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Not at all, for the royalty-free rule, I was thinking of the three main parts of a visual novel game: background art, sprite art and event illustrations. User interface artwork could be part of that, but small elements like fonts and icons? It's not practical to require that. Now, if someone wanted they could use image maps and entirely hand-written elements and icons for the UI, but that's simply a different option for approaching the jam's purpose.

In short, royalty-free fonts and icons were not considered for that rule and if I host the jam next year I'll add that as an exception. Thanks for asking.

Yes, if your game's story fits the theme "Make it Real".

"Make it Real" is the theme, and it's very broad and open to interpretation. :) So no, no other theme is planned.

Thanks!
You can have as many aspects as you like be traditional. That would fall under the One Aspect challenge - because technically you would have completed two One Aspect challenges. But you can call it the Tradigital challenge if you also use some minimal traditional elements in other aspects - e.g., the game screens / GUI uses some charcoal texture overlay.

Thanks! :-)

Thank you! I hope you enjoy it :)

Thanks! 😊

Wow, thank you so much! ❤️

Thank you!

It's been a long year but I'm not giving up. :) Thank you for the kind words. :)

Thanks for posting the update! I'm so glad that worked. :-)

Thank you so much! :-)

That's not good. Which flavor are you using? You can possibly try "Shift+G" and changing the renderer settings?

This is wonderful! Can't wait to use it. :-)

Thank you so much! That is exactly what I wanted to do. :)

Thanks!

What if I did kind of enjoy it... x)

Thank you!

Thank you! 

I'm glad it was a surprise. ;)

Aw. thank you so much! :-)

Thanks! :-)

Thank you so much! :-)

Thank you so much! :-)

And thanks! Ink was one of my first mediums, so it's nice to revisit it and stay away from the computer for at least some game dev.

Getting back into it slowly but surely! :-)

Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I was definitely inspired by older games.

There are a few playthrough videos, I think for them to come up to the top of the search on YouTube you just have to put the title of the game in quotes ("Drown the Bride").

Yes. :-)

Thank you so much!  I edited the walkthrough; I am not sure what went wrong there because that choice was from the original design doc, so if that choice isn't working to get that ending then that may be a bug and I'll fix it in a future update. Either way, thank you for alerting me. :-)

Thank you so much! :-) I'm glad you liked it!

Well, it did take me several tries to figure out how to write a short story game in a fantasy world. x)

I saw the main page, but wasn't sure if I was missing something when I couldn't find license information in the downloaded files. Anyway, thank you for the reply!

What is the license? Is it CC BY? Or something else?

Thank you.

Whaddayamean rough edges? lol, they were perfect works of art~

For the point n' click movement, I spent like a week reading up on Python and some of that highschool geometry I'd forgotten. Per K Grok's tutorial on Lemmasoft was also a big help - otherwise I wouldn't even know it could be done in Ren'Py... at least not without breaking Ren'Py's main features.

Anyway, thanks for the comment! I'm glad it was fun!

Also wow, I haven't seen that video in a lo-o-ong time.

I understand some are more sensitive to noise than others (I'm one of them ), but my preference is to give the player the option to choose, when, as in this case, the musician provides a full range of sound.

Wow, thanks! :-)

Thank you for the comment!

Poor Mayu.. Can't even be a Vtuber. I really felt for her.  Being a vampire sucks! x)  I loved the dialogue with Juriel in particular - the contrast of her deadpan delivery with Mayu's personality was very fun. :) Got Ending #8 on my first playthrough and I'll go back to try some others. I was so worried about Mayu being able to pay rent that I just had her work and drink blood, lol, but that was actually a satisfying ending, too.

Also really enjoyed the retro/Gothic music + the UI layout/sprite format. 

The prose is so beautiful ~ I greatly enjoyed the atmosphere created by the color palette, gorgeous art & music and writing. What a treat.

Lots of fun until you spend two days fixing a bug, think it's fixed, only for there to be a loophole. xD

Game is updated, btw. But when I tested it, the 'spy on them' choice was in auto-saves so it might be there and you can just undo that choice if you want. Sorry for the frustration.

You're welcome! It's top notch. It was honestly an insta-download for me because I remembered & really enjoyed Inter.

Wow, the sound design immediately draws you into the world. (Was pretty impressed by how powerful and cinematic the intro was with just sound and (at first) text.) Engaging from beginning to end, enjoyed the banter a lot. The story goes seamlessly from terrifying to fun to unsettling and kept me on the edge of my seat.

(I see that anagram, lol).

Aw, well. I'll see if I can find that. Wish I knew what triggered it. Thanks for the bug report!

Edit: Make sure if you get to the part where you're waiting for Tetrine, go to the train station and look at the boat several times.

Which version of the game do you have? The latest is 1.2a which should solve the bug. 1.1 was definitely broken here, 1.2 may have shown you a repeat version. If you have 1.2a, try this sequence:
Go to the cabin, look at the boat, then the junk, then go to the house and look at Tetrine's luggage, then go back and look at the boat.