Loving the story, really, the slow pacing and building is healing.
There's just a thing that I kinda dislike, even if I kinda get why you had to do it ( there are a lot of games that risked the shut down cz char were to child-like), but that changing on Jun in the new version piss me of. She was different to all the girls, she was a precious with that short hairs and she was also petite, now she's canon with all the others and I feel like she lost part of her personality :c.
Just wanted to point it out as other has done but as a positive criticism.
Nevertheless the writing on the game is top notch, and the story is so original that I've devoured it, so keep it on cause it's marvelous 👌
first of all, thanks for the comment. It's much appreciated.
Well, believe me, in a perfect world, I'd have left Jun as she was (sans character growth etc.) but we're not living in a perfect world, so I did what I had to do. However, I feel like saying that she's like all the others now isn't really fair, cause a) it implies that the others are all the same and b) it implies that Jun was nothing more than her young-ish visuals. She's still the same girl, just in a slightly more appropriate frame.
That being said, I'd suggest just giving her a chance, cause I personally feel like the change to her visuals wasn't detrimental to her as a character - it rather emphasizes her personality in my opinion. She has some more screen time in the next update, which hopefully can show that off a bit more.
It's all good, mate. I get what you're saying. But since her looks were the problem to begin with, there wasn't much I could've done besides doing what I did.
Next update is coming along nicely! It's gonna be out sometime this month. :)
Edit: I don't see it. Why do you think it copies CH? From what I could tell, the only similarity is the vague school setting, but even then, the MC there is a student.
For Android, you need to download the full .apk from here and install it. That'll update your CH installation and you can continue your save files. There sadly isn't an update-only version for Android, unless you use Joiplay to play.
1)Is it correct that one can skip all the texting? The option "That's all" is available from the very beginning.
2)Even if Ren didn't text with Okami about the reward, he still checks out the hotel restaurant and invites her there during the waiting for Kuro & backup. I think this is quite strange.
You know what, that is an oversight on my part. I completely forgot to add requirements to continue at that point. Funny how no one's mentioned that before in the last two weeks of the update being out.
Thanks for letting me know, I'll fix that for the next release. :)
Well, logically speaking there are no reason to not check all messages if you can. However, as I know that sometimes order matters in CH, I've played different combinations, including the total ignore.
By the way, again, logically speaking, Toukashouldreturn to the class after the texting with Ren. Thus girls shouldn't be able to text or, at least, make selfie if Ren text with herat first. But, I suppose, that makes this episode unreasonable complicated.
First Touka was held up by a short conversation with the two other teachers in the lounge, then she went to the bathroom after texting with Ren, since she was out of class already anyway. :P
Ohai! So just finished 0.34 and I loved it. I like what's happening with Jun, the evolution of characters makes them more interesting after all.
The Lewd scene with Suzu was wonderful! Best gurl.
The event with Yui was extremely interesting and unexpected! But now I'm starting to wonder if similar things might happen with all of the girls Ren gives his blood to and what exactly is going to happen between Ren, Yui and Aki.
All in all, I am extremely satisfied with Crimson High so far.
love this game but what did you do to jun seriously why its not right now so weird its probably just me but not liking it ill still play just feels weird sorry
i am loving the game so far...the story is great, and for me, the backbone of this type of game is the story, the sexy scenes are secondary. the girls are quite cute. miko is my favorite, i think. keep up the good work vertigo!
Vertigo, I noticed that I had one grey message marked as ??? when I continute my save on 0.32.0. Was it on purpose or I missed something that will unluck it? Please let me know if it's on purpose so I woundn't take days wonder where I did wrong. ;)
Well, yes and no. It's not a bug, if that's what you mean. The message is only available under certain circumstances. Since I can't add spoilered messages to this, I'll wait for your confirmation before telling you where to look, if you want to know.
The message is from Tsubaki, the green-haired girl from the track & field club. You have to pick her as your favorite at the track to get her number/give her your number, and thus be able to get a message from her. Quick disclaimer, though: It's a rather short message interaction for now. There will be more in the future, based on this, but yeah. May or may not be worth going through the trouble of going back to that decision just to see it. :)
Probably not, sorry. Here on Itch, I'll keep using the built-in uploader for as long as I can, and for Patreon I'll stick with the 3 hosts I'm already using. Mediafire isn't a host I usually use myself, even if it's available.
I dropped this game twice because of how boring it was at start but I wanted to know why everyone was praising this game so much. That's why on my third play-through I pushed myself to play the entire game and I am glad that I did. I absolutely love this game. Here is my personal opinion:
What I love about this game:
The characters are very well written. This game has more than 20+ characters and it feels like all of them has an intriguing backstory to tell.
The world building is fantastic. Every myth has their own lore and rule that they follow and the story never ignores any of them just for the sake of plot.
What I don't like about this game:
The starting is very slow. The characters take time to develop and the game only starts to get interesting after 70% through chapter 1
The next issue is that the game is written more like a light novel rather than a visual novel. The main character monologues a bit too much. There are lots of scenes that could have been presented visually (by showing images) but instead the MC monologue the entire scene.
But with all it's flaws, I still fell in love with this game. Great job vertigo 👍
Thanks a bunch for giving CH another chance! I'm aware of the early game being rather slow and even somewhat boring. I've learned a lot since then, both in terms of writing and the visuals, as noticeable in the later stages of the game. MC's monologuing is indeed a bit too prominent in the early game, as you said. I have since reduced that and limited his thoughts to moments of downtime and/or relevant situations, instead of all the time in the middle of conversations.
Maybe I have to go back and rewrite some of the first chapter to make it easier for new players to get into the game. I'll have to think about that.
There is another thing that I should let you know. I am playing it on Android and during my play-through, the game crashed more than 10 times. Also, every time the game crashed was during "Texting" scenes (where the MC replies to messages). But the issue doesn't happen when I access phone from the top left corner of the screen.
Anyway, best of luck bro 👍 looking forward to what you are cooking next 😁
Do you play on an older phone, by any chance? Because this is very likely a memory issue. The game keeps up to 25 previous messages in the log and for some reason this seems to take up a lot of memory on mobile devices. As far as I can tell, this is an issue of RenPy (the program I'm using to code the game) rather than CH itself. I might reduce the maximum amount of messages further, though. That way it should have less on an impact on older phones.
That should be sufficient, actually. I'll see that I reduce the message log for next update. Maybe cut it down to just 15 messages instead of 25 and hope that that solves the issue.
Should this keep happening after you've played the next update, let me know and I'll see if there's anything else I can do, alright?
Hey vertigo. Long time not playing Ch and come back for it.Gonna say THE CLIFFHANGER NEVER CHANGE HAHA.It was soooo gooood that leave me wanting for more.Great job there :D. The story is amazing, the choice doesnt let you astray from the path of relationship and i love the deepen relationships between mc and other girls. Keep up the good work man. If only the currencies is not the problem, i would definitely support you. And ya make me want to make my own virtual novel games too :D.
Could you tell me what apps do you use to build character, scene and the minimum specs of your comp/laptop? I would really want to try to make my own games T-T
Hello there and welcome back to CH! The cliffhangers indeed never change lol. They'll be there for as long as I'm here to make em. Glad to hear you enjoy it, mate! Thanks for the praise. :)
The characters and scenes are both made in Koikatsu Party (available on Steam). Here's my specs: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3.8 GHz GeForce RTX 4070 TI 32 GB RAM
ok i just finished the last update and first,what the actual fuck?,im in love with this game,my head hurts with all the theories that are being slowly comfirmed in my head,i was expecting something like tat to happen but it was faster than i though it will,and now i have more theories, aahhhh
That answers my question perfectly! Thank you very much, i hope i didn't put you in to much of a tight spot answering that, i promise I'm not trying to squeeze any spoilers out of you it was genuine curiosity. I look so forward to your next update!
You're very welcome, and no worries, I don't mind curiosity. :P Next update's coming along nicely and it shouldn't be too much longer before it's done!
How's it going good sir? I hope you are well! I just played the latest update, and wow! Also, NOOOOOOOOOOO! Jun!!! No worries i won't spoil anything, but again i was curious, a while ago you answered a question about content to not expect in your VN. One of them was no pregnancy, with recent developments in the story i was wondering why that would be the case? Again only answer if you can without spilling any beans.
Your VN is freaking amazing! Thank you for sharing it with us!
Hi there, it's indeed going well, thanks! Yes, there won't be any pregnancy in the game. The biggest and most simple (spoiler-free) reason for that being that I'm not into anything pregnancy, and thus don't want to create that kind of content. Beyond that, there are in-story reasons for it, too. I hope that answers your question. :)
Hey I'm just curious if this game has/will ever have NTR. I dislike it and don't want to play the game and get attached to the characters if that's a possibility.
Hi there! No need to worry about that, there will never be any NTR in Crimson High. If you dislike NTR, I'm confident you'll be pleased with the game. :)
Hi there, currently there aren't too many different fetishes in the game yet. I don't have a fixed list of fetishes that I plan on adding, either. Some fetishes I'm confident I will add eventually, though, are (in no particular order; non-exhaustive): - Objectification - BDSM (not sure to which degree yet) - Edging/Teasing - Feet - Spanking - Role playing - Impact Play - Dom/Sub Relationships - Voyeurism - Anal - Free use - probably a bunch more that I can't think of right now
Just for the sake of it, here's also a list of fetishes that won't ever be in the game (again, no particular order; non-exhaustive: - NTR/Cuckolding - Scat - Urination - Pregnancy/Lactation/Breeding - Vore - Sounding - Age play - Female domination - CBT - probably a bunch more that I can't think of right now
Just started this game, and I gotta say for an ero-game the lore and story had me hooked on rather than the segs scenes.
Like I'm curious if the MC is really human, you know after that pan to the back of his head incident (lol).
Can't wait to uncover more lore and know more about the characters, probably the second ero-game I got invested in the story along with Cursed Kingdoms.
Rounding to the nearest 500, usually. Hence, not that low, since I'm explicitly aiming for ~13k on average. After 35 updates, I've gotten rather good at ending up where I want to end up, even though I couldn't explain how I do that lol In actuality, v0.31 has 14,373 words and v0.32 has 14,651 words. As it goes with rounding, these things even each other out, though, and 14,500 looks way more pleasing to the eye lol
In my opinion, one of the best visual novels I've ever played! It's really cool when the story in a game is so addictive that the time passes without a second thought! I've always marveled at how people manage to write such great stories! Thank you very much, I will definitely buy the next version as soon as it is available!
Seconded. Spelling/grammar nits are generally rare and minor, the pacing is comfortable, and it has solid storytelling with a compelling plot, interesting characters, a good sense of humor, etc. It is well worth reading.
I can only say that about roughly 6.2% of the AVNs that I've read or started to read, and most of the other titles on that short list are the sorts of titles that get updated once or twice per year, so I'm really impressed at the velocity you achieve without tanking the quality. 😁
That's mighty kind of you! Dedication and a good portion of passion for what I'm doing probably help a lot in staying consistent with an upwards trend, because let me tell you, I love what I'm doing. :P
Damned! Waiting feverishly for the next update, downloading it asap, playing it immediatly and being frustrated (again) when reaching the next cliffhanger! Vertigo, you are soooo mean - keep it up man, it's amazing and definetly one, if not THE best VN out there!
Weird punctuation nit in the latest update: "Now and then" is a common English idiom, and at one spot, you used a clause ending with "now" followed by "and" to start a compound predicate beginning with "then", which makes it look like you're using that idiom.
But then the sentence unexpectedly goes on afterwards. When readers realize it wasn't intended as an idiom, they can get very confused (because the remainder of the sentence is unparseable at that point) and may be forced to go back and reread the entire sentence to figure out what's actually going on.
Even though you don't normally use a comma before a compound predicate, this is one of those spots where it is *really* needed. Changing it to "...the address now, and then make..." would greatly improve understandability.
Yes, I'm arguing to violate Chicago or whatever, but adding a comma between those phrases isn't strictly wrong, and improves readability in this one weird edge case, so... yeah. Or you could just repeat the subject and make it a full compound sentence.
Hello again! I just wanted to say that i am loving this masterful work of yours! It just get more and more amazing with no signs of slowing down! I'm curious though that is if you can say, when do we get closer to Jun? I mean being human and all seems they would have gotten even closer sooner.
Thanks again for all your hard word! I'm sure I can speak for everyone here when i say we really love and appreciate what you do!
Not being closer to Jun yet has a particular reason which you'll maybe see in retrospect once we're closer to her - something that's going to happen within the next 3 updates. :)
So far I'm really enjoying this. I'm a little passed the intro to the SECS part and I really like how open ended this has become. For anyone on the fence about trying this, I highly recommend. Especially if you like a nice build up for the story.
Hey Vertigo, I'm interested in the early access, but I got a question about it. Is this an one-time payment, that we get every early access for each update, or is it an early access per payment that repeats every update?
Hi there! Sorry about the delay, been a bit busy lately.
The Early Access is intended to be an alternative way to getting it through Patreon, meaning it will be $20/$5 each update. I don't think Itch even gives the option of one-time purchase for all future Early Access downloads. The only thing I could do is set the whole project to have a fixed price, giving people continuous Early Access that way. But that would both prevent people from downloading the public version for free and be highly unfair to anyone going the Patreon route. :)
Just finished the game, and I absolutely LOVED it. Games like this are few and far between, and I couldn't stop playing. My only criticism would be that hint mode is practically required to get all the hamsters, but other than that, no notes. 10/10.
Yeah, the hamsters are tough, but that's what the hint mode is for. Think of trying to find them without the hint mode as something like a hardcore plus mode in some games or something. And always keep in mind: Android players have it even worse. (Unless you're an Android player yourself; in that case you're kinda f'd :P)
The thought never occurred to me about Hamster hunting for Android users. Now that I think of it, some of the spots are rather devilish for Android lol. Hints are definitely a saving grace for them especially
With the second-to-latest update (v0.31.1), there is a button to unlock all hamsters for Android players, seeing as it's really tough to find and click some of those buggers. You can find the button in the in-game phone hamster gallery. :)
Hey Vertigo, have you considered setting up Itch to accept donations? I can see you have Patreon but I have a beef against Patreon that prevents me from ever wanting to even look at it let alone use it :P
If you dont want to use Itch for it, thats fine, but could you explain why please?
By that I mean, is there some feature of Itch that makes it less desirable as a platform for crowd funding?
I had Itch donations open for a while early on but had to close them for behind-the-scenes reasons. However, your comment brought this back to my mind and I have reopened them.
This also includes the newest update (and any future new updates) being available in early access on here as well.
Itch isn't inherently less desirable as crowd funding platform, no. I was still setting up everything back when I disabled the donations on here, so I wasn't able to reduce the default withholding rate of 30%. That's no longer an issue, though. :)
Thanks for the info! Next time you put up an update with early access I will give you something in return. Your work on Crimson High is excellent and I want more.
Just started this game a week ago, got to the last of the recent update! I Absolutely love it! the characters are all great! The story is pretty easy to follow without spelling things out for you! And even tho im a bit more into more hand on VNs, I am very much ok with just sitting with the story! Keep up the good work, Ill definitely be waiting for more!!
What a great game! I personally need more normal visual novels like this, with all the sandbox AVNs popping up left and right. Great story, I loved it!
I do have to say, however, I am somewhat disappointed with the fact that most characters have their first and last name start with the same letter. Makes me feel like not enough effort went into thought process for their names, you know? Similarly, Kuro's last name containing "Kage", as well as Okami having that name is a bit on the nose. Regarding "Buki-buki": is that a wordplay on the main character's default surname "Ibuki"? I know it's a cute/silly nickname Miri gave to his gun, but to someone who speaks Japanese it just sounds like "weapon-weapon" and I don't believe that's something a native would call it, even someone like Miri, unless it does have that double meaning with MC's last name.
If you don't mind me asking, are you Japanese, Mr. Vertigo? Aside from the obvious cultural references, there were several nuances that made me think the developer might be from Nihon. I don't remember most of them, but it was stuff like someone exclaiming "Heee" when surprised and some similarly minor details.
I want to commend you for smooth phone usage with text messages. In some games you press PgUp while in the phone and it goes all the way back to when you clicked on the phone, in others it straight up breaks the game in various ways. In your game it works perfectly fine and that's something I appreciate very much.
Anyway, it may look like most of this post was a complaint with all the name stuff, but I hope you don't take it the wrong way; it's all minor stuff and everything that I didn't critique I have greatly enjoyed. Believe me when I say that Crimson High is one of my favourite AVNs. Thank you for making it!
The alliterative names of some of the characters are by no means due to a lack of effort - it's a reference to another game. As for things being on the nose.. there's nothing wrong with that, imo. For Okami it makes all but complete sense to have that name (can't prove it without spoilers, so you'll have to trust me on this one :P) and Kuro has chosen her last name herself when she founded her clan. Just because something seems simple doesn't mean no thought has been put into it. Or in other terms: Things don't always have to be overly elaborate to be fine.
Buki-Buki is indeed a wordplay on Ren's last name, which obviously only works if you go with the default name. It meaning "weapon-weapon" is very much intentional, too. Again, it might not seem like it, but I did put a lot of time and effort into the creation of the world - in some places it's noticeable, in others it isn't. Sometimes things being seemingly silly is even on purpose because my humor can be weird like that.
I am not Japanese, no. As Svensker correctly commented under this post, I'm from Germany.
Thank you! I appreciate your appreciation of the working phone. :P It's something that had often annoyed me in other games myself, so I tried (and still try) to make it work as well as possible.
No worries, I didn't take any of this in a wrong way (I think). Likewise, my reply is mainly explanatory in nature - no hard feelings whatsoever. Thanks for your comment and I hope you'll keep enjoying CH! :)
I love that you added a wolpertinger. I saw one(well, it was a taxidermy model) in the TV show Dexter and thought that it was really cool and cute-looking. Later I learned that it comes from an actual mythology and well, it's my favourite fictional animal. So, additional points for that.
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This has to be my favorite VN by far!!! I cannot wait to see it fully finished.
Glad to hear, mate. Thanks for your comment! :)
Heyo
Loving the story, really, the slow pacing and building is healing.
There's just a thing that I kinda dislike, even if I kinda get why you had to do it ( there are a lot of games that risked the shut down cz char were to child-like), but that changing on Jun in the new version piss me of. She was different to all the girls, she was a precious with that short hairs and she was also petite, now she's canon with all the others and I feel like she lost part of her personality :c.
Just wanted to point it out as other has done but as a positive criticism.
Nevertheless the writing on the game is top notch, and the story is so original that I've devoured it, so keep it on cause it's marvelous 👌
Hey there,
first of all, thanks for the comment. It's much appreciated.
Well, believe me, in a perfect world, I'd have left Jun as she was (sans character growth etc.) but we're not living in a perfect world, so I did what I had to do.
However, I feel like saying that she's like all the others now isn't really fair, cause a) it implies that the others are all the same and b) it implies that Jun was nothing more than her young-ish visuals. She's still the same girl, just in a slightly more appropriate frame.
That being said, I'd suggest just giving her a chance, cause I personally feel like the change to her visuals wasn't detrimental to her as a character - it rather emphasizes her personality in my opinion. She has some more screen time in the next update, which hopefully can show that off a bit more.
Again, thanks for the comment, though. :)
Oh sorry, I didn't mean to say that all char are the same abs offend your work, that isn't the case.
Clearly every char, gurls and Bois too, has a personal story and a way to see things that is really interesting.
It was mainly for aesthetic since she seemed petite and innocent. But again, nevertheless I can't wait to play next update!
It's all good, mate. I get what you're saying. But since her looks were the problem to begin with, there wasn't much I could've done besides doing what I did.
Next update is coming along nicely! It's gonna be out sometime this month. :)
What program do you use for modeling it doesn't look like Koikatsu or anything else I have seen in H games.
It's Koikatsu, but I went away from the default look (and especially head shape) everyone uses
The shading style is a lot different also how did you set it up?
I've played around a lot with different combinations of settings until I had found one I was happy with.
Which set up are you asking about specifically?
has anyone tried the game the beginning i swear they stole this game just changed the characters
Do you have a link?
The Beginning Of End by The Art Of Suicide Games (itch.io)
I'll check it out later, thanks
Edit: I don't see it. Why do you think it copies CH? From what I could tell, the only similarity is the vague school setting, but even then, the MC there is a student.
the school is identical from the entrance to the class room granted the story is different but the back ground looks the same
Ah. Well, you'll find that particular school in a lot of Koi games. It's one of the base maps to use, so a lot of people use it.
Hello mate! One question, for the 0.34 to be combined with 0.33(for android), do we need to install full 1gb+ or is there any zip only?
For Android, you need to download the full .apk from here and install it. That'll update your CH installation and you can continue your save files. There sadly isn't an update-only version for Android, unless you use Joiplay to play.
Hello Vertigo!
I'd like to report possible bug? in 0.34.
1)Is it correct that one can skip all the texting? The option "That's all" is available from the very beginning.
2)Even if Ren didn't text with Okami about the reward, he still checks out the hotel restaurant and invites her there during the waiting for Kuro & backup. I think this is quite strange.
You know what, that is an oversight on my part. I completely forgot to add requirements to continue at that point. Funny how no one's mentioned that before in the last two weeks of the update being out.
Thanks for letting me know, I'll fix that for the next release. :)
Well, logically speaking there are no reason to not check all messages if you can. However, as I know that sometimes order matters in CH, I've played different combinations, including the total ignore.
By the way, again, logically speaking, Touka should return to the class after the texting with Ren. Thus girls shouldn't be able to text or, at least, make selfie if Ren text with her at first. But, I suppose, that makes this episode unreasonable complicated.
First Touka was held up by a short conversation with the two other teachers in the lounge, then she went to the bathroom after texting with Ren, since she was out of class already anyway. :P
Ohai! So just finished 0.34 and I loved it. I like what's happening with Jun, the evolution of characters makes them more interesting after all.
The Lewd scene with Suzu was wonderful! Best gurl.
The event with Yui was extremely interesting and unexpected! But now I'm starting to wonder if similar things might happen with all of the girls Ren gives his blood to and what exactly is going to happen between Ren, Yui and Aki.
All in all, I am extremely satisfied with Crimson High so far.
Happy to hear that! Thanks a lot, mate. :)
love this game but what did you do to jun seriously why its not right now so weird its probably just me but not liking it ill still play just feels weird sorry
I did what I had to do
i am loving the game so far...the story is great, and for me, the backbone of this type of game is the story, the sexy scenes are secondary. the girls are quite cute. miko is my favorite, i think. keep up the good work vertigo!
Hey, thanks a lot, mate! Appreciate the kind words!
Vertigo, I noticed that I had one grey message marked as ??? when I continute my save on 0.32.0. Was it on purpose or I missed something that will unluck it? Please let me know if it's on purpose so I woundn't take days wonder where I did wrong. ;)
Well, yes and no. It's not a bug, if that's what you mean. The message is only available under certain circumstances. Since I can't add spoilered messages to this, I'll wait for your confirmation before telling you where to look, if you want to know.
Yeah, I would like to see if and how I can unlock and see what the message is if that's possible
The message is from Tsubaki, the green-haired girl from the track & field club. You have to pick her as your favorite at the track to get her number/give her your number, and thus be able to get a message from her.
Quick disclaimer, though: It's a rather short message interaction for now. There will be more in the future, based on this, but yeah. May or may not be worth going through the trouble of going back to that decision just to see it. :)
Anyway you could start using mediafire ? it has a boost setting so it is easier to download. Just asking.
Probably not, sorry.
Here on Itch, I'll keep using the built-in uploader for as long as I can, and for Patreon I'll stick with the 3 hosts I'm already using. Mediafire isn't a host I usually use myself, even if it's available.
I dropped this game twice because of how boring it was at start but I wanted to know why everyone was praising this game so much. That's why on my third play-through I pushed myself to play the entire game and I am glad that I did. I absolutely love this game. Here is my personal opinion:
What I love about this game:
The characters are very well written. This game has more than 20+ characters and it feels like all of them has an intriguing backstory to tell.
The world building is fantastic. Every myth has their own lore and rule that they follow and the story never ignores any of them just for the sake of plot.
What I don't like about this game:
The starting is very slow. The characters take time to develop and the game only starts to get interesting after 70% through chapter 1
The next issue is that the game is written more like a light novel rather than a visual novel. The main character monologues a bit too much. There are lots of scenes that could have been presented visually (by showing images) but instead the MC monologue the entire scene.
But with all it's flaws, I still fell in love with this game. Great job vertigo 👍
Hi there!
Thanks a bunch for giving CH another chance!
I'm aware of the early game being rather slow and even somewhat boring. I've learned a lot since then, both in terms of writing and the visuals, as noticeable in the later stages of the game.
MC's monologuing is indeed a bit too prominent in the early game, as you said. I have since reduced that and limited his thoughts to moments of downtime and/or relevant situations, instead of all the time in the middle of conversations.
Maybe I have to go back and rewrite some of the first chapter to make it easier for new players to get into the game. I'll have to think about that.
Thanks for your comment, mate. :)
There is another thing that I should let you know. I am playing it on Android and during my play-through, the game crashed more than 10 times. Also, every time the game crashed was during "Texting" scenes (where the MC replies to messages). But the issue doesn't happen when I access phone from the top left corner of the screen.
Anyway, best of luck bro 👍 looking forward to what you are cooking next 😁
Do you play on an older phone, by any chance? Because this is very likely a memory issue. The game keeps up to 25 previous messages in the log and for some reason this seems to take up a lot of memory on mobile devices. As far as I can tell, this is an issue of RenPy (the program I'm using to code the game) rather than CH itself. I might reduce the maximum amount of messages further, though. That way it should have less on an impact on older phones.
Thanks for letting me know!
Well, I bought my phone last year. It's performance isn't bad but not top of the line either. It has 6 GB ram with Snapdragon 778 processor.
That should be sufficient, actually. I'll see that I reduce the message log for next update. Maybe cut it down to just 15 messages instead of 25 and hope that that solves the issue.
Should this keep happening after you've played the next update, let me know and I'll see if there's anything else I can do, alright?
Hey vertigo. Long time not playing Ch and come back for it.Gonna say THE CLIFFHANGER NEVER CHANGE HAHA.It was soooo gooood that leave me wanting for more.Great job there :D. The story is amazing, the choice doesnt let you astray from the path of relationship and i love the deepen relationships between mc and other girls. Keep up the good work man. If only the currencies is not the problem, i would definitely support you. And ya make me want to make my own virtual novel games too :D.
Could you tell me what apps do you use to build character, scene and the minimum specs of your comp/laptop? I would really want to try to make my own games T-T
Hello there and welcome back to CH!
The cliffhangers indeed never change lol. They'll be there for as long as I'm here to make em.
Glad to hear you enjoy it, mate! Thanks for the praise. :)
The characters and scenes are both made in Koikatsu Party (available on Steam).
Here's my specs:
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3.8 GHz
GeForce RTX 4070 TI
32 GB RAM
Hope that helps!
Thankyou so much dev!
ok i just finished the last update and first,what the actual fuck?,im in love with this game,my head hurts with all the theories that are being slowly comfirmed in my head,i was expecting something like tat to happen but it was faster than i though it will,and now i have more theories, aahhhh
Heh, that's lovely to read. Thanks, mate. I'm glad you enjoy the game!
That answers my question perfectly! Thank you very much, i hope i didn't put you in to much of a tight spot answering that, i promise I'm not trying to squeeze any spoilers out of you it was genuine curiosity. I look so forward to your next update!
You're very welcome, and no worries, I don't mind curiosity. :P
Next update's coming along nicely and it shouldn't be too much longer before it's done!
Ngl, I had to cycle through like 5 wrong ideas to (I think) understand what happened at the end there. I can't wait for the next update!
Hehe. It's coming along nicely and should be out soon-ish™️. :P
Thank you for the 0.33 update, it was lovely. I really enjoyed that last scene, its was a huge surprise and I am not easily caught by surprise.
Love to hear it! Thanks, mate. :)
How's it going good sir? I hope you are well! I just played the latest update, and wow! Also, NOOOOOOOOOOO! Jun!!! No worries i won't spoil anything, but again i was curious, a while ago you answered a question about content to not expect in your VN. One of them was no pregnancy, with recent developments in the story i was wondering why that would be the case? Again only answer if you can without spilling any beans.
Your VN is freaking amazing! Thank you for sharing it with us!
Hi there, it's indeed going well, thanks!
Yes, there won't be any pregnancy in the game. The biggest and most simple (spoiler-free) reason for that being that I'm not into anything pregnancy, and thus don't want to create that kind of content. Beyond that, there are in-story reasons for it, too. I hope that answers your question. :)
Thanks a lot, mate! Glad you enjoy the game. :)
Hello, just wondering if there's any oral content where the female is the one receiving? (Like cunnilingus or breast/nipple play)
Thanks!
Hi there,
content like that is already in the game, yes. There will be more in the near future, too.
When will you put sex scenes in the game?
Whenever they fit into the story. Just like the ones that are already in the game.
is this a harem game?
This is indeed a harem game
Hey I'm just curious if this game has/will ever have NTR. I dislike it and don't want to play the game and get attached to the characters if that's a possibility.
Hi there!
No need to worry about that, there will never be any NTR in Crimson High. If you dislike NTR, I'm confident you'll be pleased with the game. :)
....big baby.
What fetishes are currently in / planned?
Hi there,
currently there aren't too many different fetishes in the game yet. I don't have a fixed list of fetishes that I plan on adding, either.
Some fetishes I'm confident I will add eventually, though, are (in no particular order; non-exhaustive):
- Objectification
- BDSM (not sure to which degree yet)
- Edging/Teasing
- Feet
- Spanking
- Role playing
- Impact Play
- Dom/Sub Relationships
- Voyeurism
- Anal
- Free use
- probably a bunch more that I can't think of right now
Just for the sake of it, here's also a list of fetishes that won't ever be in the game (again, no particular order; non-exhaustive:
- NTR/Cuckolding
- Scat
- Urination
- Pregnancy/Lactation/Breeding
- Vore
- Sounding
- Age play
- Female domination
- CBT
- probably a bunch more that I can't think of right now
Hope this satisfies your curiosity!
Just started this game, and I gotta say for an ero-game the lore and story had me hooked on rather than the segs scenes.
Like I'm curious if the MC is really human, you know after that pan to the back of his head incident (lol).
Can't wait to uncover more lore and know more about the characters, probably the second ero-game I got invested in the story along with Cursed Kingdoms.
That's nice to read! I hope you'll stay curious for a while, cause there's a bunch of content for you to go through still. :P
Hey Vertigo,
are you ok? It's awfully silent here...
Huh? Yeah, I'm fine lol. I just posted the release schedule for next update over on my Patreon. :P
Assuming you are rounding to the nearest hundred, what were the chances the last 2 updates had the same number of words added.
Rounding to the nearest 500, usually. Hence, not that low, since I'm explicitly aiming for ~13k on average. After 35 updates, I've gotten rather good at ending up where I want to end up, even though I couldn't explain how I do that lol
In actuality, v0.31 has 14,373 words and v0.32 has 14,651 words. As it goes with rounding, these things even each other out, though, and 14,500 looks way more pleasing to the eye lol
this vn is n°2 all time for me
In my opinion, one of the best visual novels I've ever played! It's really cool when the story in a game is so addictive that the time passes without a second thought! I've always marveled at how people manage to write such great stories! Thank you very much, I will definitely buy the next version as soon as it is available!
Lovely of you to say. Thanks a lot! Really happy that you enjoy the game that much. :)
Seconded. Spelling/grammar nits are generally rare and minor, the pacing is comfortable, and it has solid storytelling with a compelling plot, interesting characters, a good sense of humor, etc. It is well worth reading.
I can only say that about roughly 6.2% of the AVNs that I've read or started to read, and most of the other titles on that short list are the sorts of titles that get updated once or twice per year, so I'm really impressed at the velocity you achieve without tanking the quality. 😁
That's mighty kind of you! Dedication and a good portion of passion for what I'm doing probably help a lot in staying consistent with an upwards trend, because let me tell you, I love what I'm doing. :P
Damned! Waiting feverishly for the next update, downloading it asap, playing it immediatly and being frustrated (again) when reaching the next cliffhanger! Vertigo, you are soooo mean - keep it up man, it's amazing and definetly one, if not THE best VN out there!
Sorry about that :D
Thanks, mate! Appreciate the kind words!
Weird punctuation nit in the latest update: "Now and then" is a common English idiom, and at one spot, you used a clause ending with "now" followed by "and" to start a compound predicate beginning with "then", which makes it look like you're using that idiom.
But then the sentence unexpectedly goes on afterwards. When readers realize it wasn't intended as an idiom, they can get very confused (because the remainder of the sentence is unparseable at that point) and may be forced to go back and reread the entire sentence to figure out what's actually going on.
Even though you don't normally use a comma before a compound predicate, this is one of those spots where it is *really* needed. Changing it to "...the address now, and then make..." would greatly improve understandability.
Yes, I'm arguing to violate Chicago or whatever, but adding a comma between those phrases isn't strictly wrong, and improves readability in this one weird edge case, so... yeah. Or you could just repeat the subject and make it a full compound sentence.
That's a fair point, yeah. I've changed it.
English isn't my first language, so grammar can be a bit annoying here and there, especially in niche cases. I do try to learn and improve, though.
Either way, thanks for mentioning it. :)
A couple of typos / nits:
- "good to know *you're* on my side" (rather than "you")
- A few lines later, no comma needed after "Call"
- Next line should have be a period and uppercase letter after "Will do."
I might also quibble about "continue on", but I could go either way on that.
This is one of the best VN I've played. Absolutely fantastic story and characters. Keep it up!!
Happy to hear it! Thanks, friend :)
Hello again! I just wanted to say that i am loving this masterful work of yours! It just get more and more amazing with no signs of slowing down! I'm curious though that is if you can say, when do we get closer to Jun? I mean being human and all seems they would have gotten even closer sooner.
Thanks again for all your hard word! I'm sure I can speak for everyone here when i say we really love and appreciate what you do!
Hi there and thanks a lot for your kind words!
Not being closer to Jun yet has a particular reason which you'll maybe see in retrospect once we're closer to her - something that's going to happen within the next 3 updates. :)
I love it its the third time i play/read(i'm not sure what term is correct here) it,this is like my obsession
Glad you're enjoying it :P
So far I'm really enjoying this. I'm a little passed the intro to the SECS part and I really like how open ended this has become. For anyone on the fence about trying this, I highly recommend. Especially if you like a nice build up for the story.
Glad to hear and thanks a ton! :)
Hey Vertigo, I'm interested in the early access, but I got a question about it. Is this an one-time payment, that we get every early access for each update, or is it an early access per payment that repeats every update?
Hi there! Sorry about the delay, been a bit busy lately.
The Early Access is intended to be an alternative way to getting it through Patreon, meaning it will be $20/$5 each update.
I don't think Itch even gives the option of one-time purchase for all future Early Access downloads. The only thing I could do is set the whole project to have a fixed price, giving people continuous Early Access that way. But that would both prevent people from downloading the public version for free and be highly unfair to anyone going the Patreon route. :)
understood and understandable, thanks for the reply!
Just finished the game, and I absolutely LOVED it. Games like this are few and far between, and I couldn't stop playing. My only criticism would be that hint mode is practically required to get all the hamsters, but other than that, no notes. 10/10.
Thanks a lot, mate!
Yeah, the hamsters are tough, but that's what the hint mode is for. Think of trying to find them without the hint mode as something like a hardcore plus mode in some games or something. And always keep in mind: Android players have it even worse. (Unless you're an Android player yourself; in that case you're kinda f'd :P)
The thought never occurred to me about Hamster hunting for Android users. Now that I think of it, some of the spots are rather devilish for Android lol. Hints are definitely a saving grace for them especially
Yeah, I've gotten the odd complaint about it before lol
Yeah, I'm an Android user. Thankfully the back button exists, or else I wouldn't be able to brag about my full hamster collection
With the second-to-latest update (v0.31.1), there is a button to unlock all hamsters for Android players, seeing as it's really tough to find and click some of those buggers. You can find the button in the in-game phone hamster gallery. :)
Hey Vertigo, have you considered setting up Itch to accept donations? I can see you have Patreon but I have a beef against Patreon that prevents me from ever wanting to even look at it let alone use it :P
If you dont want to use Itch for it, thats fine, but could you explain why please?
By that I mean, is there some feature of Itch that makes it less desirable as a platform for crowd funding?
Hello there!
I had Itch donations open for a while early on but had to close them for behind-the-scenes reasons. However, your comment brought this back to my mind and I have reopened them.
This also includes the newest update (and any future new updates) being available in early access on here as well.
Itch isn't inherently less desirable as crowd funding platform, no. I was still setting up everything back when I disabled the donations on here, so I wasn't able to reduce the default withholding rate of 30%. That's no longer an issue, though. :)
Thanks for the info! Next time you put up an update with early access I will give you something in return. Your work on Crimson High is excellent and I want more.
Oh wait! 0.32 is available now?! YOINK!!
Haha, thanks a lot, mate! I appreciate the support!
Hope you enjoyed the update. :)
Oh I have been enjoying it! Currently going through the whole thing again from scratch just to remind myself of the whole story.
Nice! Have fun with that!
Just started this game a week ago, got to the last of the recent update! I Absolutely love it! the characters are all great! The story is pretty easy to follow without spelling things out for you! And even tho im a bit more into more hand on VNs, I am very much ok with just sitting with the story! Keep up the good work, Ill definitely be waiting for more!!
Thank you for your kind words, friend!
you absolutely deserve them, ill have a field day when the next part is out to the public
What a great game! I personally need more normal visual novels like this, with all the sandbox AVNs popping up left and right. Great story, I loved it!
I do have to say, however, I am somewhat disappointed with the fact that most characters have their first and last name start with the same letter. Makes me feel like not enough effort went into thought process for their names, you know? Similarly, Kuro's last name containing "Kage", as well as Okami having that name is a bit on the nose. Regarding "Buki-buki": is that a wordplay on the main character's default surname "Ibuki"? I know it's a cute/silly nickname Miri gave to his gun, but to someone who speaks Japanese it just sounds like "weapon-weapon" and I don't believe that's something a native would call it, even someone like Miri, unless it does have that double meaning with MC's last name.
If you don't mind me asking, are you Japanese, Mr. Vertigo? Aside from the obvious cultural references, there were several nuances that made me think the developer might be from Nihon. I don't remember most of them, but it was stuff like someone exclaiming "Heee" when surprised and some similarly minor details.
I want to commend you for smooth phone usage with text messages. In some games you press PgUp while in the phone and it goes all the way back to when you clicked on the phone, in others it straight up breaks the game in various ways. In your game it works perfectly fine and that's something I appreciate very much.
Anyway, it may look like most of this post was a complaint with all the name stuff, but I hope you don't take it the wrong way; it's all minor stuff and everything that I didn't critique I have greatly enjoyed. Believe me when I say that Crimson High is one of my favourite AVNs. Thank you for making it!
Vertigo is from Germany, as far as I know...
Thanks! Glad to hear you enjoy the game. :)
The alliterative names of some of the characters are by no means due to a lack of effort - it's a reference to another game.
As for things being on the nose.. there's nothing wrong with that, imo. For Okami it makes all but complete sense to have that name (can't prove it without spoilers, so you'll have to trust me on this one :P) and Kuro has chosen her last name herself when she founded her clan.
Just because something seems simple doesn't mean no thought has been put into it. Or in other terms: Things don't always have to be overly elaborate to be fine.
Buki-Buki is indeed a wordplay on Ren's last name, which obviously only works if you go with the default name. It meaning "weapon-weapon" is very much intentional, too.
Again, it might not seem like it, but I did put a lot of time and effort into the creation of the world - in some places it's noticeable, in others it isn't. Sometimes things being seemingly silly is even on purpose because my humor can be weird like that.
I am not Japanese, no. As Svensker correctly commented under this post, I'm from Germany.
Thank you! I appreciate your appreciation of the working phone. :P
It's something that had often annoyed me in other games myself, so I tried (and still try) to make it work as well as possible.
No worries, I didn't take any of this in a wrong way (I think). Likewise, my reply is mainly explanatory in nature - no hard feelings whatsoever.
Thanks for your comment and I hope you'll keep enjoying CH! :)
Cheers!
Also...
SPOILERS AHEAD:
I love that you added a wolpertinger. I saw one(well, it was a taxidermy model) in the TV show Dexter and thought that it was really cool and cute-looking. Later I learned that it comes from an actual mythology and well, it's my favourite fictional animal. So, additional points for that.
Wolpertingers are great, yeah. They're from German mythology as well, so Emma was the perfect candidate for it. :P
Glad you approve!
Una pregunta cuando saldrá la v0.32.0
Esque me dejaron con mas :(
[Upside-down thingy]Hola!
v0.32 is going to be a bit longer. I'll try to make a post about why that is tomorrow on here.
The short version:
I've extended the current writing phase to write the scripts for v0.33 and v0.34 to create a bit of a backlog for myself.