Dear friends,
Let us wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year from the bottom of our hearts! 2020 - a very complicated year for all of us - is coming to its end. This year the entire world has faced an unprecedented challenge - the Coronavirus pandemic. We hope that in 2021 we will manage to bring this danger down with the efforts of our scientists and awareness of the people!
This year proved to be difficult for us, too - unfortunately, "Love, Money, RocknRoll" wont be released in 2020. At the stage of alpha testing, we have found multiple issues that previously hadnt been discovered, such as the size of the game - it is significantly bigger than that of the demo version, which has led to numerous bugs. To put it simply, the code is not being executed properly. Since we put quality first, we cannot release a game in such a state!
Some people were comparing our game to Cyberpunk 2077. However, it seems to me that putting any visual novel, no matter its quality and scale, up against a AAA-title which had been anticipated by millions of people and in which millions of dollars had been invested, is not entirely correct. Still, there is something we can learn from Cyberpunks. For example, it is never favourable for a game to be delayed and eventually released with severe bugs. Therefore, a developer has a choice: either polish the game to completion, moving the release date, or follow the opinion of impatient players (and shareholders - not our case, thank God) and release an unfinished product.
Of course, we could be drawing such parallels for a while, but Id like to highlight one more thing: PC players, of course, arent so concerned about the owners of old consoles, but the main issues the game and the developer had were due to them. We also have quite a lot of users with old Android devices whom we cant ignore. Even if we wanted to, we cant at this point. Perhaps it would be wiser to adopt the strategy of the developers of the new "Stalker", who announced right away that the game wont run on old hardware.
In any case, we arent trying to look for excuses, but merely want to relay to you that the work is continuing, and we are doing our best to ensure you get a high-quality product!
Also, we decided to change some of the characters faces - a few players were complaining about those. We got additional people to work on the code to finish the development as soon as possible.
In the end, a calendar month only symbolises one-twelfth of the Earth's orbit, and ignoring the social aspects, there isnt much of a difference between December, January, and, say March. Either way, we are thankful for your patience and faith.
We have also added English subtitles for the interview with our lead scriptwriter:
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Today, we would rather encourage you to give us a word of support than make a preorder.
Thank you very much, and please enjoy the holidays.
[ 2020-12-30 16:33:00 CET ] [ Original post ]
- Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll Linux [2.52 G]
Story
Nikolai, the son of two soviet engineers and a normal Japanese student, has no idea his world will soon be turned over. The familiar and dear will clash with the grim ghosts of the past in his soul. Now Nikolai will have to decide whom can he really trust and find out why those with power and money have taken an interest in him, the lives of average people insignificant to them.Heroines
Himitsu is Nikolai’s childhood friend. She is kind, caring, she always worries for him, sometimes even too annoyingly so. But is simple friendship really enough for her? Perhaps, the years of devotion earned her something more?
Catherine is Nikolai’s ex-girlfriend who left Japan about a year before the beginning of the game’s events. Their parting wasn’t the prettiest, and Nikolai still carries quite uncomfortable memories about it. Perhaps he would have forgotten them with time, but Catherine suddenly returns and, moreover, transfers into his class. Why did she return? Does she still love him? Does he still love her?
Ellie is the granddaughter of the board chairman of the school Nikolai goes to. She is a self-willed, proud girl and thinks highly of herself, but cannot be said to lack ardour. Is everything really as simple as it looks at the first glance, or is there more than meets the eye behind the image of a spoiled young lady?
Kagome is the representative of Nikolai’s class. He has never paid attention to her before, but a certain sequence of events makes them come to know each other. Kagome isn’t loved in the school, and she isn’t really burning with desire to become friends with anyone either. Is there a reason for her behaviour? What hides behind the facade of a simple unsociable girl? What secrets does she hide?
Main features
- Four heroines, each with her own story and several possible endings
- Over 100 backgrounds and over 100 event CGs
- 5,5+ hours of music
- Unity3D as the game engine
- Over 400 000 words in the script
- Fully animated background and character sprites
- Multiplatform (including web- and mobile versions)
- OS: Linux
- Processor: Pentium 4 1.5 GHz / Athlon XPMemory: 2048 MB RAMStorage: 3 GB available space
- Memory: 2048 MB RAMStorage: 3 GB available space
- Storage: 3 GB available space
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