The first download (1.0) is uploading now. Completed in the original competition deadline constraints despite those 50 hours spent on Kingdom Hearts. Damn you Roxas.

Anyway... I should probably speak a little about the project huh? I haven't said all too much in the public forum besides what's in the description, so I'll elaborate here.

The title, 'Nachtheulen' is a bastardized German translation of Night Howl. This was the title of another story, before it was changed back to Reaper.

This interpretation of Night Howl (i.e, the version with Leander and Fionn as the primary protagonists) began as an exercise in eventing with 2k3. I didn't get very far, though I had planned out a custom time, hunger and battle system with events. It was eventually dropped due to unimportance compared to other projects such as ReEvolution and Sleeping Lion Heart.

However, the Ace Lite competition presented another restrictive challenge so I decided to use Night Howl's original concept. I did remove the hunger and time systems because the original plan was to have more towns, but the main plot flow remains unchanged. So now I have another completed game under my belt and another chapter of Atrum Somnium Terra available to the public.

The characters, Leander and Fionn, have been around for quite a while. Both make appearances in Blood Rose (Fionn is now slated to be playable in Gabby's story arc), but they are rarely as young as they are in this story. Even in a written crossover between this and Porcupine Princess, Leander and Fionn were another 40+ years older than this.

The designs were created for the original 2k3 version, but all the art and sprites you see in the game released today were made within the time frame. Most of the concept art wasn't, but it wasn't used in the game either >->.

One thing I did change and quite recently too was a bit of Fionn and Leander's backstory. I did share around a short fic aptly titled Auf Wiedersehen, Ralph, but the content got mostly changed for the sake of torturing my characters more.

...I'm not going to deny it, ok.

And before anyone asks, yes, Fionn is a redesigned Ralph. Back when Archeia_Nessiah was first releasing her VX Portrait emotions and edits, I happened upon Ralph's red-eyed version and thought 'I SHOULD TOTALLY MAKE HIM A VAMPIRE' and now Fionn exists.

That is literally the story behind him.

Well, I'm going to relax for a bit, so this is all I'm writing for now. I hope everyone enjoys playing Nachtheulen, because I enjoyed making it.

If someone does complete the game's Phantasmal Mode option, with or without defeating the optional boss battle, please inform me and I'll draw you up a gift~

I am not expecting to have to draw anything.