Excuse me but, wow this is amazing. The lighting, the contrasts, the expressions. Incredible work!

Hades and my character of Fields of Asphodel by @chrysanthemumgames

What's Hekate's favorite plant again in the story? I totally forgotten it and my school wifi doesn't let me access to the link so I can't play it😢😢

Milk thistle, but only if she has to narrow to a single choice. More broadly, she said anything useful in medicine or alchemy.

I think I encounted a bug, I was on the show stats screen in the epilogue and I went to load a previous save and now the game tab is the stats tab and switching between does nothing, and that was my only save file so I completely lost my game :(

That sounds like a DashingDon issue, unfortunately. Generally, saving on or loading from the stats screen is not advised, as far as I'm aware.

I'm really sorry you lost your save, anon. :(

Does anyone choose the Olympus ending? I feel like I am the only one while reading this blog😭

I loved the found family, but I just couldn’t make mc stay there, they were always sad about the sun and life.

Si the characters are no longer friends if they choose Olympus?

It's not that they aren't friends (though I'm rewriting some parts so this is clearer.) It's just that, well, close friendships take maintenance, and if you never or very seldom see your friends, and the other main line to them you have is writing letters, that's a different kind of relationship than when you see them and interact in person regularly. Some things are lost over time and distance.

This was also meant to signal that choosing Olympus means closing out the game there rather than being able to play the sequel, but as it is it ended up coming off a little too harshly I think, which is why the final version of the game will alter those scenes a bit.

I just finished playing and THANK YOU for this magical IF. The feeling of living the story and the emotions shared with every character, how well the whole story is paced, and the amount of choices along with the imperfections and anxieties displayed by the Mc makes them so authentic and layered. Thank you for the great job!

Sorry, English isn’t my first language so I hope it makes sense✨

I understood you perfectly well, anon, and thank you so much for the kind words!

hey, so I was playing the most recent BIP, and I don't know if this is just a dashingdon problem or a me problem or what, but in the individual character scenes (like when Alekto teaches you sign language, or Hades and you bake) if you've previously said you don't like being touched during the glassworking scene and then select the option along the lines of of "I think I already mentioned I don't like being touched" in Alekto and Pyri's individual scenes, it gives this error:

04chapter line 6294: It is illegal to fall out of a *choice statement; you must *goto or *finish before the end of the indented block.

no idea if it happens on itch.io too, I've never played on there.

Thanks, anon; I'll try and have that fixed for the next BIP. I swear sometimes either ChoiceScript of Dashingdon doesn't recognise that something was labelled a 'fake' choice instead of a regular one.

I appreciate the bug note, for sure.

I had been picking the flirting options with Hades since chapter one so the epilogue was really funny to me.

Hades: you probably want an annulment right?

MC (deeply in love): What.

Heh, well... he's definitely thinking along a different track, yes. He's certainly attached to the PC by that point, but he sees it as something he has a duty to ask, regardless of how he may or may not feel, or what he may or may not suspect. :)

It can definitely be kind of silly of him, though.

I rarely get on tumblr but i just finished the demo moments ago, and i just wanted to say i've never cried as hard during a game as i did during the eurydice and orpheus scene. It was a beautiful experience and I really appreciate you creating and sharing it.

Thank you so much, anon. I'm really glad it resonated with you!

Been testing out all the different options available to me, and the variations for Hermes right at the start was so funny to me 😭 I usually have him as my PC's best friend, so seeing him range from 'I'm going to be kind and reassuring!' all the way to '🙄 Find out about Hades yourself' made my jaw drop-- Thank you for the myth-accurate portrayal of his little shit tendencies! And thanks for all your work and all these changes, they're making my replays so much fun ❤️

Yeah, Hermes is... he's a good guy, deep down, but he's definitely also a bit of a shit, which is something I'm trying to bring out more with some of the edits. I'm glad you're enjoying the replays and new material. :)

In the fight scene with the daughter of echidna, the game seems to act as if pyri is there with you, even if they split off to help the spirits

Could anyone experiencing this bug chime in? There are a lot of places where I check the variables involved in this, and I'd like to know which are going wrong and which are not. Specifically, what Pyri-referencing text do you get when they're not meant to be around? I've caught one small instance of this so far, but I can't tell where others might be occurring.

Thanks for the heads-up, anon.

Hi Jess, just wanna tell you that there's an error occur in bip chapter 5 when Kerberos enter MC's office, I remember there used to have a scene where Empusa introduce themselves and apologize for the suddenness, but it skips to "Anyway, em.." Makarai scene immediately. Maybe it's my mistake but it has a strange weirdness, hope you can look it up it. Thanks and have a great day!

Thanks, anon; I'll have a look and see if I can get that fixed by the next update. I really appreciate the note. :)

Progress Report - April

Hey everyone!

It's been too long, again, since I posted one of these publicly, but I thought it would be a good idea to let everyone know where I'm at with editing.

The short version is, the Prologue through Chapter Six are now edited, with a bunch of new scenes added in as well and a few things removed. This month, I hope to finish Chapters Seven through Nine, with some additions, subtractions, and edits as well, of course. This should see me finished with the edits by mid-May, at which time I'll finally be able to submit the game for publishing!

It's a long road, and I'm definitely still on it, but rest assured that I'm working hard, and soon enough, you'll be hearing updates from me as I get stuck into writing the sequel, Blood of the Living.

as a sucker for protective found family, i was slightly sad (and nothing agst you lmao) that we didn't get to see the gang's meeting after realizing PC had been kidnapped.

imagined Styx just barging into Hades' office like

and upon assembly, oh boy the gang is angryTM (aka how did everyone react actually)

plus, i wanted to be able to run up and hug EVERYONE at the trial, improper or not. that's my fucking family zeus >:(

Alas, the PC is not around for that part. :)

I do plan to add more material around the trial and flesh out some of what is there, so there might be an option more like that once editing is done.

hello, hope you're doing well! i was playing through the bip and chose to meet hera (after going to laus), and i got the "hera's in your garden". in the public demo, i know you can choose if you want visitors or not, and i usually choose "ask first" so hera is in her chambers instead. in the bip i chose to keep the garden a private project, but later showed makaria around (with the "sure"-option and not the "the garden is there for everyone to enjoy"-option), and i was just wondering if the only way to keep the garden "private" from people visiting as they please is to deny showing makaria around at all? i did say the garden was private/personal when she asked to come back, so i thought that meant in general too.

basically i was just wondering if it's possible for the garden to be private in general but still have the occasional visitor (makaria, in this case) visit if they ask and the pc takes them, and if it is possible, what option i missed/chose wrong :)

sorry if i explained poorly, english is my second language but i hope it makes sense anyway

Thanks for this. Initially, that was in this version the choice that set whether the garden was public or private, but I've now made it so that the choice that doesn't explicitly say it's there for everyone to enjoy now doesn't set the variable.

Since Hera only shows up there if it is affirmatively public (she isn't going to assume), as of the next update she should not appear there if that is the sequence of answers you use.

hello, i just wanted to do a small bug report for this month’s bip (so good, btw, i love all the changes and additions you’ve made). this is for the dashingdon version, i don’t know if it works or not on the itch one. anyway, i ran intro this error when trying to play hades’ “date”/outing:

line 6388: Not a number: short

specifically it’s after you’ve chosen a reaction and read the “flavour” for that; the error pops up when clicking “next”. so it goes hades invites you -> the day arrives -> you choose how you feel -> the page about how you feel -> error

hermes and pyri’s work fine though, but i haven’t had the time to play through the others yet so i don’t know about them. just thought you’d like to know! take care and thanks for all your hard work <3

Ah, thank you. I thought I'd changed all those variables around properly, but it seems not. Weirdly, the line the error spat up is actually fine, but some others were wrong so maybe that borked it. I'll update the Dashingdon version of the BIP soon and hopefully it will work then. :)

seal anon back to say this comic is very Charon coded

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnMmqCNu8As/?igsh=czBrZWx3b216M3Qy

(+ the sequel: "it paid the fare. it gets a ride. that's my job.")

TW for the link: deceased animals

"Paid the fare, gets a ride, it's my job" is... pretty much exactly how Orpheus got as far as he did, as a matter of fact.

okay so i played FoA and. fuck i love all these idiots so much /lh. thank you so so much for the found family- it's really hard to find them in IFs and just. yeah :)

but you mentioned Charon loving marine wildlife, and so do i! specifically seals. and now i can only see a situation that's like

PC: hey Charon, look what i have. :3

Charon:

Charon: that is a seal.

PC: yeah!

Charon: where did you get that? when? how???

(did PC somehow find a seal soul, although animal souls probably don't exist, in the underworld? did Demeter send them their pet, or just a seal because she knows her kid loves seals? where are they going to put it? no one's sure.)

Personally, I think the Underworld can never have too many mascots. A seal's not even the weirdest one (though it might be the most unexpected).

In all seriousness, though, anon, I'm so glad you liked it. :)