#kcquery

[nyewclear]

hello! i just bought and finished the afterparty dlc and adored it, i replayed it almost 4 times and every time felt genuinely unique and worth playing over and over to see all the dialogue.

im also super excited for kurou connect to start up again (even if im sure thats much later in the year) and have had brain worms about him ever since replaying the game for the dlc.

i wanted to ask, what would kurou think if the Kc!Mc was also a singer/songwriter and wrote songs about him (they never actively say that the songs are about him, but the whole group know’s theres no one that elicits those emotions in them except for kurou.)

bonus ask of what if they preformed at a small gig (house party or something) and sang another song about kurou, but this one is super obliviously about them being pissed that they’re in love with him (i feel like mc would have only invited one or two of the ppl from the friend group, but those people invited kurou along so they’re fully unaware he’s in the crowd and hearing everything they say)

anyways, sorry for the super long ask! have a nice day/night!!

hello!! thank you so much for playing the dlc, i'm so happy you enjoyed your time with it!! genuinely lol it's a massive game and there's many different ways to play it so i'm glad you got a chance to try to get all the little scenes and dialogue options hehehe. thank you for your support!

now... as for your question! kurou, being kurou, would totally use this against you, because obviously your feelings are as clear as glass and he really won't be able to control himself when it comes to teasing the shit out of you about it. i think he would like to be less obvious that he knows about how you feel about him, but you know. he's kurou. most likely, he's going to be intentionally vague and weird when he brings it up, something like, "i bet whoever you're singing about is really thrilled, huh?" and then look at you in a way that kind of makes your heart spike because does he know? surely he doesn't know. there's no way he knows (he knows)

i feel like because everyone else also knows and is probably trying to keep it on the down low for your sake, you're probably going to get this feeling that everyone seems to know something that you don't, and you'll notice that kurou looks at you a lot harder than he normally does... but, hey, maybe he's doing that because you've got schmutz on your face LOL

[nyewclear]

Hi!!

When are you returning to Kurou Connect???

hello!!! soon! like very soon!! definitely within the summer, probably mid july & august. i would like to take june and maybe the beginning of july to work on some merchandise, particularly the physical soundtrack cds and desktop game discs... which, i will admit, is more self-indulgent than anything because i want them personally, but maybe a couple of you would like them as well!

anyways, the next thing i'll be working on for kurou connect is going to be basically a big art update, most of the art being updated spritework. i also hope to hire the cryptid coffeehouse voice actors to reappear in kurou connect for this update, but that's really dependent on the money i'm making from the afterparty dlc sales. voice actors are quite expensive though... so everyone tell ur friends to buy the mothman porn game so we can get kurou connect fully voice acted 😭😭😭😭😭

i drafted something of a timeline of the game's development before i left for london, and i'll be releasing the game in "acts" over several months— still trying to decide if i'm going to do that on patreon or something else. but once i get back into the swing of writing, i anticipate things are going to go pretty smoothly! i know this is a lot of hypothetical gobbledygook but trust me things will be happening 🙏🏾

[nyewclear]

Hi! I love your game and i just wanted to ask (ignore this if you've answered it already)

Is cryptid coffeehouse mc and kurou connect mc the same person? I can't play kurou connect because i feel like im betraying Artemis! I love them so much that i can't look at Artemis without smooching them.

hii! i don't think i've answered this one on tumblr before aside from some brief mentions in other asks (i've answered it on twitter before though). no, actually, they're not the same person. initially, yes, they were supposed to be, but after a bit i figured that it would make more sense for the timeline for them to be two different people. this is why when you play the kurou connect demo, the writing makes it seem like you're the same person! but in future versions of the game, that won't be the case.

cryptid coffeehouse takes place in the fall & winter, approximately from september to december. just over a year later, kurou connect takes place on a single day in july. by this time, the cryptid coffeehouse mc and artemis have already been dating for about a year and a half. in more complete versions of kurou connect, i plan for the cryptid coffeehouse mc to be mentioned in passing a few times by kurou, so in the game it will also be made clear that there's a separation between the two games. there's a lot of other cryptid coffeehouse related things that kurou will bring up over the course of the game, but the original mc will be one of them at some point or another.

one thing i will say, though, is that artemis plays an incredibly minor role in kurou connect lol. you'll only see them in the prologue (which the demo covers) and at the very end of the game. pretty much the only person you'll be talking to is going to be kurou and then some kurou connect exclusive side characters with a few lines.

[nyewclear]

How much do I have to pay you to add a route where Kurou gets hit by a car and has to go to the hospital into Kurou connect.

this is actually really really funny because i have an ending planned where he gets arrested 😭😭😭😭😭 i'm still trying to decide what's going to happen aside from the true route, since i haven't really had the time to think about anything but the dlc at the moment, but i've been wanting to add some really silly routes & endings into the game for some humor. think about how ridiculous some of the routes for monster prom are... i would love to evoke something like that, hahaha, but we'll see how the development goes later this year!

[nyewclear]

Hi! unrelated but I'm obsessed with ur art style

Ignore if this comes of weird but I saw in an older post you referenced writing fics about kurou and I was wondering if you have side blogs since I couldn't find them here and I have been searching desperately for any kurou connect content

Thanks!

-desperate anon

hii!!! (and also hi to everyone because i've been gone from tumblr so long [waves hand excitedly])

this isn't weird at all, but i don't have any writing sideblogs or anything of that sort. i'd say if you're looking for any kurou connect or kurou content in general, you're gonna wanna check the tags i have for them. i've been incredibly busy this summer (been going on something of a nukes world tour right now; i'm away from home nearly every weekend and when i'm not away i'm working </3) so i haven't been able to write anything new for like... anything. but i've been getting that really strong itch to write for kurou connect lately. so soon i'll have some stuff for you guys hopefully! thanks for your patience :3

[nyewclear]

Not a question I just wanna say I love Kurou connect so much I played cryptid coffeehouse a couple years ago and lowkey liked Kurou more than Artemis (no offense I love them all🙌🙌) so I recently went on itch.io to play the game again and was super excited when I saw u were making Kurou Connect!! The dlc was so good I can tell it’s gonna be such a good game, keep up the amazing work u rlly r a jenius 💯💯

HAHA the kurou vs artemis thing is so common... it's so funny to me that you guys like him so much! because i think when i was making the game for the first time all those years ago, i figured people would just find him alright. but he's like a HUUUGE favorite. i have the feeling that when i get to working on kurou connect again, he's probably going to overshadow artemis entirely 😭 sorry artemis baby

i hope to work on kurou connect soon!!! i'm going on a big trip this month, but once i get back in june, i hope to start putting all my ducks in a row and preparing what will be done next on my game dev schedule. i currently have lots of plans for the near future, so i'll keep y'all posted on everything as it happens.

[nyewclear]

hiiii helllooooo!!! oh gosh, I dont even know where to start bcs I have sooo much to say.... (''-,-).... firstly, I fucking looooved both your games!!! I'd stumbled upon Kurou connect first, drawn in by the incredibly cute art style!! I was sooo sad it was just a demo because it was just THAT good!! I love Kurou sooo much holy he is just such a cutie! I love the dynamic between him and us, it's too good hehe. this is really starting to get repetitive so forgive me LMAO. then I played cryptic coffeehouse, where I freaking fell in LOVE with Artemis. I love how you write your characters and genuinely this is one of my favs now because there is just sooo much to explore!! im not that good with my words either but I promise you that I mean 100000x more than whatever I'm writing now!! I stalked your page a little and im so so excited for the dlc, but I was wondering how the progress is going with Kurou connect?? im not sure if I stalked enough because I couldn't really find anything about the release date or anything (if there is one), im just curious!! anyways, thank you for your hard work :333

haiii!!! thank you so much for your kind words <3 i'm so glad that you've had such a good time playing kurou connect and cryptid coffeehouse :-) it means so much to me... even though both games have been out for a minute now, it still is so nice to hear that people are experiencing them for the first time. it's super sweet and i love to hear about it! so cute hehe

okay, i've been getting a bunch of questions about kurou connect lately, which is kind of funny. i believe that i've talked about the timeline a few times in a couple of different asks over the past several months, but i'm not sure if i've gone into full detail aside from this ask here. i think it would be helpful for everyone if i actually wrote out a real timeline, lol so here's my plan currently if i get my shit together...

here are my current tasks, with some vague time estimates:

this week: finish coding the afterparty dlc script (we're about 80% of the way through)

mid-late january: code visuals & illustrate the dlc

end of january: brief playtest run to squash bugs

february: release afterparty dlc (spoiler alert lol)

after this, i'm going to take a little break so i can think about other things that aren't artemis and their sexual tendencies HAHAHA i think i'll probably get back into game dev by late march/early april. here are my tasks for then:

late march/early april: release small quality of life update for kurou connect (this will mostly be art stuff)

mid/late april: setup patreon tiers for levels of game access

june: begin work on kurou connect in earnest!

keep in mind that i'm lowkey a huge liar (sorry) and things get moved around all the time because it's just me working on these things, hahaha, but this is the hope. i'm not sure the actual timeline of the kurou connect's development but hopefully this year i'll have some nice updates for everyone!

[nyewclear]

Are you still working on Kurou connect?

not actively right now, since i'm working on the cryptid coffeehouse dlc, but i hope to get back into working on kurou connect after i take a little break post-dlc release. i talked about my future plans for kurou connect a bit in this faq i posted back in october! i'm not sure how long of a break i'm going to take before i start working on another project, but hopefully by the latter half of 2026 i'll have some new things to give y'all in the kurou department.