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Pool Time! What should I work next?

Hello there my lovely patrons, today is the day you guys can vote on what you want me working on the game.

Lemme give you all the options and how I'll work on them if the option wins and some rules too:

First: You can vote for more than one option.

Second: The pool will end in a week's time from now.

Third: If there's a tie, I'll choose what I should work on. 

Choice 1:

Continue Wagner's 2nd Act on Day4.

  • I will be working on the 2nd act for...

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Alpha 0.23 Release!

Changelog:

  • Fixed tons of texts.
  • Added new members to the Text Revision Team.
  • Added new title fonts and images to the Changelog menu.
  • Fixed small bugs while testing the new written content.
  • Finalized the 1st act for Wagner on day 4. (Wagner is planned to have 4 acts on the fourth day).

Tomorrow, I'll be adding the new pool for all the tier 3 and 4 patrons to vote on what I should work next alpha. The options should be the same as befo...

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Important Quick Update;

Quick Update!

Tomorrow I'll be closing and releasing the next alpha.

Due to it having new text and corrected text from before, the current alpha and all the previous alphas are unable to send suggest corrections. This happens every time I change the text log variable, so it avoids people sending me suggestions of texts that are already corrected.


Thank you all for your support and for your corrections.

Don't forget to always send a suggestion with your curre...

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Development Update #44

Hello there guys, the next weekend from now, April 25, I'll be releasing the next alpha.

This month is being very, very difficult for me to work on. Lots of personal issues, had to change my Pc Case because the old one was really needing to be changed, and given the bad quality of it I had a very hard time removing everything from it, I'm still without my mouse and I'm using a very weird and bad wireless mouse I have as a backup, and so on. But more than that, I'm having a very hard tim...

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Quick Update:

Hello, there guys, I'm just here working on the revisions of the game text today, and I noticed one revision in which the patron name does not match any patrons on Patreon.


Please, remember that if you want your name to be added to the credits on the Revision Team section your Sender name MUST BE the same as your Patron name.

This system is meant only for Patrons, and if your name is not in the list of patrons here on patreon (Doesn't need to be active, I search through...

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Development Update #43

Hello there you guys. I'm here today to talk a little about the development of the game.

Since you all already know, Tier 3 + patrons decide now what I should be working on every month in the game. Sometimes the decisions may be easier than others, meaning the amount of work that it'll be done by the end of the month can vary. 


But that being said; in the times I take some time for myself every day, I actually think about what I should implement in the game, code-w...

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Monthly Thanks Message #16

Monthly Thanks Message #16




Good evening my lovely patrons and nonpatrons. Today is the day I say thank you for your help and support.  This month we've had some late patrons, which helped me a lot. 

Being sincere with you all, it's such an honor to be helped by you all, the money I make may be not enough to invest in the game in other things but my hard work for now, but it is almost enough for me to pay most of the bills and help with th...

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Pool! The next alpha's work. What should I do?

Pool: What should I work on for the next three-four weeks for the next alpha?

  • Continue Working on Wagner's first act.

-There's only one part left to finish the 1st out of four acts.

  • Start working on Karnal's route.
  • Focus a little more on the internal systems of the game

-Things like polishing the day editor, the day-night filter, sound effects, and more animations for the sprites for example.

  • Start the third character 1st-da...

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Just Friends - Alpha 0.22.1 Release!

ChangeLog:

  • Changed the Boot Image for the Game.
  • Changed the Icon for the Windows Executable file.
  • Added the Gallery for the Bonding Scenes.
  • Day 3 Wagner bonding scene is now available in-game.
  • Some changes were done on Day 3 Wagner to accommodate the new scene to the text.
  • Some very upsetting misspelling was corrected on Day 3 Wagner, a "the" was missing the T and so on, it seems that even Grammarly cannot catch those small mistakes, ve...

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Quick Update.

For everyone who's waiting on the next alpha, it'll be online for Patrons tier 2+ in 40 minutes more or less.

If you're a patron who's on tier 1 but wanna play the new contents of Day 4 or see the first bonding scene for one of the characters, you should upgrade your tier today.


If you're a follower of my work here and want to check the new content, the current alpha has 120% more content than the demo you can play for free on 2021-03-22 22:19:18 +0000 UTC View Post

Artwork Release: Wagner's Pool Bonding Scene.

This is for all my tier 3/4 patrons, thank you so much for your help all those months. 

I hope you all enjoy this new artwork for the game as much as I did.


As always, the image is protected with some watermarks, but it's of the highest quality compared with previous ones.

This is a scene that will be available on the next alpha so you will be able to check on them i...

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Quick Update!

Power Shortage!

Hello there guys, I'm here to give you all a quick update about the development of the game. Given some bad situations the last two days I had some trouble making the game.

The Power shortage here was quick, but it was enough to make me lose some progress and make me very uncomfortable working afterward especially when you do such a good job with a scene and lose everything. That will, sadly, reflect on the third part of the first act with Wagner. It's not bad, jus...

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Development Update #42

Hello there my gorgeous people! Today I'm here to talk about some of the changes I'm planning for the next alpha (The one that, if everything goes as planned on the fourth week of March). So let's talk changes:

What I have to do as chosen by the patrons:

  1. Continue to work on Wagner's route for the 4th day OR
  2. Start working on Karnal's route for the 4th day.

Since two options were chosen and it was a tie, I will decide what to do with them from now on, I'm ...

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Monthly Thanks Message #15

Hey there guys, I just wanna come here and thank you all for your patronage this month. I want to do so much with this project and sometimes it just feels I don't have enough time.

Some of you may leave us for a while but most of you always come back, and I appreciate that.  I know sometimes is hard to look at the project and see it's not done yet, it's been two years now. Time flies.


Anyway, as much as I could talk here about the development of the game, now more ...

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Pool: What do you want to see on the next alpha?!

Hello there my lovely patrons. Today is tier 3 pool!

This pool will be available for you to vote until the last day of this month.

You can vote for more than one option, and the reason is quite simple: I'm gonna focus on the most voted one, but if I finish one of those, I'll go through the next on the list.  It depends on how difficult and how time-consuming the item is. So try to vote on what you want but please, don't vote for every single option! Haha.

An...

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Alpha 0.21 Release!

Hello there my beautiful patrons. How are you all doing?

Before I start, I wanna say this real quick:

Thank you from the bottom of my heart, for sticking with me, for supporting this project, for being the most understanding people I've ever seen in my entire life. You guys understand how hard, time-consuming, and difficult is to make a game. You guys understand that I'm making it alone, that even if I can give all my time to it, I'm a perfectionist trying to make the ...

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Quick Reminder.

I just finished to correct and I'm now putting all the texts and conditions inside the Day4 JSON. After that, I'll use the rest of my time 'till Sunday to fine-tune the credits and stuff like that. The fourth week of the month I'll use for three things: Rest a little because I'm not even resting on weekends, fine-tune the game itself I still need to program one part of the gallery and it's been such a long time since I did the Gallery I will need to remember how that sh*t works and I'll have ...

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Quick Update:

Quick update on Development:

Act 1 - Part 1 was finished today, I'm finally happy with what I've got, but I can change my mind later. If that happens, you guys will notice because it will be different on other alphas.

Now I'm working on Act 1 - Part 2. This week I'll be checking how to apply filters on backgrounds (especially the ones that are done) to see if I can simulate other periods of time without tying the artist on making different variants of backgrounds, he already has a...

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Development Update #41

Resume:

  • Working on a color filter for the backgrounds.
  • Working on sound effects for the game.
  • Working on the Day 4 for Wagner's Character.
  • Pool Results and Working method from now on.

Hello there my lovely Patrons. Today I'm here to start the month talking a lot about a lot of stuff, but you already know what I'm gonna talk about here, the principal topics are up there.

First of all, January started full of ideas, I had to make Wagner's...

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Monthly Thanks Message #14

Hello there my amazing patrons!

Today I'm here to say thank you to all of you who's sticking together to help me.


Today I was working very hard on Wagner's next route, and of course, I'm preparing myself for the next alpha. If the pool who's on for tier 3+ patrons ends today with the current result, it means I'll be releasing the next alpha in three weeks from now, maybe sooner, I will explain how things will work in a new post, but for now, I want you all to know I'm w...

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Pool results and new updates.

Hello, my lovely patrons, I came here to give a little heads up about the game development and the pool results.


First of all, the pool will end in three days, and it seems that the results will be favorable to the first option: Post updates every three weeks as long as I have some content added to the game.


That being said, who knows what the results will be in three more days, right?


About the game, I've spent the last weeks working on the ...

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Bonding Scene - Wagner Day 3 - Sketch!

Hello there my amazing patrons, are you all good?

I hope so, just the fact that a certain ex-president is not in office anymore makes my day better! =D

I know things won't magically get better but we have to admit that having someone that at least try not to say shit online and stir the pot for more riots is amazingly good. 


Anyway, I'm here to give you all a concept art for the Bonding Scene of Day 3 with Wagner and the Player.


We, me and th...

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Quick Update!

To all Patrons: A pool was added for tier 3+ patrons only with the following options:

1: I Should release constant alphas every two or three weeks with any new content as possible.

  • This choice means that whenever I have a route completed (A route doesn't mean the entire day, just one of the main clusters of texts are done, for example, 1st act part 1. Each act is as route and every route ends with a choice with the exception of the answ...

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Pool! Alpha Releases for 2021.

Hello, my lovely Patrons!

This is a tier 3+ post only.


Today, I wanna ask you guys a single question:


How do you want me to release new alphas on Patreon for 2021:


There's three choices there, and your choice will affect how Alphas are released from March and onward.


There are some choices there, and your choice will affect how Alphas are released from March and onward.

1: I Should release constant alphas every tw...

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Development Update #40 - Nex alphas and Tier Price Raising.

Hello, my lovely patrons, I'm here today to speak a little about the next alphas updates.

As everyone knows, December was a slow month for me, given some very special circumstances I worked a little less on the game, also because I think I deserve a break at least on the Christmas week and New Year too.

But now, January is literally at our doorstep (I'm writing this text on 31 of December), and with it, the normal flow of work I always have will return. I will be working between f...

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Monthly Thanks Message #13

Hello, my lovely patrons. Today I'm here to say thank you all for this month's support. 2021 will be a good year for the game, I plan to release more concept arts here (sketches that were discarded for the game) and upload alphas more often.


I will make a Development Update very soon explaining how the next updates will roll out because I want to let you guys updated on the game as much as possible, I'm also gonna make a pool for the Tier 3 patrons to answer on how the next a...

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Thank you Guys, and also: I'm sorry for november's message.

Hello there guys, I just want to come here and say I'm sorry for not making the Thank you Message for November. I was really busy making sure everything was working for the Demo on the itch.io so I'm gonna skip that message since now it would be too much trouble to find every patron from the past month, but I am gonna make a message for December, I hope.


Anyway, I hope you all enjoy the demo, I'm gonna continue working on the story for the next alpha and thank you all, for th...

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Public Demo Release!

Hello everyone! I'm just here to say that now on the main page on this project patreon you guys can find the link for the download of the new demo on itch io!

https://yekkusu.itch.io/just-friends-visual-novel-demo-045


If you're not a patron but want to see how the game is doing, now's your chance! 


Now, I'll spend the rest of December working on what ...

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Concept Art Release - Bar with a Tiger.

Hello, there my lovely patrons, how are you all doing today?

I was checking some deadlines for artwork on my project and sadly we're facing some delays.


With this in mind, I decided to release something that's kinda stuck here in some shadowy corner of my project, a concept art! These artworks were just some concepts for the original version of the game, some others are concepts of scenes that could happen inside the game but were scrapped.


They will al...

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Public Demo Release Update!

Well hello, there my lovely patrons!

We're reaching the end of the year, my birthday passed this month and I'm closer to the '30s than I am from the '20s now which does make me feel like I could have done better the last years. 


That being said, a lot happened this year, I had a lot of visions for the Demo and sadly I couldn't make most of them become reality this time. That being said, the demo is a good representation of what the game is right now. 

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