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The Ossan Jam 2024 (formerly known as Oji Jam) page is officially up!

Ossan Jam is a visual novel jam dedicated to old men. You must create a visual novel with an old man as the center of attention. This year, we’re taking a much more relaxed approached. Come join us and make VNs about old men!

Go check it out here: https://lacydigital.itch.io/roped-in

ONLY ONE MONTH LEFT!!

Happy Holidays from Red Spring Studio 🤍

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Idea Factory International will release otome visual novel Cupid Parasite: Sweet & Spicy Darling for Switch in 2024 in the west, the publisher announced.

Cupid Parasite: Sweet & Spicy Darling will launch first in Japan on November 30.

Here is an overview of the game, via Idea Factory International:

About

While working for a major marriage agency named Cupid Corporation, Cupid the goddess of love herself, strived to become the top bridal advisor. She was assigned five hopeless clients known as the Parasite 5! Even after guiding them through mock dates, matchmaking seminars, and the reality show “Parasite House,” all five abruptly canceled their memberships! Yet their departures brought all their personal challenges to the surface. As she confronted these issues with them, they overcame many unexpected obstacles… And she fell in love with “him.” This is the continued love story of the goddess of love, Cupid, experiencing love firsthand. It’s the tale of when she becomes a goddess “only” for him. Marriage wasn’t the end goal, but the start of a new chapter. Whether they began dating or got married, the only thing awaiting them is a series of unexpected challenges! A mysterious new creature has appeared in Los York! Could it be a divine message or evidence of an unknown civilization? A love story so sweet, it’ll make your heart melt! The whirlwind of feelings taking the world by storm is far from over! An endearing, joyful, and chaotic tale that’s richer and more exhilarating than ever! This romance featuring a former goddess is so sweet and spicy, it’ll make your teeth ache and set your soul ablaze! And in Merenice Levin’s route, her days as Cupid are far from over! A romantic and comedic story in the world of matchmaking is set to unfold!

Key Features

Sweeter and Spicier! – Return to Los York with the original cast of Cupid Parasite, plus an all new-character Merenice Levin. Rendezvous with seven of the sweetest and spiciest bachelors in up to three game modes and unlock over 80 CGs, including some that may be too hot to handle!

All Different Flavors to Choose From – Pick from three different modes that can satiate anyone with a sweet tooth. Select “After Drama” mode to follow-up with the original Parasite 6 and pick up from where you last left off. Go with “New Parasite” mode for a chance to experience Merenice Levin’s perspective of the events that take place after the common route of Cupid Parasite. You can also explore routes you unlocked in “Bonus Episode” mode for six bonus episodes with their own unlockable CGs!

In Sweetness and In Spiciness?! – You must choose the flavor of the next course. Will you go with the sweet? Or will you go with the spicy? When prompted with the choice during gameplay, select between sweet or spicy to impact the ending of your selected route. Manage to balance the flavors for a chance at something really appetizing.

Rich, Decadent Visuals and Savory Scenarios – The original scenario writer and illustrator of Cupid Parasite return! Ririka Yoshimura (scenario writer) and Yuuya (illustrator) join forces once again to bring fans a delectable addition to the Cupid Parasite universe.

Watch a teaser trailer below. View a set of screenshots at the gallery. Visit the official website here.

Teaser Trailer

Scrivener is a writer’s best friend. 

It’s a word processing software created with unruly, complicated novels in mind. However, some writers stay away because its many features can be seem overwhelming at first. If you want to use Scrivener, but haven’t taken the plunge yet. Or if you already use Scrivener, but haven’t explored its many features, check out my three part guide to writing a novel with Scrivener, from planning to editing and all of the key smashing in-between. 

1. Planning with Scrivener

Scrivener comes with tools dedicated to outlining, researching, and brainstorming your manuscript. The first part of this series details everything you can do in Scrivener before setting that first line down in ink (or pixels.) 

2. Drafting with Scrivener 

The second part in this series covers the actual “writing” part of writing. It covers multiple composition modes (even making your screen mimic Microsoft Word!), writing in split screen, word targets, and more. 

3. Editing with Scrivener

The third part of this series gives advice on exporting your writing into a standard manuscript format, saving each version of your work as you go along, and the best tools for revising your manuscript. 

Download a free 30-day trial of Scrivener at its official site. 

I forgot how utterly amazing this software is, so I’m re-blogging my three Scrivener guides! 

The four features that are killing it for me right now are:

A separate text file for each chapter. The organization make it so easy to move around my manuscript, so that doing things like going back to certain chapters to find information I need isn’t an utter nightmare. Equally important, I try to make sure my chapters are between 1,500 and 2,500 words for consistency. Having a separate text file makes it easy to see how far away I am from that mark. Which brings me to feature two.

Targets! I can set manuscript targets, session targets, and chapter targets. This means I can tell Scrivener I want my novel to be 40,000 words long, my chapter to be 2,000 words long, and that I’d like to write 1,500 words today. I can even say I want to finish my book by August 1st, and it’ll tell me how much I need to write each day to meet it–adjusting automatically if I go over/under my daily goal. It’s motivational too, pushing me forward because I’m never far away from hitting a goal. 

Statistics! Scrivener goes above and beyond for manuscript statistics. I click one button and it tells me how many words there are in my book, how long the paragraphs and sentences are on average, how many chapters there are, the longest and shortest chapters, how many pages the document would be as a paperback, and even how long it would take to read!!!! I. Love. It. 

New game! "The Bread Must Rise" by Stewart C. Baker and James Beamon is now available on Steam, iOS and Android. It's 40% off until October 5!

In this magical baking contest, you'll team up with the Queen Undying to bake your rivals into an early grave—or out of the grave, with necromancy!

"The Bread Must Rise" is a 450,000-word interactive comedy/fantasy/baking/eldritch horror novel by James Beamon and Stewart C Baker. It's entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

Also, by lots of terrible jokes.

You've been chosen as one of six contestants in the Great Godstone Bakeoff! Godstone, renowned throughout the twelve mostly civilized realms as the "city of a thousand bakeries," is not what it once was. The Queen Undying, a necromancer rumored to have a taste for human blood, has filled its streets with terror, while the robe-shrouded members of the Carb Freeon cult threaten bakers with impunity. And something is off with the City Council, a group of shadowy figures who nobody ever remembers seeing.

You're one of Godstone's top bakers, with a scrappy little business, a mysterious confectionary legacy from your late parents, and a former best friend who stole your recipes to make his own fame and fortune. You’ve got a lot to prove in this competition, and you’ll stop at nothing to reach the top of the profiterole tower.

But everything changes when the Queen Undying herself appears at your bakery. The queen has forced you to become her newest thrall, helpless to resist her eldritch power. And, for mysterious reasons, she's commanding you to make her your baking assistant!

Exercise your breadcraft magic to turn the saddest soggiest-bottomed bakes into stunning showstoppers; sweet-talk the judges into giving you the win; or just put in good old-fashioned hard work. If you're not satisfied with just making bread rise, maybe you'll start making the dead rise, too: necromancy is powerful, and the Queen Undying's spells might be just what you need to complete that recipe…or to take down your rival once and for all.

Play up to the press, win the adoration of your fans, and navigate the influence of the Carb Freeon cult as you bake your way to fame! The farther you go in the tournament, the closer you get to learning the secrets of your own past, uncovering clues about your parents' life and death. And the closer you come to learning the City Council's shadowy plans for Godstone…

Play as male, female, or nonbinary; gay, straight, bi, pan, or asexual.

Choose your ingredients: play in omnivore, vegetarian, or vegan mode.

Manage your budget to fill your pantry with the finest magical and mundane ingredients.

Find love with Godstone's fanciest food critic, a dreaded necromancer, a former adventurer, the Bakeoff's charismatic host, or even your best-friend-turned-worst-enemy!

Quell the Carb Freeon cult or join its ranks.

Sell out to the realm's biggest bakery franchise or triumph as a plucky small business owner.

Gaze upon the horrors of eldritch dimensions.

just kinda hang around in spaces where other people make vns and ask questions. before you can write a vn, you've gotta be able to write, so that's a good place to start

probably pick up renpy unless you can justify using something else, if only because it's so thoroughly documented and has so many years of forum history to pick through when you run into a wall. check opengameart, pixabay, freesound, etc. and cut corners as much as you need in order to fill the gaps

Welcome to the Night Market! The nexus point between all the worlds. Lost and confused, play a character searching for a way home. Uncover secrets of the world, meet a cast of vastly different characters, and remember, that not all is as it seems. Over a million word interactive fiction for your viewing pleasure, actively updated and passionately loved.

Book One is complete!

Book Two TBA

Hello! Here’s some of the IFs we were able to find! Some, if not all of the games here, are WIPs with some complete works in the list! 

If you have a werewolf themed IF that was not mentioned here, please feel free to let us know and we’ll add it! 

Avatar of the Wolf by Bendi Barrett. (Play as the human avatar of a wolf god, not exactly a werewolf but close enough!)

Blood Moon by @barbwritesstuff 

Congresswolf by Ellen Cooper.

Dead Weight (werewolf MC) by @deadweight-if

Golden (werewolf RO) by @milaswriting

Monster Sweethearts by @monster-sweethearts

Moonrise by Natalie Cannon.

Never date werewolves by Rebecca Zahabi

Sinners and Saints (werewolf and werejaguar RO) by @sinnersandsaints-linwrites

The Abyssal (werewolf RO) by @theabyssal-cog

The Black River (MC can be a werewolf and there’s werewolf ROs) by @theblackrivergame 

The Hunt: Demon Eyes (werewolf RO) by @thehunt-if

The Monster Within by @mastermindwesker

Twin Coves (werewolf RO, VN) by @twincovesgame

Werewolf Noir by @canismaxim-games

Werewolves: Haven Rising (& its sequel) by Jeffrey Dean

Wolfgirls in Love by Kitty Horrorshow

Wolfsbane by @wolfsbane-if

Wolfwater by @carrs-universe-if

On Hiatus 

Calling of Metem's Hollow by  @stormheartgames

Buried Lies (Hiatus) by @fidere-k

Up and Coming (demo not released) 

Ichor (werewolf RO) by @ichor-if​

Orthall Bay by @gamesfromtheagency (Discontinued)

Here's a first look at the demo of A Date with Death, our upcoming free to play romance chatsim where you play an MC who has unknowingly been avoiding death! 💀

Enter a weeklong bet, create a custom MC (with sprite), design your apartment and more!

Wishlist:

You agreed to the wrong business trip. In Drăculești, play as the supernaturally unlucky Roger M. Renfield, and try to escape your devilish clients at Castle Dracula. Sacrifice—others, or your own humanity—to survive, or risk it all for love in this romantic horror visual novel.

Hi everyone! We have two exciting pieces of news to share.

We've been so busy since the wrap of the (very successful) Kickstarter, pulling together rewards for all of our lovely backers, as well as firing on all cylinders working on the full game.

As things have been growing and changing, and social media sites waver and crash, we have been considering how to best keep in touch with our wonderful community. Of course we'll remain active on here, Twitter, and Reddit, as well as anywhere else that crops up as a viable alternative. But we'd really like to stay in communication with all of you more organically and more directly.

To that end, we have a two-fold announcement.

First, we are starting an Open Late Media Patreon, officially launching Friday, September 1st.

The Patreon will expand on the worlds we create in our games, as well as share snippets from development, upcoming releases, exclusive art, and wherever else our creativity takes us.

Benefits of joining include art and scene game previews and exclusive side stories, in both NSFW and SFW flavors. Patrons have the ability to vote on and suggest content for future months.

As a treat, here's what you can expect for September's rewards.

While we are first and foremost developing content related to our games and the characters and settings we create within them, we will also be putting our own take on other media; based on the suggestions of Patrons, you can expect to read fics of your favorite characters with that distinctive OLG twist.

Our Patreon tiers start at $1 and get you all the Discord goodies. For $3, you'll also get previews of SFW scenes. $5 is where things get spicy… Take a look and see for yourself.

Second, we have a brand new, shiny, Open Late Games Discord server!

On our Discord, you'll be able to chat with us devs -- Aura and Lux -- directly! We love gifs, we love games, and we love to talk.

Patrons on the Discord get access to Patreon-only channels and access to dev livestreams, but the core server is open to anyone with an interest in sexy fictional characters.

So come on out and play. No need to be shy.

It's an ultra exclusive party and you're all invited --

If you woke up as the villainess in a romance novel you can’t remember reading, what would you do?

How would you survive when you remember nothing… not even the person who is trying to murder you?

Discover secrets, find or reject romance, and guide your amnesiac villainess to a future based on your choices and deductions in our upcoming mystery/horror/otome roleplaying game, Save the Villainess.

Do you want more information on Save the Villainess, our upcoming romance/mystery/horror roleplaying game for the PC? Want the chance to test our upcoming beta demo, as well as exclusive videos and art reveals? If so, sign up to our mailing list! 

Character and Title Art: Somate Studio

Theme Song: JunbugP

Backgrounds: Saleha Chowdhury / @arodude, Karel Kok, Somate Studio, Son Hyunh

Trailer: Best Laid Plans Productions; Animations Done in Ren'py Engine and Present in Game; Trailer Assembled in Adobe Premiere Pro; Glitches Created in Adobe After Effects

Marketing Materials: @studioghostlegs

Demonheart: The Cursed Trial - Demo is now released on Steam! Try it out and wishlist the game ❤️

Hi everyone, we are proud to announce that the first installment of the LS Salvation Squad's Renpy Recreation Project is out!

This is the culmination of half a year of hard work thanks to our tireless team of volunteers.

Love's Truck: The Final Stop Ver. 0.1 includes:

Edge Case Love's Pursuit routes for Rion Moon and Korin Reyes

versions for Windows and Mac users

all relevant CGs

The next update will be either My Siren Crush or Wicked Lawless Love. Both series are being worked on simultaneously so it depends on which one gets completed first.

If you haven't already, join our discord server for access to our archives and internal updates. Announcements are also made on the official LS reddit community.

As always, if you want thing to move faster, consider joining our team. We are in current need of coders. Sign up here.

Detailed info on the different volunteer roles can be found here.