#kcquery

When are you returning to Kurou Connect???

hello!!! soon! like very soon!! definitely within the summer, probably mid july & august. i would like to take june and maybe the beginning of july to work on some merchandise, particularly the physical soundtrack cds and desktop game discs... which, i will admit, is more self-indulgent than anything because i want them personally, but maybe a couple of you would like them as well!

anyways, the next thing i'll be working on for kurou connect is going to be basically a big art update, most of the art being updated spritework. i also hope to hire the cryptid coffeehouse voice actors to reappear in kurou connect for this update, but that's really dependent on the money i'm making from the afterparty dlc sales. voice actors are quite expensive though... so everyone tell ur friends to buy the mothman porn game so we can get kurou connect fully voice acted 😭😭😭😭😭

Is cryptid coffeehouse mc and kurou connect mc the same person? I can't play kurou connect because i feel like im betraying Artemis! I love them so much that i can't look at Artemis without smooching them.

hii! i don't think i've answered this one on tumblr before aside from some brief mentions in other asks (i've answered it on twitter before though). no, actually, they're not the same person. initially, yes, they were supposed to be, but after a bit i figured that it would make more sense for the timeline for them to be two different people. this is why when you play the kurou connect demo, the writing makes it seem like you're the same person! but in future versions of the game, that won't be the case.

cryptid coffeehouse takes place in the fall & winter, approximately from september to december. just over a year later, kurou connect takes place on a single day in july. by this time, the cryptid coffeehouse mc and artemis have already been dating for about a year and a half. in more complete versions of kurou connect, i plan for the cryptid coffeehouse mc to be mentioned in passing a few times by kurou, so in the game it will also be made clear that there's a separation between the two games. there's a lot of other cryptid coffeehouse related things that kurou will bring up over the course of the game, but the original mc will be one of them at some point or another.

im also super excited for kurou connect to start up again (even if im sure thats much later in the year) and have had brain worms about him ever since replaying the game for the dlc.

i wanted to ask, what would kurou think if the Kc!Mc was also a singer/songwriter and wrote songs about him (they never actively say that the songs are about him, but the whole group know’s theres no one that elicits those emotions in them except for kurou.)

bonus ask of what if they preformed at a small gig (house party or something) and sang another song about kurou, but this one is super obliviously about them being pissed that they’re in love with him (i feel like mc would have only invited one or two of the ppl from the friend group, but those people invited kurou along so they’re fully unaware he’s in the crowd and hearing everything they say)

anyways, sorry for the super long ask! have a nice day/night!!

hello!! thank you so much for playing the dlc, i'm so happy you enjoyed your time with it!! genuinely lol it's a massive game and there's many different ways to play it so i'm glad you got a chance to try to get all the little scenes and dialogue options hehehe. thank you for your support!

now... as for your question! kurou, being kurou, would totally use this against you, because obviously your feelings are as clear as glass and he really won't be able to control himself when it comes to teasing the shit out of you about it. i think he would like to be less obvious that he knows about how you feel about him, but you know. he's kurou. most likely, he's going to be intentionally vague and weird when he brings it up, something like, "i bet whoever you're singing about is really thrilled, huh?" and then look at you in a way that kind of makes your heart spike because does he know? surely he doesn't know. there's no way he knows (he knows)

HAHA the kurou vs artemis thing is so common... it's so funny to me that you guys like him so much! because i think when i was making the game for the first time all those years ago, i figured people would just find him alright. but he's like a HUUUGE favorite. i have the feeling that when i get to working on kurou connect again, he's probably going to overshadow artemis entirely 😭 sorry artemis baby

haiii!!! thank you so much for your kind words <3 i'm so glad that you've had such a good time playing kurou connect and cryptid coffeehouse :-) it means so much to me... even though both games have been out for a minute now, it still is so nice to hear that people are experiencing them for the first time. it's super sweet and i love to hear about it! so cute hehe

okay, i've been getting a bunch of questions about kurou connect lately, which is kind of funny. i believe that i've talked about the timeline a few times in a couple of different asks over the past several months, but i'm not sure if i've gone into full detail aside from this ask here. i think it would be helpful for everyone if i actually wrote out a real timeline, lol so here's my plan currently if i get my shit together...

here are my current tasks, with some vague time estimates:

this week: finish coding the afterparty dlc script (we're about 80% of the way through)

mid-late january: code visuals & illustrate the dlc

end of january: brief playtest run to squash bugs

february: release afterparty dlc (spoiler alert lol)

after this, i'm going to take a little break so i can think about other things that aren't artemis and their sexual tendencies HAHAHA i think i'll probably get back into game dev by late march/early april. here are my tasks for then:

late march/early april: release small quality of life update for kurou connect (this will mostly be art stuff)

mid/late april: setup patreon tiers for levels of game access

june: begin work on kurou connect in earnest!

yes, absolutely! i talked a bit about it in the faq i posted a little bit ago, and i've talked about the general structure i intend to build & release kurou connect in in this ask from last november.