so important right now and it feels like nobody's talking about it anymore if they're not directly affected, so it feels so isolating.

GAHHHHH CHATT I'M SO SORRY I DIDN'T SEE THIS FOR A LONG TIME?????? (I haven't been logging in to itch much because I so rarely get notifs anymore... LOL)

Sob but this is such a wonderful and sweet comment omg... thank you so much for playing? And leaving such a kind and detailed message about it???

I loved so much especially what you wrote about Iggy's aceness because it was definitely a key aspect for me as well going into it like, how are we gonna do this this time? Tbh I really like that about making these kinds of AUs, because I get to approach so many aspects of their characters in completely different ways and have fun getting to learn more about them and think up entirely new scenarios for things I already did before, like experiencing the characters all-new again (this time I also got to have fun in a scenario where Genzou and Iggy had never met, which was something really fun). But at any rate, yeah, like... vampires in any media have always had this kind of inherently sexual vibe to everything they do, like it's just a very intimate way to kill someone??? (I suppose it doesn't have to *kill* them per se, but that is often the usual outcome at least, and it certainly isn't something pleasant!! And though I didn't start writing this with the final outcome of the first ep in mind, it just kinda........ led there, on its own, without my really even planning it. Until it just turned into this huge allegory on its own. (I already have a tendency not to plan things out, but with this one in particular, I literally just winged the whole thing, I will admit, with zero plans in mind hahaha.) I was really happy with how it turned out in the end, even if it started to hit on really personal places and past experiences in my life. And I liked how it could potentially be relatable just a real experience and not even as a case of vampirism LOL Ahhh anyway... thank you for saying all that, because that ended up being such a big part of this that I connected to a lot and hoped other people might be able to, as well. I got really emotional while working on the ending.

And LOL YES. Genzou is pretty much feeling just as lost as Iggy but he's just hamming it up in hopes that all his tactics in rizz will somehow work this time (which they do actually, which is probably what surprises him). But he's just as much of a "failure" as Iggy also thinks he is so really they're both just a pair of "failures" that somehow find each other and maybe, just maybe, they can be what the other one needs... sob.

I'm glad you liked the shift in dynamic! I feel like I could write 50 million stories about these two (and probably have in my head at this point, given how I tend to randomly come up with AU storylines that I could do with them at the drop of a hat but usually never actually do anything with them). I love getting to write them finding each other in so many different ways because I just love them so much they make my heart hurt ahhhhh. I'm really glad you liked getting to see them in a new scenario and how that played out!!

And thank you for all the kind words about the animations and art, too!!

Just thank you so much for playing and all your incredibly kind words ahhhHHHHH AND I'M SORRY AGAIN THAT I DIDN'T SEE THIS FOR SO LONGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG FORGIVE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

Oh thank you so much!! I'm so happy you enjoyed the game so far!! 😊💕 Ahhh and your words are so kind! I like to put a lot of work and thought into the scenes and animations and such so it feels very cinematic and immersive! So hearing that means a lot! Thank you for playing, and I hope you'll enjoy the next ep once it's out!

Ahhhh Chim!!! Hearing from you means so much!! (And I'm sorry for the delayed reply -- it's been a rather busy couple of weeks for me.)

LMAO I really don't know where the vampires came from... well, I kinda do, because it was inspired by a song, but I don't know what compelled me to literally turn the random small idea into an actual game hahaha. I can never guess what I'll end up doing sometimes... Also I don't have much experience in the realm of vampires, so I've been doing a lot of various research, as well. Even if in the end, I decide to kinda just do whatever I want with the lore and have fun with it lol.

I'm so glad you enjoyed Iggy! I feel like he was turned up to 11 in this game LOL so many of his aspects and quirks came out really really strong 🤣 But I think that's because I was just having fun and not afraid to be silly and a bit ridiculous. I was really happy with how sweet he turned out. I'm glad you could relate to him so much! The juxtaposition between him and Genzou is so amusing to me and I had a blast really playing up the differences in their view points. It made for so many funny scenes hahaha. HELP LMAO ABOUT GENZOU. Yes............... Genzou in general.... everything about him in this is very self-indulgent I think LOL which is perhaps why he comes across that way 🤣🤣🤣 I generally have never gotten to write their dynamic like this before and be so blatant about it, so it was a lot of fun for me. I'm really glad you enjoyed it!

Hahaha Orlam is.... well..................... though I haven't shown him much in game yet, he will have SOME darker bits, but I think in the end, he will be more amusing than anything else, as the story develops further. However, I do have ideas for at least one character down the line that will kind of take the role of the darker/more villainous character to provide more tension haha.

SURPRISINGLY SENSUAL LMAOOOOOOO. Yes it's true... this game let me explore some new avenues!! LOL Even if in the end ofc it never goes fully down that path, it was still fun for me to play with that a bit more. Especially since I never really have gotten to before. Ahhhh and thank you so much for the kind words about the art/CGs!!! I was really happy with how they turned out. This is the first time in a game I've gotten to really put a lot of the new skills I've been developing in CSP with lighting and such to use and I was happy with the result!

SOB CHIM YOU'RE TOO KIND!!! ;A; 💕 But seriously thank you that truly means so much!! You're going to make me cry here hahaha. Thank you so so much for playing and for all your kind words. It means the world!! I WILL NEVER STOP MAKING SELF-INDULGENT THINGS (it seems to be all I can make anymore lately LOL......... alas(?) ).

AWWWW THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! ;---; 💕 That means a lot!! And I'm sorry for the delayed reply. Between travel and family stuff and jetlag, I've been a bit all over the place.

I'm so glad you loved all the character interactions! I had a lot of fun (and was a bit self-indulgent, too, I will admit hahaha). Sob and thank you for the kind words about the art. I feel like my art in general has gotten a lot better over the past year, especially with lighting and such, and I was really happy with how the CGs turned out in this, so thank you!! Hearing that really makes me happy.

Thank you so much for playing ahhhh. I'm touched that you enjoyed everything so much. And I hope that you'll have fun with the next episode once it's out!!!

Yeah that is a really good point, it's true. I guess it's also from a lot of people telling me specifically that they don't want to play it for some reason, usually because they want to wait or for some other reason. But at this point it's going to potentially be years before it's done, so it makes me feel a bit sad 💦 But yeah also new ppl to the game, it doesn't make much sense to play the remaster since it's not finished. It's really only interesting to those who've played the OG game.

Ohhhh that's really interesting about Killer Chat though and giving me more confidence that something like this could work 🤔 And you're right that it does feel like a bit of a demo in a way. Thanks a lot for this info. I may end up now going the Steam route as I've gotten a kind offer to help me publish, so we'll see if that ends up working. Though I would probably still do the remaster game page too even if Steam works out.

Ah yeah I know that Leafo is the main admin! Though Charlene is one, too, and she solves a lot of things for people, too. They are both in the Discord and will occasionally help solve things for ppl. I actually did get a response from itch support, but it was a confused response: 

Unfortunately, after that, even though I sent some screenshots and mailed back multiple times, I never got another response...

NttP is also in the Discord and wasn't able to give me any extra info about my situation. My last resort is to send a new fresh email to support and reference my other one, but I don't have high hopes for it. I think that maybe because it's a bigger issue (Charlene said it's likely a search bug) the admin don't have time to look into it right now because it's not as simple as just flipping a switch to reindex it as it's an actual glitch.

Yeah... I do think releasing on Steam could help a lot. Unfortunately, at least in the near future, Steam isn't an option for me unless I have a publisher. Because of my complicated tax situation, I would need to hire an expensive international tax lawyer to help me figure out how to fill out all the paperwork correctly for Steamworks (even though I would be releasing the game for free). This on top of the $100 fee to release a game is just a lot more money than I can spare right now, particularly as I just lost my job. To release on Steam, I would need someone else that has a Steamworks account to let me publish under them.

Thank you so much for the support though, that really means a lot 💕 I wish this too, both for myself and for the other devs that are in the same situation as me. I know a few others that have also been deindexed but told by itch that "their game doesn't appear deindexed," so it doesn't seem to be an isolated issue either... :(

That's really sweet and means a lot, thank you so much 💕💕

Ahhh that is really great!! I'm glad that you were able to get your issue fixed. It is quite hard getting anyone's attention about it nowadays... I have tried asking in the Discord server with my ticket number, but I was only met with ppl telling me I just wasn't promoting enough and that fixing deindexing issues isn't a priority for the admin... :( It made me feel awful... Also I found ppl in the server that asked about my game specifically months ago and admin did see it and just said:

It seems like even admin doesn't know what is going on or how to fix it... And I haven't been able to get any more info for months despite reaching out multiple times in multiple places. So at this point I feel like I either have to try something myself or just give up 😩

Yes, that is true though, if you search the specific other game titles they pop up still. So that is a silver lining.