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She choose to be named 'Lenla' as a way to not look back. The ones who have marine blue eyes are monsters. She didn't requested these eyes, but as the days go on, the moment where the king of the world humbly visits her approaches.

The things that are not helping the development of this short story/prologue is: Me learning how to pixel art (This is old art, I can do better now! But I have to do the art of this game with this old style), me not knowing how to code despite all the efforts to learn across the years (thankfully, Ren'py is easy overall, but still) and my curse to redo the writing and how the scenes plays in the game, constantly changing things only for the next day not be satisfied with that, to all eternity... I really want to get this out already! But I want it to be as good as I can! An constant dilemma, but I'm slowly pivoting to drop the constant redoing. We'll see.

"I what have done and I now I don't know if it is bad or ok" what was I meaning with this

I'm sorry for responding this late. I'm thankful for your offering, but I'm not looking for a composer at this moment. Good luck with you career!

The prologue is getting closer to completion. I think I really can share it before the year ends. I didn't want to work this much into a Demo/prologue of all things, but I hope that with this, there's free way to fully work in what truly want, the full blown story that is. Don't be mistaken, the Ocean Door full game isn't going to be a long visual novel. It would be lucky if the game with its initial and two routes lasted 10 hours.

At this moment in thinking hard on how to promote this, as I have no money for that. The prologue should aid but just a little bit, not more than a few people will play it. I'll see.

I spend much more time writing and writing across devices and text formats. The story is what matters the most, after all. It is now that I'm putting effort with the presentation and the flow of the game. That's what makes so satisfying to finally make a full start scene, with its music, art and text.

Looks decent! At least I don't feel that my eyes hurt seeing this in particular.  I feel so proud...

The first part of this project will be a story subtitle Canvas. The main focus of it is the important period of this girl where she learns how to defend herself, and how to fight the ones who wants her to suffer.

Talking more about the base story, Edgar has an interesting skill with his coat. If he pierces trough the inside of it, he can shoot a solid quick hook made of water. Edgar uses this to manoeuvre in the air like Spiderman or in Shingeki no Kyojin. It's really cool. I don't know how to draw the water hook in the way I imagine it, so the way you imagine it, that one will be. And obviously, the way you will feel that he is flying will be mostly trough narration. These are the sprites of him flying.

Looking to share more later!

Thank you very much for you offer. Sadly, I just don't have money for that. I want an original soundtrack but at this moment I can't afford it. Thank you again.

Ocean Door tells the story of a homeless boy that, in the middle of a global catastrophe, receives a letter from a childhood friend, who requests him to get out of the place where resides… for a reunion. Without any warning, spears grew from earth, annihilating everything they touch. And at the same time, a mysterious door appeared in the middle of the region, in the middle of the beach. 

If you risk your life and manage to get a special key to open it, you can access your home, where you can be happy for all eternity.

“I’m sure there’s a tiny piece of peace hidden in this ocean. That’s the reason why we fight each other, everyday.” 

So, let’s get going! With Edgar Roulette: A young fun guy who tells jokes and reads people hearts to inflict them pain. He’s so carefree. With his best friend Roya: Who calls himself Edgar’s brother, and wasn’t seen after the spear crisis commenced. How was his life in all these years? And also joining them is Greya, a legendary murderer. She helps Edgar because he requested her help.

What awaits this weird trio?? Will they survive until they open the Ocean Door? One thing is for sure: They will not give up. They don’t have nothing to lose.

In this visual novel with two routes and five endings, you’ll meet cool and cute characters in a dry world where everyone risks their lives in fights. They fight with magic! With tactics! With wea- wait, that word gets yourself throw in the dungeons… They fight with ‘fangs!’ You can expect from this game a cast of characters where a lots of them doesn’t know how to do things right, and can meet fates of all kind…

THIS GAME WILL BE TOTALLY FREE!! It will get released in five parts in total: A prologue/demo that tells a short story, the initial adventure with the trio, the first route, a special chapter and the second route. The first part will be published before the year ends.

I hope you stay interested on this project! I’ll update this with more and more details, anecdotes and, of course, progress! I have to finish this, it's maybe my first most important objective in this life. I hope this gets completed, really.
This is an evolution from this, you can check it out to see how much this game has change.

Your art is just beautiful! Can I know if you are already on a team or something? I really want to join and help in whatever you are doing.

I'm creating tons of characters, and I'm fearing that the quality of their designs is inconsistent, or even bad. What I want is just sketches. If someone responds to this, I'm going to post my messed up sketches of these characters, and that person would do their own quick sketches, and that's about it. I'll make my sprites in based of that.

I can't paid for this. I'm sorry, and I know that time is valuable, so I don't expect that much people willingly to do this. Of course that person will be fully credited and such, and may receive something of money if I ever get donations for my games! But that's about it. I'm kinda expecting to nobody to post, but it's worth trying at least.

I need some sketches for some characters because I'm designing to many and the quality is dropping. Can you help me in this? Just some basic sketches.

I was referring to try to post my games on itch *despite* what's happening. Obviously not expecting the best, but because I don't see many options (and as you say, it affects everything with payment process) and it's better to try than not doing nothing.

I'm not a NSFW developer and I don't have interest in being one, but, something that I learned is that even Kirby games can get censored and deleted if the reasons are morally right enough. I don't want to stop developing, is my passion and I hope will soon be a second money income via donations. I want my cool and cute games to be played! And maybe that's your wish for your own games. So, how should we proceed?

I'm all for trying alternatives, but other than gamejolt I can't see one appropriate for my games. I'm also naive enough to try and post my games in itch despite all of this, not blindly of course, but for the sake of trying.

What do you think? What are you going to do? 

I'm confused. I took many rests from developing because of life issues, and even them I am clumsy on the usual activities. Past years I was fully secure on what I was doing, but not any more. I say rests but I would still write, draw or tinkering with engines. It would be very little in comparison.

I want to take advice to go back to the mindset of actively create and share again. Not thinking on it but acting. Anything can be useful, thanks.

It's been a while. So much has changed, but I can at least say that this project is not abandoned. I would lie to myself if I say that it would come up fully this year, but this is still the purpose of my life, so there's no way I am going to let this unfinished.

I don't know what to do with this thread. The project has even change name, and some core elements are completely changed, far from what was been working  here. I don't know if I should create a new thread or just update this one.

I'll share more details and so in the next days. A sort of first part of the game is coming soon!

Not terrible!

The demo is what is going to be completed soon, sorry for being imprecise.

Because I'm making a Visual Novel, I toughed a new short story would do better to give to know the game, instead of a cut part of the full game. It's going to be completed soon, but I'm now thinking on the possibilities. It wouldn't be better to do a new page to host that special demo? Or I use a page for the full game and I include that in it? What option is the best?

The demo will come out in a few weeks!!

Less than a month for sunofes to end, I feel like I wasted an opportunity. I feel loss. I don't know how much people will play this, I lose constancy and will in all this time in terms of do the effort to giving to know more people about this project. It's kind of hopeless.

We all know at this point the importance of marketing your own game, and how mountains of games fall because of this. But, what about the games published here with nothing or barely nothing or marketing, and being able to get a decent amount traction? Do you know any cases like this, or it happened to you?

This is such a step in the right direction, I have enjoyed the new features without noticing that they're new. Keep the good work!

Harmful Heaven will be available to play in a sort of a special story, one where you can see how it's an average day on the journey of Sera and Dess, alongside the story of Dess when she was a kid, calling herself Charlotte. She lived in Tierrazúl, an royal island with the most modern and peaceful lifestyle of all of Rock Star. In the present day, it's gone, because the past king ordered it's destruction to stop propagating something to the rest of the world. Charlotte watched all of the fall of the royal island.

The short story of Charlotte isn't exactly apocalyptic, like the normal story of Harmful Heaven is, but it will have a constant feeling that anything isn't right and will fall down in any moment. It will also have cute elements, comedy and pretty moments, between Charlotte and her grandma and his friend.

The sunofest ends in 1 month and 25 days. I hope I can finish this in less than a month. Will share related stuff soon.

The sunofest is not a ranked jam, but an exposition one, so it's important to submit the game as soon as possible, even if it's a prologue.

Nice game. It is normal that starting a level takes random seconds?

Not being like Steam is what makes Itch a good alternative to play and publish games I think, but making the rating system just like Steam maybe can suit well! At least without thinking it too much.

I was talking hypothetically, in general, not a game in particular. I guess the second thing you say can work.

I measure the size of a game by the studio/people behind it. There's a difference between a game made by one person trying to push their game, to studios of ten or more people, to Sony. Also, what you have discussed in this threat has make me thing a lot of the rating of itch. Several good stuff to take in account.

I was referring to the fact that big games, although you can leave a low score, it's still big so it will barely affect. Contrary to small games where some negative scores can make a difference in the entire reception on it, in the case that the game was actually good.

When you give a star rating to a game here, more often than not, you aren't scoring a big game made by a big studio or something, but a person or a person + friends doing something. Knowing that stars rate are a factor on which people decide to play something or not, and knowing how hard is for devs to strive in general, it is fair using like, 3 or 4 stars for like "I like it but nothing more"? I what have done and I now I don't know if it is bad or ok. What do you think?

One year later Edit: This post does NOT reflect my current English level. I promise.

All in the name of funny. Thanks for the clarification.

I thought it was yes because it's on the title of the rule, but the "Just don't use any trademarked or copyrighted material" leaves me confused.

I really know how insecure is the internet, but not downloading anything and only browser play feels a bit extreme. I think if a game is a virus here it gets reported and take down, that's why there's a community and report system, no? Itch is far from being a shady website. Unless I don't know about some big cases of games being virus here. 

I only play the game in the browser if is lightweight, short and arcade-ish, Pico-8 games are the best for this. Otherwise, just download. Edit: Specially browser if the game doesn't run natively on Linux- Wine hasn't failed me that much, but if doesn't run natively, better try on browser then.

All right then

edit: I wasn't able to do it, I'm not in the best state of a lot of things, that including that what I was writing was really uninteresting and boring. I'm sorry.

I think I'm making a actively worse version of the thing, for a fix version that's sad. It doesn't have much to it more than nonsense scenes. It's fine to still go with that?

Media that are popular and financially successful are made by people that admits that they did for did it and not necessarily like it. Plenty of times, and just recently, I wanted to do something just, because it has posibilites of be liked for more people. I can't finish the VN I was doing for a jam, because it can't even reach the middle of the script without feeling like I was making a stale bread. In the case that you made and finish something just for making it, how did you feel about that?

Reading this makes me want to make a new page for my main game. I feel so dumb for not reading this basic guide or even guess what the correct things were.

Hilltop Academy, it fits me the best I think

Thank you very much for taking your time in reading and commenting this nuclear waste, it makes me feel like a Fantasy Tennis player

Can you help me in the art of the VN I want to fix? I have to put a lot of work in my art stuff and still looks bad.

Fu** it. Making something silly as a secondary project was so relaxing in it's own way. I'm going to take Hilltop for this.

Your VN is the one most easy to fix imo. This will sound out of place but, actual music in the fix version of Hilltop would be bad or good, in your opinion?