Absolutely Haunting Ch. 1, a supernatural eroge Visual Novel

[Mindshard_Dev]

Introducing Mindshard Studios' first Visual Novel production:

Play it now on Itch.io!​

Type: Erotic Visual Novel

Warnings:
- Adult Content
- WIP

Genre:
- Supernatural
- Eroge
- School
- Possession

Plot:

Absolutely Haunting! is a short 'eroge' VN about your school's Occult Club, which only has three members! Gabrielle, Lucy, and you decide to liven up your club activities, and investigate the rumors about the abandoned old school. Halfway through the night, you discover you're locked in, and the haunting rumors of this place may not be rumors at all! Figure out who or what is haunting the school while juggling your feelings for your two friends, who have begun acting strange since coming here. What's with that eerie green glow in their eyes anyways~?


Game Features:
- Choices/Branching Narrative
- Publicly Available Demo (Downloadable!)
- Erotic CGs (8+) in the final game
- Current demo offers 3 endings, final game will offer "3x3" (endings mesh together based on choices made)


A public demo is always available, with an updating demo always available to our Patreon backers! The public demo will be updated monthly!

Thank you for your time, and please let us know what you think so far!

 

[NihilestNerd]

I played the demo on newgrounds and was surprised to find you here as well. Any knowledge when you guys can fix the lag? I know you guys mentioned renpy and was wondering how that was going so far

 

[Mindshard_Dev]

Howdy Nihilist Nerd! The lag (I think!) is a direct result of the game engine we used to code it. We're working on getting the entire game ported over before moving any further, so hopefully this solves the lag problem in future releases! Ren'Py is going, but it's gonna take some time to learn! I haven't seen Python since my college days!

 

[Mindshard_Dev]

[[July Updates]]

This summer, we've moved over our entire game into the Ren'Py engine, which solves the slowness/lag/freezing/crashing issues a lot of people have been reporting from the Tyrano'builder instance of the game on NG and itch.io! While you won't notice any new content in the current public version, it's the long-coming precursor to being able to storm forward with a new version every two weeks now that we've got our new system handled!

Speaking of new versions, we've just released 0.2.4 - a lot of bug fixing had to happen between 0.2.0-0.2.4, haha - for our backers, and the first week of August will see this version released publicly! Some of the huge changes coming in the new version:

1. Nameable MC
2. Soundtrack Implemented!
3. Second h-CG for Gabby and Lucy
4. Further storyline progression!

On a less "technical" and more personal note to this post, I'm sure some of you reading this are thinking "Took you long enough, Mindshard! Where's the progress!?" This summer, I tried taking on a secondary job so I could help push forward development from a financial standpoint. The CGs aren't cheap, and I had to find out that contracting a composer for custom musical/ambience tracks isn't either! While this hindered me in terms of getting the time to work on my project, it allowed me to generate the additional funds to create more assets that will make our final game amazing! As we speak, we have five new CGs in the works, along with more musical tracks that will phase out any CC music you find in the game. I want the best for this project - I never claim to be a professional developer, but I'm giving it my all any way I can!

I'll see you all in two weeks! Cheers!