Wow... That was sooo incredibly sweet! T_T DEFINITELY worth the wait~ UwU The Slums has a captivating story, well written characters, and all the sugary goodness I could ever hope to find in a romance VN~ :p
Could the writing use a touch up here and there? Sure. Would the novel have been even better with more art? Probably. But none of that detracts from the wonderful story xou shared with us :)
Thank xou sooo much for all of the time and effort xou put into this project! It was TRULY a joy to read :3 I love xour writing style, so I can't wait to see what xou come up with next~ <3
Even though this just a short VN but i very enjoying it , hope to see more of your projects (Plaster still down there tho kinda sad wish he could go to the surface :< )
And I've been getting a lot of questions about Plaster. All I can say regarding him is I have plenty of plans for the sequel vn (whenever it would be made) to address what happened to him.
I haven't started reading this yet, but I want to post and say I am so excited!! I remember reading and LOVING the demo around a year ago, and I am super hype for seeing what this turns out to be! I can't support monetarily right now, but I hope to in the near future.
I absolutely LOVED this VN to my core. The characters are lovable and nicely written, it is plain beautiful and would love to see what will come next of it. I do hope I get to see more from you and this beautiful VN you curated. I never cared for the characters more than I did with this VN. I genuinely cared and hoped for the best.
SPOILERS:
I actually bawled my eyes out, worried sick about Aaron but I am just so damn glad everything went well... Of course, there's still more to unpack - we still have Plaster in the slums, we finally got to see the Queen and absolutely fell in love by her motherly care for Aaron, and what was the situation is in the surface and how they'll solve the problems brimming in the slums. I am interested in how these will be tackled with in the future.
Thank you for this wonderful experience of a VN and I am excited to see more from it in the future! Much love!
Thank you so much for all these kind words! Yes, I definitely purposefully left a lot of things open for a potential sequel down the line. The fact people are so invested in seeing more of these characters is really heart-warming
Short Answer: I just did not have the time/money to implement audio.
Long Answer:
I have zero experience in composing music, so that left 3 ways I know of to get music for the vn:
1) commission an artist who has experience making music for these projects
2) buy a pack of music to be used commercially
3) use free, fair use music (since the project is completely free)
I did not do much research on the first two, because this is a personal project that has zero budget (money is very tight for me). That left with me doing fair use music. I did spend an entire week working on music for the game, and in that week I was only able to source and download a few tracks for the vn. Mind you, this was me spending all of my free time that would've went to the vn just looking for music which ate up so much time that could've gone to writing and art.
None of the music I could find in that week fit the vn and honestly sounded awful to listen to longer than 30 seconds. Keep in mind, that week was spent only *finding* the music, I would need infinitely more time to actually implement that music, properly credit the artists who made it, and then finding even more music as the ones I had barely even covered half of the vns tones. It became clear to me that something had to be cut, and music was the easiest thing to cut out. (The stress of finding this music only to be disappointed by the results was also weighing down on me pretty hard.)
Please keep in mind, this project is *mostly* worked on by just me completely for free. I had a few friends help out on some art assets, but everything else from coding, writing, proof-reading, implementing assets, as well as plenty of the art in the vn was done solo. It's a project I made next to nothing on during its year long development, so adding all of that work just to have a bunch of very boring music that most people would've muted anyways during their time playing just was not worth it.
I absolutely enjoyed this short VN. I had an absolute blast while reading this. I had a couple of good laughs, a few feelings of anger and uncomfortableness (with how well you described the gory parts of the story), feelings of sadness, and most of all, a heart warming feeling of seeing a sort of bittersweet ending of Aaron and Ember getting to stay together. Even with the lack of music, you're writing brought out so many different emotions which shows how good of a writer you are. I really enjoyed reading this short VN. Amazing job!!
Just a suggestion but you could continue with the same world you created in this vn and continue building it up by following different stories or not that's up to you either way im excited to see more from you
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Wow... That was sooo incredibly sweet! T_T DEFINITELY worth the wait~ UwU The Slums has a captivating story, well written characters, and all the sugary goodness I could ever hope to find in a romance VN~ :p
Could the writing use a touch up here and there? Sure. Would the novel have been even better with more art? Probably. But none of that detracts from the wonderful story xou shared with us :)
Thank xou sooo much for all of the time and effort xou put into this project! It was TRULY a joy to read :3 I love xour writing style, so I can't wait to see what xou come up with next~ <3
Thank you :)
Even though this just a short VN but i very enjoying it , hope to see more of your projects (Plaster still down there tho kinda sad wish he could go to the surface :< )
Thank you for that! We'll have to learn more about Plaster in a future project :3c
Great Vn, really enjoyed it. Look forward to future work from you.
Spoiler
What about Plaster! fell in love with that guy straight away.
Thank you so much!
And I've been getting a lot of questions about Plaster. All I can say regarding him is I have plenty of plans for the sequel vn (whenever it would be made) to address what happened to him.
How long would the reading time be?
I haven't actually timed it, but it's a fairly short vn. I'd say about 2 hours depending on how fast you read.
Alright then, thank you for the reply :D
Oh! I remember playing the demo long ago. I haven't had the time to read this, but I'll do it eventually. Thank you!
Enjoy! :D
I haven't started reading this yet, but I want to post and say I am so excited!! I remember reading and LOVING the demo around a year ago, and I am super hype for seeing what this turns out to be! I can't support monetarily right now, but I hope to in the near future.
Thank you so much! And I really appreciate you wanting to support the game. I really hope you enjoy the story :D
I really liked this VN and now it's over and now I'm sad. Excited for any future projects from you, definitely someone worth keeping an eye on.
That's such a great compliment to hear. I hope my future projects live up to that :D
I absolutely LOVED this VN to my core. The characters are lovable and nicely written, it is plain beautiful and would love to see what will come next of it. I do hope I get to see more from you and this beautiful VN you curated. I never cared for the characters more than I did with this VN. I genuinely cared and hoped for the best.
SPOILERS:
I actually bawled my eyes out, worried sick about Aaron but I am just so damn glad everything went well... Of course, there's still more to unpack - we still have Plaster in the slums, we finally got to see the Queen and absolutely fell in love by her motherly care for Aaron, and what was the situation is in the surface and how they'll solve the problems brimming in the slums. I am interested in how these will be tackled with in the future.
Thank you for this wonderful experience of a VN and I am excited to see more from it in the future! Much love!
Thank you so much for all these kind words! Yes, I definitely purposefully left a lot of things open for a potential sequel down the line. The fact people are so invested in seeing more of these characters is really heart-warming
Why no audio?
Short Answer: I just did not have the time/money to implement audio.
Long Answer:
I have zero experience in composing music, so that left 3 ways I know of to get music for the vn:
1) commission an artist who has experience making music for these projects
2) buy a pack of music to be used commercially
3) use free, fair use music (since the project is completely free)
I did not do much research on the first two, because this is a personal project that has zero budget (money is very tight for me). That left with me doing fair use music. I did spend an entire week working on music for the game, and in that week I was only able to source and download a few tracks for the vn. Mind you, this was me spending all of my free time that would've went to the vn just looking for music which ate up so much time that could've gone to writing and art.
None of the music I could find in that week fit the vn and honestly sounded awful to listen to longer than 30 seconds. Keep in mind, that week was spent only *finding* the music, I would need infinitely more time to actually implement that music, properly credit the artists who made it, and then finding even more music as the ones I had barely even covered half of the vns tones. It became clear to me that something had to be cut, and music was the easiest thing to cut out. (The stress of finding this music only to be disappointed by the results was also weighing down on me pretty hard.)
Please keep in mind, this project is *mostly* worked on by just me completely for free. I had a few friends help out on some art assets, but everything else from coding, writing, proof-reading, implementing assets, as well as plenty of the art in the vn was done solo. It's a project I made next to nothing on during its year long development, so adding all of that work just to have a bunch of very boring music that most people would've muted anyways during their time playing just was not worth it.
I absolutely enjoyed this short VN. I had an absolute blast while reading this. I had a couple of good laughs, a few feelings of anger and uncomfortableness (with how well you described the gory parts of the story), feelings of sadness, and most of all, a heart warming feeling of seeing a sort of bittersweet ending of Aaron and Ember getting to stay together. Even with the lack of music, you're writing brought out so many different emotions which shows how good of a writer you are. I really enjoyed reading this short VN. Amazing job!!
Thank you so much!!
the ending was beautiful I started crying
Ahh I'm glad you liked it :D
I have played this for like. 5 minutes. The gray wolf man blushed and I immediately rushed to write this comment because oh my GOD
Aww I'm glad you're enjoying it so far!
Can't wait for you to do other projects it was fantastic
Thank you! I'm gonna take just a little break, then start on a plan for my next project. No idea what it will be though yet haha
Just a suggestion but you could continue with the same world you created in this vn and continue building it up by following different stories or not that's up to you either way im excited to see more from you
This is so sweet~ n///n
:D
I am happy to see more of this vn😊 I remember playing the demo i can't wait to see more
Thank you for your patience on it! I hope you like it :D
LETS GOOO!
Yessss
ooh? i remember reading the demo a while ago. will read this!
I hope you enjoy it :D