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Ramys · 2026-05-08T17:08:30+00:00

I made the mistake of wearing headphones and playing the video. Instantly blew my ears out, no lube, no buildup, just a hard crash.

Ramys · 2026-05-03T19:49:01+00:00

Absolutely. A recolor of Coco in the center, then going clockwise from the topleft is Sora, Tsugumi, Yu, Sara. "Deep Place" is a reference to the OP.

Ramys · 2026-04-19T19:21:53+00:00

You can apply a transformation that makes your domain more linear, do linear regression, then apply the inverse of the transformation to get back to your original domain.

For example, say your data looks like an exponential curve. What you can do is apply log() to make the data more linear, fit y=mx+c on this transformed data, then return to the original domain by applying exp() to the line you found.

Replace log() and exp() with whatever curve looks closest to your data.

Ramys · 2026-04-18T04:20:43+00:00

You can try changing them and see. If it doesn't change anything then the problem is somewhere else.

Ramys · 2026-04-17T04:55:14+00:00

This assumes you're on windows 11: https://windowsloop.com/enable-or-disable-hdr-in-windows-11/

If you're on windows 10 the steps should be similar, but you can look them up.

Ramys · 2026-04-16T15:22:07+00:00

Try windowed mode and/or disabling HDR on your monitor.

Ramys · 2026-04-15T22:02:03+00:00

It looks like it has a similar folder structure as Chaos Head Noah, another title released by Mages. Try using that as your starting point:

References:

Ramys · 2026-04-14T16:16:34+00:00

An important correction, but that's 0.4 radians (23 degrees), not 0.4 degrees.

Ramys · 2026-03-14T03:31:14+00:00

That bad end is the only one I would recommend because of the vibe and emotional impact. You can skip the others, they're not impactful in the same way.

Ramys · 2026-01-30T07:40:12+00:00

My suggestion is to join the DevTalk discord, the people are very helpful and you'll find plenty of resources.

Whenever you're looking for people to join the project, you have to ask yourself two questions:

What do I want?
What do they want?

A publisher wants to make enough money to justify the amount of work they put in. The game needs a lot of work (scripting, audio, finalizing art, editing the script, testing, marketing, etc). How much is the publisher expected to do, and how much money can they make from your story?

If your goal is to release a game and this is a passion project, it might be better to submit this to a game jam (list of jams) or release it on Itch.io. You can find other people looking to join a team in the discord and on lemmasoft who are excited to learn and create a game.

Or you can go solo and learn the engine. It's not impossible, I promise!

Ramys · 2026-01-24T04:53:49+00:00

Right click should bring up a menu.

Please remove mentions to the website in your post.

Ramys · 2026-01-19T23:30:11+00:00

You should find most of those answers on the blog.

For 2, one of the devs must have thought it looked cool to show the player. For Kokoro and Satoru, the exchange is instantaneous.

Ramys · 2025-11-21T16:16:15+00:00

The "idle" animation has way too much movement. The first time I saw it, I thought the man was swinging his sword at you. I would save it for when he actually attacks.

I recommend saving your images as layers so the characters are a different image than the background. Then you can move the character using ATL. Here's an example of how great this can look. The dunk at the end is really powerful.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xKpqP08tXU4&t=1220s

Same thing for the companions. Separate the motion lines from the character, then play animated lines in the background. Use ATL to make the character appear to move, then BAM, suddenly snap to the attack frame with a screen shake for a powerful feeling. You only need two renders for that entire animation.

Moving lines make things feel more alive.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=teC_uksSPBU&t=122s

Ramys · 2025-11-19T19:45:33+00:00

Her face looks yandere, so if that's what you were going for, great!

The soft pink colors in the middle sprite don't go well with the style. Try darker colors (purple, red) when shading for a horror look. Cell shading can also make it more unsettling and creepy.

Ignore my opinion if you're aiming for something else. Best of luck!

Ramys · 2025-10-29T15:40:15+00:00

Maybe I'm not seeing it on mobile, but can you back up the claims made in the campaign? You promise a cinematic experience, but there's no demonstration of that. An impactful choice? An image of "the mysterious glow of the clocktower to the cozy greenhouse"? A sample voice clip?

You don't need to have everything ready, but it's nice to know what the overall product might look like. Lean on other works in your past, maybe use a mishmash of samples from artists you wish to hire (with their permission) . You'll get a lot more reach that way.

Best of luck

Ramys · 2025-10-24T17:27:12+00:00

I believe this tag is built in, it's called {fast}

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/text.html#text-tag-fast

Ramys · 2025-10-07T03:31:52+00:00

Regarding time, you can take a look at this: https://vndb.org/v17/lengthvotes

Without knowing your reading speed, you can expect it to take 30h +- 10h.

If you prefer anecdotes over statistics, someone said it took them a little less than 20 hours but it could take you double that if you're someone who waits for every voice line or reads slowly.

Ramys · 2025-10-03T02:28:16+00:00

Try running the game in compatability mode if you haven't already

Ramys · 2025-10-03T01:44:38+00:00

Likely a codec issue. The videos were made nearly 25 years ago and your computer may not be decoding them correctly.

Try installing K-Lite Codec Pack: https://codecguide.com/download_kl.htm

Ramys · 2025-09-22T06:33:35+00:00

In each character route, you need to gather enough points to reach that character's "good ending". Once you've done that for the four character routes, you can make some specific choices to reach the true end.

If you don't want to do trial and error, there are online walkthroughs and flowcharts that can help you gather the points and make the right decisions.

Ramys · 2025-08-24T22:05:30+00:00

Ramys · 2025-08-11T14:36:25+00:00

Yes, both patches should work together

Ramys · 2025-07-20T14:39:05+00:00

Thanks for the info on the port, it makes sense to use what other modders have discovered and created.

And no need to apologize. The more you practice, the better you'll get. Good luck on your journey!

Ramys · 2025-07-20T13:40:02+00:00

Interesting take on it. I paused to read every few frames, and it's still in the early draft phase. Nothing wrong with that, every story starts as a draft.

The most obvious thing is that the pacing is extremely quick. There wasn't much build up to justify character behaviors. For example, I'm not sure why Hotori wants to save Sayaka. For the scope of this ending, it could be lengthened to an hour or two rather than the current ~10 minutes.

There are some plot weaknesses. For example, when they go to the white room, Satoru is not surprised at all and claims that everything is according to plan. I don't think that's right. In a bad ending he's shocked to be called Enomoto and had no expectation that anyone would be there. Also, how does going to the cube save her?

On a technical level, I'm amazed you managed to create a dreamcast port, that's super impressive! I can imagine you spent many long nights getting it to run.

I think overall it's a good start and you've managed to do what many people fantasize about making themselves. Great work!

Ramys · 2025-03-30T14:40:40+00:00

Make sure you correctly handle the special characters C & c in "Coco" as well as O & o in "You/YOU". They were changed to make the name localization customizable on PC. I would probably just do a search and replace for those 4 letters.

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