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Every Thought Flies is out!

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One stormy afternoon, Gioele decides to play a ritual japanese game, The Gathering of 100 Supernatural Tales. It's a relatively simple game to play, after all; it requires 100 candles, a lot of matches, and willing storytellers with a fervid imagination - telling 100 weird stories in a row is not an easy task! At the end of the last tale, something strange is bound to happen... And what better storytellers than Felix, Noelia and Abele? So, the game show you the last four tales. Strange, weird, supernatural stories... also, somewhat painful memories. They claim their stories are all true; will you believe them? Maybe, inside this tales there is something more worrying than the possible ghost apparition at the end of the game...

Every thought flies it's an anthology of creepy tales using as a frame the japanese game Hyaku Monogatari Kaidankai.

It's not a really scary game, it's more like a cozy horror.

Features:

🕯️ 4 different cozy horror tales

🕯️ Atmospheric sound design (No RTP!)

🕯️ Sardinian folklore in the first tale

🕯️ Queer characters!  

🕯️ Multiple endings for each story AND for the game

🕯️ For now, 3 CGs (planning to add more). 

🕯️ 1h/1h30 of playtime

My first complete project! So happy right now-

This is the "chapter 0" of The Ash Black Cat series, but it works fine as a standalone game. Have fun!

HELLO EVERYONE

HAPPY NEW YEAR (late as ever)

I'm finally back home! Guess what we're bringing back from the dead? Exactly! The ash black cat and the happy ogre! I'd say it's looking good. <3

Hello! I'm visiting my family for Christmas, so I can't make anything fancy, but I made a little sketch! Happy holidays, everyone 🍀

(It's the first time I drew all of them together 🤩

"POV: you are playing a dangerous ritual game with your friends, laughing and all. At a certain point something weird happens for real…"

[Every Thought Flies on Itch.io]

Hello! Finally OBS is cooperating, so I can make this post: the first 5 minutes of Every Thought Flies! I tried my best to make the intro as atmospheric as possible, but also kinda… realistic… (I'm not a serious person.) Each chapter have a different atmosphere, colors and mood! The classroom ambient/part was meant to be reminiscent of all those stories about urban legends and creepypastas.

Hyaku Monogatari Kaidankai, the game I used as a narrative frame, has a very fascinating history, it was one of the old methods of passing down horror stories and it survived from 1600 till now! Maybe I'll do a little post about it in the future, it's pretty interesting.

Hello!

Today I wanted to share some screens from my last game, Every Thought Flies (here! Here! It's complete!).

All the screens are from Noelia's chapter: a vacation, a beautiful (and somewhat eerie) lake, the tale of two friends... and a little bit of lovecraftian horror! ♥ In this chapter you'll met another character, Rosaura, Noelia's childhood friend. Totally unplanned, but I think she'll come back in The ash black cat and the happy ogre...

Also, this chapter it's vaguely Goosebumps inspired; I tried to give a similar vibe. Lately I was on a nostalgic mood and I re-read some of my favs (like Haunted School and Headless Ghost).

Hello everyone!

Yes, I'm alive - sorry for the lack of updates, but the last two weeks were a wild ride (let's say our landlady made us a really unpleasant surprise). Now that everything it's quiet again, I'm happy to say that Every thought flies it's officially finished, translation included.

I need a couple more days to make the Itch.io page and some finishing touches, but... we're almost here! My first complete game, I could cry-

Little reminder that Every thought flies it's a prequel to The ash black cat and the happy ogre, BUT it works as a standalone game. You'll meet the same characters in both games (even if Abele and Gioele get the spotlight in ETF, and The ash black cat is more focused on Felix and Noelia).

Once I published ETF, I plan to take a little break (I mean, my anxiety fueled brain needs a break). After that, I'll be back to revamping The ash black cat. Custom menu, revamped maps, a couple of new characters, more puzzles (and more horror). I'm pretty excited.

Thanks everyone for sticking around and welcome to the new followers! I'll give you something new to play soon!

Hello!

I'm slowly preparing a lot of updates about both Every Thought Flies and The Ash Black Cat; in the meanwhile, one of my favourites map from ETF. The idea, here, was to recreate the vibe of a little country city in a eerie November morning. Do you like it?

There a lot of animation actually - flowers, clouds, water, I should make a gif...

[Happy Halloween!]

A little clip from the intro sequence of Every Thought Flies (alas Chapter 0 of The Ash Black Cat). I'm still working on the translation, don't worry; it will be both in italian and english.

Just a little sneak peek of the new talksprites (I tried a different style and I love how they turned out, especially Noelia. And finally you can see Abele properly).

The background noise, actually, is the sound of the rain (in game it's better, don't worry).

But... what is this all about?

One stormy afternoon Gioele, Abele, Felix and Noelia decided to play a japanese game, The Gathering of 100 Supernatural Stories...

... and I'll tell you more in the official announcement!

Hello!

Today, 26/10, is Felix's birthday - a pretty important date, in the game's lore! (A lot of things will change, during that fateful night...)

So, a little drawing to celebrate! Please consider this post-game though, right now Feli would be too embarassed to wear a Halloween costume (even a simple one).

(Actually I'm a little late, in Italy it's already the 27th... shh)

So... happy birthday, Feli! One day, you'll be able to celebrate your birthday properly, I promise!

I wish you all a fun, spooky, marvelous Halloween!

Where everything started... (this time, with shadows!)

Hello everyone! I think it's time to tell you what's going on behind the scenes… first of all, don't worry! The game IT'S NOT on hiatus! I'm sorry for my absence from socal medias, but I kept working. Between August, September and October I did a lot of things (for example, a little vacation to see my family, and helping my friend @wisteriasakana with her beautiful Three Yellow Quartzes. I did the sound design!).

But I indeed changed my plans. Sooo, without further ado: I decided to divide the game (The ash black cat and the happy ogre) in chapters. It's simply too long and I'm working on it alone. So, sadly, I won't be able to publish it for this Halloween. The main reason behind this is that I wasn't fully satisfied with it; I wanted to add a LOT of things (revamp all the old art, make a graphical overhaul, adding a custom menu, making a better and solid gameplay on the first floor) but I didn't have the time to work on "extra" things. Only to barely finish it. So, I decided to love myself and the game more, and take my time.

Every Thought Flies alas The Ash Black Cat and the Happy Ogre, Chapter 0

On your screens very soon: "Yeah, I'm alive" and "Oh God, my game was too long and I needed to divide it in chapters, an essay".

The good news is that I'll probably publish it for Halloween.

Before / After!

Hello everyone! I should probably write an actual devlog (and I will, someday soon) to tell you all my future plans, but for now I'm just having too much fun with the drawing part, so... a little teasing: I recolored both Feli and Noelia's busts, and now they really reflect my art style! Plus, I finally made them a lot more expressions (for fear, embarassament...) and Feli now has something like 10 or 11 busts (before, he had only 4). Noelia has 9, if I remember correctly.

Gioele and Abele are still in the working, even if lately I drew Abele a lot...

Just to be clear: Felix is supposed to have light brown hair, almost blond, and I always describe them as such. With my coloring style they look... pink? But that's not a problem, I love characters with pink hair! (More male characters with pink hair, please!) So, if you're like a fanartist or something and plan to draw him, feel free to color his hair as you prefer (light brown, blond, pink...). Have fun!

Have a great summer

Sincerely, from The Ash Black Cat and the Happy Ogre cast