Once again, a huge thanks to everyone.
If you still would like the game, you can go to the other store I cannot name on steam.
4 letters, start with i, end with .io

The sales are over since several hours.
I don't know at which hour tomorrow the game will be pulled out of the store.
It's still here now, so grab it if you want this visual novel created for autism awareness with 4 girls named Alice, a strange house, supernatural ghost-like creatures, magical girls, anime and video game references, and with a Full French Dub by the talented Chloe Guerin!
-- Mia

The last day before 4 Alice Magical Autistic Girls and ALL DLC will be gone. Last chance to grab it on Steam.

Also, if you wish to follow me in my other endeavors, you can.
Ao3 original fanfictions
Twitter

Facebook page

Have a good day.

Like the title said, 4 Alice Magical Autistic Girls will be gone next Thursday. You still got 4 days to get it before the removal.

Also...
If I calculate my Net Earning' Sales right: I would recoup at least 4K CAD of the 5.3K CAD I spend to create this visual novel. I never expected to get so much back.
As for the remaining 1.3K CAD, well, 4 Alice MAG remains at a certain website, another store I cannot name on Steam, thus new sales can be made here as well.

A huge thanks to everybody!
If you wish to follow me in my other endeavors, you can.

My Twitter *very active here*
My YouTube Channel *not active*

My Facebook page *you can see the links there too*
Ao3 original fanfiction *you can share them too*

Have a good day.

Small "countdown-like" announcement.
8 Days Left Before Removal

From today at 14PM (in my time zone) to the 19th January, there is one last sale for the visual novel and the dlcs! The last chance sale before removal.


Once again, a huge thanks to everyone who gives me support.

I still stick around as a gamer.
You can also find my other game related stuffs at https ://miaqc. i***.io and my stories at Archive of Our Own!
https://archiveofourown.org/users/MiaBlaisCote/works
Good day.

72 hours are left before the winter sales' end. If you want 4 Alice MAG, now a good time to get it. The game's delisting will be on January 20th.

I wish you a happy new year! The winter sales continue until January 5th. You still have time to get 4 Alice Magical Autistic Girls. 4AMAG is a visual novel entirely dubbed in French, talking about autism on a "Young Adult" novel background. Alice Lorange think her life as a autistic teenager is hard. It's nothing compared to what's going to happen to her. 4AMAG also got magical girls in it.

Hi! The Winter Sales 2021 will begin today! Now your chance to grab 4 Alice Magical Autistic Girls and all the DLCs before the removal.

Happy holidays!

Now if, for any reasons, you cannot buy them during the sales, no worries. There will be one last chance to get the visual novel afterwards, since I managed to place another sale soon after the Winter Sales end, at the same discount.

The game will be delisted on January 20th.
Once again, a huge thanks for your support.
I might close this group afterwards.

A huge thanks to Delisted Games for their article.
Right here

Like it said, the visual novel will be delisted in January 2022. What happened? Why the date change? Well, the Steam support told me to contact them 48 hours before the removal date so they can confirm everything and set it up, so there is no date set in stone on their side. Also, many requested a final sale and I found out very recently I can participate in the Winter Sales 2021, so the final sale will happen, everything at 15%, then the delisting.

As for itch, in the end, the visual novel will stay there, since I had buyers these days and, again, many requested the game remains available somewhere.

Now, if you get the visual novel at full price and want a refund, I wont stop you from asking for one.

Since I receive many questions about why Im delisting, I think more explanations are in order.

When I was on Steam as a developer from 2017 to 2019, my 0$ budget Visual Novels didnt cost me much to create. Some softwares, such as RPG Maker MV, and the Steam Direct fee. But since I was releasing 1 game per month, that was +1 Steam Direct fee every month, plus other fees I had to pay back them, such as hosting for my dev website. Thus, I was still in the red. I only managed to recoup in good part thanks to the final sales.

I quit twice and returned for a third time with 4 Alice Magical Autistic Girls. I wanted to start anew. I was hoping that, with a real / professional Visual Novel with a "real" budget, I would recoup and gain profits, but reality doesnt work that way. During the launch week, I sold less than 10 copies. Then I simulate my gains. If I only sell copies during the summer / winter sales, plus during a couple of special discounts, I will make like only 500 CAD$ per year so 10 years before recouping! 4 Alice Magical Autistic Girls cost me more than 5K CAD - so close to 4K USD - to produce and some artists I had worked with for the art told me it was a pretty limited budget! Its not rentable at all so I rather delist the game and try to recoup what I can.

I hope for your understanding. That doesnt mean Ill completely stop writing stories or making text-based / visual novel games with 0$ budget. After all, there is i-t-c-h-i-o, but for Steam as a developer and for costly projects, its over.

I dont know how to announce it otherwise, but I had requested that 4 Alice Magical Autistic Girls to be delisted from Steam in 1 month, so on Dec 18th.

Im waiting on the support for followup and confirmation since yesterday, the 18th.

For simples reasons, and the same as before. The lack of sales in the launch week, I must do everything by myself including looking for people to promote it, and I guess itll never work for me in the indie developer scene.

No matter how hard I try, my games will never sell enough for me to live off them like a real job. Same things with eBooks, monetized YouTube videos, etc.

Now, I cannot do a discount as final sale, but I did decrease the base price + increase the bundle discounts.

Anyway, Ill still be around as a gamer on Steam. Also on Facebook and Twitter.

I want to thank everyone who supports me between 2017-2019 and now. I also wish to thank all the wonderful peoples that helped me create 4AliceMAG with their talents. You guys rocks!

Arciimmm, Arting_chidiaa (Shhrutirustagi), Badhon92, Bluezinga, Candydemon, Chlo Guerin, HARTART2020 (Tarekalkhaldi), Kevin Macleod, MusicLFiles, TaigaSoundProd, Martha Helen, Pixelmonkstudio, Squidcolas and Widya_gfx.

On that note, farewell Alice Lorange and friends.

The launch sale will end soon. Now your chance to get the VN cheaper.

Also, if you follow me on twitter, you'll know I got some new sales on Steam and one *very* generous buyer on i*tch*io steamhappy

Huge thanks to everyone. It's great to see my indie game get coverage.

Ooka Miette (French, show parts of CH1 and CH2, discovery video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyGQAH-22RY
CG Plays (English, Demo let's play)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqdJgVCxnww
Mister Topper Harley (English, Demo let's play)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIIlc2Ipmho
Sequelcast (Stream Archive)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fV-KjrAmzs
FlareBlitzed (Let's Play part 1, CH1 and 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_ymHDErQTs

*This was posted yesterday
The wishlists keep increasing and the demo keeps getting downloaded, so its not the end of the road for me. Also 1 copy was sold on itchio. Ill keep promoting 4 Alice MAG on social media. Hoping for the best.

Hi. I don't feel great lately.
4 Alice Magical Autistic Girls don't fare well on itch.

As you can see in that image, only the first 3 days got a good amount of views and some Demo downloads but now, nothing.



Also no one buy my visual novel there.

I didn't want to despair and feel down, so I thought, hey, who cares? Your VN will sell on Steam! Wrong.

4 Alice Magical Autistic Girls is out on Steam since Saturday the 6th, and I only sold 4 copies. 6 -2 returns so 4.



This is so discouraging. I spend more than 5K CAD to create this game and theres a lot of chances Ill never get that money back.

I wanted to produce more VNs. I got so many great stories in mind. I wanted to succeed as an indie dev. But now I feel down. Like, I failed, *again*.

I failed for my previous/retired Steam releases, I failed with my bilingual novel on KDP and elsewhere, I failed to get a RL job and now I failed with 4 Alice Magical Girls. I always fail.

My apologies if this announcement seems more like bad news and rambling but this is the reality for me and with 4 Alice Magical Girls.

Still, have a good day everyone.

4 Alice Magical Autistic Girls is out! I'm also open to fan translations, if anyone is interested.

Like the title said, the visual novel will be released tomorrow!

Bundles will also be available.

You can now discover the first chapter for 4 Alice Magical Autistic Girls!
This is an independent version, separated from the full game, so the saves arent compatible, and the demo dont have achievements.
Nevertheless, have fun.

Im glad to announce the English version had been revised thanks to hawkbyte on Discord. All store pages are updated for the last time, and everything is set for release. I only wait for the Steamworks review to complete for the Demo. The full game had been approved. Also the release date had been moved to November!

I updated the store page with new videos and screenshots since the English translation is done but in revision. The first chapter is revised so a Demo will be put online soon.

All upcoming DLCs for 4 Alice Magical Autistic Girls are up.
The main game will be sold at $16.99 USD with 10% discount at launch.
Artbook DLC: $5.99 USD, 5% discount
Ebook DLC: $8.99 USD, 5% discount
Theme Song DLC: $4.99 USD, 5% discount
Wallpapers DLC: $8.99 USD, 5% discount
Two bundles will also be available at 4% discounts, because, well, *4* Alice MAG.
I also progress well on the English translation. I might be able to complete it this week. After that, some proofreading will be done, and then the visual novel will be ready for release. I will also release a Demo as soon as the translation is finished and checked.

Right here.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1798450/
Other DLCs are also on the way: "Wallpapers", "Artbook" & "Ebook".

It's done, all sprites are in Ren'py! I only need to change 1 CG image for a clothing variant and 1 Lorange Sprite where she need to be barefoot and it would be ready to be build in Steamworks for French playtesting & proofreading. (Then English translation.) I should get the new images soon.

The contest for the Yakuza key is over. Congratulations to the winner who I can't name because KingSumo only shows the email. My experience with this giveaway platform has been quite disappointing. I didn't get a reminder email saying that the GA was over. You don't see the name of the winner(s). I just have access to the emails. I didn't see an option anywhere to confirm that X winner was chosen. I could just delete the giveaway.

Anyway, if I run another one, it will be somewhere else.

Having received the characters' sprites, I updated the store screenshots (still in French for now). I'm still implementing them in Ren'py and there are 22 hours left for the Steam key giveaway.

To promote 4 Alice MAG on social networks, I had made a giveaway for Yakuza Remastered Collection Steam Key! Click here to enter

For the whole "rerelease visual novels as DLC" idea, I put it On Hold for now, since I started work on the potential idea to release a compilation of all my previous works as "Mia Old Stories" - placeholder name - in RenPy but I would adapt those who are NFSW since I never liked them to remove the explicit sexual content. Why did I write so much sexual assault scenes? T.T.

Anyway, I started doing "Mermaid Coralie" this morning but then it quickly became a full story rewrite! At this point I said, Nah, I won't go down that path and rewrite all my stories to rerelease them in a low-quality form like before! By that I mean the "0$ budget quality" alias Pixabay images with a pencil-drawn-style filter, music from Kevin Macleod and other musicians without the Extended License, very shorts and rushed stories (many of them are, like Mermaid Coralie). So the "Mia Old Stories" idea or even a simple rerelease without changes to the visual novels are On Hold.

Now, *IF* I received many requests to do the "simple rerelease without changes to the games as 2 compilations, 1 for SFW, 1 for NSFW" then I might do it, but this is a big IF.

Between all the old / retired versions of Alice Lorange's story and the upcoming "4 Alice Magical Autistic Girls".

It all begins with "Les Quatre Alices" (The Four Alice) in RPG Maker MV.


Then it was remake in Twine as "4 Alice: Lorange Jourrney".


Then in Ren'Py as "Les 4 Alice: Lorange Jourrney".


Then another remake was done in RPG Maker MV called "Lorange and the Domain".


And, finally!, another one in Twine called "Alice Lorange Adventures". It lasted 2 seasons.


I'm not including "Adventure or Normality?" which also star Alice Lorange.

Now "4 Alice Magical Autistic Girls" is comming...

As you can see, the story was remade a lot, but the sales were lower and lower. I am keeping positives thoughts for 4 Alice Magical Autistic Girls. I know the VN will sell well.

Speaking of retired Steam stuffs, I had been pondering about what to do with them for quite awhile now. Since they had been unretired once (I was lucky), I won't waste my time asking to re-enable them back. I know they aren't great quality VN, especially compared to 4 Alice Magical Autistic Girls, but some peoples might want to get them to see my "creator evolution and improvements." So, I dont know if I should re-release them as DLC with 4AMAG.

4 Alice Magical Autistic Girls will come out in January 2022.

For the development progress, the voice lines are in the game, only four retake lines are left to do, and I should get them today or tomorrow.

I also tinkered with the default volume for the music and sound effects since they were too loud compared to the voice. The sound balance should be ok now, but I could work it again after feedback during play testing.

All BG and CG Events images are fully in-game now. No more placeholders.

The character sprites will be made this month. It should take no more than 20 days.

As soon as I get then all and set in-game, Ill do a Steam play testing for the French version, do the English translation afterwards, then another round of play test for translation quality improvement.

Im also open to fan translations in other languages, like German, Russian, Chinese, etc, but this goes much later in the dev pipeline, since the English version must be done first.

And, if the January release date became "too narrow in time" with the play testing and all, I will adjust accordingly.

Hi everyone.

Between the announcements, stuff happened.
1. I think I already announced that, but I had to find another artist for my background images. That was solved quickly with tarekalkhaldi and now I got almost them all. Only 9 images remains, and I should get them during next week. I used the last sketches as placeholders, so everything is set in Renpy!
2. I also had to hire tarekalkhaldi for the characters sprites since the other artist could not do the job in the end. They will be made during October.
3. BGM and SFX are all completed.
4. Im currently on the voice actings audio lines splitting. I thought this would be an easy and quick work to do, like in 24-hours. Wrong. Im on day 5 of working on them and I only completed the game menus, the end game bonus scenes, the end credits, the chapters name, the bad ends names, and the first chapter. I got 6 more to do + the 1x-7x chapters + some lines need to be revised by the VA and I might find more to redo.

I still dont have a hard release date in mind, but itll be in 2022.

I am thrilled to announce that the great and talented Chlo Guerin is lending her voice to the narration, characters and user interface in 4 Alice Magical Autistic Girls! Im currently working on the audio files to add them in Renpy. Cant wait to see them at work.

In english, this time.
right here

I was advised on Twitter to contact some "indie game press list" to talk about the visual novel. I got positive feedback today with this French blog post.

Click here to read it

Also, the wishlist numbers is at 61. steamhappy

A short announcement. I got 10 more wishlist and, since I started following more indie devs on twitter, my account started to gain traction and followers.

Thank you so much, lets keep it up!
For my retired stuff, I was lucky if I could reach 100 Wishlist before release but then I was only doing marketing AFTER the games were out! Pretty bad move and huge marketing fail. No wonder they were barely selling!
Well, not this time. I do publicity on social networks and Im sharing screenshots for a good while now. Mostly on twitter and recently on instagram.

One of the several avatars of myself. They will appear as a cameo in the credits.

Now you can listen to the theme song.
Music, lyrics and vocals by Martha Helen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22SSoTFr-JQ
The instrumental version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrqNZnnmKLw
Acapella.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcSYKvIP3_M
1 hour loop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCX3tijq0gg

You can also follow Martha Helen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE3Nf9ayx7CkBA0lxhTTBsA

Even though the visual novel is still in development, I had enough art ready to put the store page online. Note that the sprite of Alice Lorange will be changed.

Even though there are no English screenshots, there will be an English version, and Ill update the store as soon as I got everything ready for release. I should get all the remaining assets (art and voice acting) at mid-October.

Now, you may Wishlist and share with your friends.