Hamilton Hour

We're a 3-sister indie team making otome / visual novel games! Account run by/follows from @vanade  

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Blacktober Day 28: Two Autumns at a museum. Featuring @hamiltonhour’s Rye.

[hamiltonhour]

You know we gotta reblog!!!!! 🍁🍂 🫰🏾

[hamiltonhour]

Any new game ideas in the making? I love the characters and storylines!

Hello and thanks for the ask!

Ideas yes, always!

In the making? No haha, most are in the stage of "this is something I/we'll make when I/we have the time and energy".

One that is a little farther along is my personal project Black Label, which is in the "thinking about it, scribbling out concepts, fleshing out ideas and rewriting simple outlines" stage. It's pretty different tonally from any of the games we've released so far though.

Mainly we want to get the 3 Seasons DLC out of the way (slow going as it is) so that we can have a blank slate to focus on new projects.

[sparkofthemachine]

Happy Valentines/Crimson Days from my two dorks! Here's a fourth-wall-breaker just for you.

[hamiltonhour]

Consider this belated The Cookie Project anniversary + valentines day art!

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Reminder that we're also active over on Bluesky now as well! Still crossposting to twitter when we have updates, and still posting compilations of updates here.

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After 3 years (and 1 day to the anniversary of the game's original release), I've just released a quality of life update for Halloween Scrooge!

If you're looking for a free, short and cozy amaregame to play featuring Handsome ghosts to flirt with, HalloweenScrooge is just that!

Story:

October 30th: You’ve just moved to Ravenville, and Halloween is the last thing on your mind, even if it seems like your new town is obsessed with it. You decide you’ll skip the festivities this year as you settle into your new home, expecting teenagers to welcome you to the neighbourhood by egging your house and toilet-papering your trees, per Devil’s Night tradition. Instead, you get a visit from 3 handsome Halloween Ghosts, who try to convince you to stop being a scrooge and give the holiday a chance. Will they convince you that it’s worth getting in the Halloween spirit after all? Or will you just spend the entire time trying to flirt with them?

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Summer Devlog

3 Seasons Devlog Summer 2024 - 3 Seasons by Vanade [ Hamilton Hour ]

Summer 2024 Devlog - 3 Seasons + 1 DLC Hello from Vanade, Piper and Webmelon! Before we knew it half the year had passed by in an instant, s

New devlog posted, which is more or less what we've shared here + a couple screenshots we shared on twitter. hoping to have something more substantial in the next devlog (hopefully by the end of the year!)

[hamiltonhour]

briar script preview for #screenshotsaturday 🌸 writing is in progress! text included below the cut.

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“I’m fine, thanks to you. Are you a seasonal spirit or a guardian angel?”

“I’m more than willing to be your guardian angel if it keeps you from dying early. I happen to enjoy seeing your smile.”

Oh boy. The other seasons weren't kidding about him. 

“So you're just following me around?”

He lets out a laugh at that, as if it's the most absurd thing he's ever heard. 

“I don't have that kind of time, sweetheart. I just happen to be a regular at your cafe.”

He gestures down the street at the shop I just left. I raise a quizzical eyebrow, taking in his striking green and pink hair.

“Huh. I've never seen you there. And I go there all the time.”

“I know. When you were job-hunting, you'd get lost in your own world staring at your little laptop in the corner. It makes sense that you didn't notice the breathtakingly handsome spirit a few tables over.”

He takes a step towards me, closing enough distance to force me to raise my gaze to meet his eyes.   

“But I noticed you.”

[hamiltonhour]

May we interest you in some drabble of how the 3 Seasons boys each hold your hand? 👉👈

Written for warmups as vanade jumps back into outlining Briar's route! Text versions included as image descriptions on each picture, and included below the cut.

Holding your hand: Yuto Edition

Yuto reaches for your hand with hesitance—even now that you're together—as if he's afraid to let himself touch you... Afraid his cool skin might make you flinch away instinctively. He knows you don't mind, but it's a tough habit to break. You find it cute though, how his pinky finger interlocks with yours in quiet silence, wordlessly seeking your consent. You don't need to look at him to know his gaze is averted, the tips of his ears flushed a soft pink, peaking out from his long white hair. You slip your hand into his, intertwining your fingers with a gentle squeeze. He returns your gesture with a firmer grip, the way you'd hold on to something precious you dare not lose.

Holding your hand: Sol Edition

Sol's hand finds yours with such natural confidence. His palm is rough from constant time spent outdoors, and his lightly calloused thumb runs over the back of your hand unconsciously even as he chatters at you about something irrelevant. He tugs you along like an excited kid, his grip sometimes loosening in his excitement to show you things. Every now and then though, something he sees or says will remind him of you—you catch the glint of affection in his eyes as he squeezes your hand, a silent gesture of gratitude that you're with him.

Holding your hand: Rye Edition

Rye's fingers intertwine with yours slowly, assuredly. He enjoys this act and display of intimacy: the symbolism of your bond through physical touch. He doesn't hesitate in the slightest... if anything, his slow and deliberate gesture loudly signals his confidence and his love of romantic actions. It's his own way of communicating to you the thrill and happiness that being in love with you has given him… the ability to shower affection on his own special someone.

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A little behind the scenes view of the game screen draft, Ceph's outfits and a few of Four's varied expressions from vanade's solo game The Cookie Project!

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Just realized our ask button has been broken on our main tumblr page for who knows how long now, whoops! We've just updated the link so feel free to send us any questions or messages if you feel so inclined~

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Happy Valentines from our spring blossom! ❤️🌸

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Happy valentines from our 4 lovely love interests!  Hope you find them punny–er, funny!

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2024 Plans - 3 Seasons + 1 - 3 Seasons by Vanade [ Hamilton Hour ]

Happy New Year! We owed a belated devlog update re: 3 Seasons since it's been quite some time since our last one. Last we wrote, we had rece

We posted a devlog update for 3 Seasons re: the +1 DLC! The first of multiple updates to come this year.

[hamiltonhour]

We finally spruced up our Itch.io page after about... 3 years of procrastinating! We hope it's much easier on the eyes now. We also opened a bluesky account! We're not quite sure how active the dev scene is over there yet and we'll still mostly be posting here and on the hellsite known as twitter/x but it's always good to have options! In terms of other updates, we're writing up a brief devlog update for 3 Seasons + 1.

[vanade]

Thank you for all your love on The Cookie Project! I didn't expect to get 1500 browser plays/downloads in the first week. I hope you all enjoyed your time with Ceph and Four! I've just published the (lengthy) postmortem for the game over on Itch. The soundtrack is also up now on youtube.

[vanade]

The Cookie Project (RELEASED!) by Vanade [ Hamilton Hour ]

The real cookies were the friends (or...love interests?) we made along the way...

IT IS DONE 📢

The Dawning may be over but it's still on in my heart...

Spend a few days with my guardian Ceph, helping him figure out the cookie recipes with Eva's 1st gen oven. Will you befriend him? Spend every moment flirting?? Will you EAT THE FORBIDDEN DOUGH?

Features:

10.7k of text (10-15 min per playthrough)

lots of dialogue choices

customizable player name (pronouns are unspecified/gender-neutral throughout the game)

be a human, awoken or exo (changes some flavour text)

original OST by my sister

too many cookies

Play it for free over on itch.io ! Also if you enjoy it I would really appreciate if you could leave a rating!! This was a solo project for #WinterVNJam2023 and it was a work of love (and insanity)

[hamiltonhour]

Backgrounds, backgrounds, backgrounds! There are a lot of backgrounds in 3 Seasons. We put together a little collage of all the main ones, not including any cut-ins or time of day/flavour-text-changed BGs. It's crazy to think we have many more planned for the DLC update!