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the dev's patreon account isn't a Creator anymore
safe to say the game's development has been canceled. 

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too bad this is abandoned.. 

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No way why when 😒😢

*whispers* tiny eyes

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Is this still ongoing?

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Jw, is this vn on hiatus, canceled, or still in progress of next update? It has been almost 7 months since the last update.

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Goodluck!! Stay safe..

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is this vn still in development? Just wandering as I haven’t seen any comments in a while and the update was a little bit ago 😁

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Just want to say I love how the VN is going! I can't wait for Chapter 3! Keep up the good work.

thanks so much for taking time to comment!! I’m glad you’re enjoying the story so far. Your support is appreciated!! ❤️❤️

hey, dunno if anyone else has mentioned this, but i felt like giving some Bug reports and advice. First off you're VN so far is amazing! a unique take on the hell experience so far and something that had me invested from the beginning...

However, I couldn't help notice some coding bugs here and there. There were moments where the MC would speak Devil's lines and times when Devil would seemingly speak the line of the MC.  

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For example, There was one line where the MC said "I know a whole bunch of people who are just as excited to meet you as i was!" from the begining of the vn you made it clear the MC doesnt entirely know where he came from or who he initially was before he arrived in hell. So why would the MC say this? it seems like its actually meant to be Devil's Line instead

Another example is when Devil Later said "I'm starting to gather that a new arrival gets people talking around here" only for him to continue this dialogue with him agreeing with himself "You've gathered right......"

I've enjoyed your VN so far quite a bit, and as an aspiring writer myself, i figured id mention this to you.

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thanks! I’m going to do a big cleaning house update this patch. Some of these I’ve stumbled across already, but I hadn’t caught a lot of the tags errors! I’ll make a note of these things to fix. I appreciate you taking the time to leave feedback!! I’m still super new to the coding side of things, and this is a passion project, so seriously, thanks so much for taking the time to report all this! It’s super helpful as I try and improve. :-) most of the things I miss are tagging errors. I’m taking a new approach this chapter of coding the tags as I write the story out, so /hopefully/ there will be less bugs!! 


Also, for what it’s worth, there’s a bug reporting channel in the discord if that’s your thing! 

Thanks for reading my story! And taking time to comment! <3

Stay safe..

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When you say linear, you mean it's a kinetic novel, or it will have routes and choices but the main story doesn't chance besides from your routes decisions?

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The latter! Some decisions/choices, but it won’t change the main story! Routes will change things, but in the sense that each route has its own sub-story.  The world’s main story will feel a little different depending on the route, but the main idea/issue won’t change. Hope that helps clarify! Thanks for the comment!! 

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Everyone in Hell has a history… some more heinous than others 👀

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Am in love with this visual novel oready

Looking forward for more of it👌🏽😍💕💕💕💕

Aww thank you so much!! ❤️❤️

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I'm loving this so far! Can't wait to see what next for the future of this project!

Thank you so much!! Chapter 1 goes live today on itch, so keep an eye out!! Hope you continue to enjoy :)

will there be one for Android soon?

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I'm working on an android build for the first chapter's official release! fingers crossed...!!

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Whom do you play as, species I mean? This plays a very big role in my enjoyment of furry visual novels so I would like to know that, even if it's a spoiler

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In the demo, you play as a human. That may not always be the case, though. After all, Hell's got a lot of secrets. 

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Woah, that is quite a mysterious answer. I like it

Just finished the demo and really liked it. I liked the way you painted the environment of hell, and just the overall story you have written out so far. Are you going to be looking for any help with the game or just developing it alone? Cause i'm a musician and i'd love to get the chance to put together some tracks for the game.

Thank you so much for the kind words! I really appreciate them. I'm so stoked you liked it!!! It's been a solo project, but honestly I'd love to see what kinda tracks you were thinking sometime. Music is a must at some point!! But I am definitely not a musician, so would def love to hear tunes that the game brings to mind! :')))

Nice! I'll shoot you a message on Twitter.

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This is interesting and I'm Absolute in love with this 😍💕💕👌🏽

and looking forward to wait It's going to happen 🥰🏃🏽‍♂️💕

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Thank you so much!! ❤️

I’m looking forward to telling this story. Glad you’re sticking with me!! 🫂 

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I'm confused by this statement:

"This is a linear story. Currently, Devil is the only planned romanceable character, but there may be 1-3 more in the future."

The story is linear but may have more than one romanceable character? Is it a polyamorous romance?

My main goal is to write a story following your interactions with Devil, but eventually I may add other main character routes. If you’re familiar with The Smoke Room, it would be in a similar vein. But I’ll update this for clarity!

I am aware of The Smoke Room, but I only played it once when it was super early in development so I actually have no idea what it's like.

So, what I'm understanding from this is that there will definitely be at least one route (with Devil), that will be entirely linear, but there may also be 1-3 additional routes (with characters other than Devil), that will also be entirely linear?

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yes! That’s correct!! 🙂

Android?

yes, will have it soon enough—figuring that out still!

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So... I just played the demo and it was kinda interesting :D 

This game has potential, that's for sure


I missed sounds... dunno if it's a bug or because it's only a demo yet, but most of the time it was only dull silence...


The BGs are pretty nice, same for the CG - tho there's only those of Devil in that suit with various expressions (something that's good... expressions do enrich a lot the gameplay) - oh, on that note, THE FCK HAPPENED TO HIS LEGS? HAHAHA as it's visible on the images here, he has no legs LOL besides, damn, his bulge is ike half his belly... someone was a bit greedy when drawing that part ("that face" hehe)


The theme is a bit... different... OKAY, a lot different hahaha if u r a religious fanatic of some sort u r prolly not like this demo - dunno about the rest of the story... wonder how it will progress even

oh, Vatican is probably watching u if u playing this one BAHAHA - joking, ofc


For the demo the story was well written and developed - besides the small typos here and there that I wrote on other comments -, the world seems well made, like, there's a good setting full of details and the way it was written really does pull you into the story ;D


I'm waiting for more!!


Some things that made me curious and are - maybe - worth posting on the synopsis: 

  • the story is linear or full of routes and endings? 
  • there's a romance tag so... who's the dateable one(s)? 
  • when there's NSFW, will it be on/off (toggle)?
  • ALSO, WHO THE FCK I'M? BAHAHA like, the MC is human, furry - which species -, alien or what? :P

Oh, consering the topic, - thinking about the cool BGs/CGs so far (and probably more to come, including NSFW BAHAHA) -, will there be a gallery?

LMAO every time I posted a response I got a new notif!! Thanks so much for your feedback and enthusiasm... seriously has me extra pumped to keep moving on this.

My excuse for not having legs yet is I'm too lazy to draw them LMAO, but in reality, I will be updating sprites for the characters. So I'll have full body sprites /eventually/. But for now I'm keeping things simple. But the rest of the chapter will include new sprites/shirtless (bc of the same reason as >.> ya know >.> )


For brevity's sake, I'll respond to each bullet--but this is all so very helpful! Thank you <3


  • For now, I'm imagining the story will be linear. Perhaps there will be different linear character arcs, though! I wanna focus on telling stories.
  • Devil will be most immediately. But with time, it won't be just him (esp with additional character arcs)
  • Yep. I'm going to learn how to make that a feature before adding NSFW/explicit.
  • There's a super solid reason I haven't quite made a distinction yet! Soon enough

ALSO HELL YEAH GALLERIES R THE BEST. Will be on the docket 100%!!

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LOL bahaha yeah, sorry for that :P I got entusiastic and if I don't post it ASAP I'd probably forget, so it was "almost" a spam haha

Glad it pumped ya tho - I felt pumped while writing those too haha

Oh, I kinda expected it bahaha considering the CG was well made and all, didn't seemed like u simply place it too high on the screen and was originally meant to not show his legs

HEHEHE Gimme those pecs ;v


  • Hmm so u wanna make something like Killigans Treasure? I mean, there are 3-4 dateable options, but they don't affect the main story - so far at least -, it's like some sort of filler - u come out of the main story for the romance and then come back to main story
  • Cool :D waiting to get to know them 
  • Awesome! Sometimes I want to play like on public places just to enjoy the story - without the lewd stuff - and not being able to turn it off may cause some awkward moments hahaha
  • Oh, okay then xP will be waiting

Maybe it's cool to make it all - specifically the linear one - clear on synopsis and, if possible - like, it's not supposed to be hidden in the story to be revealed later - also add the info of the other dateable chars, showing at least one pic of them xD


Every char will be OC of yours? Also, u made the BGs (painted) or like, u take a pic from google and blur them?


Edit: Just remembered something, u plan on making android version? Or any other platform at all

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Your comment got me thinking, and I think I found a simple enough solution to moving Devil lower on the screen. I think it looks nice!

And, sorta--I got into visual novels playing Echo Project's stuff, and I like how in some of them, the character's 'route' is basically its own story. I love the possibilities that offers!

I also have played some with the NSFW toggle, and it's been awesome. That and the gallery are a must at some point! I'm working on theorycrafting other OCs for this story, and if they'd be dateable. BGs (for now) are royalty free, public domain images. Taking some advice I heard one of the Echo Project dev's give once--don't worry about stuff like backgrounds upfront. Find some photos to be there in the meantime before you can make/commission the art yourself.

Once I can figure out how to package the APK, yes! Lmao they made it complicated and for what >:(

Well, unexpected but glad u got that fixed haha


I think the first VN - and got me on it - isn't even avaiable nowadays LOL it had a weird name too, like B101 or something, now I dunno


And yeah, it's a must!


Hmmm interesting :D but yeah, no sense worring over BG when u don't even have the game up to like half what u want to write hahaha


They u mean Ren'py? Was thinking there was like an option to simply export it as APK...


Well, gonna check out this "Knights College" hehe

WTF hahaha the synopsis got me xP let's check it :D

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LOL the idea hit me a week ago, and I wrote fast af to get this out... still have stuff I'm gonna add to the demo! so keep an eye out <3

So u made a novel in like one week? o.O awesome!

I'm actually pretty interested in making one those days bahaha

The government (culture department and the like) is even making a VN with our folklore and they're making videos about it, showing how to make a VN haha it's pretty interesting.

Oficina Lúdica - YouTube

I also found some videos about Ren'py... never knew there's so much content on how to make a VN bahaha

Maybe this one heps ya :P VimislikArt - YouTube

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Well, I'm playing the game now and DUDE, WTF BAHAHA it's pretty WTFFF the theme... like, as far as I'm seeing - haven't payed it all yet - it seems ike Hell is depicted as a good place to be and the Devil is an awesome friend... hope u hide well before the Church can set u on fire BAHAHA xP

That theme is a bit, uh, I don't even have words for it LOL it's like, all sort of alarms are blasting red, but I'm also kinda curious... enough to continue playing ;D


Also, found one typo:

"He hums at the this." is kinda weird to say something like that haha.

(I'm not being able to paste prints here... itch.io says there's some sort of server error '-')

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Found something weird... ever since Devil appeared his name was visible, but he just introduced himself now so, shouldn't his name be like "???" or "Unknow" or wathever like that UNTIL he introduces himself? haha


Edit: dunno if it was meant to be sarcastic/funny or something like that - the CG doesn't seems so -, but Devil already said my name and then he asks again at a later time, wanting an introduction... it weirded me out bahaha

Also, when other people besides me or Devil talk - so far -, there's no indication of who's taking... I mean the name that shows above the text, even if it's just like Guard 1 or Guard 2, there's no such indication :P

Oh, besides, when I use the back function, if there's any music playing, it stops - even if it was playing on the previous text - and when I get back to where I used the back function, there's still no music... it doesn't starts again.


Another edit: so, Devil said they do use magic in Hell and HE (the MC) ASKED NOTHING ABOUT IT MAN!? wtf

"You get one role, and it makes sense-at least, as far as I've seen." a space is missing here, as "sense-at" isn't a word :P

And when the MC thinks about his house, he thinks "It's a traditional shape and make."... the fck is that? bahaha 

my English isn't very good and Google didn't helped understand it LOL



Missing space again on those - yeah, now itch.io is letting me paste images LOL

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The first one is a change that will be going live tonight. I figured out how to do that today xD actually, most of this feedback is helpful bc of the changes I'm making tonight!!

I need to make clear the voice at the beginning doesn't actually belong to Devil. Good point. 

I'm adding guard sprites and nametags tonight as well! More sketch than sprite but I thought it would be helpful there too!

Yeah, there's a discussion of magic that I haven't implemented yet. Bc i can't decide if the reaction is WTF MAN or like... *panic* or... anyways, it's a character moment I need to make sure I get right. That is most definitely going to be in an update!


"sense-at" should've had an em dash--thanks for the catch!

*edit* also!!! The stops on the audio is intentional, as I have heard very mixed things about long audios in VNs... originally the sounds played through most of the scene it started in. Is that more chill than I assumed? Did you wish it played for the entire scene?

oh, glad to hear it helped


hmmm yeah, u should implement the magic dialogue in a way that really fits the story... I mean, it's smooth at the moment, really makes u feel it, so better keep that - for me, it's more like a "WTF, MAGIC! How? Show me!", considering magic isn't really a ordinary stuff for us bahaha dunno what u plan tho


about the music, I mean like, on text 2 started a music, but on text 1 I clicked before reading, then I used the "back" and the music stoped, as expected, but when back to text 2 - where the music was supposed to start - it was still silence...

hope I made mysef clear LOL


And maybe there's a bug on audio more than this one I tried explaining, considering most of my playtime there was no music - even with it turned on


I do like a bit of silence on some scenes, but only when it mixes well with the story - like, for suspense purposes, on a romance scene or a very high adrenaline scene (those parts that it seems like time stop and stuff similar), but overall I do prefer a bg noise...moreso if the music is good haha

it felt really weird to play the demo with almost only silence '-'

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so i have discovered ren'py has trouble differentiating "-" and "—", so I found some more of those errors and fixed em! i was like... now wait a minute

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I made the demo in about a week--but this is my second time figuring out Ren'Py. I have an earlier project that needs more time in the cooker, so to speak. My goal is to constantly improve the game itself as it grows, especially by learning more about Ren'Py and pushing its limits in creative directions.

That VN thing is seriously so cool!! What a way to connect to digital audiences!

You totally can!! It can be a lot of info up front, but I just google problems I run into and learn new things that way too xD

The setting is totally (and should feel like) a WTF thing up front. Assumptions can really get you into trouble in Hell (at least, this one LOL). There's far more to be learned about Hell and its occupants. Time will tell >:D

I wanna have fun and play around with Christian/protestant  ideas of Hell, while also redefining it in an interesting (and not totally awful) way. The demo is setup (and a test of the OC sprite).

Thanks for catching the typo! When I throw in some additional sketches and stuff, that change will go with it!

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That was pretty fast :D any news on that other project? There's nothing on your profile...


And yeah, it's super cool... it spreads our culture and helps people learn how to make a VN xP and shows a bit of backstage for those that like this sort of stuff - a very detailed one


I'm stil thinking about it baha more because well, I don't know how to draw nor programming, only write, and no idea of what to write for a VN at the moment haha still thinking that tho


Well, u have an interesting idea :D there's really lots of conceptions that sound outdated in lots of beliefs - religious or simply philosophy