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I really enjoyed this game about a thief winning the heart of a dancer. I kind of thought the whole phantom thief thing was extremely ridiculous at first and kept rolling my eyes, but by the end of the game I was shedding tears over the characters and world. The character writing is super fun, and all of the characters have their own arcs and stories, and the romance between the two leads definitely made me scream so loud that Discord noise suppression ate my scream.

Forget Me Not has a ton of CGs, unique art (all of the NPCs are extremely hot and it's VERY frustrating), and is just exceptionally well put together. All of the art, from the sprites to the CGs to the backgrounds, are all drawn by pretty much one person, which is nuts. I really enjoyed my time with the game.

I genuinely didn't think I'd get into it this much but I super enjoyed it. Highly recommend!

Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3333600/The\_Mysterious\_Thief\_Forget\_Me\_Not/

Disclaimer: I am friends with the developer, but these are my genuine feelings! The dev has no idea I'm writing this post and I paid for it with my own dollarydoos, and I really do hope the game does get more attention. I wouldn't be making this post if I wasn't genuinely a fan. The game has an insane amount of love put into it and I hope more people get to experience Forget Me Not!

Also, the love interest is extremely tall and the main character is extremely short. I don't know which of them I'd rather be but like. Wow. Wowww. Women, wow.....

Hey guys! I wrote a VN in February called Witch Switched about a man that gets turned into a woman (and realizes she's trans), but I wanted to do something much weirder and higher scope for Spooktober. So, we did a visual novel about a horny ghost hitting on a hot, overworked trans woman and coveting her body. I do hope you enjoy! Leave a comment if you did.

Synopsis:

Aurora is a ghost-hunting badass working for a ghost exterminator. After a stressful day of work, Aurora accidentally unleashes a ghost inside the confines of her apartment who refuses to vacate. She's a ghost, and that means she won't ascend before getting what she wants.

And the thing this ghost wants... is Aurora.

You can check the full game out here: https://sapphicore.itch.io/possessed-by-fate

It'll come to Steam in a few weeks, but for now it's Itch only.

I did this mostly as a joke, but it works SHOCKINGLY well. I turned off the music and turned down everyone's voices save for Aspen. The skeleton is basically a large Bluetooth speaker that lip syncs to any audio content you feed into it.

Now, I did have to record the game separately with all audio EXCEPT for Aspen and sync up the footage, but if I turned off the music and sound effects it is still a yuri visual novel, it's just kind of awkward. And it is wild to see sapphic voices come through a skeleton.

For those curious, this is the Ultra Skelly animatronic from Home Depot. I got it used and aux modded it, and then thrifted speakers to run the output with. Please Be Happy is like, one of my favorite games ever so I am glad I could turn one of my favorite characters into a skeleton.

Hi! My name is Jordan Brown and I've released four visual novel games, currently excitedly doing preproduction fifth with an awesome team. In a visual novel discord, the weekly question asked how you structure your VNs. I've been asked this question a few times before since I'm always pretty damn organized, so I spent my lunch break time (and then some) developing [this resource](https://sapphicore.itch.io/visual-novel-scrivener-template) — in response to the question. It's a Shrek visual novel game design document/outline. I write my VNs in Scrivener.

The idea is that if I based it off a movie everyone loves and knows the plot of, it's easier to parse and see, "oh, this is how she structures things!" versus a blank design document. Obviously, this is just my process, but I've made it open source and even did a little shoddy MS Paint Shrek so there's no copyrighted material (except for the first few lines and concept of Shrek, obviously, but I'd argue that's educational use).

Anyway, I hope this helps someone! If you click "add", it'll add a new character sketch. Also, I gave the Magic Mirror he/they pronouns because I thought it was funny.

Hi! My name is Jordan Brown and I've released four VNs, currently excitedly doing preproduction for Spooktober with an awesome team. In the DevTalk discord, the weekly question asked how you structure your VNs. I've been asked this question a few times before since I'm always pretty damn organized, so I spent my lunch break time (and then some) developing this resource — in response to the question a Shrek visual novel game design document/outline. It uses the software Scrivener, which is how I write my VNs.

The idea is that if I based it off a movie everyone loves and knows the plot of, it's easier to parse and see, "oh, this is how she structures things!" versus a blank design document. Obviously, this is just my process, but I've made it open source and even did a little shoddy MS Paint Shrek so there's no copyrighted material (except for the first few lines and concept of Shrek, obviously, but I'd argue that's educational use).

Anyway, I hope this helps someone! If you click "add", it'll add a new character sketch. Also, I gave the Magic Mirror he/they pronouns because I thought it was funny.