Nominations and honorable mentions!!

Pippa and Your Phantasmal Problem got some nominations and honorable mentions on Spooktober's winner result last month!!!

It also won an award!!! I was very surprised, and was like aaahhhh how come– no, wait... I'm so humbled!!! I'm so so grateful!!! Waaah!!! ;;A;;

Spooktober winner announcement!

I was so, so occupied in working in Pippa VN, making it what I envisioned in my mind, and actually finishing it – that I completely forgot about criterias that the judges would pay much attention to. I was trying not to worry about fulfilling the criterias and just wanted this VN to finish, be polished, and run perfectly without bugs and crashes. I spent the last two days of September trying to fix an annoying ATL behaviour, remember? 😭💦

The announcement livestream was very late at my time, so I was deep asleep when it happened haha. But I woke up to see that Pippa and Your Phantasmal Problem got several nominations! :O

It took me a while to catch with the VOD, but I did. Congratulations to winners and all participants – you're all great!

Congratulations and thank you to Pippa, she's the star of my creation this time haha. I feel like she deserves it!

I don't think she will understand any of this, though...

Awards

I will share some categories which mentioned Pippa here, just for the sake of my own archival. >_< Please don't mind me.

Source: vndev.wiki

Judge Shortlist / Honorable Mentions:

I feel very honored! 🙇‍♀️ Thank you very much for enjoying Pippa and Your Phantasmal Problem!

Being able to finish Pippa VN to the level that I wanted it to be was my win, so any extra things it will earn is an amazing bonus for me. I had a lot of fun making this VN, and having some people downloaded it and played it thoroughly made me feel all touched. Thank you... 🥹

Best Thumbnail:

:O! Thank youuuuuu!! 🙇‍♀️🙌🎉🥹😭🧡

I reused existing asset to create the itch.io thumbnail. I really wanted to catch people attention with Pippa's "Hi~ Pippa is here! 🧡" I think her sprite was already perfect for this intention, and I thought: oh it's amazing I don't need to think about special asset to draw for the thumbnail!

Reusing assets for the win hahaha. >,<

I'm glad she captured (some of) your attention!

Best Graphical User Interface (GUI):

I had wanted to do more with the GUI, but I ran out of time. I've played the others mentioned here and they are all so, so good. They're super inspiring!!

Best Original Soundtrack:

I've had the feeling that Pippa's OST would be very noticeable! I absolutely looooooove it, it tells so much stories and really enhanced the mood of the written scenes! I'm so glad that it was nominated, I'm so proud!! 😭

I took so long in playing other entries because there are thousands of other things come to me IRL that I don't spend much of my time on the internet anymore, but the entries I've played have been really fun and enjoyable! If you want to play some really fun ones, check the submission page out!

So far, I've played (list in alphabetical order): Babelomania, deathwish, How to be Human, Infected Infestation, Intensive Scare Unit, LIAR LIAR GAME, Never Play Again, Oto-hime, Shut-in Vampire, Soul Scouts, Spirit Driver, Tell It Slant, The Subtle Art of Pretending to Contact the Dead, TRACE, Trick or Treat?, Zodiac Paradigm.

Of course, I've played Pippa and Your Phantasmal Problem as well – hundreds of times, at it. Hehe. I'm just being cheeky. ;w;

There are more entries I was really interested to play but for some reasons I couldn't get to run the VNs on my PC (linux problem haha, don't worry devs!). Sads... I'll continue combing through the list slowly.

Pippa VN's playthrough videos!

Aah, thank you for everyone who made playthrough videos of Pippa VN! I tried my best to watch them, though if I'm not notified of your videos I may not find it... 🥹

Here are some videos! A family member mostly helped send me these links since I've been so, so busy to look for them.

I'll update this list as I find more videos!

What's next?

I want to go back to my other projects! I've decided that these projects will be commercial, so I'm taking my time in working on them. I'll most likely work on Blooming Chimes next. I've written so, so much of it I want to do more with it.

Meanwhile, I'll be drawing for other projects. It's been fun! Difficult at times, but still fun.

See you!
- Konayachi