I Have Hired This Anime Girl to Talk to You
A downloadable game for Windows and Linux
I Have Hired This Anime Girl to Talk to You
A girl is stuck in code. Short visual novel.
CONTENT WARNING [Spoiler] : Implied depiction of <details>-Childhood sexual abuse. -Sexual abuse. Camera shakes and a few lines of dialogue. It's not graphic and nothing is explicitly stated or shown but if that's a sensitive subject for you, I think it would be best to skip this one!</details>
This visual novel is about you talking to a girl named Claire. That's all.
Based on a vent short story I wrote when I was 15.
Read my thoughts and comments here:
Launch afterparty - https://pitocat.xyz/afterparty/
Info
Playtime - 3-5 minutes(1 ending). 15 minutes full game.
Controls - Keyboard, mouse
6 Endings
Made with Ren'py
Programming - Athena/Piton
Writing - Athena
Art/Sprites - 佐原/https://skima.jp/profile?id=213856
Background - みにくる
BGM -ISAo / https://dova-s.jp/bgm/play12572.html
田中芳典 /https://dova-s.jp/bgm/play9201.html
Download
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Development log
- I will continue working on the game!Sep 12, 2023
- Small update + Bug fixesSep 10, 2023
- Original concept ideasSep 09, 2023
- Our first gameplay video (╥﹏╥)Sep 07, 2023
- OUR SECOND GAME!Sep 06, 2023
Comments
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Nice short story with a nice ending and good art, worth checking out especially with it's short length
Glad I found this out, I had to thank VNDB for that, or Visual Novel Database for short. The game has a good idea as I did say before in my review, but a little unpolished. Well, looks promising to me so I'm excited to see what you guys are planning next, good luck!
This was a really sad short story but I liked how Claire got her happy ending in the end.
Does anyone have any ending guides? I got endings 1, 5 & 6 so far and can't figure out the others :')
Hi Rosie! Thank you for playing!!!!
There will be more endings as I continue working on it (Read more about that here:https://pmstudio.itch.io/ihhtagttty/devlog/588022/i-will-continue-working-on-the-game) but here’s a small ending guide for the current endings!!
Note : Because the game was originally supposed to be a one-shot, the only changes to the endings are dialogue changes. I’ll be adding more in the future!
Ending 1 - The affection is below 0.
In this ending, she doesn’t like you very much and kindaaa doesn’t want you to come back. She wishes someone else would play the game instead of you.
Ending 2 - Somehow keeping the affection at 0.
In this ending, she isn’t sure if you’re a good or bad person. She’s happy to talk to you though!
Ending 3 - The affection is high.
In this ending, she loves to talk to you and wants to see you again soon.
Ending 4 - The affection is super high.
In this ending, she trusts you and asks for your help.
Ending 5 - She escapes.
In this ending, she realises that the entire VN is being written by her and that she can create anything she wants. She decides to live in her fantasy world.
Ending 6 - You check in on her.
In this ending, you decide to check in on her. She’s doing fine. I will have major changes to this ending! More CGs to show her doing things and, hopefully, real-time implementation.
Thank you again for playing and supporting my indie game dev dreams! :D
This game was amazing. Short and sweet yet bitter and dark
Thank you for playing!!!! I'm glad you liked it! :D
Wonderful, would like to know on which file-hosting platform the game files are distributed on. I would like to create my version of it.
Ending CG draft!
Thank you for playing!!! I watched the VOD!!! I'm happy you liked the game! Have a good day :D
I just love it. <3 If you see this game you should definitely try it. It left me wanting to see more of the story of Claire. But reality is just sad. I really appreciate what your team are doing. I hope the best for you guys and looking forward to your future games.
Thank you so much!! And thank you for the review on your rating!
I'm glad you liked it!!!
I will actually be continuing with my original vision for the game! It'll take some time but I hope you'll be there to play it when it's completed!
I wrote an update about it here!! https://pmstudio.itch.io/ihhtagttty/devlog/588022/i-will-continue-working-on-the..
I'm glad to see that the game will get updated in the future. Looking forward to it <3
I've liked this game and I want to translate this game into french so more people can enjoy it, if you give me the permission of course.
You can contact me at : lorenzinihugo.trad@gmail.com
The start was nice and slow, but oh boy... I did not expect the game to actually surprise me. Different endings and I really liked that the game reacted to already being played before when you start a second run and the lines differ somewhat to give away the second ending.
Could have been a little more direct on the horror part, because I did not get it right away but was just guessing what happened (maybe because english is not my first language and I missed some words or did not understand them correctly because of a more hidden meaning?) but still got me hooked to see what will happen next.
Awesome work and I'm looking forward to more games from you.
Thank you for playing!!!!
And thank you for your review!
I'm really glad to hear you enjoyed it!! I wanted to keep the horror understated but I was definitely struggling to keep it subtle, while still keeping the horror self-evident.
I’ll keep that in mind next time!
Thank you for writing in!! :D
You're welcome and I'm looking forward to what games will come from you in the future :)
amazing game keep up the work i really liked the game and its kinda sad how she dosentr realise shes in an loop and u prob wont make more of the game but im still gonna give ideas a ending where she realises shes in a loop or anything like that and like monika from doki doki when we enters she greets us and stuff or even she gets out of the loop and send more codes into our files would be nice
Thank you for playing!!!!
Originally, I did want to make a hangout mode (in her fancy bedroom) that would be unlocked after completing the good ending!!
It would mean commissioning new sprites (with her new clothes) and creating minigames so due to budget/time constraints, I couldn’t work on it TT
Maybe in the future!
Thank you for taking the time to write in :D
I loved this sooo much. Its so creative but it kind of made me feel weird. i have so much control over claire, and it feels like i dont deserve having that much control over her. she deserves to be happy and i feel like i can just take that away with the click of a button and its so odd.
but these feelings made having played this so worth it. i dont experience any type of emotion while playing video games usually so thank you so much for this :)
Thank you for playing!!!
Originally, it was supposed to be a one-shot. When you reach her happy ending, she lives there peacefully and if you try to play the game again, it'll only show her room with the sounds of birds chirping.
And while it made me happy, it didn't really work well gameplay-wise.
So I opted to have a warning when you restart the game in order to make you realise that you'll be putting her through a loop.
I'm glad to hear that you want her to be happy TT She is. (On my computer, she's living her best life as a very happy and pampered lady.)
Absolutely loved this game! I did not expect this visual novel to be so good! Especially since I'm not really someone who likes visual novels. But this one really stands out. I actually felt really sad during the game. Which doesn't happen often. At the end of the game I was absolutely speechless. So well done!
Also I noticed that you used dutch background noise at the part with the market. It was really funny to hear your own language in a video game xD
Amazing video!! (╥﹏╥)
Thank you for playing! Everyone at PM Studio (which is like, two people) was really happy to see your gameplay/review!
Also also, the marketplace sounds were originally in english but I kept on getting distracted (nosey) so I went with a language I didn't speak myself :D
I hope to continue making games in the future!!! Working on improving my programming/writing! Also learning unity hehe.
Thank you again for this, it really is encouraging. Best of luck to you!!!!!
I am excited to see more from you two in the future! I wish you two all the best on your upcoming games!