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Visual Novel In Progress
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Dear Reader,
Congratulations! You have been selected for a chance at a new life in another world!
Archelia is a place of magic, mystery and more! This city may have many Twisted Secrets, but it's a place where dreams can be made reality... though of course, all things come with a price.
So, complete your missions, trigger the Catalysts to change the world, and maybe, in the midst of it all, find your Ever After...
You, our beloved Reader, have been brought over from Earth by a mysterious being who only seems to communicate with you through a blue screen that only you can see. You've been chosen as the representative of the God's who wish for change to the story of a world that has long since gone stagnant.
If you succeed in unlocking your power and creating change with the help of the Catalysts, beings at the centre of change identified by the God's, you can have anything you wish for...
But only if you give a satisfying ending.
As the screen disappears, you're left to your own choices, to shape your new life in this fantasy world, where magic and mystery exists around every corner, and to become whoever you want to be. Will you stay as a reader, letting the story pass you by? Will you be a supporting character, helping the hero or villain as you choose? Will you become a protagonist, bringing change by your own hands?
... Or will you become something more?
Features
Ever After: Twisted Secrers is an 18+ Visual Novel set in a historical fantasy inspired world following eight different stories exploring a variety of themes.
🦋 Customisable MC 🦋
The MC of Ever After: Twisted Secrets is completely customisable. There is a customisation screen to choose name, pronouns, gender, sexuality, and physical appearance, including disabilities and much more. You can set preferences for physical touch, and personality is defined through optional flavour choices.
🦋 Different Relationship Dynamics 🦋
When you meet each interest, you will get to choose how you feel about them, whether it's dislike, disinterest, friendliness, or attraction, and there will be options to deepen these feelings throughout the stories. This gives more opportunities to give depth to your MCs personality: dislike a character but want to be nice to their face or even manipulating them to love you? There are options for that.
At the start of each route you will be asked whether you want to play the platonic or romantic route, this will determine your potential relationship statuses in the endings. For platonic you can become best friends or even be in a queerplatonic relationship.
In Jedreks route, there is the option to be in a poly relationship with Jedrek and the side character Oliver. You can choose the dynamic, whether it's a V or a triangular relationship. It is not possible to be in a relationship solely with Oliver.
🦋 Choice Driven Stories 🦋
There are three types of choices:
Flavour Choices: Don't impact the endings but dictate your characters personality and influence how people react to you. These choices are optional, if you turn these off then it will follow [redacted]'s selections throughout.
Relationship Choices: Impacts the endings for whether the interest likes/loves or dislikes you.
Catalyst Choices: Impacts the endings for whether you were successful in triggering enough change within the world.
There are four different endings per interest, not including bad ends throughout the prologue and routes and additional epilogues, which are unlocked once you meet the requirements.
🦋 Extras 🦋
CGs - There are 16 CGs in the prologue alone! Each route will have several CGs which you can collect and view in the gallery.
Compendium - Throughout the routes as you discover more key terms and information will be stored in a Compendium which you can access at any time to learn more about the world and its history!
Original Music - For the prologue, there will be an original song written for idol group Boo-K, with plans for the full game to have even more music for you to listen to!
Achievements - There are several achievements you can get throughout each route! Maybe something will happen if you unlock them all...
As you can choose to play platonically and define your own relationships, I refer to the different route options as Story Interests!
Meet the Catalysts of change below!
'I'll have my own following with blackjack and hookers--'
Pronouns: They/them
Sexuality: Demisexual
Age: 30
Height: 6'2"
Cairen is known as being the irresponsible, frivolous rake of the Palace, the fallen second star of Archelia, the charming elven heartbreaker of the city. When they aren't gallivanting around the city and avoiding their royal duties, they can be found tending to their butterflies in their private greenhouse... also avoiding their royal duties.
Perhaps it's a good thing that their uncle still holds into the throne? That the position of heir has gone to their war hungry cousin?
However, as you will see with Cairen, things aren't always as they seem in the floating Palace, and the one who has long since been underestimated has poisonous plans of their own to take back what has been stolen from them, with interest.
Despite Cai's playful, frivolous demeanour, they are smart, cunning, and very ambitious. They know their worth and believe the crown may not be enough to showcase it anymore: they need to ascend even higher and create a new world where they stand above all else.
Will you join them at the peak? Or will they push you off along the way?
'What's a historical fantasy without a cold Northern Duke?'
Pronouns: He/him
Sexuality: Bisexual
Age: 28
Height: 6'
As the ArchDuke, Helios is the leader of the most powerful family outside of royalty, though even they have little control over him since he became the Shayan, the head of the magic tower and the most powerful mage in the Kingdom.
Helios has used his magic and intellect to contribute to the Kingdom, advancing technology through magic stones that are widespread in transport and improving medical care to reduce dependency on the church.
However, his sharp tongue, impossibly high standards and stubbornness haven't earned him many friends, even if his criticisms come from a place of care. Though this doesn't seem to bother him, as he still has what is truly important: his family, his reputation and his magic.
But, when Helios stands to lose everything, and the world he helped turns against him, will he be able to stay true to himself, or will he be driven to revenge?
'Do you want to get magically stuck together? Cause that's how you get magically stuck together!!'
Pronouns: She/her
Sexuality: Bisexual
Age: 35
Height: 5'6"
The Witch of the Forest of Yulis is a mysterious woman. Though she visits the city often with her beautiful seeing eye dog Orion leading the way, she maintains enough of a distance that not too many know much about her.
Nature, animals, and the souls of the dead wander by her side now, but there was once a time when the forest was a haven for others in the city. But as technology has taken over, and more of nature has been destroyed to expand the city walls, the forest and its resident witch have been affected by some strange unknown force and nobody has been able to get close.
Farren is a kind woman, with a tendency to do her best to help others, especially those who can't help themselves. She is gentle, but firm in her boundaries, and a woman with a strength underneath her softness.
However, in the face of death, how long will her gentleness last, and will she take matters into her own hands to save the nature she loves the most?
'[J.Jonah Jameson voice] GET ME PICTURES OF THE BOOGEYMAN!'
Pronouns: He/him
Sexuality: Bisexual
Age: [Redacted]
Height: 6'3"
At some point or another, everyone has either heard or told stories of the Boogeyman. Parents who tell their children to behave lest they be whisked away, friends who hunt for him as a test of courage, and rumours that spiral whenever somebody goes missing. But everyone knows this is just a myth, a legend of a monster that doesn't exist.
Or does he?
Despite his notoriety, nobody knows the face of the Boogeyman, or the fact that he is back.
He feeds on fear, finding joy in their panic, and with his laughter filling the streets as he claims another, it may just be that the title of monster fits him better than you realise.
You've taken a job as a reporter, alongside your new friend Oliver, to hunt him down for the latest scoop, and when you get close enough to snap a photo you find that the playful monster of a killer enjoys the limelight.
Will you be able to keep him entertained long enough to find out what he's doing with the bodies? Or will you end up just another victim on his path?
'Spencer Reid if he was the unsub... and an idol'
Pronouns: He/him
Sexuality: Bisexual
Age: 24
Height: 5'10"
A previous otherworldly traveller like yourself brought the concept of idols to Archelia, giving it a classical twist to fit in with the worlds tastes.
Illium is part of the five member group, Boo-K, an incredibly popular boy group inspired by flowers, with Illium the red flower member alongside his brother, the yellow flower, Zephyr.
He's known as the Prince of the group, the untouchable idol who keeps everyone at arms length with his universal kindness and gentle smile. Fans have pictured him rescuing animals, especially fallen birds, with a soft smile that matches his gentle voice.
But behind his pretty words and soft demeanour, he is still searching for a reason why he exists and something to be truly passionate about. As you spend more time together, he believes you may have the answer to his prayers.
However, you start to notice a trend to a string of attacks and murders... they are all people who have wronged you no matter how small the altercation. Surely the sweet, with his princely charm, Illium could have nothing to do with it... right?
'Your flirting mind tricks don't work on me, only money!'
Pronouns: Dependent on presentation, he/they when masc and she/they when femme.
Sexuality: Bisexual
Age: 48
Height: 6'2" (Masc)/5'9" (Femme)
A large building towers in the city's shopping district: the Bedisa Lounge, home to a large casino, and the Bedisa Family led by the one and only Eos.
On the surface they are a legitimate business and entrepreneur, who supports all the businesses in the city, providing protection, preventing crime and making profits for all. Underneath though, the Bedisa Family is a large criminal organisation who manage the black market, the flow of information from the Underworld, and work under the eyes of the law to steal and con nobility to line their own pockets.
It's so easy when the short tempered, cocky leader can shapeshift and become anyone, even those you think you know well.
Unfortunately for yourself, you make an enemy of Eos when you walk on their turf, and if you want to win this war between the two of you, and even change your status from enemies to lovers, you're going to have to bring all you have.
Though, when they start dabbling in darker businesses, will you stand by them on top of your shared riches... or will you be swept up in their shadows.
'You like heroes? You like himbos? Excellent /breaks him'
First Locked Route
Pronouns: He/him
Sexuality: Bisexual
Age: 25
Height: 7'
The first person you see in this chaotic world and the one who will support you above all else, Noah is the true hero, and not only to yourself. He is known for being a walking ray of sunshine, helping others and protecting all from danger, not even realising when he gets hurt himself.
It's the 'everyday heroics' he likes to say, believing that no matter how small the action is, you can do something to save someone.
A member of the church, he is your rock in the midst of political arguments and infighting between factions. Noah wants to make your dreams come true above anything else.
But underneath that happy go lucky demeanour are anxieties he cannot squash on his own, and a darkness that threatens to swallow his and your light.
What lengths will Noah go to be a hero? Will you be able to save him before he ends up losing himself?
(´｡• ᵕ •｡`)
Second Locked Route
Pronouns: She/they
Sexuality: Bisexual
Age: [Redacted]
Height: 5'7"
Ranked to determine strength, S class mercenaries are few and far between. Fortunately for Archelia however, one resides within their lands. Though unlike others who seek fame and coin, the Mercenary Queen only accepts payment in the form of books and stories.
The quiet Athanasia can always be found with her head in a book, losing herself in the pages regardless of it's contents.
But a life lost in the world's of others is often a lonely one, and they have become no more than an observer, a reader of reality, rather than a main character.
However, as you join this mercenary as she experiences her very own horror, fantasy, romance and more, revealing secrets of the world that have long since been forgotten, what role will she play in this story?
And who is she to you?
#ever after: twisted secrets#vn#visual novel#amare#dating sim#indie dev#otome#glasswinggames#introduction post#intro post#introduction#introductory post
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I'd been meaning to remake my summary card for my visual novel Ever After TS for a while! So check it out!
Progress is being made on the prologue where you'll meet the eight potential relationship interests! Each has their own route, and a villainous plan to match!
I'll continue posting updates as I go! Thank you to all who have been supporting me on my development journey so far!
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Chef Noah Dragon Café AU when? 👀
Had a lot of fun working on a piece for a collab over at @OhKayCafe!
Would you want Noah to make you breakfast?? ☺️
Keep an eye out for the writing piece I'll be doing for this scene!! Feel free to guess what you think might happen when Noah sneaks you into the Café kitchen!
(Psst-- join the discord to see the shirtless sketch--)
#ever after: twisted secrets#vn#visual novel#amare#dating sim#indie dev#otome#glasswinggames#character art#collab
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Next up on the redesign train is Il with some new lore!! A previous otherworldly traveller brought over the concept of idols to Archelia, giving it a classical twist to fit in with the world's tastes! So now Il is a member of hit group Bouquet! Will you be his newest fan??
#ever after: twisted secrets#vn#visual novel#amare#dating sim#indie dev#otome#glasswinggames#character art#lore
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✨️ Sunday Summary ✨️
🦋 I started drafting an additional set of scenes to conclude the main prologue section. Originally it was just a scene for Noah, but I'm playing around with making branches for each of the interests instead. I'm still undecided whether I will keep it in or not, but thought I may as well draft it out and see how I feel after!
🦋 I've been working out all the different assets I'll need and have created design docs for each of them to help steer me as I work through the lists!
🦋 I've started making thumbnail designs and sketches for backgrounds! There's going to be quite a few in the prologue but fortunately most of them will be used in the routes so it's effort now that will hopefully save more time when I get onto the routes and the full game!!
🦋 I've been chatting and answering questions on my new discord server!! 😊 It's been a lot of fun sharing my excitement and hyperfixations with others! Do come and join if you'd like, I'd love to have you!!
I've also included a screenshot of my canvas which has my draft and all my thoughts written on there! I tend to write by hand as I find things flow better, but as you can see it ends up very messy! 😂 Still, the draft has come together and I've covered all the main branches so excited to start writing more formally!
#ever after: twisted secrets#vn#visual novel#amare#dating sim#indie dev#otome#glasswinggames#Sunday Summary#devlog#summary#Ever After Update#update
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Next to get a makeover and new outfit is Helios! It's now more suitable for the strongest mage, especially since the North can get a little cold to say the least!
#ever after: twisted secrets#vn#visual novel#amare#dating sim#indie dev#otome#glasswinggames#character art
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I've been drawing new emotes for the server... and ended up drawing a lil chibi Glass!
It's me spraying you when you don't love yourself enough! /silly
If you would like a lil chibi of your own feel free to check out my ko-fi! ☺️ And if you want access to a range of Ever After emotes then check out my server!! I've added a new Illium and Orion one recently!
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#ever after: twisted secrets#vn#visual novel#amare#dating sim#indie dev#otome#glasswinggames#discord emote#emote artist#custom emote
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Posting a lil earlier since I'm busier today, but Day 5 of loretober is friendships, so I broke down how some of the different interests feel about each other! (Eos will get a sprite posted soon!!)
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Jedrek may be a lot of fun, especially when you're the only one who gets to see his true identity, but he has a dangerous side that he doesn't try too hard to hide.
Will you be able to keep up with him?
#ever after: twisted secrets#vn#visual novel#amare#dating sim#indie dev#otome#character art#glasswinggames
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Next up is Farren! With a new, fancier dress to show off! She's ready to steal your heart... and maybe even your soul.
#ever after: twisted secrets#vn#visual novel#amare#dating sim#indie dev#otome#glasswinggames#character art
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I've been working on some adjustments for each interest to better reflect my vision for them! (And whilst I work on Eos' many sprites!)
First up is Jed! Who also has a masked version, if people would like to see!
#ever after: twisted secrets#vn#visual novel#amare#dating sim#indie dev#otome#glasswinggames#character art
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So you may remember Il looking a little different! He's had a little redesign and I'm much happier with how he looks! The new academy uniform suits him!
What do you think? Will you let the new Il whisk you away on a murder mystery adventure?
#ever after: twisted secrets#vn#visual novel#amare#dating sim#indie dev#otome#character art#glasswinggames
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On my last post, you may have noticed something a lil different from normal. That's right, I've made a new and hopefully final logo for Ever After! My old computer broke and I lost some assets, so I decided to take the chance to redesign them!
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It may so happen to be my birthday today, so I thought I would write about how each Ever After interest celebrates theirs!!
I'd love to hear how your ocs celebrates their own birthdays! Or how they'd celebrate with their favourite interest!! 🎉
#ever after: twisted secrets#vn#visual novel#dating sim#amare#indie dev#glasswinggames#otome#lore#Birthdays#One day I will throw them all a big party
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New game logo for Ever After!
Following reflection on the topics explored in certain routes, Ever After will be an 18+ game, following an other world traveller called the Saint, who will make an impact in the lives of eight villains.
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Dancing in your kitchen - Helios short
“Now he's thinkin' 'bout me every night, oh!”
The echoes of a song from your original world bounce off the stone walls of the kitchen. Accompanied only by the melody of the boiling milk on the magically powered stove and the gentle beat of your dancing feet.
“Is it that sweet? I guess so.”
It was a performance for one, as all the staff had long since retired for the night, and you were certain his lordship would have ensured each room was soundproofed to avoid any unnecessary distractions.
“Say you can't sleep, baby, I know. That's that me, espresso!”
Sleep had refused to take you, instead leaving you to toss and turn in the silk covers of the four poster bed, finding it impossible to get comfortable in spite of the fact it had been embroidered with so many magical circuits to ensure it did exactly that. Maybe, even now, after you had thought you were used to this world, to this life with the ArchDuke, there was still a part of you that remembered the life you had come from, one which definitely didn't include giant magic powered manors or silken beds big enough for at least eight people.
“Move it up, down, left, right, oh. Switch it up like Nintendo.”
That was how you'd found yourself in the kitchen, making a familiar comfort drink, in the most familiar way possible. No servants. No magic… or as little magic as possible. No etiquette to be concerned about. Just you, making hot chocolate, dancing a silly little dance to a fun, silly song, in the middle of the night.
“Say you can't sleep, baby, I know. That's that me, espresso!”
“What are you doing?”
You spin around, ladle wielded in defence in the direction of the owner of the voice who had interrupted your concert for one, only to find a dark-haired man watching you with thinly veiled amusement.
“Helios?”
It took you a second to register that it was the ArchDuke leaning against the doorway, since you were far too used to him standing rigidly upright, maintaining perfect posture, and an even more perfectly controlled expression. If you were to ask anyone whether Helios Kingsley would ever lean on anything, with arms loosely folded over a partially unbuttoned shirt, you'd get laughed out of the tower. Yet there he was, watching you curiously, with blue eyes slightly dulled from an exhaustion of his own.
“Why do you sound so surprised to see me in my own home?” A raised brow as his eyes wander to your weapon of choice, “and did you learn nothing in your magic lessons? I'm sure I taught you at least one defence spell, so why, pray tell, was your first choice a ladle?”
Sheepishly, the ladle disappears behind your back. You knew he wouldn't let you be harmed, but technically, what you had done, raising a weapon (even of the spoon variety) towards the ArchDuke was a criminal offence.
“Ah you misunderstand, the ladle was simply a distraction. Once I caught the attacker by surprise, I'd hit them with a spell to immobilise them.” You can't help the grin as he almost looks a little surprised and maybe even a little impressed. “You gotta admit you were surprised, so my plan worked even if only a ladle bit.”
Any look of being impressed disappeared in an instant with a roll of his eyes.
“You're awful.” Still, you knew him well enough now to pick up on the way the corner of his mouth twitched in spite of himself at your awful joke. Though he'd never give you the chance to point out the fact you knew that deep down he loved them really. “I imagine that song was one from your original world, but I couldn't tell if those movements you were doing were a dance or a sign of you being possessed.”
“I'll have you know that was a very popular dance back on Earth. It was a whole craze on tiktok.” The ladle waves at him in mock annoyance before you turn around in a huff to stir your neglected hot chocolate. “It's my fault that you're too inflexible to let loose and recognise a good dance when you see it.”
“I have no idea what that is–”
“You not knowing something? That'd be a first.”
“But I know plenty of good dances.” You didn't have a chance to register he was behind you before he took your hand to twirl you round and pull you into his light hold, with that overly confident smirk of his that he seemed to reserve mainly for you. “Let me show you one.”
Your laughter fills the room as he twirls you around again, and you dance around the kitchen mimicking something that you recognise vaguely as a waltz, but adapted to fit around the many obstacles and to the rhythm of a chorus he had only heard part of. Though there's no music this time, only the light of the moon as it falls through the window, lighting up his hair as if it was the night sky itself, and illuminating the soft expression he wore whenever he thought you weren't paying attention.
“See, I can let loose.” He straightens proudly as you come to a stop back in front of the stove, which only caused another wave of laughter from you.
“Did you seriously just do that to prove a point?”
“No, I would never do something so immature.” He clears his throat at his very obvious lie, but it seems he's not too fussed whether you believe it or not, if the glint in his eye is anything to go by.
“Sure, whatever you have to tell yourself to sleep at night.” Your laughter softens and you shake your head gently at his antics, as your own eyes fall on your hot chocolate… though you don't know if you can call the curdled mess by that anymore. “Speaking of which, we may have ruined what I was going to use to fall asleep myself.”
His eyes move from you, to the stove, and then pack to you, as if he is seriously weighing out different options, a look you usually saw when he was making very serious choices for the Archduchy or the Magic Tower. It didn't surprise you though, that he treated this with the same gravity.
“Head up to bed, I'll bring you up another one.”
A pause. An incredulous look.
“Do you even know how to use a stove?”
“Don't insult my intelligence, I'm not so pampered that I don't know how to use basic culinary equipment.” A playful smirk dances on his lips, “plus Haeun and I have snuck in many a time to make all sorts. This isn't my first late night cooking session.”
“You truely are a rebel Helios, I didn't know you had it in you.” You chuckle as you see him raise his hand, calling out before he casts the teleportation spell to send you back to your room. “Don't forget the marshmallows!”
The dark haired mage, the ruler of the North, can't help but shake his head as you disappear from sight, but he still stares just a beat to long at the place where you once stood. Though when he pulls himself away it's all business, sleeves are rolled up, and magic dances around the room as he restarts the hot chocolate making process, humming a catchy song from another world as he goes.
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#this is set in those early stages of catching feelings before any confessions have taken place#I just wanted to write something fun and lighthearted#this song has me in a chokehold#I may do more prompts for funsies#This was written at 3am please be kind--#ever after: twisted secrets#vn#visual novel#amare#dating sim#indie dev#otome#glasswinggames#creative writing
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