CHRISTMAS OTOME IS FINALLY OUT!
Are you ready to melt a frozen heart?
It’s also completely free (but you can always donate to treat us to a coffee or meal if you enjoy it)
Christmas Otome is the sequel to Valentines Otome and the third entry in the “Holiday Otome” series.
With graduation drawing near and Emma’s relationship getting serious, Maia starts to wonder about her future. Should she listen to her parents and return home or try to make it here in the city? A chance encounter leaves her with just a couple of months to melt a frozen heart but can this super serious girl do it?
Features:
- Heroine’s name is changeable
- 130K+ words
- 3 Love interests
- 9 endings
- A map system
- A shop system
- A dreamscape system that provides insight into the LI’s subconscious
- 30+ CGs
- An optional tutorial as well as a recap of the relevant events from the previous games
- Opening Video
- Music by Tyler Thompson
Get it on itch.io!
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I just breezed through all your posts again after having a dream of Valentine otome years after beta testing and playing it. As an aspiring game designer, what do you use for writing? Pen and paper? An app to help you create character pages? And so on. I've tried many ways myself and wanted to know what my favorite game devs do
For the mechanical process of writing, we use Google Docs because it’s easier for us to collaborate and chat in real-time with it - extra important because we work as a collaborative duo from different parts of the planet. Also, the autosave function has saved us from losing work so often - no need to fear sudden power cuts or hardware failures.
For the more creative aspects of writing, we throw ideas at each other in chat and let the characters build themselves up over time. Bouncing ideas off people is one of the best ways to see what works and what doesn’t. Also to pump yourself up to work on the story! I have jokingly called myself an energy vampire because the more positive responses an idea/implementation gets, the more motivated I get to do more.
Also - super flattered to be considered as one of your favourite game devs!
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Hello, I was wondering who the canon guys are for each of the holiday otome games? I love your games, they're so lovely.
We decided a long time ago to leave the canon guys up to the players. Instead we go with it being a multiverse so they’re all canon in their respective universe.
We try to keep this as far as possible in sequels as well by allowing the player to choose who it was in cases where the significant other would have an impact.
That’s because we know how disappointing it can be to know your favourite did not get a happy end in sequels/other media.
Not to say we won’t ever have games that pick a canon as the past but, due to the multiverse, that would just be a possible future among many.
yknow ever since people realized tumblr isnt dead and have decided to flock here from twitter and tiktok ive seen a huge influx of people in fandom spaces who dont reblog anything. at all.
like, i used to have an art blog with 340 followers. not a ton but not a small amount either given how this website works with creators. and in my experience back then even the ones who only left likes still reblogged other things or at least posted their own stuff. literally the only empty blogs were clearly bots.
but on this New art blog, i've had so many people with fandom-specific headers and icons with actual usernames as urls and some kind of title or description, but have. Nothing. no posts. all they do is like things. and it's always public, too. their following list and their likes list.
and honestly all it makes me think is that these people are New and also don't know how tumblr works. how likes don't give exposure. not even in a "oh, i know it doesn't give exposure, but i'm still going to reblog anyways" way, but in a genuine honest to god straight up doesn't realize tumblr likes don't work like twitter's.
PLEASE please if you're from tiktok or twitter or whatever please reblog people's art both fandom and original if you like it!! and maybe actually pad out your blog's content in some way so people won't potentially see you as a bot and block you.
REBLOG ARTIST'S WORK. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY THEY GET ANY ATTENTION ON THIS WEBSITE OH MY GOD. PLEASE. I BEG of you
WAIT THEY'RE REAL PEOPLE?! I've blocked several accounts so far because it was just "blanks space" and I assumed it was a bot.
FOLKS if you're new, please, please, this is not like Twitter, Instagram and TikTok. Reblogging is the way to go. This is how we network on here. This is how you make mutuals. This is how you share new stuff with others.
You are also:
- Encouraged to add your thoughts to the post
- Engage in conversation freely
- Express yourself in the tags if you don't want to write in the post
- In fact, write a god damn essay in the tags - we old members will read it, I promise - the limit on tags per post is insane anyway
- Reblog the same thing as many times as you like. Like every time you see it, and you want to reblog it because it brings you joy - go for it!
There’s been some interest in it, so we’ve set up a Ko-fi (it’s also linked in the sidebar). So, for anyone interesting in tossing us tips/buying us a coffee - that’s another option apart from donating via itch.io.
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So... anything new in the works? Also, any chance for some Kippy Merch? (Sorry if you answered this, or if there is already, I'd blame my memory, but I'm just a dumbo XD)
We do have projects planned and some concept work put into our next planned game and we’ve made some “sneak peak” posts here and there but…
Life has been pretty crazy and we had to step back and make the decision to take a hiatus until next year with regards to serious Dev work. It’s not something we wanted, but we both need to take care of our mental and physical health.
As for Kippy Merch, we don’t have any. Chocobikies knows I’d love the idea of Kippy plushes or T-shirts/hoodies/onesies or figurines or - well, anything - but the logistics of that aren’t really feasible with uncertain demand and the countries we live in. Although, we wouldn’t be opposed to partnering with someone else who may want to make and sell them.
We have a TikTok now! Still trying to get used to it and figure out what to post though so it’s kinda a random assortment of posts right now^^’
So yeah, like, follow and interact if you’re into that stuff? Let us know what you’d like to see more of too!
Looking for an Otome game to play for Valentines Day? #otome #indie #valentines #vn #speedpaint
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A little taste of what’s to come… in the far future
See any familiar faces? ;)
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
We hope you enjoyed our 🎁 in the form of Christmas Otome. Spreading the Christmas cheer 😘
Only 5 days til Christmas- if you haven’t met him yet- our not so secret - secret. Mr Suit. ❤️