Hanako Games

Hanako said this when I asked over in the beta thread: How old is Sara, anyway? I've gotten it in my head that she's thirteen->fourteen, but I can't figure out if that's what you say in the game somewhere or if I just assumed that was her age. That's roughly what I'm aiming for, though I never expli...

On the topic on concept art- I loooooooove the overall character designs in this game. (I mean, your character designs are always on point but I really like the ones in this game.) Do you determine all the character designs for your games yourself and then hand them off to the artists to draw, or is...

Quick bug report- if you skip through the credits, the credit music doesn't stop and plays over the other music until it ends. Finished all the routes! I enjoyed all of them. I'm not familiar with the source material but there's nothing I really feel got left out. I think it would be nice if there w...

Oh gosh this is so cute. I just marathoned through one route to completion (Mariette's) so have a few initial gut reactions. 1. This is all so cute. 2. After about 5 weeks I started really wishing there was some way to view the stat requirements for available events as I picked my activities for the...

I will wait eagerly for the direct beta to start!

(also, not a huge thing, but the text on the Stream trailer is almost impossible to read)

I know I had a list of goals I was working on but I'm not sure if I still have the file. I'll see if I can rummage it up at some point. I know I was thinking it would just be "go until you have a line, restarting as needed" thing (bingos don't usually require beating the game, and since some goals a...

Elsa doesn't seem to be big on the whole "having friends" thing either way. I imagine she has a roommate, but since she's not on the council they don't tend to interact much. Plus, Elsa seems to spend most of her free time in her office; maybe that's why?

I haven't had too much trouble getting the first two of the new cases to spawn- I had the auditorium and fight once both spawn in the same week. Haven't seen the last one yet, but I'll chalk that up to my last few runs being really unlucky and dying partway through. Solving the auditorium, on the ot...

The randomizer gave me "Kristal" and "Jewel" as the first two names this playthrough so I decided to take it and run with it.

Before I start testing, can/should the semester exclusive cases happen in custom mode?

I mean, I don't know about you, but I'm really looking forward to the Black Closet sequel due out in Fall 2043.

If (and that 's a big if) there was a Black Closet "sequel" of sorts, I think I'd want all new characters. I mean, a big part of the game is that what you chose do affects Elsa's future in a big way (and the other characters too). If you set something in the future you'd have to declare one of them...

There are indeed a few different variants for the steam tunnels- off the top of my head, you've got the drug smugglers, you can have illegally dumped chemicals , and you can have some weird animal sacrificing cult thing. All of these do have different resolutions and failure texts, and it's always b...

I've never had luck with traitor Thais- Traitor Althea tends to do better for me. My strategy is similar to phoenixgirl's- Max Vonne and Thais's loyalty and expel Althea (Thais doesn't care). Put whatever loyalty is left on Rowan and never add to Rowan or Mallory's skills. You don't need them. They'...

Our school had a lot of problems with unauthorized impromptu fundraisers/bake sales in the atrium. Girls could be sneaking out onto the patio at night on dares to do crazy stuff; running around naked or doing dangerous stunts. Edit: Ohhhh, what if there's a rumor about a ghost in one of those places...