Stars In Your Eyes
Stars In Your Eyes was made for the Novembear Game Jam.
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Luca doesn't want to go back inside. Why would they even want him in there after all the suffering he's caused? At least he can't hear what they're saying about him anymore...
Haoyu doesn't want to go to that place. Nothing ever works out. He doesn't see why it would be different this time...
Haoyu also can't see that the pedestrian light is red. Luca does see someone about to be run over.
Maybe this day is a meaningless nothing.
Or maybe this day is a meaningful... something?
Stars In Your Eyes switches between two protagonists. One is deaf; the other blind. For the most part, the game will be presented with only visuals OR sound aside from the text.
This game uses sound captions. Visuals and key expression changes are described if using the self-voicing feature (this feature is not available for Android). You can also turn on a feature that will warn you before transitions from silence to audio, and when there will be sudden or uncomfortable sound effects.
Stars In Your Eyes is set in the same world as The Red Ballet, but has no connections to its story or characters. Note that The Red Ballet is a horror visual novel with NSFW aspects in case you wish to play more of my things :)
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Development log
- Stars In Your Eyes - Web Version Added29 days ago
- Stars In Your Eyes (+Next for The Red Ballet)33 days ago
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Did my autistic ass cry at the end ? Nobody will ever know :))
I cried while writing it, so I fear it does have that effect 😋❤️
Everything about this is absolutely beautiful
Thank you! I'm really happy you liked it 🥰🐼
I've rewritten this like 5 times already, because I can't seem to put it into words how much I liked this VN!
The characters? Amazing, fun, realistic and interesting! Despite the short run time, each character gets their chances to shine and make an impact on the reader.
And don't forget the visuals! Expressive, cute, well-detailed and colourful! There's just so much charm and love poured into every sprite, expression and background, not to mention the custom UI! It screams polish and personality, and it's a little crazy you were able to do this in just one month!
I won't mention the story to avoid spoilers, but it took a few unexpected turns, and kept me engaged till the end. I wanted it to keep going by the end, I needed to see more of these characters!
There's only one thing that tripped me up while reading, and this is mostly on me! The shifts in perspective made it a little difficult to keep track of who is speaking, and who's narration I was reading. Not to mention the translation device had it's own rules which complicated things, and at multiple points I had to pause to quickly figure out who's saying something, and if others can hear what that person is saying. I also played this at 2AM, so my brain was a little slow, haha.
To be fair, the textbox does change colour to signify the character speaking, but I didn't feel like I got enough time to memorise it before the plot began to hit.
I could probably ramble more, but I'll spare you having to read that. Final thoughts, I loved it! (But I did not love the panettone slander, a plague be upon ye 🔫)
If I had a printer, this would go on the wall 🐭
the concept is pretty neat!
That was great. The way the perspective shifts is really clever and interesting. The story also felt just as long as it needed to be, great pacing.