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Tiny otome game dev | Little otome visual novel in a little rainy town with a focus on connections and friendship. 💧💧 Q4 - 2024
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☀️Find us/play our demo on:
💧Itch io (PC/macOS/Linux)💧
⚡️Steam (PC)⚡️
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☀️ DEMO RELEASE ☀️
It’s a quiet and rainy night - and we have a new demo to share!!
💧💧Download it here💧💧
Thank you to everyone who supported us while we built this!
#otome
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#indiedev
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#diffractionvn
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It’s been a while since we posted a
#screenshotsaturday
The crab is waving “Hello Fleshy Giant.” 🦀
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Meet Faine, a quiet and confusing boy and the first of two romancable characters in our little otome game. ✨✨
#otomejam
#otome
#indiedev
#diffractionvn
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[MINI DEMO RELEASE]
Strap on your rainboots and grab your cameras because our
#otomejam
mini demo has been released!
💧 💧 Download it for here! 💧💧
#otome
#indiedev
#diffractionvn
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We thought yesterday was a wild ride? Today we wake up to find that-
✨💧DIFFRACTION IS FUNDED💧✨
Thank you so much to everyone, for playing, sharing, and backing our project! Let’s keep going - onwards to the stretch goals! 😭😭😭😭💪
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We are a little over 1.5k away from our first stretch goal! 👀👀
As a thank you, we present this Faine art, drawn by our lead !🌧️🌧️🌧️
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Since we never shared any fullbody art before-
Please enjoy a sample of our concept art sheets! 💧⛈⛈⛈
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Here’s Hendric, a very interesting social butterfly. Our second of two romancable characters. ⚡️⚡️
#otomejam
#otome
#indiedev
#diffractionvn
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We're getting closer to completing the mini demo, so here's a little something for
#screenshotsaturday
!
#otomejam
#otome
#indiedev
#diffractionvn
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Introducing our game’s opening song ✨Raining May✨ which we have been keeping under wraps since, well, May.
Thank you to our lovely composer
@JunbugP
and you can find the full credits for everyone below!
💧Video💧
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As most people have already guessed, our ring set belongs to a certain guy with brown-black hair, brown-black eyes, and a brown-black jacket...👀⛈️⛈️
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Meet Miss “lovelylia”! You see her very briefly in the demo!
She will only show up in social media posts throughout the game, but we wanted to share her original character design 💕
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Last but not least, the MC of our story, April (name changeable). The person that dreams of being a photography-based influencer. ☀️☀️
#otomejam
#otome
#indiedev
#diffractionvn
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A new challenger appears…kinda 🕶️☀️
We’re sorry - no, he’s not dateable either.
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We’ve been working on character reference sheets and then it turned into an existential crisis 🤣 because…
…Is Hat Boy still Hat Boy without his hat? 🤔
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Here’s the first look inside our game. It’s a screenshot of the GUI and choice menu we’re working on!
#otomejam
#otome
#indiedev
#diffractionvn
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With 662 backers, more than double the funding goal, and three stretch goals reached-!?
🎉🎉✨✨That’s a wrap on Diffraction’s KS!!!✨✨🎉🎉
Thank you so much to everyone!!! The game can now officially be made, and it may even include a few surprises!! (1/4)
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We're incredibly humbled by the amount of support everyone's shown over the past couple of days for our small game jam otome (and mini demo).
So we wanted to take some time to say thank you! Please have a happy April ☀️
#otomejam
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💧🎁 Giveaway Raffle 🎁💧
We’re giving away 3 future digital game keys to celebrate our upcoming kickstarter!
How to Enter:
☀️Like + Retweet this post
Bonus physical merch for 1 winner:
☀️Be a follower since Nov. 8, 2022, 6PM (EST)
⛈ Ends Nov. 13, 2022, 11AM (EST/GMT-5)
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📸🏙 Here’s the full hand animation clip we made for the trailer!
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🎉💧HAPPY BIRTHDAY FAINE💧🎉
It’s July 10th here, which means, it’s a certain photography boy’s birthday!! Happy birthday Faine, may you meet all the ducks and geese.
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We’ve made it to the mid-point of our campaign!! ✨✨✨✨
Thank you to everyone for all of your support so far and please enjoy this Faine fashion cover on us! 💧🌧🌧🥰
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More screenshots to come as we get even further into the game’s development. We’ll do our best to keep them spoiler free though!
For now - look at our boy being so polite! 😇
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This is conceptual, rather than in-game content, but look at one character’s beautiful lockscreen 😂😂
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The date is set; our campaign will launch:
✨✨Tuesday November 15, 2022✨✨
💧💧Follow our prelaunch page here:
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After 29 days, we are at the final 24 HOURS of our otome game’s campaign!! ✨✨
Thank you everyone and let’s keep going until the very end!
If you haven’t checked it out yet, you can still find our KS here:
RTs💧appreciated
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Do you ever wonder about the trivial details we obsess over when coding? Because we sure do! 😂
💧Try opening the settings menu on a blinking character/rain animation💧
We actually designed the UI to be a “window” into the world. Necessary? No. Did we still do it anyways? Yes.
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Since they have been shared now-
Here’s a closer look at how our KS mystery photocards turned out! Thank you to everyone that backed for them! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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We may be quieter these days, but other than normal game development, we’ve also been working really hard on the backer-ordered merch 🙇♀️
Here’s one of our merch samples! ☀️☀️
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More character sketches! (+April for reference) ✨
We’ve talked a bit about Hat Boy, but we don’t talk enough about this cool lady - Purse Girl. 🥰🙏
She has about 4 minutes of screen time so far, but she’s coming back!
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A screenshot for today’s game update day!
He’s backkkkkkk~ 🧢
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💧2023 Development Roundup💧
✨Happy Holidays everyone!✨
For those that follow our Steam and Itchio pages, we’ve posted a development summary for 2023! Feel free to take a peek, and give the pages a follow if you haven’t yet!
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We are working on a supporting character who has not yet been introduced!
Have his rendered hand ✋
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Our little demo is a part of the Steam
#VisualNovelFest
💧If you haven’t tried it yet, you can find it here!💧
Please also take the time to check out and cheer on other indie VN devs participating as well!
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Some progress for
#screenshotsaturday
!
For those unfamiliar - yes, you have parents in the game 😂😂
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Honestly, the first 24 hours were INSANE! Hitting 75% was not what we were expecting on the first day and we can’t thank everyone enough 😭😭😭😭
There’s only a little bit more to go!! ✨✨
💧Please check out our campaign if you haven’t yet💧
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We saw this on quite a few streams before, but never thought to ask-
…Is EVERYONE going to fight Norman for Kim? …Should we be concerned? 😅😅😅😅
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We are a bit behind - BUT THANK YOU FOR THE 1K+ DOWNLOADS?! 😭😭😭😭
We are so grateful people gave the mini demo a try ⛈☀️🌧
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It’s April 26th here and that means:
✨☀️HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR MC, APRIL! ☀️✨
To celebrate, the team drew little chibis for her special day 🥳🥳🥳🥳 We hope the day was sunny wherever you are!
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Still a few details to iron out in this background, but it’s one of our favourites so far 📷🌃
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Diffraction is….. launching a
⛈✨kickstarter✨⛈!!!
To celebrate that and the overwhelming support, we’re going to do a raffle!
For those who have followed us before the posting of this tweet, you will also be eligible for a secret physical merch prize! 🎁👀👀👀👀
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✨7 Days left until our KS campaign ends✨
We want to start this countdown by announcing:
💧Diffraction’s Demo is now available on Steam for Windows!!💧
You can play, wishlist, or leave us a review here:
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We are still revising this quite a bit - but surprise! ✨☺️
Our first acrylic keychain sample arrived and we can finally say that each keychain will also come with a bonus mini weather charm to match each character! ⛈☀️🌧
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Something we’ve been working on - which is not in the demo - is the interactive in-game social media system! ✨✨✨✨
We’ve been playing around with a scrollable feed, that also updates as the game progresses 👀
#otome
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#indiedev
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#screenshotsaturday
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Don’t look too closely at the demo 😭
We’re cleaning up and polishing those messy bg components.
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Do you want to take a picture?~ 📷🏞️
We wanted to share something one of our team members drew!!
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It’s update day!
Here’s our newest bg - because every otome game needs a cafe ☕️✨
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It’s update day!
Meet one of the new characters you will encounter in the upcoming demo - we wonder who she is…🤔
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While no one is around- 👀
We wanted to share some old concept art of the main cast 🌧☀️⛈
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There are almost too many silly little Diffragram post sketches on the back burner…
(Hendric doesn’t actually need glasses.)
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Update day, ahoy!
Here’s a look at another draft screen we’re working on! ✨✨
The game’s UI is still getting some small updates and polishing this week.
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☀️ Merch is shipping!! 📦📫 ☀️
Be on the look out for our first round of tracking numbers, letters, and packages!
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Since our KS, we’ve upgraded the quality of our stickers and made them clear transparent!
They cost a lot more now, but we wanted to give our backers something nice since it’s still within budget! 😊😊😊😊
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☀️ Merch is shipping!! PART 2 📦📫 ☀️
Remember to check your emails for tracking numbers! They will be going out slowly over the next week and a half!
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Since it’s April 26th - HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR FAVOURITE PHOTOGRAPHER! ☀️❤️
The whole team drew this to celebrate!
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Both a Happy Halloween and a Happy Birthday to Hendric!!
He hopes you all stay safe and enjoy the treats 🍭🍭🍭🍭
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We've reached our first stretch goal for additions and updates to character sprites 🎉🎉🎉 !!
We're holding off on updating KS for now as there is a certain something we're waiting to attach to that update post 👀
In the meantime, enjoy this thank you art by our GUI artist ☔️
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Welcome to ‘Diffraction' - a quiet otome story in a small rainy town.
A bit late for
#otomejam
but we’re working hard!
#otome
#indiedev
#diffractionvn
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☀️ We’re alive and focusing on work in the background while we recover, but-
We have a few announcements coming in the next month, so please make sure to check in periodically!
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A little sneak peek at one of the other reward keychains! This time it’s Faine - the one character we haven’t shared yet 🌧️🌧️
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So we’ve been working away at a few things in the background and we’re hoping to share these with everyone over the next few days! 😭✨✨✨
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We’ve finally given purse girl her long overdue character art makeover! ✨👜 Purse girl 2.0
Please enjoy this placeholder screenshot of her!
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We’ve been wanting to redo the sprite art of a certain Purse Girl for a while now, and it’s finally happening!!!
—- slowly.
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Tiny Hendric for a Tiny Update:
We are still recovering but are on the mends!
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"Everyone called it a pipe dream - and they were right."
We wanted to share some plot details with everyone! Our visual novel is a little slice of life, so we hope you come along for the ride. 💧💧
#otomejam
#otome
#indiedev
#diffractionvn
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We forgot to share these images here-
Our KS also includes physical merch for the game! And everything here was lovingly designed by our team! 😭❤️
☀️☀️
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Is this a heavily cropped (non spoilery) CG? No, can’t be-
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And we are back into the swings of things! Some rest, a LOT of planning and admin, and we’re off again!! ☀️
You’ll see us peeking in with updates once in a while. 👀
Backers, be sure to check the KS update.
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✨Merch Interest Check Survey✨
We’ve been listening! Please fill out the form linked below so we can understand if there is enough interest for a future merch opening.
Feel free to share the form on other platforms as we are only posting it here.
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Now that the raffle has closed - What’s the “secret physical merch”?
From our highest KS tier, it’s a -
✨⛈Diffraction original, thunderstorm stacking rings set, made from 925 sterling silver!!! ⛈💍
You might catch a certain someone wearing it in-game ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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Since people have asked and we never actually announced it here-
Diffraction has a steam page now!🌧️⛈️☀️
So you can wishlist if you would like to keep up with our project there 😊 (We'll also be making the demo available on there soon!)
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In favour of not destroying the team’s health, we unfortunately will have to delay the demo release by a day to Nov. 7 and the announcement to Nov.8,
We’re sorry to everyone looking forward to it today but we hope you check back tomorrow to see what we have in store. 🥲🥲🥲🥲
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Including the previous content, the ✨upcoming demo✨ will feature approximately:
⚡️1 full hour of gameplay
⚡️25,000 words
⚡️2 CGs and 6 Mini CGs
⚡️9 OSTs
And much more! ⛈⛈⛈⛈
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This is just a small notice to say that the Diffraction team is taking a short development break this week to rest up from the game jam.
You can still reach us here anytime though! ⛈⛈
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Please appreciate this important background detail as we get back to game work:
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We didn’t even remember until the balloons showed up—
It’s officially been 1 year since the four of us got together and said “Let’s make a game!” 🥳🥳🥳🥳 Happy Anniversary!!!
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Instead of visuals, here’s a little snippet of one of our original tracks 🎶🎶
#otomejam
#otome
#indiedev
#diffractionvn
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It’s been a long time since we’ve shared music-related progress here, but we’ve been plucking away in the background~ 🎧🎵
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It’s been a while since we’ve shared an OST snippet 🎹🎵
This one just makes us all feel happy when we listen to it ☺️
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Super excited to say that our demo will be part of
#TheStorytellersFestival
, hosted by the lovely folks of
@TwoHalfStudios
🥰❤️
Please make sure to check out all of the featured story-based games, try out some new ones, or watch festival livestreams starting March 25, 2023!
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🔦 Today’s spotlight is a familiar face, but we want to recognize
@robo_barbie
!
They do great work, not only as a dev in the otome community but as a fantastic supporter to other devs as well 🥰
For those unfamiliar, try out their game Blooming Panic!
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To clarify: the Kickstarter will be launching around 7PM/19:00 (GMT-5) on Nov.15.
But the best way to make sure you catch the exact time is to sign up for notifications on our prelaunch page!
‼️Please also checked the thread comment on this post‼️
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And we’re awake! 🌧🌧
We’re slowly getting back into the swing of things, so hopefully we can share a few updates in the following weeks 🥰
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Barring any final issues, the demo is set to be released on:
☀️🌧⚡️✨November 6, 2022 ✨⚡️🌧☀️
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☀️MERCH PRE-ORDERS OPEN☀️
It’s here - a super limited (and probably also the last) run of our game merch for everyone that missed the campaign! ☔️
📆: April 15th-30th, 2024
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And the last of our current samples - a very familiar piece of game merch, in a very fitting picture 💧⛈
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A bit of a delayed update day, but it’s here! 😭✨🌧🌧
We are currently working on music, updating existing tracks, and making new ones. Did you know our main menu song had more to it? 🎧🎵🎶🎵
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We went into some sort of photography flow here and the irony is not lost on us 😂😂😂😂
☀️MERCH PRE-ORDERS OPEN☀️
It’s here - a super limited (and probably also the last) run of our game merch for everyone that missed the campaign! ☔️
📆: April 15th-30th, 2024
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It’s finally in place! You can now follow your favourite (though limited) Diffragram creator in-game 👀
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We do apologize for the slight spam, but we are so excited to meet our backers on twitter!!! 🥺🥺🥺🥺❤️
We missed so many during the campaign since the tags weren’t automatic 😭
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There’s actually another jewelry reward that we haven’t really shared much here.
And since we have some new sample merch pictures—- meet our cloudy-sky raindrop necklace!! 💧✨
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⛈️ We'll be opening merch pre-orders in a week! ⛈️
Based on survey results, a few of our ks merch items will return for a very limited time!
📆 Pre-order Store: April 15 - 30, 2024
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