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Princess of Ruin Is Out!

Hey everyone! I'm happy to announce Princess of Ruin is officially
out! Check it out here!

(Current Version: V1.3)

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In the past, criminals were put in the Cleansing Circle to be cleansed of ill will. This magic was lost for fifty years until one young man resurrects this lost art, releasing prisoners who were left behind.

The prisoners learn that they are cleansed of more than just ill will. They've also lost their memories and feel programmed to perform specific tasks.

Join Raissa as she tries to find out why she was a prisoner, reverse the effects of the circle, and maybe fall in love...


FEATURES:

* · 6 obtainable guys
* · 24 unique endings
* · 85+ unique CGs
* · Just over 315,000 words
* · Approximately 7-9 hours per playthrough
* · 22 original tracks

This visual novel is available on Windows, Mac and Linux. Buy it once, and you get Princess of Ruin for all three operating systems.

The original soundtrack by ExPsyle is also available here.

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I hope you enjoy this visual novel as much as we had making it!
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Oh no! I can't make nice journals anymore because my membership expired. Everything I wrote was in the journal skin itself. XD
Everything I wrote went poof. Looks like all that time writing it is gone.

*Phail
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Progress



Heartstring Bugs Overall Progress: 60%

Writing: 95%
Editing: 75% (by Delarem, Callista and Kyminara)
Programming: 70%
Music: 95% (by Wynn and Hill Smith)
Sprite Art: 50%
Backgrounds and CGs: 5%
Other Art: 50%

All in all, too behind. :)

What Makes a Good Game?
I read a lot about how people say art and a whole bunch of things aren't what makes a game good... it's something like that but I won't get into detail. I sort of don't want to reread into the details. It sucks more life out of me and the dating sim is already doing that to me.

But really, I as a "developer" AND as a player of games need them to be complete, otherwise it's hard for me to enjoy a game.


Art is the body.
Music is the soul.
Programming is the mind.
Writing is the heart.


Without one of these, the game isn't at its best. It's like a human missing something. If you want to say this is sappy, go ahead. :P

Now to get further into that failed rhyme, there are those of us who think this human soul and heart business is a joke. Okay, applying that "joke" to game making, let's take out the soul (music in this case) and the heart (writing). Now we have a pretty-looking game with awesome programming, but now we have mediocre music and no writing. Hmmm....
You can say games don't need those, and then you'll point to puzzles and platforms. But let's just add one line of text to that.

Platform: "Get to the end of the level"
OR
"Your princess is in another castle."

Puzzle: "Clear all the blocks."
OR
"Free your friends by breaking the ice!"

You get what I mean.

And no, I'm not saying Frozen Essence fits all of the four needed things for a complete game. XD
But this won't stop me from trying to do that to my newer games.


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