#romancethebackrooms

It's my character Zenobos' birthday today!  Zenobos is a love interest in my game Romance The Backrooms, voiced by the amazing @auroraaveva !  He's an anxious bean who's terrified of confrontation & combat, but will still gather his courage to stand up for those he loves.

In Romance The Backrooms, you fall into the titular liminal space and are rescued by 5 entities.  Zenobos is one of them.  In the first chapter of the game, you are then taken by other malicious actors to The King, who wants you (a human) for his own purposes.

You can play the first chapter here: https://norbez.itch.io/romance-the-backrooms .  We are currently working on revamping it in Renpy with updated writing and new graphics all around!

Finally, if you played Romance The Backrooms or are interested in it, can you please reply and let me know?  Knowing that people are invested in this story, which is a long one that will take time to fully tell, will help motivate me to finish it.

Today, March 21st, is my character Adiel's birthday. He is a love interest (LI) from my game Romance The Backrooms. All the LIs are based on an emotion, and he is based around surprise!

Leader of the Backrooms Brotherhood, Adiel is on a mission to escape the backrooms with the guys he cares about. Then, you come along, putting a detour in his plans--he can't ignore when a person needs help, so he's determined to get you back to Earth in no time. As he does so, your feelings become entangled, and a friendship blossoms--could it be something more?

I mentioned it's also Glarence's day! He's the LI based on anger, a grump who at first doesn't want to help you get home, but grows to love you over time. His birthday is on February 29th, so it only occurs every Leap Year. On non-Leap Years (like this one), Adiel shares his birthday with Glarence so Mr. Grumpy can have a special day. Glarence pretends he doesn't care, but really, he's very grateful. 💚

If you want to check out Romance The Backrooms, you can play it here! There's even a special game for Glarence & Adiel called "The Backrooms Is In The Eye Of The Beholder". For more of their interactions, check out the "gladiel" tag. I have over 100 pages of side stories under the "romancethebackrooms" tag too!

Thanks for celebrating my boys' birthdays with me! We're currently working on revamping the Romance The Backrooms demo, so please look forward to the new version later this year!

Had to do the meme, was inspired by the game I'm working on atm.

I'm a few days late, but Sunday (1/11) was Carla's birthday! Carla is the player character of my liminal space otome, Romance The Backrooms. (The art of her here is by @specterofyou !)

In Romance The Backrooms, Carla (you) falls into the titular liminal space land, and meet five entities who are willing to help you get home. Along the way, she falls for one of them. Who will you romance, and will you be able to return to Earth?

You can play the first chapter here: https://norbez.itch.io/romance-the-backrooms .  We are currently working on revamping it in Renpy with updated writing and new graphics all around!

The writing for Carla was inspired by otome heroines I admire, mainly Cardia from Code:Realize, Ichika from Collar x Malice, and Kotone from Cafe Enchante. Those MCs have their own personalities and bravery while still some leaving room for self-insert-ness. Carla is the same!

Carla's story has been explored a bit in the spinoff game Carla's Grief Quest, which discusses how she was impacted by the death of her grandmother. Fun fact: this was the first time @specterofyou illustrated Carla, before the revamp was in progress!

Today is Kalcal's birthday! He faces off against his fiercest enemy yet: a birthday cake. 🎂

Video is by me, and Kalcal is voiced by the talented Emylie Johnson!

If you want to get to know Kalcal, he's a love interest in my game Romance The Backrooms. Here's his current intro; I'm still working on the new version of it.

Decided to make my friend @just-a-carrot my first Artfight attack this year! :3 I knew I was gonna do that the SECOND they posted a link to their artfight and said they were joining! So when Artfight started, I got right to work!

Romance The Backrooms' Voice Acting Update Is LIVE!!!

RtB is now at Version 1.0, and the voice acting is now in the game!  PLEASE give it a play, even if you've already seen the game before; the voice acting adds so much to it, and everyone really poured their heart into their performances.

As usual, let me know if there are any errors that need to be fixed, and please fill out the feedback form so I can hear thoughts!  That's very important to me.

Also, in case you missed it, I have A TON of RtB content on my blogs!  Here's a Tumblr link, and here's a Pillowfort link.  There's short stories, character prompts, behind-the-scenes posts, and more.  Lots of stuff!

Info on the game:

Romance The Backrooms is a F/M dating sim VN about Carla, a daycare worker who falls into the titular liminal space by pure chance. Thankfully, she meets a group of 5 humanoid entities who are willing to help her get back home. On the way, Carla, who’s had no time for love because of her work, finds herself becoming smitten with one of the entities. Will she get out of the backrooms with her love intact?

This is the player character:

(More on Carla)

And these are the love interests!

(More on Kalcal)

(More on Glarence)

(More on Uri)

(More on Zenobos)

(More on Adiel)

RtB is a HUGE passion project of mine, and I'm so happy to have the voice acting update implemented now!  The game also features character designs by a bunch of amazing people--please be sure to read the credits and visit them all!