I like a lot of things from this VN:

- The prose is very good
- Love what you did with the ui
- The artstyle is beautiful and consistent through all the elements of the game
- The music and the sound effect create the right atmosphere for this story 

Big props to the whole team!

This entry is really unique, it took me by surprise, and left me with a very uneasy feeling (which is on theme).

What I appreciate the most about it is the different ideas that you played with here. Not to mention that you did it all by yourself. Big props. The visuals are super creepy and the sounds really compliments them.

Well done.

Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it

Nice, looking forward to it!

The writing was so funny! And I like the design of Pinky and Greeny

The concept is interesting and I enjoyed the prose, it's a good teaser.

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it

Hey Blondi, I'm leading the "Murder in the Aethertree forest" team: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vB9Rp7kz7RUoKVFUAAw8_-05JUcEiRV64rV61UQVlt0/...

We are looking for a QA tester, let me know if you are interested in helping us.

Hi Zero! We are good on character assets and backgrounds, do you have any experience in animation?

Just added you

Hi! We are an 18+ team, I hope you find a good one!

Hey Knight, do you have any samples of your work?

Let's talk, can you join our recruitment discord so I can DM you? https://discord.com/invite/RPZeawTxPQ

Very cool stuff! How are you with backgrounds?

Hi! Do you have experience as a cinematography coordinator?

Thank you! Just DMd you

Awesome, let's talk about your specific role, are you good with discord? You can join our recruitment discord so I can DM you: https://discord.com/invite/RPZeawTxPQ

Just a video example should be enough

Definitely a visual novel, we will see if we add any additional elements from other genres.

Very nice! We are looking for a background artist to help with backgrounds and general 2D art stuff, take a look at this document outlining our pitch https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vB9Rp7kz7RUoKVFUAAw8_-05JUcEiRV64rV61UQVlt0/...

Do you have any samples of shaders you have made?

You stuff looks great! Let's talk, join our recruitment discord so I can DM you: https://discord.com/invite/RPZeawTxPQ

Your stuff looks amazing! I'm Cris and I'm leading the "Murder at the Aethertree forest" team. You can check out our project here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vB9Rp7kz7RUoKVFUAAw8_-05JUcEiRV64rV61UQVlt0/...

I think you would be a great fit in our team!

By any chance, can you do shaders or animations on python? This new roles just open up.

Hey Matt, are you still looking for a team? If so join our recruitment discord so I can DM you: https://discord.com/invite/RPZeawTxPQ

Wow your art looks so good! We are looking for help with CGs and backgrounds. I've put together this document Murder in the Aethertree forest about the current direction we want for the game we are making.

Are you interested in doing CGs? We could use some help in that front! I'm the lead of the "Murder in the Aethertree fortest" team, want to discuss it in discord? https://discord.gg/3mAvaPdfj
You can see more about our project here: /t/6754788/open-murder-in-the-aethertree-forest-team-looking-for-...

Sounds good, let's talk, join our recruitment discord so I can DM you: https://discord.com/invite/RPZeawTxPQ

Hey Matt, your stuff sounds great, but we are almost surely using renpy, and it seems like there's no simple integration for FMOD. I'll let you know if we can accommodate you.

Can we talk in discord? You can join this server https://discord.gg/RPZeawTxPQ or DM me (crischu1).

Good question, I wouldn't know how to describe it, but I'm looking for a visual arts director who has experience working on the style our current artists have (you can see their portfolios on the post).

Thank you for your comment, we are going for a different artstyle though.

We are the "Murder in the Aethertree forest" team! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vB9Rp7kz7RUoKVFUAAw8_-05JUcEiRV64rV61UQVlt0/...

The team

Cris: Lead developer, writer (https://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=Crischu)

Cam: 2D art - character design + assets

Mai: 2D art - CGs, animation (https://mai0nesa.carrd.co/)

Ash: 2D art - CGs, backgrounds (https://tsuchaii.squarespace.com/)

Nimster: 2D art - backgrounds (https://nimscorner.com/#work) 

FlexingWaffle22: Music composer (https://theflexingwaffle.bandcamp.com/)

Matt Chandler: Sound engineer (https://chandlerm35.itch.io/)

Robert: Writer (/profile/ghostroadmedia)

Courtney: Writer, editor (/profile/somewherewithstories)

Ashnaaaay: Graphic designer + GUI artist (https://eempo.carrd.co/) 

Concept art for our main character:

This is our pitch

```

A young paranormal investigator steps into a fall festival surrounded by mystery and spirits while trying to solve a murder. As they look for clues, they find romance, blood magic, and their own death. They should have listened to that prophetic dream with the Tarot cards in it.

In this game, the player will replay a series of events in order to solve the crime, aided by a supernatural notebook that serves as meta-progress, allowing you to explore different paths to unravel the mystery.

 ```

We are looking for the following roles:

• 2D artists
• A cinematography coordinator
• A itch.io page designer
• Transitions/logic based animation programmer
• Font designer
• GLSL shader programmer
• Trailer maker
• Playtesters and proofreaders

Pixel P.I. is a detective game with the novelty of being able to process natural language to interact with text written by the player. One of the main features of the game consists of unlocking statements by asking natural language questions.

The protagonist of the game is Pixel, a hacker detective girl who lost her memories and is going through a list of old cases to hopefully find information about her recent past.

You can play the demo for a limited time at https://crischu.itch.io/pixel-pi

Trailer:

Gameplay Video:

Me too! Hope you enjoyed my take on it.

I wanted everyone to be able to enjoy it but also give a challenge to those who wanted it, so I decided to create different difficulty levels.

I'm glad you liked it! Was it too easy on the hard difficulty?

Regarding the inhale/exhale mechanic, this applies only to some of the breathing techniques, which do something while exhaling and something else while inhaling. For instance the ocean breathing gives attack and attack speed during exhaling and healing and defense during inhaling. Also the volcano breathing blocks your normal attacks and launches all your attacks at once during exhale.

Thank you for the kind comment! I agree about the art-style, I'm always looking for artists to collab with as my games always lack in that department.