Aside from word of mouth here.

Aware of Reddit's r/incrementalgames, https://galaxy.click, and whatever database was linked on the Reddit sidebar. I did hear about the 2024 game jam.

Personally found the background music very distracting, I suggest muting the video.

Finally, my plight of looking for "jumping bunnies" "hopping bunnies" "jumping bunny" and other permutations of that phrase on YouTube and only turning up with this one great video which I've seen a million times, children's songs, and videos that contain bunnies but very few/no hops is done. My search has turned up a video of bunnies hopping that isn't the one I've already seen a million times.

Somehow, when I made an earlier post for this game saying its release date was announced for March 24, 2024, I failed to realize I was writing the post several months after March 24, whoops. I also earlier had something here about them releasing later than the real date in both Japanese and English. It has been brought to my attention that is incorrect: they actually released ahead of schedule in Japanese on March 21, and I do not think I ever found their English anticipated release date.

Was so excited to finally not have to link to Twitter because I could just link to the Nintendo page for the game, until I remembered there are two separate links, one for United States of America and one for Australia and EU, and the Tweet gives you both so I had to use the Twitter link to not give bias to one set (US or AU/EU) and inconvenience the other(s). :( Citing sources is important and it is kind of annoying the source is Twitter.

$19.99 on itch.io, available for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. Appreciate them releasing for three different PC platforms. Free demo also on the linked itch.io page.

Normally would not blatantly advertise but the Fediverse is so tiny and so is ![email protected]. r/otomegames is lovely, but they are non-Fediverse and I'd love to be able to talk to people here about otome instead of having to run back to Reddit. (Used to post at ![email protected] until kbin.social went down.)

Most likely screams of happiness, according to the comments.

Especially stuff not mentioned in the tutorial, or that isn't intuitive at all. If it is relevant, I just hit Worthy Village (the one you get after schools/healthcare/garbage/taxes) and saved and quit to go eat dinner. I've enjoyed my time so far.

I assume ![email protected] is for just that, and promoting new instances is unacceptable there. Where is an appropriate place to advertise a new instance?

Asking for one that is not my own. Decentralization is cool and I literally just found out about the existence of https://fanaticus.social/, a sports instance, from checking the ![email protected] sidebar. I'd like to help this sports instance get attention and bolster its existing communities. I don't know where to go besides finding big preexisting sports communities and mentioning its existence there.

I'm currently holding off on buying it because it's the kind of game that will eat up my life in a way I just don't have time for right now, and I figure the price will drop or it'll go on a better sale than it has been on before by the time I have time to play.

Also worth mentioning spoiler formatting:

::: spoiler Spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3: Something Happens
This paragraph talks about something that happened at the end of the game!

This paragraph also talks about something that happened at the end of the game!
::: 

appears as ::: spoiler Spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3: Something Happens This paragraph talks about something that happened at the end of the game!

This paragraph also talks about something that happened at the end of the game! ::: for both Kbin and Lemmy folks, though if you are on an app there is a chance it won't display properly for you as some Lemmy apps don't implement this.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/life-by-you-is-cancelled.1688889/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/paradox-interactive-completely-cancelled-life-by-you/

Thought people should still see this news (I linked the original post) if they are into life sims but don't subscribe to !thesims. Also need to post something here to give it activity in the last 7 days so I can list it on active communities at !newcommunities.

I probably should not have been laughing when the bunnies fought and the person put an object between them to stop it and started massaging the two against each other. I blame the background music.

Official site link. Tweet linked announces the release date.

Game Overview

Celestia: Chain of Fate is a romance-fantasy visual novel that delivers a captivating player driven narrative.

The perfect life you’ve known as a daughter of a Duke is about to change forever. With the revelation of your new hybrid identity, as a descendant of Angelus and Daemon, you must learn to live in a new world.

Compelled to accept an invitation to the Academy of Celestia to explore the world of magic, you must set out on a fresh journey in a world filled with demons and angels.

Uncover the secrets of your family history and learn to control the magical abilities you hold. Along the way, you'll have the chance to develop relationships with one of three romanceable characters, each with their own unique traits and personalities.

It’s down to you to hold your friendships and advance your love interests while also prioritising your education. Remember not to neglect your studies as you'll need to overcome a series of challenges to graduate!

![email protected] /c/[email protected]

I normally wouldn't blatantly advertise like this on a community for the same purpose, having two different communities to increase diversity and have a safe place for people to go to in case one community's instance goes down is great, but otome is pretty niche especially on the Fediverse, this is a rather inactive community with more subscribers than an active otome community, and I'd like to talk otome without having to go back to Reddit (r/otomegames is lovely, nothing against them, just want to make the full break from Reddit which is hard when some niche communities don't have a decent following off of it).

The last post here has been from a lovely person who subscribes to ![email protected], and before them a 9-month old post. I am aware the community is fairly new, but I also used to post on ![email protected] (on kbin.social) until I found out it was having federation issues that might not get fixed, so I opened a new one. But I have a record of actual activity on the Fediverse and otome posting (though I dropped off due to lack of activity on kbin.social, not realizing it was partially due to nobody seeing it—some posts can only be seen if you go to https://kbin.run/[email protected], and apparently not just due to the "nobody is subscribed so of course it didn't federate" issue), so you can likely trust I'll keep posting on this new community too.

This is a weekly post I might hand off to a bot to do!

Tweet here, link is to official site. Scheduled to release Nov. 28, 2024 on Switch, Nov. 27, 2024 on Steam (Windows support only).

Hi Mastodon folks,
I see a lot of my posts just show up with, what is on my end, the title, the title copied over again with the hashtags I added, and the link. It totally cuts out anything I wrote in the post body. Not sure if that's intentional. But until then, you can see the post body, and other #otomegame posts I make that don't make it to Mastodon (not sure if intentional or a bug) on ![email protected] (https://kbin.run/m/otomegames). Interestingly enough, my comments there federate over, and spoiler formatting that works on Lemmy and Mbin/Kbin doesn't work on Mastodon. I'll definitely have to look more into the Mastodon side of things. #otome #otomegames EDIT: Also, hi Lemmy folks. Did not realize trying to microblog to Mastodon also sent to Lemmy. With the first line as the title. Federation is fun, huh?

Otome games are video games targeted towards women, where a female protagonist can romance male love interests as a major part of the game.

:::spoiler Why you might recognize this community I've been posting over at ![email protected] (at kbin.social), even advertising it here, until someone pointed out they couldn't see any posts unless they went to https://kbin.run/m/[email protected]. I checked and kbin.social has been down for a long while. I deleted the advertisement, made a community on kbin.run (which has been steadily running ever since I joined it about a year ago, and others have let me know they can see my posts), and now here I am advertising the kbin.run version! :::

![email protected]

Alternate link. For any other Kbin/Mbin users browsing that want to advertise a community, the link I used here is /c/[email protected], not /m/[email protected].