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Topics that you can not get Crowd and Evil Usagi-chan to stop talk about once they've started

The RPG horror game they are currently working on: It might be a bit obvious but Crowd and Usagi-chan can talk forever about their projects. And let’s not get into the the danger of them going of-tangent into “ideas-for-potential-future-projct-ideas”… and forgetting that there are other people around…

Corps party: They really, really, really like Corps party. The ORIGINAL game and the “first game”/“remake” (“corpse party blood covered”) to be more exact. The sequels have a few good points, sure. But it’s the first ones concept, story and general atmosphere that caught our interest. (The gameplay is also nice, but could (together with the pacing and some of the “logic”/“hints on what to do”) use some work…) RPG horror games in general: Ib,  Alice mare, Mermaid swamp, Crooked man, Witches house… the list goes on-and-on. Essentially any other RPG horror game they like is a topic they can talk A. LOT. about. Although to be fair, they can also talk for lengths about game they do NOT like. Not “talking” as in “tash-talking”, but legitimate criticising thing they think the game(s) didn’t do well.

Attack on titan: Crowd and Usagi-chan are huge fans of the manga and are always up-to-date on it. Usagi-chan even bought the Atack on titan guide book. Grey morality and complex characters tend to do that to them… 

Umineko and Higurashi: Crowd love these series (the VN and mangas) pretty much to the point of obsession (Crowd: Although to be fair, the obsession-part has cooled down slightly the last year(s)) and Usagi-chan is not far behind. Crowd has actually been able to quote all of the “red truth"s from Umineko word-by-word at one point. (Crowd: I still remember most of them actually! Although it was quite a while ago since I read it… Gosh I need to re-read that serie… The reason I don’t remember word-for-word any more is probably because I have read the whole serie, and therefore know the official answers. So I remember the solutions rather than the text itself. I also don’t have many people to discuss the serie with without running the risk of spoiling the whole ting for them… *sigh*)

Undertale: Yes, they have been really crazy about that game recently. Nice story, lovable characters, fourth-wall breaking, deconstruction of classical tropes in an interesting way while simultaneously playing a lot of them straight… It’s really an awesome mix!

Pandora hearts and Skip beat! : This one is all Usagi-chan. The love she has for those two manga series knows no bund and she has tried to make Crowd read them a few times. And while Crowd has considered looking up Pandora hearts… one day… probably. Skip beat! is unfortunately not really Crowds cup of tea… Then again, when Ouran is the closest thing to a "Comedy-Romance-Drama” you can get to Crowd read… and most other series is either mystery or action related… You’re kinda out of luck. And Crowd… well… Crowd has A LOT of series that the scatterbrain can go on-and-on-and-on-and-on-and-on-AND-ON about for an eternity once getting started. Danganronpa, Aoharu x Machinegun, Ouran highschool host club, Steins;Gate, Digimon, Tales of symphonia (the game), Legend of Zelda (Oot & Majora’s mask being the favourites), Darkwing duck… Once you get Crowd going about a serie, there’s basically no stopping. Crowd and Jack can also talk about (DC/Marvel) superheroes for an eternity (although we’re a bit outdated since neither liked the whole “New52”-thing and whatever-the-heck-Marvel-is-currently-doing…).

Cosplay: Both Crowd and Usagi-chan love to Cosplay and have a lot of fun when they are at cons, but Usagi-chan tends to have a habit of going all out when she makes her cosplays. You could say that she is “a bit” overdedicated to the Cosplays she makes…. And while Crowd is less of an overachiever in terms of the physical cosplay (at least in comparison to Usagi-chan), Crowd instead tend to research the chosen character they cosplay to a ridiculous (almost-obsessive) degree in order to get as “in-character” as possible. 

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A bad place

What starts out as a pretty normal day takes a turn towards the strange when the janitor Jean Doue is tasked by his boss to let the journalist Jezebel Morèvan into the eerie house at the outskirts of town. An abandoned house with as many secrets as the people who enters it. Let the nightmare begin.

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So here is the other project Usagi-chan and Crowd is working on now during the break on For my friend.

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AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO YOU ALL!!!

 Crowd and I (Usagi-chan) are talking a bit of a break from the creation of ”For my friend”! The reason for it is that ”For my friend” has evolved from a small, pretty straight forward, idea to a really complex and crooked one. The fact that the game is currently planned to have 10 different endings (depending on the different choices you make) should say a lot about how much work we will have to put into the game. All-in-all, we realized we needed to take a break from it in order to be able to take a step back and look at the it more clearly, as well as figure a couple of things out. Being as involved in the subject as we currently are, we fear we might be running in circles. Now keep in mind that we are NOT scrapping the project, just taking a break from it!  Not to say that we won’t be doing anything during said ”break” though. The decision to take a break was also done in favour of another (smaller, simpler and shorter) game-idé. Yeah, you read that right, during this break from "For my friend" we will work on another game… Yes, yes… I know. It might sound odd that we’re literally ”taking a break” from one game to work on another one. ’’xP But we felt that: 1: we REALLY needed to get some distance from ”For my friend” before working out out some complications with its story and 2: it was necessary to get some ideas out of our systems that we would not be able to use in our brigger project. We will give out more details about the new/side project in due time. But what we can tell you right now is that it's going to be a RPG horror game with a more simple and linear story (compared to the complex ball of yarn the story of "For my friend" has turned into) and that it's going to have some quite interesting characters.  I hope you can bear with us during this break from "For my friend". And if you wat to know more about our other project, a tumblr for it will arrive shortly. If it is anything else you are wondering about, the ask is open and Usagi-chan messages box is available as well. (You can always try poke-ing Crowd (and Jack) as well… it might wake the sleepy-head up.)

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The preliminary design on some of the rooms. It's still a bit of work left on them and we will probably change some stuff but the basic things are going to stay the same, unless we need to do some dramatic changes for some reason. If you have any questions or want to know more about the game, feel free to ask us^^

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Crowd and Usagi-chan discussing a emotional aspect of the game. This is pretty much how it looks every time something emotional, psychological or down right horrible part of the game is discussed. Usagi-chan truly has a love for thes kind of things and even if Crowd love them to Crowd have an tendency to gett hit by feels.

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Question #8: Where is your MC from?

Do they live here? Are they an alien? Did you build a world that is different from ours?

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Theo is from the same place Crowd and Usagi-chan is from.

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THE ASK IS OPEN!!!!!

Usagi-chan will answer all ask that you send to day no matter what it is ( it's Usagi-chan punishment for getting the amount of endings wrong) so ASK ANY QUESTIONS YOU CAN THINK OF!!!!

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* facepalm*

Crowd poked me the other day and reminded me that there is TEN endings to the game not eight..... I'm going to roll around on the floor in shame now... / Evil Usagi-chan

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A ordenery conversation between Crowd and Usagi-chan

Crowd: I have been thinking......

Usagi-chan: you know what, I have been thinking about the same thing.

Crowd:.... so the question is, have we been talking about it before or if our brains are transferring things to each other again.

Usagi-chan: Probably the latter.......

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What have we been doing?

And once again I and Crowd have neglected the tumblr to the point of depression -_-….. We really suck at post things regularly ( though all kinds of Internet connections has Crowd as ther mortal enemy so we can’t really blame that scatterbrain ). What have we been doing then, expect for neglecting tumblr? Well we have been working with the game of course^-^. We haven’t been working so much with the game as we would have liked to do ( because we are working on it in between our normal every day stuff so…) but we have done a lot of discussion about stuff in the game and it has become lot more complex than the small idé that Crowd first shared with me over a year ago (which is a hilarious story… for another time).

The story of “For my friend” focus on context and “choices” (and a few brick jokes XP ) which has led to eight different endings ( Yes the game will have eight different endings depending on what choices that the player make!!!! ) and other interesting stuff ( that I’m not going to talk about now because it’s a bit of a secret ). We still have a lot of work left on the game though before we can release it but I will try not neglected the tumblr eny more ( but don’t bet on it) and we are planning to make a trailer for the game when it’s possible so keep your eyes open and if you have any questions ( or just want to kick us in the butt for never post eny thing) just message us^^ / Evil Usagi-chan

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More screen-shots from the game! Fell free to tell us what you think of it because we love to hear it^^

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The scary-looking woman with the short fuse

A highly temperamental girl that needs to be handled with tact and carefulness, unless Theo wants to meet a violent and very painful end. Seriously, thinking things through before acting in her presence is a necessity, because she won’t take kindly to insults or weird behaviour in her room… or in general. If you’re unlucky she might even fly off the handle for something seemingly insignificant. She can be a pain to deal with…… or surprisingly easy. It all depends on how you approach her.

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The excited girl with the innocent eyes

A cheerful, energetic and imaginative child that Theo encounters early on in the house. She’s very fond of playing games, having tea parties, paint and sing songs. She also has a variety of toy-friends, her favourite one being ”Bud”. She is, not supprisingly, quite childish and will start throwing tantrums if treated poorly… which itself can lead to problem with other residents of the house down the line, as they are very protective of their own kin.

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A really important thing about this character is that I and Crowd have decided to have a "NO SHIPPING" request on her. The reason for it should be fairly obvious but for those of you who wonder why, it is to avoid any unnecessary drama. I hope you understand the reasons for this request and if you have any questions about it, just ask us

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Random sketches with a dash of colour

Just thought we could upload some of the sketches Crowd scanned a few days back. It’s mostly a few sketches of Theo and Fred (and one of “the calm man”). We might upload some more sketches further down the line, since Crowd draws regularly at paper (with a regular pen) in between making the art for the game on the computer (which is mostly done with the mouse… we really need to buy Crowd a tablet… X.x).

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Someone asked for Fem!Theo?

Crowd: There’s was a request for a Fem!Theo a couple of days ago, right? Well guess who ended up make this when they couldn’t sleep the other night? x3

Jack: I am still face-palming over the fact that your first reaction to hearing that request was “Would there even be a difference between a male and a female version of Theo?”. Seriously Crowd….

Crowd: I did add “beside the obvious biological differences”, thank you very much…. ^^U But I get what you mean. Still, I don’t think the character would look particularly different. The only thing that came to mind was the hair being longer and Fem!Theo having more of a habit of actually using the hood more often than the regular Theo. 

Genderbending is kinda fun though… I might do another one later on (probably with a genderbent Fred, that could be fun! =3 ).

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The excited girl with the innocent eyes

A cheerful, energetic and imaginative child that Theo encounters early on in the house. She’s very fond of playing games, having tea parties, paint and sing songs. She also has a variety of toy-friends, her favourite one being ”Bud”. She is, not supprisingly, quite childish and will start throwing tantrums if treated poorly… which itself can lead to problem with other residents of the house down the line, as they are very protective of their own kin.

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You can send oss submission now!

Yes as of now it is possible to send us Fan art and stuff like that. So please feel free to do that^^