Bonus Content


Hello! I'm glad and surprised to hear that ROAR, even though very flawed, is still being played and enjoyed! 
I decided to publish a little Bonus Content as an entry to the Farewell FlareBlitzed Jam hosted by @CicadaHuman.
It's 10 minutes long, nothing extraordinary, but I hope you'll like it! 
In this points there are two things I'd like to discuss, please bear with me:
1. Why I chose THIS as the entry for the Jam
2. The future of the series, for those of you who asked

First, the reasoning of this jam entry.
Only a few know, but ROAR could have been a farewell for me as a gamedev too. 
The theme is just touched in the game, with Nora saying goodbye to Yokohama, because I didn't have much time to think about it, but the true reasoning was the one above. I wanted to participate in the Jam at all costs because CicadaHuman (the host) was the one who believed in me when I published the next game in complete silence, bringing me out of the quitting zone, and because FlareBlitzed (the receiver) was the first or the second person ever to stream a game of mine. At the time no one would have betted a cent on me. FlareBlitzed and Alijah Sam were the first ever to stream my games (I don't know who got first because I saw the videos in the same day) and I will never forget that. 
Alijah doesn't do youtube anymore and now Flare is going on hiatus too, I wish I could've done something more concrete to support them.
With that video Flare gave me a great confidence boost, and when I went through a difficult time as a dev later he showed his support. To put it short, he was not only a youtuber but a real bro.
And the platform is losing content creators like him once again.

Now, for the bravest of you, here's the post regarding the future of the series.
As you may know, the original game was written by me and Denada. We decided the story together, created the characters, wrote the dialogues: she's the creator of Romeo and authorized me long ago to make the game with our combined writings.
Denada is a hard working nurse in a covid ward. 
Since the writing of ROAR, lots of time passed and our lives completely changed. During the first wave of the pandemic I kept in touch with her, though seldom, but in the second wave her accounts went all inactive and are now deleted. Denada had gone completely silent and, considering her job, I assumed the worst at first but I hope she's doing well and having a good life. 
Hence, I dedicate this little extra to her, without whom this series wouldn't exist.

We had in mind to publish the second part of the story, which was 85% written and with a stretch could be completed by me.
The true ending was a bittersweet one, interwined with the consequences of the first game. And since I'm the creator of Nora I can still use him and have him make a cameo in my games, and Denada gave me liberty to do whatever I wanted with our scripts. But continuing the story without Denada... I don't know... 

The art on the cover is drawn by Kaitou-Eve
https://www.deviantart.com/kaitou-eve

Files

ROARing Twenties [Bonus Content] 147 MB
Feb 25, 2022

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