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HalOPE OUT NOW!

An angelic RPGMaker game about breaking cycles, exploration, trading items, slight obtuseness, and finding hope.

Explore 4 colorful worlds and meet dozens of cute characters along the way. Learn about their lives as well as your own. Maybe you can even help some of them... But remember, not everything can be so easily fixed.

Five chapters, four endings.

and IT'S FREE! give it a shot!

i still really adore halope and keep returning to it and the artbook.. thank you for making it! your work id super inspiring to me and im in love with halopes concept

It feels like a distant dream to me at times so I’m glad people still think of it. I was just thinking the other day about how I would have done things a lot differently if I had another crack at it. I’m still satisfied with how it turned out, but it’s easy to see flaws retrospectively. Anyway, thank you very much <3

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starbage

they're finally here....... the HalOPE artbook and OST releases!

after much delay, the HalOPE artbook and OST are now available for purchase!

The artbook contains 160 pages of concept art, scrapped content, and developer commentary. also a lot of silly doodles. so many silly doodles

The OST contains the 30 tracks found in-game, along with 17 bonus tracks. Many of the tracks were also edited from their in-game counterparts in order to flow better as an album release.

If you like the game and want to support me, I would greatly appreciate if you checked out either of these. Like everything else I make, I poured my heart into them.

if you haven't played HalOPE and have no idea what I'm talking about... the game itself is free! go play it!

starbage

artbook is done. OST is done. i will probably put them up for realsies sometime this week, i just need to quality check and make some new graphics first. thank you for your patience.

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starbage

version 1.6 of HalOPE is real now https://starbage.itch.io/halope/devlog/883757/v16 it's mostly small additions but old players might enjoy the CGs i added! okay bye

starbage

Happy one year anniversary to a little game called HalOPE. I wrote up a post on itch.io for the occasion.

bonus (spoilers):

Hi! I'm curious, why is the game called HalOPE?

I can tell the capital letter spell out Hope, of course, and the scissors I assume are because they're the one item you keep with you the whole game and are needed all the way to the end, but is there a reason for it being a and l specifically?

the name simply comes from the combination of the words ‘halo’ and ‘hope’, I thought titles with weird capitalization were cool at the time which is why it’s stylized like that too. When I realized I could stylize the A and L to be the scissors, I kind of fell in love with the name and had to keep it. I did consider some other titles before settling on HalOPE but none of them felt as unique to me

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