Evernight

Fourth time, wow! I'm so very happy you love the game so much and that you like Lucas! He was a lot of fun to discover in the writing process and I'm glad he's getting some love. Thank you so much for your kind words and for playing Evernight! :)

Thank you so much for your kind comment! We're so glad you enjoyed it! :) That you were sitting at work excited to go home and play makes me smile, and that you cried during Lucas's and Dragan's ending scenes makes me so happy! Not that you cried, of course, but that you were moved. Their routes definitely have that bittersweet element (Piiiiiiix!!!!), and I'm with you in that my favorite routes are always the ones with the happiest endings.

Pix is definitely one of my most favorite characters as well! But it's so wonderful for me to hear you also loved Astora as a protagonist and that you never felt like her personality and choices clashed with your own desires for the character. It can be tricky to find the right balance between not enough personality and too much (or too strong?), and it's a relief to know that you found Astora's balance to be an overall enjoyable experience.

Thank you again for playing and for stopping by to let us know your thoughts! We deeply appreciate it. And I hope you will enjoy future stories! :)

Wow, thank you so much for your kind words! I hope you didn't lose too much sleep! We're so happy you enjoyed Evernight, and I'm over the moon that you felt Astora as a likeable protagonist (it can be so tricky to get that right). Hopefully Dragan's route will be just as entertaining as the others and you will enjoy your stay in the Night Realm until the very end. :)

Aww, I'm so so so happy you are loving Evernight! It was so much fun to write. I tried really hard to capture a more traditional faerie world while still putting my own twist on it, so I'm really glad it landed well with you and you are enjoying it. I will definitely pass on your kind compliments to the rest of the team as I know they will appreciate it. Reading your comment has definitely made my morning, so I hope that you also have a great morning as you enjoy the rest of the routes! :) Thank you so much for playing and for stopping in to let us know what you think!

Oh wow, thank you so much! I'm so glad Lucas was someone's favorite! His route was the one that surprised me most. I wasn't sure what to do with him at first, but as his character unfolded during the writing process, I wound up really liking him a lot too. And you're so right, the story is very predictable, haha.. Sometimes predictable is comfortable and sometimes it's boring, so I'm glad you found it the enjoyable kind! And that you still found a twist and a little bit of mystery! :)

I'm really honored that you liked Astora as much as you did. The MC is usually a big point of contention in many otome and amare games - I've seen lots of reviews on lots of games say, "It was good, but the MC was too stupid to live/really annoying/had zero personality," and so forth. I've also felt that way before, so it was my goal to write a character who hopefully felt real but also true to her circumstances while still being someone the player had some agency over. But just because it was a goal doesn't mean I was successful! So I'm really over the moon that you liked her so much!

I would really love to know more details about what you felt was rushed about the final confrontation so I can hopefully flesh it out more in the future, but I appreciate that you have tried hard to give a spoiler free review. If you don't mind and have time, would you email me at frozenstargames@gmail.com to let me know? I would really appreciate it! :)

Thank you!! Thank you for playing Evernight and thank you for your kind words! It means the world to us!

Thank you so much for playing and for your kind comment! I'm so happy you enjoyed the story and found all the endings satisfactory. :) I definitely want to expand upon the world and someday visit the Day Realm, which I hope you will enjoy as well. Thank you again!

Oh wow, thank you so much for your sweet comment! I'm completely over the moon after reading it. >_< And I'm so happy you enjoyed the story. The scene you are referring to was totally unplanned and just happened while I was writing, but it felt right and is one of my favorites too! <3 I would love to come back and do an epilogue to show how the MC is getting along in the life she chose! I hope to make it happen someday. :) Thank you again for playing and for your kind words. They really made my day! <3

Ooh, wow, thank you so much! Ebon Light is one of my all-time favorite games so that's such a huge compliment. :) I'm so very glad you enjoyed Evernight and found it magical! Thanks for playing and for stopping by to leave us such a sweet comment!

Thank you so much for playing and stopping by to leave us such a kind comment. I'm so glad you enjoyed Aeden's route and I hope you enjoy the others as well. I definitely have more stories planned for the other realms of Faery! :)

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Aw, thank you so much for playing and for stopping by to leave us such a sweet comment! We're so very glad you enjoyed the game, and I'm immensely happy that you fell in love with all three romance options! :)

Thank you so much. That truly means the world to me! <3

Aw, thank you so much! We're so happy you enjoyed it and I'm so thrilled you loved Pix! They are the best. <3

Wow, thank you so much! We're so happy you loved the music and it really warms my heart that you found the GUI and backgrounds nostalgic and home-y (the GUI came together at the very last minute T_T). Aaaand YES, you're right, it was a lot of writing for a jam... I've been thinking about writing up a post-mortem about the process, just in case anyone is curious or maybe needs a few words of warning. T_T I actually injured my arm finishing the game, so as proud as I am of what we accomplished, I'm also firmly in the, "Alright, I learned my lesson, let's not try that again," camp, haha. But I'm so glad you liked all of the routes, and Aeden's especially! That you were kicking your feet to his lines just made me ridiculously happy. x3 It's a relief to know all three of them were able to stand on their own!

Character customization is something that's really important to me and I always want to include it if I can, so I'm really happy you found the results acceptable! Having more hairstyles is something I'd like to explore more in the future as well. :) The outfit changes, yes...  I like it when the MC can change clothes! Wearing her casual outfit to bed? Never! Going to a party wearing her casual outfit? Not on my watch!! But honestly, they were a very pleasant break from writing for me, which is probably why there's so many...

Thank you again for playing Evernight and for stopping in to leave such a thoughtful and sweet comment! I was so happy to read it, it really made my day. :) And I know I speak for the rest of the team when I say we're so glad you enjoyed our game!

Thank you very much! And yes, I used Irish as an inspiration for the fae language! I think the faeries probably steal words from all sorts of languages and use them as their slang, but a lot of their actual language was influenced by Irish.

Yaaay, thank you so much! We're so happy you enjoyed Evernight! It was immense fun to write in this world, and Lisa totally knocked it out of the park with her amazing soundtrack. :) I'm so glad you loved Aeden's route (an evil route with the Night Queen, oh my!!) and we appreciate you stopping by to let us know what you thought. Thank you for playing!

Wow, that's amazing! We're so happy you rate it so highly. :) Thank you so much for playing and leaving us such a kind comment! <3

Thank YOU so much for playing! We're so glad you enjoyed the story and characters (VtM <3), and we appreciate you stopping by to leave us such a kind comment! :)

Aww, thank you so much for your kind words! We're so happy you gave our faerie world a chance and fell in love with the characters (Pix <3)! I am thrilled you enjoyed Aeden and Lucas. I had the most fun writing Aeden's route, but Lucas was the one who surprised me the most with how sweet he turned out to be. I hadn't planned on it, but I really enjoyed the way his route unfolded.

With Dragan, I think I know what happened... When I started writing, I knew the game would be short since it was for a jam. I wanted to have a complete romance arc for our MC, but also a way to justify falling in love in just 8 days. That's why I went for the "mate" concept. In my attempt to differentiate Dragan from Lucas and Aeden, I chose something uniquely vampiric (the blood attraction) but still tried to convey the "romance" behind it with the idea that he could only drink from her. However, I could have done a better job exploring the gravity of this development, and also with showing that his feelings were about more than the blood. In my attempt to convincingly portray a 350+ year old vampire, I suppose I got too hung up on his self-restraint. >_< As for Astora becoming a vampire, I'll just say it's not impossible!

Anyway, thank you so much for playing and leaving a comment to share you thoughts with us! We so appreciate it and we're so happy you enjoyed Evernight! :)

Thank you so much for playing and for leaving us such a kind comment! We're so happy you enjoyed it, and that you found each route interesting. When I first started outlining the arcs, I really didn't know what I wanted to do with Aeden's route, and his came together last. I was initially worried his climax would lack the intensity of the others and his epilogue would feel plain, but after coding them, I thought they held their own and then some. Honestly, I wound up liking his route the most as well. :) We're honored you will remember this as one of your favorites in the genre!

Thank you so much! I'm so happy you think the game is well-written and we appreciate you playing and taking the time to comment! As for the good ending, I've included a guide for Evernight in the downloads section that will show you how to get the good ending for each route as well as the bonus dialogue bits. If you want to avoid looking at the guide, the best tip I can give you for obtaining the good ending is to trust in your dreams. :) I hope you enjoy it!

Omigosh, wow, thank you so much! We're so happy you fell in love with the story (and Aeden!) and so very grateful you stopped by to leave us your kind comments! It was a real pleasure to write my own spin of fairy folklore and I hope I get to do so again, and that you will enjoy that venture into the world as well! :)

Sure, I'd be happy to tell you! (I probably should've explained in the game, oops...)

Fey'lana is "faerie maiden" or "faerie lady", but has the same meaning as "female" or "woman". Though it's a technical term for a female faerie, it's commonly used as a term of endearment by both parents to their daughters and fae to their female lovers.

A is "my" and maith means "good". So a literal translation of "a fey'lana maith" would amount to, "My good girl." But "maith" in the fae tongue is not a mild world. When something is "maith", it carries a feeling of "it doesn't get any better."

So the meaning of "a fey'lana maith" in the fae language is more like, "My perfect faerie lady." However, for it to be a purely sweet and loving comment, the phrasing would be simply, "Fey'lana maith", which would imply "you are perfect." Instead, because it's Aeden, he added "my", which gave it a decidedly possessive and sexual spin. Still sweet, but also spicy.

I should go ahead and tell you that you'll soon come upon the phrase "Fey'dorna sith". Fey'dorna is "faerie thorn", but basically has the same meaning as "bitch". Sith is another term for "faerie" but it refers to the Solitaries, so it implies "corruption".

So when Aeden says, "Fey'dorna sith," he is essentially saying, "(You) evil bitch."

All that might've been more than you wanted to know, haha, but I hope it helps!

EDIT: I'd like to add that "dorna" as a standalone word just means "thorn" and has no negative connotation. Adding Fey to it is qualifying "dorna" as a living thing (or person) and not an object, and so the meaning evolves to that of "bitch."

Aw, that's so amazing! We're so happy to hear you enjoyed it, and I'm thrilled you were able to like all the love interests and grow attached to the side characters! It really warms my heart. Thank you so much for playing and taking the time to leave us such a nice comment! I hope our future projects will be just as memorable. :)

Thank you so, so much for your kind words. Your comment really made my day! I know how you feel when you only initially find one LI interesting, so it's such a huge compliment that the prologue made you interested in all three of them! I'm so glad you love Aeden - I had a lot of fun writing him! And it really warms my heart how much you love the artwork, especially the MC. I've only drawn sprites once before, but they never saw the light of day, and this was my first time attempting expressions, so I'm really happy that you liked it so much! I really love games where you can have a customizable protagonist, so it was important to me to try (and drawing all her outfits was honestly just fun, haha).

Some days, I'm still shocked we made it in two months! It was such a blur, but I'm really proud of what we accomplished. And I'm just so happy that so many people have enjoyed it. Thank you for playing and for stopping by to let us know your thoughts! :) We appreciate it so very much!

Oh my gosh, that's such a huge compliment! I'm so honored that you love the game enough to come back and replay it. Thank you so much for your kind words. They really made my day! :)

Aahh, thank you so much for playing and taking the time to let us know your thoughts! We're really happy you enjoyed the game. :) I'm not sure how involved putting it on Steam would be (I know some extra artwork would be involved for banners and icons), but I will look into it. Rest assured, it would be free there as well!

Aww, thank you so much for your sweet words! We're so happy you gave our game a shot even though it isn't your usual fare and we're even happier that you enjoyed it so much! :) And personally, I'm ecstatic that you were so smitten by Lucas. When I first started writing the script, I didn't have as much connection to his character as the others, but as the story progressed I wound up really falling for him, too! And I hope you will be able to enjoy Dragan's route as well. Again, thanks so much for playing and stopping by to leave us such a lovely comment!

I just want to start off saying that you cannot bother us enough! I really love reading everyone's comments and am happy to answer questions, explain certain choices, or just gush right along with you. Really, we're so happy you liked Evernight!

It's a huge compliment that you have added our version of faerie to your list of favorites. It was an interesting process to find our aesthetic, and I would love to explore more of the Night Realm (particularly the Nightmare Court) and even the other realms of Faerie someday. And I'm really glad you liked the sprites! I love outfit changes, haha! I might've gotten carried away, but it was honestly a very fun distraction for me to draw new ones.

I'm over the moon that you liked the writing, that you found the romance smooth and the characterization strong. And I'm really so blown away that you were taking notes! It amazes me and makes me so happy that someone else was that invested in the world and characters. I feel like you saw a depth to the story that I very much wanted to have there but, at times, wasn't sure I had achieved - or even could have achieved with how short of time I had to write the script and with how short the story had to be. And so to read that someone else has seen there was more in my head than made it on the page, more to the world than was directly pointed at - it's both so surprising and absolutely wonderful. My heart feels full!

I know I speak for all of us when I thank you so much for playing and for leaving such an amazing comment for us. And from me personally, thank you so much. I'm really grateful for your kind words. They've so encouraged me, and I'm excited to find my next project. :) When the time comes, I hope you will enjoy it, too!

And if you ever have any questions about the world or characters, I'd be happy to talk more with you about it!

Pfft, don't be sorry! We love reading everyone's comments. :) I saw you made a second one to share your thoughts on the game (super excited to read it, I can't believe you're taking notes, I'm so happy!), but I just wanted to respond to this one really quickly to say that the only social media I have is a twitter account, @frozenstardevs. I am pretty terrible with social media and so I rarely post on there unless I have news to share (also rare, haha), so I don't want you to be disappointed by my lack of engagement. >_< I really appreciate you wanting to support future projects though, and I absolutely want to make some! I will definitely post there when something new is in the oven and the timer's about to ding.

Wow, thank you so much! You've really made my day with your kind words. :) I'm so glad you had fun with the world and the characters! Thank you for playing and I hope you enjoy whatever comes next!

During the final confrontation with him, choose "I trust you" to get his good end. :)