Hello Steam users!! Always nice to check in with you guys!!! As you may have heard, LoveSick Darlings is part of this February's STEAM NEXT FEST!!! Wow! And what better way to celebrate than with a livestream?
So... what's going to happen during this "FINAL ULTIMATE PRE-RELEASE LIVESTREAM"? Honestly? Nothing too crazy! I feel like I've shown pretty much everything I can without giving away all the twists and surprises in this game. So, I'm just gonna do a relatively chill stream where I play the game from where the demo ends with all you guys! So you have an idea of what to expect on the game's launch if you've already finished the demo! This IS going to be the final livestream before the game comes out, so if you wanna see the full game in action before it comes out, this may be your last chance! It'll also be your last chance to chat to me live! If that's exciting for you for some reason? And who knows? Maybe I'll sneak one more surprise in... you'll have to come and watch to know for sure!! I'll be going live on both Steam AND Twitch at 3pm GMT on February 11th!! Right near the end of the Steam Next Fest (I'm cutting it close because I've been so occupied with writing the end of LoveSick Darlings for that MARCH 27TH RELEASE DATE!) Here are some handy timezone conversions for other parts of the world! But please do use a timezone converter if you're note sure when I'll be going live! 10am EST February 11th 7am PST February 11th 2am AEST February 12th I hope to see you all there! I'll be live for approximately two hours. I love chatting with you guys when I can, and I am well known for yapping on so please come and say hi! Give me a reason to yap! Thank you all! If I don't see you on the stream, I hope you give the game a try when it LAUNCHES on March 27th!!! Give it a wishlist if you haven't yet!! Boost my algorithm numbers!!!!

Melbourne International Games Week is back - and I'm BEYOND HAPPY to share that LoveSick Darlings is going to be a part of it again! This year, I've decided to do a short 90 minute stream where I'll reveal a brand new scene from the full LoveSick Darlings game - this time, it's the POOL scene from Maisy's pool party! How exciting! Summer is just about to kick off down here in the southern hemisphere, so what better way to celebrate than by getting to see what the cast of LoveSick Darlings do in the pool together for fun? During the stream, you (the audience!) will all get to vote and make the decisions during this sequence I play for you guys - like who Syd hangs out with in the pool! So make sure to be there if you want to make those key decisions! The stream will start on Steam and Twitch on the 27th of September at 11PM AEST / 6AM PT!! Make sure to follow so you know when it goes live! I hope to see many of you there! Here's an image with some extra timezones to help you work out if you can make it!

Hey Steam! I'm actually here with an UPDATE for once! Not just a stream announcement! Heck yeah!
Actually, I shouldn't hype you up too much. This update is mostly just 'housekeeping' that I've been putting off for... well over a year! Woops! Let's break it down! Over the last year, while I've been writing like a madman and otherwise working to stay afloat, I've had an accumulation of minor bugs on the 1.5 version of the demo building up on a google doc when they get repoted to me. This google doc, originally dating back to December last year, started off small and with very minor bugs so I kept putting off pushing out the fixes to the live version of the LS Darlings demo. I thought it might be too much trouble to go the effort of making a new build just for these minor fixes. Then a few medium-sized bugs appeared, and I told myself "Eh, I can do this later. Writing is more important!" Weeks turned to months, and in that time one or two GAME-BREAKING bugs reared their ugly heads and... for some reason I decided I'd wait to fix it still? (I have no idea what I was thinking here.) This all came to a head when yet another game-breaking bug was reported to me, by a new player who was focusing on spending time with Steph during their first run of the game and ran into a bizarre scenario where they had spent so much time with Steph and were so friendly with her that the game accidentally reset their relationship progress and assumed they hadn't even done the infamous cello trip! Woops! That was just bad programming on my end, and hearing a new player run into this problem was exactly the wake-up call I needed to go back and polish up the DEMO so that it gives a strong impression to new players! Admittedly, it did make me sad to see that two of the big game-breaking bugs were associated with spending a lot of time with Steph. They took so long for people to find/report - which sadly shows that she's the least popular heroine... but anyways! That's not relevant! I finally got my butt into gear and went about stamping out the now long list of bugs, typos, inconsitencies, obscure loops, and glitched prompts! The game should be running smoother than ever! Which is why I'm referring to this as a "housekeeping" update. Considering how this update is mostly about performance and bugs, you may not think it's worth makiing a post or even a new version number for the game - and I don't blame you, I nearly decided to do just that - but after I saw the game had gone over a year since it's last update I figured that was reason enough to justify a new version number. The game hasn't transformed in some new insane way, but in the spirit of "housekeeping" I figured I should dust off the old "1.5" this demo build has had on it for the last year and make it look a bit more shiny and new. This is both good for my morale, and also good for marketing hahah! I also went back and edited a ton of dialogue from early on in the game to make the earlier incarnations of characters more consistent to their later counterparts and to better set-up certain storylines and character arcs. This is all minor stuff that's important to me, but I doubt will be something players will be able to notice - which is why, despite the shiny new version number, I'm not otherwise treating this update like it's a huge change to the game people need to play ASAP. That is NOT the case, there's no rush to re-download the game! Unless you want to, of course! Here are the changes: - Fixed a glitch where Steph's relationship progress would reset if you spent too much time with her in the demo. - Fixed another error where Steph references Social Events that haven't taken place yet if you spend too much Free Time with her. - Fixed the Player Review not detecting obscure combinations of choices and outcomes and skipping to the end accidentally. - Fixed several visual and animation bugs. Same with music loops and cues. - Sharpened dialogue in the beginning section to flow better and more accurately represent characters (Syd used to say "like" a lot! That's so not in-character for him. I fixed a lot of those kinds of inconsistent mannerisms for the cast.) - Inserted about two dozen extra invisible variables the demo can trigger that won't pay off until you play the full game. - Fixed countless typos and awkward sentences. When I have time, before launch, I actually plan to use this build to do tiny "soft" patches to fix minor things like the animation style of the game - because it has changed a lot since launch! In the early days, I had character occupy default parameters ont he screen, but as development continued I started setting custom parameters for characters to occupy. This is especially the case during the first "week" of the game. This is something I can fix any time, but it will be time-consuming to manually change all of the first week's animation. I'd rather spend that time writing, so for now that change is going to the backlog. But it's something you can expect before the game launches (eventually!) If you feel the need to check the update out for yourself, feel free to download the new build from itch right now! But like I said, the changes in 1.6 are mostly invisible. I wouldn't go out of your way unless you feel like seeing the gang at Foster Hills High again! The update is also live on Steam, so if that's your preferred platform - the game will automatically update there! Anyways, that's everything abut the update! I hope you've all had a great 2022. I'm sorry that once again another year has gone by without LoveSick Darlings being completed.... but it's getting there! Bit by bit! I promise! I'm still passionate about this game and can't wait for you all to finally play it when it's ready! Have a happy holiday season! - Dimitri Links: LoveSick Darlings Twitter LoveSick Darlings Discord Kickstarter Itch Page Twitch Youtube Channel Dimitri's Twitter LoveSick Darlings Facebook

It's happening! I'm excited to anounce that, in partnership with the MIGW Steam Festival, LoveSick Darlings is having an official showcase! Here are the key dates for when the game goes live on Steam and Twitch!
Here's a detailed breakdown of four headline events! So then, this livestream is going to be comprised of four HEADLINE events! 1. Intro to LoveSick Darlings and event. First, we'll start with a brief overview and preview of the game! Narrated by me as I play the opening section of the game and talk with everyone! This will be an introduction aimed new viewers coming from MIGW who may have never seen the game before, before I dive into the special events I listed above. Approx 30 mins. 2. Character Q&A!!! The cast answer your spicy questions! The Q&A event I detailed above in all of it's glory! This is not only a first-time opportunity, but perhaps even a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to ask your most burning questions directly to the cast of LoveSick Darlings! So give me all of your BEST and most BURNING questions through the official google form here!!! The best questions will be answered by the character in-engine! How cool is that? Approx 1 hour. Submit your questions HERE!!!
NOTE: Any overly explicit, political, violent, offensive, or otherwise unsuitable questions will not be answered. Not every question can but I WILL answer as many as humanly possible by the cast of LoveSick Darlings! Limit of three questions per form submission. 3. "Never-have-I-Ever" Reveal + Gameplay Showcase!! Watch the EXCLUSIVE WORLD-FIRST reveal of the iconic teenage party/drinking game featuring your favourite cast of Australian youths! This is also the first gameplay reveal of Maisy's birthday party, so this will be a truly exclusive preview! As an audience, you will also get to vote on the questions Syd asks the group of friends - so you won't want to miss that chance! Especially as you might be shocked by the answers some of Syd's friends might give! You might be even more shocked by the questions they ask Syd - and the answers they give to each other too! So much drama! You won't want to miss this grand finale to the event! Approx 1.5 hours of spicy Never-Have-I-Ever goodness. 4. Dev Q&A + Wrap-up. I'll do a quick wrap-up where I'll take questions after the big "Never-Have-I-Ever" scene showcase. I'll answer whatever questions you have, as myself this time! And then I'll otherwise ramble, as I'm VERY prone to doing before signing off. Approx 30 mins. As you can see, this event is set to be over three hours long! And knowing me, it's going to go even longer as I tend to ramble and talk for ages at a time during live streams. This is truly going to be a live extravaganza! So please, swing on by and hang out! I've put a ton of work into this event and I think people are gonna have a ton of fun! Be sure to follow the official Twitter account for all the latest news, and follow us on Twitch to know when we go live! See you all when I go live for the LoveSick Darlings extravaganza On October 3rd!! Be there or be square! Maisy warriors, Jayda army, Steph secret operations... whatever group you belond to, I want you there! Thanks heaps everyone! Have a great weekend, and be sure to check out all of the other amazing games being showcased on the MIGW Steam page too! Links: LoveSick Darlings Twitter LoveSick Darlings Discord Itch Page Twitch Youtube Channel Dimitri's Twitter LoveSick Darlings Facebook

LoveSick Darlings 1.5.1 is out now! Some quick notes... - Fixed some inconcistencies in Albie's backstory. - Fixed a King Crimson Moment that would occur on Week 7 Wednesday if you tried to hang out with Steph! (the game would skip the entire hang-out! Woops!) - Many typos. - Background changes, like the rate of which Steph would gauge your relationships with Maisy and Jayda (its a bit more generous now!) Check it out now! It should be in your downloads! Let me know if you have any issues! Thanks everyone!

What's new in version 1.5?

CHANGES TO THE LOVESICK DARLINGS DEMO IN VERSION 1.5:

LoveSick Darlings 1.4 Demo is out now!

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Hello everyone! just in time for the end of the Steam Game Festival, I will be hosting a live Q&A! This is the official "office hours" event for LoveSick Darlings!
So, how will it work? Simple! 1. I will go live on Twitch, and have the demo of LoveSick Darlings play in the background. 2. I will answer any questions via Twitch chat OR Discord voice chat! If you'd like to ask questions via voice chat, join the server here: https://discord.com/invite/4YAgnvd Then, enter the "Q&A" channel and ask your question (if someone is already asking a question, wait your turn - first come, first served!) 3. Ask me anything! Seriously, anything. Please! It's a lot of fun to interact with you all! And that's basically it! So, in the meantime, get your questions ready to ask me later! We can all sit around and have a chat together! There may or may not be a guest appearance, but you will have to tune in to find out! ;) Thanks heaps!

LoveSick Darlings is a visual novel looking to break the conventions of these types of romance games by giving the heroines you romance as much agency as the player! They all lead their own lives, independent of the player, and are actively chasing their own goals and ambitions. Your relationship(s) with these characters aren't one-way. It's not enough to just like them, but they need to like you back too! Your choices and deeds will help them form their own unique opinions about you as they play. That said, the world does not revolve around you in LoveSick Darlings but you are absolutely a dear friend to each of the heroines. Whether that will still be the case at the end of the story is up to you!
LoveSick Darlings has an extensive demo that covers nearly half of the full game! The content of this demo is canon, and is ends just before the game's halfway point. In this deep demo you can get to know the characters and experience all kinds of scenarios with each of them. Choose who you hang out with, who you help, and what you say to form the relationships you want to form! The demo is roughly five hours long, with tons of replay value and hidden content! It's designed to really immerse players in the rich and grounded setting, with realistic lovable characters - and I hope you enjoy getting drawn into the game when you play! You play as Syd, an Australian boy in tenth grade. The year is coming to a close, and the school dance is coming up. You must navigate the intricacies and conflicting feelings of a quirky group of friends, as you choose who to spend time with. Namely, this involves the three heroines of the story:


The characters have pre-established relationships and bonds you will fully explore, and develop yourself via your choices. None of these character live in a vacuum, and what you say to one or the other can and will be freely communicated amongst them. High school girls like to gossip! The choices you make with will affect everyone in this group of friends, and will dictate the ultimate fate of this group. LoveSick Darlings is a romance visual novel with no "routes." The story is driven by player choice and there are different "ending" scenarios, but the game plays out with every character staying relevant from beginning to end. No one just disappears, and the way your relationships grow with other characters will affect the others too. For example, if you spend time with other Maisy gets jealous. Or Jayda gets depressed. Or Steph goes off and does her own thing. They're all different! The relationships you form in LoveSick Darlings have consequences that go beyond Syd and any one person. There is a "group dynamic" at play, that is the core of the game. The game is heavily inspired by Persona and Danganronpa's "Free Time" systems. This allows you, the player, to have complete control over who you spend time with and how much you get to know each member of this group of friends! The game is developed by just me, a solo dev, with art and music by freelancers I have hired! Check out the full credits on the store page and in-game! Thanks for stopping by and checking this game out during the Steam Games Festival. I hope you're having a great time checking out all the games!

Hello and welcome to all Steam Festival readers and anyone else who comes across this post! This is basically just to say/announce that LoveSick Darlings will be doing an official livestream in partnership with! Check out the image below to know when we go live for the listed timezones!
AND WE WILL BE GOING LIVE HERE!!! The official LoveSick Darlings Twitch channel! Drop a follow to know the second I go live! ;) BUT THAT'S NOT ALL! But during this stream I will be playing through brand-new never-before-seen LoveSick Darlings content! Let's break it down! What's the stream schedule? The stream will be broken up into three parts! Each part is an hour long, and the stream will go for about 3 hours (or might go slightly over that). 1. First on the livestream agenda! I will be doing a general overview of LoveSick Darlings for those who may be unfamiliar as I cover the game's first major event and play through it all with you guys! I will provide commentary as we play and talk about the design process. This will go for about an hour. 2. I will be publicly debuting brand new gameplay for the first time! This is the spicy new content I alluded to above! This new gameplay covers the next in-game event, and is set after the events of the demo! Tune in to check that out and be among the first to see! This will go for another hour. 3. I will host a QNA over Twitch with voice chat via the LoveSick Darlings Discord! Join here to chat to me when I enter the Q&A portion! https://discord.com/invite/4YAgnvd This will go for as long as we can/or when we run out of questions! Over these events, I will be taking suggestions of choices from the audience, so please don't be shy! The choices I make will be decided by you! Also, please go ahead and ask me ANY question ANY time! I love chatting with you all, so give me an excuse to talk and I will! This is my way of engaging with you my community and the wider public! I'm a bit green at streaming, but I really love talking about my game and everything to do with it. Ask me anything about the game and I'll be very happy to answer it, and go into all kinds of discussion regarding the characters, story, and world I have created. Apart from that, I like talking about all kinds of things. I love video games, anime, memes, writing and pretty much all things within and around those spheres. I love over-analyzing media, so ask about all of my favourite shows, movies, and games and I will go on and on about it at length happily. Feel free to look around here and the store page for more info on LoveSick Darlings! I look forward to seeing you all join me for the livestream and hanging out! Thank you, and have a great time at the Steam Festival checking out all the cool games in development! :D

Hello everyone! It is my immense pleasure to announce that LoveSick Darlings will be one of the many wonderful upcoming games The demo you all know and love will be available, and I hope even more people get to come and check out the extensive demo themselves for the first time! So, as you may have heard, for this event developers will be doing all kinds of events like livestreams and Q&As... so, I come to you all with a question! What would you like to see me, the dev of LoveSick Darlings, do during the festival? I was thinking a Q&A, but a livestream of the demo (and maybe exclusive new content!) is something I may do with enough interest! Let me know by voting in this straw poll! And be honest - it's okay to say you aren't interested! I just wanna get a rough idea of what people would like! https://www.strawpoll.me/20193660 Otherwise, see you all on June 9th for when the festival takes off! I hope you all drop by and say hi or check out the game if you haven't already 2018salienpsychic Thanks for reading!

The campaign is over, the dust has settled and... LoveSick Darlings stands with 188% total funding! Holy SMOKES! I can't believe we did it! This is amazing. I won't bore you with the details here, but basically: LoveSick Darlings is really happening! It's going to be a full game with dozens of features, and thanks to excess funding, it's going to feature additional art and even partial voice acting! WOW! I hope you're all excited for the full game now! Find out more about the end of the campaign and the future plans for LoveSick Darlings here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lovesickdarlings/lovesick-darlings-a-visual-novel-with-consequences/posts/2722403 Can't wait to play? Try the free demo for LoveSick Darlings! It's available now and covers the first 45% of the game! And it's free! What're you waiting for if you haven't tried it? It should keep you busy until the game comes out fully! Thanks for reading this little update, everyone! I can't wait for you all to play the full game! LINKS: Kickstarter: https://kickstarter.com/projects/lovesickdarlings/lovesick-darlings-a-visual-novel-with-consequences LoveSick Darlings Twitter: https://twitter.com/LoveSickDarling Official website: https://lovesickdarlings.com/ LoveSick Darlings Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/4YAgnvd Dimitri's Twitter: https://twitter.com/DAdoniou LoveSick Darlings Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LoveSickDarlings/

YOU READ THAT RIGHT! LoveSick Darlings is 100% FUNDED!
Find out more about us hitting the funding target here! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lovesickdarlings/lovesick-darlings-a-visual-novel-with-consequences/posts/2711698 It's official! The game is actually happening! It's funded! What does that mean for you? Well, thanks to this funding, you will all get: - At least six new CG artworks from Phi! This will cover events like the formal and pool party! (if you want to see more in-game, check out the CG backer reward and the MORE CGs stretch goal!) - 15 ORIGINAL songs by the brilliant Tim Reichert! - Additional outfits for each heroine! Includes formal outfits, pyjamas, and swimsuits! - And of course... the rest of the game! This includes dialogue, story, social events, free time events, the ultimate player review, and multiple endings with dozens of variables! I hope you're all excited for the full game! It's really finally happening! I can't wait for you all to play it! But of course... the Kickstarter isn't over yet. *Eyes glint* The first fight is over, but now, we have our toughest opponent yet: STRETCH GOALS. How many can we take down as we climb our way to the top, piercing the very heavens themselves?! I wanna smash through as many as we can! I am so grateful for each and every person who upported the Kickstarter, shared my posts, joined the discord, and played the demo! But now, our bonus round is beginning! We've already won the fight, but it's time to find out how much further we can soar! If you haven't backed the project yet, what are you waiting for? Try the demo, and if you love it, secure your copy and help us hit those stretch goals! And I can only do it this with all your help! Thanks so much for all your support so far! I seriously love you all! Keep playing and supporting LoveSick Darlings! We've still got a tough road ahead, and I need all the help I can get! And in case you guys don't hear from me before the end-of-year holidays: Happy Holidays! Have a wonderful and safe holiday season! LINKS: Kickstarter: https://kickstarter.com/projects/lovesickdarlings/lovesick-darlings-a-visual-novel-with-consequences LoveSick Darlings Twitter: https://twitter.com/LoveSickDarling Official website: https://lovesickdarlings.com/ LoveSick Darlings Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/4YAgnvd Dimitri's Twitter: https://twitter.com/DAdoniou LoveSick Darlings Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LoveSickDarlings/

GIVEAWAY DETAILS

You can secure your copy of LoveSick Darlings on launch for just $8! That's way cheaper than it will be when it launches here officially! Want to know you you can buy a copy of LoveSick Darlings to have at launch for this price? Well, I have GREAT news for you! It's really easy! Just support LoveSick Darlings on Kickstarter! Click here! https://kickstarter.com/projects/lovesickdarlings/lovesick-darlings-a-visual-novel-with-consequences Once you're on the page you can get LoveSick Darlings for $8 USD by simply clicking on "Early-bird special" on the right of the page. Then all you have to do is put in your payment and - bam! That's it! You will have your own copy of LoveSick Darlings delivered to you at what I GUARANTEE is our lowest launch price! Isn't that awesome?! Don't miss out on this exclusive deal! https://kickstarter.com/projects/lovesickdarlings/lovesick-darlings-a-visual-novel-with-consequences But beware! This super-limited early-bird special backer tier both only has 300 copies left - and will expire in a bit over 48 hours! Whichever happens first, the passage of time or the sale of 300 units, So don't miss out on your chance to get a copy of the game for just $8 USD! THAT'S 20% OFF LAUNCH PRICE! WHAT AN ABSOLUTE STEAL! Plus, there are other limited-time rewards too! Such as, a free scene written by me when pledge towards your own custom CG! How could would it be, to make whatever you like an in-game event? Well, your dreams can be reality! Check out our other rewards while you're on the page! What're you waiting for anyway?! Even if you don't care about the other stuff, you should at least get your early-bird special secured! I promise you it will not be this cheap at launch! Go back the project now before the deal is gone forever! ... If you choose to support the Kickstarter, I will also be eternally grateful for allowing me the chance to make this game a reality. Thank you all! LINKS: Kickstarter: https://kickstarter.com/projects/lovesickdarlings/lovesick-darlings-a-visual-novel-with-consequences LoveSick Darlings Twitter: https://twitter.com/LoveSickDarling LoveSick Darlings Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/4YAgnvd Dimitri's Twitter: https://twitter.com/DAdoniou LoveSick Darlings Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LoveSickDarlings/

You heard that right... in just 24 hours, this project is 25% funded on Kickstarter! You guys are all amazing!
The community has blown away my expectations so far! I am so overjoyed to see the campaign for this game come out with such a strong start! I'm also glad to see that we even have 50 individual backers all contributing to the project! It's such an awesome turnout to have so many individual people come together for this game. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for supporting the project. Let's keep this momentum going and take this pace all the way to complete funding! And then into some of those awesome stretch goals! I can't wait to see how far we can get with all of your help! You're all simply incredible. If you haven't yet, and enjoyed the demo on here, be sure to check out our Kickstarter and consider supporting the project! There are limited time specials like copies of LoveSick Darlings at a discount! And free written scenes that come with the purchase of any original artwork you commission via the Kickstarter page! And so much more! These special won't last forever either, so act now! Click here to find out more: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lovesickdarlings/lovesick-darlings-a-visual-novel-with-consequences Thank you so much. Here's to the continued success of LoveSick Darlings!