Advent Calendar: Let's Play 24 games!

What kind of class project is THAT?


"Filled"?... That doesn't sound quite right.


Hahaha, COOKIE FIGHT!
I mean, aww.


Damnit teachers, you gotta be more careful with that kinda thing. Toss them once you're in the teacher's lounge!


Stop being so pessimistic, Koda.
On a side note his name keeps making me thing "cod".


The cats ate her cookies that day, much to her delight.


You must've gotten real good at making cookies by now then.
I mean, assuming you actually took care.
I've actually screwed up baking to the point that it was completely inedible. More than once, with the same recipe.



I think Koda might just hate happiness, guys.
This actually made me laugh, he's trying so hard to be the most depressing he can.
NO
I REFUSE TO LET YOU BE HAPPY
I WILL EMO AT YOU UNTIL YOU STOP


Nihilistic?
I forget what that meant... Eh, doesn't matter!


Oh, this is Koda. He's an emo cod.


I bet you could depress her if you showed that the kittens eat anything.
Even cameras.



Hahahaha.
Yeah, cod, you're in love.

Nihilism is pretty much a belief in emptiness, that everything is empty and pointless. Put succintly and off my shaky memory on the subject.

Ohh. Yeah, he's definitely a nihilist.



Ooh, is it...?


COOKIE BAG! Yesss, she heard me!

Man, now I want cookies.
Maybe I should bake...


Yummy~
Stop being so depressive, Koda. You have cookies.



Koda: "OH CRAP I FORGOT TO BE EMO FOR A MOMENT"
"QUICK GOTTA ADD DEPRESSION"


Yeah, Koda's worked REALLY hard on that frown.


That's an understatement.


A severe understatement.
Seriously, Koda. Knock it off.
It's like you're allergic to happiness.


... Haha, cute solution!



Well, too bad. Koda's smiling face looks like this: :|
It's as far up as his mouth will go.


Kuu is shocked that he hates people so much, and he tries to explain why.
So what are his reasons?


You're really kind of petty, Koda.
I mean seriously.
So petty.

He proceeds to call them annoying, prompting:


Hahahahahaha.
Koda just stumbles all over himself as he tries to answer, before settling on "I don't know".
The concept of love must be incomprehensible to him.


It's called love, cod. The loveyest love.
She's probably the only person you've talked to for years, isn't she?



NOBODY CAN LIKE THINGS
NOBODY

Surprisingly, this annoys Kuu who decides to tell him what he really thinks and feels.


It's also fully possible that he's a sociopath, Kuu!
Or clinically depressed!
Or an asshole!

This game is better with commentary.

Fun fact: Koda's voice actor is the guy who voices Draco in Loren the Amazon Princess. Just to bring my Draco crush into yet another thread.

Yeah, this visual novel is pretty cheesy, but I still think it's cute and heartwarming. <3

Ooh, nice metaphor.


But you don't mind now 'cause you have a crush on her.


Since when do normal people seem that way?
Oh, wait, you wouldn't know.



Aw, that's cute.


Bake your own cookies!
Make them completely inedible because you suck at cooking--
wait, what do you eat, even?



Wait, what? That's it?


... Well, that was sudden.
Huh.
... Okay then?

Hahaha, glad you enjoyed. Even if all I did was to snipe at Koda. X3

The game is... I wouldn't really call it cheesy, but it cuts off right before the actual cute stuff would happen, you know? I was expecting more, with Koda learning to not be a pessimistic douche and maybe actually showing how he changed. Maybe a CG with Kuu, or anything. It feels like the prologue to a story, not an actual story.

*Never seen Loren the Amazon Princess*

Behold: the adventures of Draco the fire mage and his merry band of misfits!

And oh yeah, the protagonist and the title character, too.

I can't do the 24th; I'll be at my mother-in-law's and she doesn't have the Internet. But I could do any day this week if you want.

I agree and I'd love to see a sequel to Ripples. However, I think for what it is, it's very cute and well done. Plus, it's what got her into making visual novels and she's come out with some great stuff since then, so there's always that. :)

Of course, they can't have a long-lasting healthy relationship, though~ A girl who doesn't think that life has meaning and a boy who can't keep living if he has no meaning, a girl who lives because she believes that the world will listen and a boy who lives because that's all there is to do, there are some people who can love each other while at the same time destroy each other~ No such thing as absolute optimism or absolute pessimism buuut it's just as natural for people to share their views as it's natural for people to continue clinging to theirs~ You can take little steps towards the center of the spectrum, make little concessions, and you can chisel away at the other's philosophy and then feel guilty because they changed because of you~ "You can't have a happy ending, you can just cut things off at a happy part of the middle": There's an insurmountable barrier between those who accept that and those who reject it~

...

Well, that fulfills my Drama-Debbie-Downer quota for the week.

Haha, that's not much of a promise seeing how it's sunday. But no worries, I'll tell everyone here if I can't do it one day!

And if Kuu's actually right in that Koda's scared and not actually depressedly pessimistic about everything, she can probably bring him onto her side pretty easily. So don't you worry Donmai, this cod will learn to smile properly yet!

I feel that there were not enough images of kittens in this game as there could have been.

I can volunteer to do a game! I might be available for the 24th, as well.

In contractual obligation to myself:

Tell me before I seek worthier pastures
And thereby restore self esteem
How can you be so short-sighted
To look never further than this week
Or next week
To have no impossible dream?!

Allow me to help you slink off to the sidewalks
And mark your adieu with three cheers!
But first; tell me who'd be delighted
If I said I'd take on the world's greatest problems
From war to pollution
No hope of solution!
Even if I lived for 100 years!

And Koda, just so you know? I like Che better than I like Eva.

Quite interesting little game. It does feel like it cuts short before the inevetiable healing story, but what was there was done well enough, even if Koda leaned a bit heavily on what seemed an addiction to being a negative nancy.

If there's one thing I like in this game, it's the art. SO PWEETYYY!!!

I actually like Koda. 'Cause he reminds me of a character of mine. And I love my character.
Except, my character is a killing maniac.

New theory: Koda's actually a killing maniac.

I see your Evita and raise you Into the Woods

And she showed me things,
Many beautiful things,
That I hadn't thought to explore!
They were off my path,
So I never had dared,
I had been so careful!
I never had cared.
And she made me feel excited!
Well, excited and scared...

I'll toss in some Miss Saigon for saccharine, but I can't really beat Into the Woods on this one.

On the other side of the earth
There's a place where life still has worth
I will take you!

I'll go with you!

You won't believe all the things you'll see
I know - 'cause you'll see them all with me!
If we're together that's when
We'll hear it again!

A song
Played on a solo saxophone
A crazy sound
A lonely song
A cry that tells us love goes on and on
Played on a solo saxophone
It's telling me to hold you tight
And dance
Like it's the last night of the world!

Interesting theory, but Koda sort of seems like a wimp.
I mean, he tried to protect himself with a camera. He probably can't kill anything, just flail at them while whining.

... I am highly interested in your murderous maniac though. I wanna know more! I LOVE murderous maniacs! /terribleperson

And yeah, the art's definitely the best thing about this! I liked the music, but it didn't loop properly so that sorta cut off a few points. Needed more cats though. I wanted a cat-holding CG.

Yeah, I was just joking there. But he's really mentally disturbed, never seen someone hate people as much as he do.
Wait, I DID! One of my best friends was just like him some years ago. She's okay now.

His name's Paul, and you can only love him or hate him throughout the story. I... I can't explain him completely in few words. Here:



Man, his hand looks awkward in white screen. At least it's okay in the game, so...

There, you have him.

Am I the only one off-put by Kuu's hair colour(s)?

My cursed mind made that sound like experimentation with who knows what.

The girl looks... Kinda drugged, either that or totally okay with what happened.

Ah well, dude's not as insane as I hoped he'd be. Rapists automatically deserve anything terrible that happens to them, probably.

...I'd give tips on how to make his wounds look worse but somehow that feels like an inappropriate thing to do.

That's basically exactly how you're supposed to read it in the musical.

Kuu's hair makes me think of sherbet, which I am now having the absolute worst craving for. Damn you, game!

... now I kind of feel like making sherbet. I wonder if we have any frozen leftover berries from the garden...

I just failed at her expression there. She's kinda mortified by that scene. But she's also okay with it, 'cause she's also a psycho. She's only scared because she's never seen anyone rip another person's arm with his own hands before.
Yeah, he did it. Not exactly human.

He doesn't only kill bad people. Ask his cute ex-girlfriend.

I actually tried to do that, but my scanner fucked it up. For real, his wounds are TOO WEIRD digitally. It's more natural on the paper.

I am so jealous of you. All I know how to make is ice.

Ahh. I think the issue is that she's got sleepy eyes, and she's staring straight ahead instead of at the corpse or the guy. Makes her seem totally out of it. Maybe if you try widening her eyes and have her glance over at the corpse? Should give an air of surprise/scaredness.

And ooh, serial killer~ I'll have to play your game to see how he really is. :3
... *Resisting urge to tell about one of her own villainy VN chars*

I think the general tip there is to actually own an ice-cream machine. I don't, so making sherbet is boiling together the ingredients, then spend the rest of the day stirring the increasingly frozen mass every half hour. You also have to rinse and repeat that pattern when it gets a few too many ice crystals in it from being in freezer storage.

*has no psycho characters, so speaks of cooking instead*

Actually it's a book concept. The story is done, but I call it concept because there's a lot of things I need to improve or add on it. People who read it liked it, but I feel there's stuff missing. Also, it's much too short.
I'm doing the game based on the book, but with different endings of course. And it will take LOOOONG before you can play it, believe me. I'm too lazy to actually work on that.

Tell me about your character.

I had a crazy killer character once! She killed cats in her basement and invited people in for creepy tea parties where she would half-heartedly try to prevent them from discovering her HORRIFYING CAT-KILLING SECRET.

Her name was Jacquelle.

:D

I have lots of crazy killer characters! Like:

- A really evil fallen angel girl.
- A lust demon that get laid with women then kill them horribly and stock them in a basement in an abandoned house.
- A cannibal woman. I loved to describe her horrifying house. Now I feel like writing something with her.
- A lot of others, but there are so much I don't really remember them XD

All that really counts as a serial-murderer is Raleigh and being he is a vampire and mostly killed people because his sire ordered him to, I'm not sure that counts. I guess there was Ahrkepi, but she was more of the Magnificient bitch than a crazy killer. She did have her sister in law murdered in front of her eight-year-old nephew and told him if he wasn't a brave boy and did everything she told him to, including shutting up about the murder, she would kill him, too, but again, that was more of a chess move to her than killing for funsies.

Ahh. Good luck with the book!

I have a LOT of serial killers and crazy people and just evil characters all around, heehee. But I'll keep myself to one story at a time!
I'm pretty much trying to make all my VN characters sympathetic to some degree. Besides, I use my RP characters for this particular VN and you wouldn't believe how hard it is to keep a complete asshole villain alive. One of them, though, I imagine I'll have trouble managing(he's mostly alive because he's failed to do any damage, so people keep basically nudging him aside).

Cat, you write very interesting characters. In fact now with everyone else I have intense character envy.

I think your characters are pretty amazing sounding! I love a good political intrigue tale.

But he looks so cute and good D=

What I like about Paul is that he's a totally motherfucker in all kinds of way. He's a jerk with his mom (who's the sweetest person ever), he hates his dad (who kinda deserves it, but well, he's his dad, and never did any terrible stuff with him, he just doesn't seem to care), he's obviously crazy (since he sometimes listen voices in his head and starts laughing maniacally every time he sees blood), and well... He's a jerk with everybody in general, except his pet and the girl in the drawing I sent (but actually he turns up to be a jerk with her too). Oh, don't forget he kills people. Well, he's all of it, but he assumes it. He knows he's total crap, but he doesn't give a fuck and don't really want to change. He can even try not to kill people when he wants to, but that's it.

Also, he's a poet.
I wished I could write his poetry, but I suck at it... so... much D=

It was actually a script for a fantasy comic that hasn't really gotten anywhere probably because I dumped 645 pages on the artist and it was using other people's characters, too, because it was based on a forum RP. Ahrkepi is kind of the immortal bitch thread that fucks everything up in it, though. Third child of the God of Darkness so she doesn't have any magical powers, unlike her siblings, and she had a serious cow on her back about that, so scheming and intrigues are her 'superpower' and she wields it pretty damned well until she miscal... will... miscalculate and get herself stabbed in the back, literally.

Other fun stuff in the script included a 240-year-old Not Elf marrying a 17-year-old girl after murdering her father. He is the shy, introvert bookworm in the story and he is, in fact, MY character and that part followed EXACTLY how the RP plot went >_> He also has Accidental Genocide on his list of qualities.

Haha, decieving appearances~

Man, Paul sounds like a huge dick. But jerks can be fun to play can't they? :D

Ahaha, thanks! :D I have way too many of them, but I love near all of them (there's a couple I dislike for various reasons).
Your people sound really neat too though~

He IS a huge dick.

But there's also some sweet moments in the book! If getting laid on top of your ex-girlfriend's tomb is sweet for you.

It's like they're rubbing it in... to her corpse. I shouldn't find it amusing but I totally do.