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WaveringLilac2 years ago(+2)

Melancholy Marionette: I wonder whether you'd consider uploading Dawn of the Damned's OST to your Youtube account? I saw that some of your OSTs can be heard there, but this one is absent, which I think is a shame because it's so atmospheric and eerie. A few of the pieces in this OST are still rattling around in my head more than a year after first hearing them, and I'd love to have access to them in a more convenient and accessible form than listening in game* (but of course only if that was alright with you). I definitely wouldn't say no to seeing your other compositions uploaded there either, even when I haven't played the games they're from. Thanks for reading, and thanks for making such memorable and fascinating little VNs.


* Although, to be honest I've actually only watched a playthrough of Dawn of the Damned on Youtube, and haven't played it myself yet, so I don't actually know whether the music itself is included as separate files, in which case my request must seem somewhat redundant. But I would imagine that probably isn't the case based on what I've seen in other VNs I did find the energy to download and play in the past...

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Melancholy Marionette2 years ago (1 edit)

Sorry my reply is quite slow >.< I've been struggling to keep on top of life in general lately, so I ended up just having to stop communication altogether for a while and just retreat cos I couldn't handle anything x3 I think it doesn't help that prepping for Christmas and such is just like pure stress, haha. Just going to do food shopping has me feeling so overwhelmed with all the crowds and such that by the time I get home, I feel like I need to shut myself in a dark room and not come out for the rest of the day xD

Honestly, I actually meant to upload the OSTs for Dawn of the Damned, The Graveyard Shift, Limbo Line, and Apartment No.9 to YouTube sometime because all of them are currently missing from there >.< It's just every time I thought about doing it, I remembered there was other stuff I was supposed to be doing first, so it just kept getting pushed further and further down the giant list of things to do T_T

If I were just uploading the tracks, I could probably do it pretty quickly, but because I keep trying to make videos to go with them, that's what ends up eating away at time x3 I thought for the Dawn of the Damned ones, I'd probably just use the title screen as a video background or something, but I don't really know how to recreate that in my video editing software, so it would probably be easier to just edit the actual game files to include the track names on the title screen and then take a screen capture of it playing and add the track in separately, haha.

It means a lot though that you like the soundtrack enough to want to listen to it :3 I will absolutely get them added! I don't think I'm going to get much of a break over Christmas between spending time with my family + trying to finish my Winter VN Jam project, so I was thinking of taking it easy in January. So since I probably won't be doing any writing or coding then, I can see if I can get em uploaded to YouTube in January sometime :D Heck, I might just make it my mission in January to get all of my missing OSTs uploaded to YouTube, haha.

It's been so long since I made Dawn of the Damned that I can't actually remember if I included an in-game music player in the extras or not xD I have a feeling I did! I think in all my most recent games from the past year or so I've made sure to put music players in the extras sections :3 But still, it's not the most convenient way to listen having to boot up the game >.<

Thank you for your kind words anyhow! And I hope you have some happy holidays ^-^

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WaveringLilac2 years ago(+1)

There’s no need to apologise. It’s completely understandable that you might have other commitments, or be lacking energy, or might not be in the right mindframe to think about drafting replies, etc… Anyway, as you can perhaps tell, I’m no good at replying to messages in a timely fashion either. XD

I distinctly remember Dawn of the Damned having an option to play the OST from the menu, as you suspected. And I think it’s better for that option to exist in a VN than not, even though it definitely isn’t the most convenient way to listen. Honestly, it’s a charming little feature I associate with indie games such as the Narcissu series, Your Turn to Die, and Touhou. But, yeah, even when the option’s there, I still prefer to listen online for convenience.

I didn’t realise it would require so much work to upload your OSTs, although I suppose that I could definitely have inferred as much from the fact that you had uploaded some but not all of your music. If you’re willing to upload your music, I’d be happy to have it easily available, but I’d completely understand if you decided it was too much of a hassle in the end, so please don’t feel that you have any kind of obligation to do so now that someone’s asked you. And if you are going to upload it, take all the time you need. I definitely don’t want to stress you out further when you’re already stressed and tired, by the sounds of it.

Thanks very much for the well wishes. I ended up having a pretty uneventful and quiet Christmas and New Year’s, but that’s perfectly fine with me. I hope that you were able to enjoy the end of December with less stress and that the new year’s going well for you so far.

Also, congratulations on the release of your latest game! I haven’t played it (or any of the other entries to the Winter VN Jam) yet, but it seems intriguing.

I hope things are looking a bit less hectic now that it’s been released, and that you can find time to relax after all your hard work.

Have a nice day!

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Melancholy Marionette1 year ago

Hehe, it’s all good :3 I usually end up trying to harness the random days where I do feel like I have the energy and ability to be social, and then I will like spend a whole day typing stuff in one go xD Somehow it feels easier to handle things like that than responding to stuff separately. I do wish that I had more energy in general though to handle things like that cos I always feel kind of like I’m letting people down by being so slow, even though no one has said that and it’s just a silly expectation I put on myself cos my brain is a silly sausage x3

Yeah, I wouldn’t want to boot up a game just to listen to the soundtrack, I’d usually head to YouTube or something, haha. 

To be fair, it would technically be really fast to just upload the tracks with no video of any sort! Like just use a static background or something for the duration of the song. I can never bring myself to do that though cos it annoys me if I don’t put more effort than that, haha. 

I will absolutely make a point of doing it this year though for all my soundtracks that are missing from YouTube :3 I’ll probably end up doing the Sapphire Snowe one first since I still need to finish adding masculine voice lines to that and I was hoping to have the update out by the end of January. It would be handy if I could release the update and the OST at the same time! I don’t know if I’m going to achieve either though because I’ve only just got back on my PC for the first time in 2024 this week x3 It’s just taken me forever to recover from the pre-Christmas stress so I’ve been like a zombie for a while >.< I’m hoping if I can’t make the end of January that I’ll at least be able to get it done for the start of February.

Then I guess I’ll gradually try to get the other OSTs some little videos made :3 No idea what to use for the Limbo Line and Apartment No.9 tracks x3 but for Dawn of the Damned and the Graveyard Shift, I’ll probably just take a video of the title screens since they already have some degree of basic animation to them.

I’m glad you had a nice enough Christmas and New Year’s :3 Ours was the same pretty much, quiet and uneventful, which is also fine with me, haha. It was just the buildup to it that killed me xD I’m finally starting to get some life in me again though, so that’s something! 

Thank you :3 I probably put myself under extra stress that I didn’t need by deciding to make that game for the jam x3 and I’d said to myself no more jams for 2023 after Spooktober, haha. But I couldn’t help it in the end and it temporarily got me out of a bad place, so it was definitely worth it :3 I haven’t played anything else from the jam either >.< I really need to give myself more gaming time T_T

Things are finally starting to calm down a bit :3 Still got some anxiety-inducing stuff to deal with in the next few weeks, but hopefully, after that, things will be a bit calmer for longer, haha. I hope 2024 has been kind to you so far and that you’ve been having a happy January ^-^

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