Pinocchio's Murder [SciFi][Otome][Kickstarter][Mystery]-DEMO

[mayshing]

Full game was release on Dec 2017! Post is here: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=47197

Available for purchase on: itchi.io || BMT/Bitcoin || Our website: Altabe Studio! Steam currently in progress (as of January 2018)
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It's here!! Our demo WITH SOUND is now available to play!!

This visual novel game is an adaption our long-standing comic series E-Depth Angel http://comics.mayshing.com/edepth/ that acts as a standalone as well as continuation of the franchise. Newcomers and long time fans can play this game with ease without confusion due to its flexible gameplay and clearcut storyline. Uncover the truth of your friends who need your help! Even romance them along the way!

Summary:
Which memory is true, which is false? Angel must sort out the implanted memories and true memories in her cyborg friends Lien and Kolei in order to rescue them from the grasp of their controlling father Seon who wants to turn them into puppets to become pure weapons of mass destruction.


~Demo (w/ sound):
*Last updated Nov 16, 2016: http://kickstarter.altabestudio.com/ede ... M_DEMO.zip

ALSO: Our Kickstarter is LIVE to get the game fully funded! Check it out for more info and images!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ma ... sual-novel

Title: E-Depth Angel: Pinocchio's Murder
Genre: Visual Novel, Mystery, Science Fiction, Romance, Choose Your Adventure
Romance Options: GxB
Rating: Everyone
Engine: Renpy
Platform: PC/Mac
Language: English
Word count: Around 60k
Voice Acting: Yes (minimal)

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If you try out the demo, please consider leaving us some feedback!
You can either give us your general thoughts or answer (any of) the questions below:

1. What is your first impression so far?
2. Did you come across any technical issues? Did anything seem off or as though it wasn’t working properly? Or was anything simply bothering you?
3. How did you like the character interactions, dialogue and the writing in general? (If you know the series, anything redundant? If you're new, were you confused/lost?)
4. Is there anything that definitely needs to be improved?
5. Any other comments, suggestions, etc.?

Screenshots

We'll have animations too!

(Basic example, youtube code still isn't working for me)

[philip]

Just downloaded this and went through it. As requested here are my answers to your questions:

1. What is your first impression so far?
It's very short, but it appears interesting, so I'll continue to follow along and look at future updates.
2. Did you come across any technical issues? Did anything seem off or as though it wasn’t working properly? Or was anything simply bothering you?
SKIP mode did not work for me. Nor did the scroll wheel allow me to back up the dialog. (I'm playing on a mac.)
3. How did you like the character interactions, dialogue and the writing in general? (If you know the series, anything redundant? If you're new, were you confused/lost?)
Well, I am new and don't know anything about the "series", having said that, I liked the character
interactions, and the dialog, and did not feel lost or confused about the little bit of the story that was
presented.
4. Is there anything that definitely needs to be improved?
Looks good to me so far!
5. Any other comments, suggestions, etc.?
Nice job so far, will look forward more in the future (Oh, lousy pun - sorry!).

philip

[mayshing]

Just downloaded this and went through it. As requested here are my answers to your questions:

1. What is your first impression so far?
It's very short, but it appears interesting, so I'll continue to follow along and look at future updates.
2. Did you come across any technical issues? Did anything seem off or as though it wasn’t working properly? Or was anything simply bothering you?
SKIP mode did not work for me. Nor did the scroll wheel allow me to back up the dialog. (I'm playing on a mac.)
3. How did you like the character interactions, dialogue and the writing in general? (If you know the series, anything redundant? If you're new, were you confused/lost?)
Well, I am new and don't know anything about the "series", having said that, I liked the character interactions, and the dialog, and did not feel lost or confused about the little bit of the story that was
presented.
4. Is there anything that definitely needs to be improved?
Looks good to me so far!
5. Any other comments, suggestions, etc.?
Nice job so far, will look forward more in the future (Oh, lousy pun - sorry!).

philip

Thanks Philip for giving it a play through! We currently have a revised script for the next version to better clarify for newcomers. Also there will be sound Also did you play multiple routes? One route is the "short cut" version which skips a chunk of the game vs the other goes through actual work then the final part of the demo

Hm, you had trouble with your Mac? The Skip feature and go back features are turned off at the present for coding purposes/problems on a Mac. If there were any other bugs please let me know. We have beta testers for Macs and PCS so we don't want to miss anything.

Will keep you updated!

[philip]

@mayshing-

I did play through multiple times, trying all the different choices. And I didn't have trouble with my mac, since Skip and Rollback are not available in the demo, everything apparently worked as it was supposed to!

Thanks for responding.

philip

[mayshing]

@mayshing-

I did play through multiple times, trying all the different choices. And I didn't have trouble with my mac, since Skip and Rollback are not available in the demo, everything apparently worked as it was supposed to!

Thanks for responding.

philip

All right, good to know! Thank you so much for your feedback, it's really helpful and important to us The Demo with partial sound and some revises should be out around June 5th. Will post here again to notify

[mayshing]

The Demo with sound is done!

Be sure to download it and try it out! We've love feedback and any plugs/signal-boosts you do for our campaign! We'll be hosting a social media sharing contest in the coming week to win a free Digital copy of the game!

[Lesleigh63]

Played through the demo.
I'm not familiar with the story.

Artwork attracted me to it and I liked the look of the two brothers and what I read about them in their bios and the type of conflict that would occur between them.

I think I liked the space-setting path over the school-setting path.

I suspect the school setting is much older in time and perhaps involves the grandmother Angel and that maybe the two brothers aren't cyborgs yet.

Will be interesting to see how the plot turns out.

The ambient sounds (the gurgling water etc) are very immersive.

Good luck with it.

[mayshing]

Played through the demo.
I'm not familiar with the story.

Artwork attracted me to it and I liked the look of the two brothers and what I read about them in their bios and the type of conflict that would occur between them.

I think I liked the space-setting path over the school-setting path.

I suspect the school setting is much older in time and perhaps involves the grandmother Angel and that maybe the two brothers aren't cyborgs yet.

Will be interesting to see how the plot turns out.

The ambient sounds (the gurgling water etc) are very immersive.

Good luck with it.

Thanks for giving it a play!! We appreciate new and old fans so we can get informative feedback to make our content better!

The school vs space setting is about half and half, though the space/future is more, depending on which path you take. We hope you will consider playing the full game once it's completed!

[Amberbaum]

I think I liked the space-setting path over the school-setting path.

I also preferred the space/future setting over the school setting.

Annnnd I started reading your manga.Before I knew, I finished reading it in one day. So awesome......

Anyway, it's nice to see more sci-fi VNs .

[Masenpai]

That was great!. I hope i can get the full game when it's released!

[mayshing]

That was great!. I hope i can get the full game when it's released!

Thank you for your comment! We can't wait to get it completed and show it to you all!

[mayshing]

FINALLY! Our new Demo is OUT!!!

http://kickstarter.altabestudio.com/ede ... M_DEMO.zip

We took it down for a while to work out some bugs and refine it a bit. Now it's back as we continue to complete the full version of the game!

Please feel free to leave feedback on this version about bugs as this will be included in the final game with eventual updates.