We finally added English version of our demo to itch.io and Steam.

Steam - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2563440/Degraman_Act_II_Victor/

itch.io - https://namnorm.itch.io/degraman-act-ii-victor

We really need feedback from you!

Feel free to post any comment here or anywhere else

We especially ask you to pay attention to the style of the text, because we have changed the English proofreader

Quick-news!
We have published the page of the second act!

There is no demo yet (we are waiting for Steam to approve it as well) but there is a new illustration there!

Add to the wishlist, you will help us a lot with this

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2563440/Degraman_Act_II_Victor/

Hey, here's the 15th episode of Victor's route. Enjoy!

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Hey, here's the 12th episode of Victor's route. Enjoy!

After watching - you can take a look on a poll - which choice should be made - https://forms.yandex.ru/u/64ba6284068ff022a11a7d8d/

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Hey, here's the 13th episode of Victor's route. Enjoy!

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Hey, here's the 12th episode of Victor's route. Enjoy!

After watching - you can take a look on a poll - which choice should be made - https://forms.yandex.ru/u/6495645343f74f4c7d4c2c3b/

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We are looking for a composer for Act II.

Our first game can be found here - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1189680/Degraman_Act_I_Vincent/


And its soundtrack is here - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1843640/Degraman_Act_I_Vincent_Soundtrack/

Presumably, 10-15 melodies lasting 2-3 minutes will be required.

Preferred genres: neoclassical, alternative.

For communication - write to degraman.vn@gmail.com with examples of your work and your rate

Hey, here's the 8th episode of Victor's route. Enjoy!

After watching - you can take a look on a poll - which choice should be made - https://forms.yandex.ru/u/6482eb8b2530c21a9b9f0f2e/

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We are looking for a proofreader in English for the Act II - a scenario for a visual novel in the genre of otome dark fantasy. There will be scenes of violence, sex, cruelty, and profanity.
The approximate volume of the text is 700k characters or 150k words.
The proofing must be done sequentially in large portions, once every few months. The first portion will be ready soon.
Our previous game can be found here - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1189680/Degraman_Act_I_Vincent/

For communication, write here -

The pain of numerous players made us think hard. Unfortunately, the English fandom of Degraman is not yet big enough to master such a walkthrough

You can find it here - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pFO31xn8q0Z-JuA6l-Hfrt0f0PT8Co7nkCkRXYgdatg/edit?usp=share_link

WARNING: use of profanity


Hey, here's the 8th episode of Victor's route. Enjoy!

After watching - you can take a look on a poll - which choice should be made - https://forms.yandex.ru/u/641371ab84227c035e957cfe/

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Tommel will make you turn the brightness of your monitor to the maximum and you still won't see regret in his eyes. He likes girls with mental problems, role-playing games, scratching under the bed, and performing forced psychotherapy.

WARNING: use of profanity


Hey, here's the 7th episode of Victor's route. Enjoy!

After watching - you can take a look on a poll - which choice should be made - https://forms.yandex.ru/u/63f8960ec417f333e12c0f3c/

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Sorry for such a delay, we got covid

Hey, here's the 5th episode of Victor's route. Enjoy!

After watching - you can take a look on a poll - which choice should be made - https://forms.yandex.ru/u/63dc0f875d2a0661efb45b61/

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Hey, here's the 3rd and 4th episodes of Victor's route. Enjoy!

After watching - you can take a look on a poll - which choice should be made - https://forms.yandex.ru/u/63d2d498c769f138efba338c/

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Hey, here's the 2nd episode of Victor's route. Enjoy!

After watching - you can take a look on a poll - which choice should be made - https://forms.yandex.ru/u/63c120b85d2a062b6e88d942/

all the feedback here - https://forms.yandex.ru/u/63b7e094d0468859aeaca182/

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Hey, here's the 1st episode of Victor's route. Enjoy!

After watching - you can take a look on a poll - which choice should be made - https://forms.yandex.ru/u/63b6cc7bd046884edcaca182/

all the feedback here - https://forms.yandex.ru/u/63b7e094d0468859aeaca182/

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Happy New Year to all!

Main news:

~~~~ on Friday we plan to post the first episode of Victor's route!~~~

And now more about this and other plans

If the format of the video with polls will be OK, we will continue to share working materials, but as a paid content (probably patreon)


Why did we come up with such an idea?
There are several reasons.

1. We don't want to work "for the desk drawer" for several years without showing anything
2. We will not need to spend time creating side content for running social networks and paid platforms. We make a game - and show it.
3. The release of the full game will not be soon. Turkey's health does not allow her to work as much as before. And we don't want to drop the quality of the game. And a long wait scares the players away (we realized this from the experience of the last act)

As a result, you will have the opportunity to see the new format, evaluate for yourself whether you are interested in this. If not, then wait for the full release :3 (here we will also clarify that the release will have all the plot options, not only those that the players chose in the polls)

Here are some characteristics of Victor's route and and just not to make you search for a long time - the same from the previous routes. Perhaps this will help you in drawing up some idea of what awaits you.

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Credits:
Degraman: Act II. Victor
Music by Scott Buckley www.scottbuckley.com.au
Art: Turkey
Video: Turkey

And here's Raen's stage for you (the one that's blue is drawn by Turkey's friend and the coolest artist Xand)

It seems that in the second act we undress everyone too actively ( )

We have finished the sprite today. Bastie's hair and jewelry killed us a little. We had even redrawn the decorations several times X)

******* On December 23, the next route's love interest will be announced ********

Soo, report.

What's done:

1. 2 sprites were finished, another one was almost done

2. One background is made, a couple of requirements are written for other ones
3. Sketches were made for CGs (and one is watered with tears)

4. Secret activities :3


What's planned:
1. We will try to finish a couple more sprites

2. Overcome laziness and shyness and write to some artists X)

3. Write a couple more requirements for the backgrounds

4. Finish editing the first part of the text
5. Continue secret activities :3

Hooray

We continue to show the characters from Act2.

I think this character doesn't need any additional introduction.

P.S. I had been working on his eyes for 4 hours, trying to convey the desired effect...

Today is an important day - after all, we are showing the first ready sprite from Act2!

For the next 2 months, Turkey is not going to look at it, and then she will think about whether any improvements are needed.

Okay, hey, everyone!

Here are some eyes from future Act 2




















Sooo, what d'you think about them?

Briefly

What is planned: to make requirements for 10 BGs, to write to the artists we've found, to start editing the text written, to make sketches for the requirements, most likely to continue working on sprites


More detailed

But come on, this month I, Turkey, did a good job on sprites.

The most important thing is that I found a more convenient way of working with coloring. Honestly, when I achieved one on one sprite, all my thoughts were that this style is too good and I won't be able to repeat it anymore.

But I could! And I also set up the process so that it became much more comfortable than it was before.

Well, sprites are already awesome. And most importantly, they fully reflect the atmosphere of Act 2. I'm so happy.

It was a bit sad with the BGs, it came to the realization that perhaps the process of working on them would not be as easy as it was in the past. But it is what it is

Plans for November

To pull myself together, overcome shyness and laziness, and write to the BG artists I found. Perhaps this will solve the issue with backgrounds. (but if it doesn't work out, I still have a couple of ideas. I won't leave you without the game, heheeh)

And I haven't worked on the text for a long time. In fact, I stopped on a uhmmm.. an unexpected moment even for me that I just don't know how to continue the text itself, ahahahaha : DDD (still shocked by the behavior of some characters, hmm ...)

And sketches, yes. CGs are planned a little, but complex. Therefore, it would be worth starting work on them.

Sprites, sprites... continue)

Well, there are a lot to do :c (and I also plan to whine a lot.)


Surprise!

Here are some blurry images of the sprites that are already in progress :3

Autumn cleaning
1. Update of the English translation.

The latest update is related to the update of the English translation in the game.
We have corrected more than 1000 sentences!

Somewhere there were just small errors and inaccuracies. And somewhere there is a serious distortion of the meaning compared to the original, because of which some players might not have the right impression about the game.
One of the players helped us a lot with this (we'll probably keep his name a little secret for now), for which we thank him very much!

2. Assistance in walkthrough

We carefully study feedback from players, especially beginners. Quite a large number of complaints came to the fact that it is quite difficult to get any ending in the game on your own, without hints.
Here we decided to help new players who are launching the game for the first time. Or after playing for a while and coming across bad endings, they still want to get at least one good one.
As soon as you start the game (and if you haven't opened the ending #21 yet), the question arises whether you need help in walkthough. If the player agrees, then at each choice the game suggests what exactly needs to be done to reach the ending.

3. Added a candy recipe

Just to make it more fun.

Have a nice game!

We have abandoned this site a little, which does not please us at all :c

We are going to improve that and start right from this post and try to do reports about the work done every month

What's going on now?

We're working on the second act a little bit. Who will be the main love interest of the second act, we are keeping a secret for now - but wait for the teaser, it will definitely happen :3

Our plans for the second act: It will most likely have only one main love interest, because the size of the game itself will be smaller than the first. We would like to meet 5-7 hours of pure text.

There will be more emphasis on the plot in this act than in the first act. There will be more lore, more opportunities to influence events, but there will be much more pain ()

We have already started to redraw the sprites (and we will definitely show what we are getting).

About 30% of text is written, the translation has not yet even been started. (in numbers, 230k characters are written)

In short, this is everything is going on so far.

About the release date, everything is complicated. We were too arrogant in the last game and gave deadlines that we didn't observe ourselves... It was very sad for us to let the players down, so we will be much more careful in our plans now.

And let's put it this way - we would really like to release next year and we will do our best for this.

We attach a flowchart where part of the branching of the endings of the future act (yes, the consequences of the choices in this act will change the plot even more)

Hello everyone!

We have released a new version (BTW, check it out, we keep a detailed log of what was updated in the game and when - https://degraman.tumblr.com/post/674471770864173057/release-notes-103)

The most important change in this update is that we have seriously changed the approach to what should be included in the free version in the first 4 chapters, and what should be included in the paid version.


Specifically: almost (almost) all the choose options from the paid version migrated to the free one (only in the first 4 chapters). I.e. Cassel's route and Loner route remained in the paid version.

Our hypothesis is that this way we will better show at the same time that there is a lot of variability within the game and what exactly the player should expect in the paid version.


If a player has a free version and gets to the Loner or Cassel route at the end of Chapter 4, we will show a warning screen and do not let him/her play on

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These changes are a consequence of the feedback that we collected during these six weeks after the release.

We want to say a special thanks to https://twitter.com/Aniva_666 and https://twitter.com/BlerdyOtome, without which these changes would not have ever happened.

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P.S. we also changed the color of the reply message in messenger UI thanks to the feedback from https://twitter.com/otomeobsessed

P.P.S. More, More feedback!

P.P.P.S. Tomorrow will be sales