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Two years ago, six heroes were tasked with saving the world.
So they did.
However, once again the world is under threat from an evil force,
and once again, these six heroes are called on by their Kingdom to stand up against it.
This is their story.
A story of action. A story of romance.
A story of a handful of idiots dawdling around and somehow managing to save the world.
Again.
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So they did.
However, once again the world is under threat from an evil force,
and once again, these six heroes are called on by their Kingdom to stand up against it.
This is their story.
A story of action. A story of romance.
A story of a handful of idiots dawdling around and somehow managing to save the world.
Again.
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Meet May, a young girl who wants nothing more than to become an adventurer. Nothing in life is free, however, and she's working her first job as a Barmaid in one of Castle City's many pubs. Imagine her shock when five of her customers are Legendary World-Class Heroes who had saved the world from destruction a couple of years ago!
Not only that, they seem to have taken an interest in her.
Guide May through five unique plotlines centred around five unique people in their journey to save the world, clear up the past, and maybe- just maybe-
Make out.
Some quick stats:
- 56,000 words
- 200+ busts
- 68 CGs
- 18 backgrounds
- 11 endings
And this started as a joke project that was going to have terribad voice acting, rushed ultra deformed artwork, and not an ounce of seriousness... haha... ha.
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AwaF Design Contest Results
MakioKuta
It’s time to announce the winners of the April was a Fool Design Contest!
In first place, is Winter’s design with a landslide of 57% of the votes. A huge, HUGE congrats to our winner! Your design will be featured in the game! I’m very excited~! It’s a great design.
In second place is Fictional01‘s design! It was a tight race between this and another design; watching them battle was pretty epic!
And Maki’s Pick goes to Gourd-clae I found the design to be really charming to work with!
So a huge applause for our winners! And another huge applause to everyone who entered. We got some wonderful designs all around and I was very excited to see them all. (I may just draw them all in the future just because) And yet another applause for everyone who voted. There’d be no winners without you.
To our winners, I’ll be contacting you personally soon to sort out your rewards and such. Don’t forget everyone who entered wins a free sketch of the AwaF character of their choice! So hit me up by email with which character you would like. :)
This contest was a lot of fun and I hope we can have more like it in the future. Thank you so much for all your support <3 <3 That we could have a contest like this with the turnout that we did means so much to me.
So one last round of applause. For everyone who played April was a Fool!
In first place, is Winter’s design with a landslide of 57% of the votes. A huge, HUGE congrats to our winner! Your design will be featured in the game! I’m very excited~! It’s a great design.
In second place is Fictional01‘s design! It was a tight race between this and another design; watching them battle was pretty epic!
And Maki’s Pick goes to Gourd-clae I found the design to be really charming to work with!
So a huge applause for our winners! And another huge applause to everyone who entered. We got some wonderful designs all around and I was very excited to see them all. (I may just draw them all in the future just because) And yet another applause for everyone who voted. There’d be no winners without you.
To our winners, I’ll be contacting you personally soon to sort out your rewards and such. Don’t forget everyone who entered wins a free sketch of the AwaF character of their choice! So hit me up by email with which character you would like. :)
This contest was a lot of fun and I hope we can have more like it in the future. Thank you so much for all your support <3 <3 That we could have a contest like this with the turnout that we did means so much to me.
So one last round of applause. For everyone who played April was a Fool!
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Renpy- Visual Novel
- 03/13/2015 07:33 AM
- 07/05/2018 10:49 PM
- 04/01/2015
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CloseThis game is so engaging... At first I was reluctant cuz 56000 words meant this ain't going to be a short game but as soon as I began to play it, time passed by so quickly. I completed 10 routes in one seating (like 2-3 hours... so it wasn't that long as I thought it would be) Couldn't figure out how to get the 11th one tho. I have gotten all characters good and bad routes so either the 11th one is the best route, or the worst route. Can you give me some pointers, please?
My fav character was Gunn, his route was greattt and he is such a bro. 2nd fav has to be Gabby and 3rd fav is Kent. Wasn't fond of Erwin, glad he got told good in some of the routes. Blake was such a crybaby for the most part (except by the mid of his own route) Good development none the less. I like how you didn't go easy on their evil sides. Nothing was sugarcoated, and the characters' faults were not justified needlessly-- they were there, and everyone was aware of their bad point. Best was, they tried to correct themselves without sounding pitiful or melodramatic. That was great.
Really enjoyed this almost as much as your Castle Chase :)
My fav character was Gunn, his route was greattt and he is such a bro. 2nd fav has to be Gabby and 3rd fav is Kent. Wasn't fond of Erwin, glad he got told good in some of the routes. Blake was such a crybaby for the most part (except by the mid of his own route) Good development none the less. I like how you didn't go easy on their evil sides. Nothing was sugarcoated, and the characters' faults were not justified needlessly-- they were there, and everyone was aware of their bad point. Best was, they tried to correct themselves without sounding pitiful or melodramatic. That was great.
Really enjoyed this almost as much as your Castle Chase :)
Racheal
7238
Thanks :)
On the last ending:
On the last ending:
It is the worst ending. It is achieved by having super low affection on any route that is not Gunn. A common issue we're finding is that if you get it on Blake's bad end, you actually see the majority of that ending first (including all the CGs), so it's hard to realise that you've switched endings. Basically, if it ended in the pub, it's Blake's bad end; if it ended with a CG, it's the 11th ending. This is something we'll probably address when we start working on an expanded version.
Racheal
7238
author=unityMe too <3 As an added bonus, now it is on the front page too!
Love the new title banner :D <3
author=Racheal
Thanks :)
On the last ending:It is the worst ending. It is achieved by having super low affection on any route that is not Gunn. A common issue we're finding is that if you get it on Blake's bad end, you actually see the majority of that ending first (including all the CGs), so it's hard to realise that you've switched endings. Basically, if it ended in the pub, it's Blake's bad end; if it ended with a CG, it's the 11th ending. This is something we'll probably address when we start working on an expanded version.
I see. Strange surprise is, I tried to do the super low affection thing on Gunn's route before. lol. What luck I had. Thanks for the hint ^^
I started this game with no futher information about what is it about. I continued to play this game, it charmed me and I ended up with Warior Blake. I didn´t know I could choose which one of them I will follow and I fell in love with Gunn, but that story and ending with Blake was such cute my cheeks were red and voice squeaky :D Right now Iam playing with Gunn and Iam gonna find all pages in Bonus! YAAAAAY THIS GAME IS GREAT!
Addit
6394
I finally ended up playing this last night for almost two whole hours…which is like a record for me when it comes to playing a visual novel, as I really don’t play them all that much besides the odd exception. I originally thought that I would just probably play it once and get one of the eleven endings and just call it quits, but I ended up getting Kent’s bad ending which left me completely unsatisfied that I wanted to go back and get a much happier ending and at least leave on a good note. And then I got it and I wanted MORE!!! I ended up going back and played this multiple times and have gotten around six of the endings thus far… I still need to do Blake and Erwin’s and get the other ending - but so far so good!
I’m actually really enjoying this game. The characters are incredibly well written and well-liked; I absolutely love the artwork and all the wacky facial expressions that they have; and even know May, the protagonist, is mostly a silent protagonist, those fearful, hilarious facial expressions in each of the scenes with her in it are just way too much and you can definitely relate to her that she really doesn’t want to be here and is just basically doing this for the money.
And Gunn is definitely my favorite character other than May herself in this game. Gunn just reminds me so much of myself: big guy, looks and acts a bit creepy, but really is just a softie at heart. Plus he’s a healer! There’s not too many games out there where the healer is a dude, so kudos!
I guess the only thing that I kinda felt was a bit of a missed opportunity here since the characters do have individual stats and classes was adding an RPG component to the game, like being able to buy healing items, weapons and armor, and have random battles with enemies with choices that effect the battle’s outcome based on certain circumstances, almost similar to Radical Dreamers. If this game had something like that, along with levelling up, and travelling through different terrains at will, then this game would have been perfect.
But, either way, this is still a very good game. I’ll definitely have a review posted up once I get the rest of the endings.
I’m actually really enjoying this game. The characters are incredibly well written and well-liked; I absolutely love the artwork and all the wacky facial expressions that they have; and even know May, the protagonist, is mostly a silent protagonist, those fearful, hilarious facial expressions in each of the scenes with her in it are just way too much and you can definitely relate to her that she really doesn’t want to be here and is just basically doing this for the money.
And Gunn is definitely my favorite character other than May herself in this game. Gunn just reminds me so much of myself: big guy, looks and acts a bit creepy, but really is just a softie at heart. Plus he’s a healer! There’s not too many games out there where the healer is a dude, so kudos!
I guess the only thing that I kinda felt was a bit of a missed opportunity here since the characters do have individual stats and classes was adding an RPG component to the game, like being able to buy healing items, weapons and armor, and have random battles with enemies with choices that effect the battle’s outcome based on certain circumstances, almost similar to Radical Dreamers. If this game had something like that, along with levelling up, and travelling through different terrains at will, then this game would have been perfect.
But, either way, this is still a very good game. I’ll definitely have a review posted up once I get the rest of the endings.
Adding in actual rpg components would have been a WAYYYY different breed of monster, so I don't really think it's fair to ask that of it, personally.
Gonna try to write a review for this tomorrow. I just did Gunn's story first... I'm curious to see how the others hold up, because that was pretty interesting.
Currently screencapping
to use as my wallpaper~
Currently screencapping
Gunn holding May's hand by the cliffs
to use as my wallpaper~
MakioKuta
6556
Oh, Craze, let me gift you with the full sized version:
http://orig05.deviantart.net/fd2a/f/2015/101/b/f/cg_gn_loc1_by_makio_kuta-d8pddg5.png
(LINK IS CG SPOILER FOR GUNN'S ROUTE)
Thank you to everyone new who has played~ I'm glad you're enjoying the game! (looking forward to those reviews)
I told myself I was going to plan something for when we hit 2000 downloads, but we hit that number faster than I could think! <3 <3 Thank you again to everyone!
http://orig05.deviantart.net/fd2a/f/2015/101/b/f/cg_gn_loc1_by_makio_kuta-d8pddg5.png
(LINK IS CG SPOILER FOR GUNN'S ROUTE)
Thank you to everyone new who has played~ I'm glad you're enjoying the game! (looking forward to those reviews)
I told myself I was going to plan something for when we hit 2000 downloads, but we hit that number faster than I could think! <3 <3 Thank you again to everyone!
Addit
6394
author=Indra
Adding in actual rpg components would have been a WAYYYY different breed of monster, so I don't really think it's fair to ask that of it, personally.
Yeah…you’re probably right. I don’t know if Renpy has the capability of doing something like that along those types of lines, as I’ve never used it before myself...one day, maybe, but it’s more of a “what if?” scenario to me more than a nitpick. Either way, meep.
Also, review is done, proofread and submitted. And, this is just a friendly reminder to everyone else around here - but don’t try to proofread something while eating a delicious, turkey sandwich in your hands! You’ll be at it for hours, both you and the sandwich.
Reverie
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author=Additauthor=IndraYeah…you’re probably right. I don’t know if Renpy has the capability of doing something like that along those types of lines, as I’ve never used it before myself...one day, maybe, but it’s more of a “what if?” scenario to me more than a nitpick. Either way, meep.
Adding in actual rpg components would have been a WAYYYY different breed of monster, so I don't really think it's fair to ask that of it, personally.
I think it's actually possible for Renpy to have RPG components, if Winter Wolves' "Loren the Amazon" is something to go by. That said, I'm not implying it will be easy, just possible.
MakioKuta
6556
If we had decided to add RPG elements, we wouldn't have been able to make the game in the alloted time frame. A huge part of making this game was that "We need to FINISH something!" feeling, so we very much set out to make the goal of finishing by April 1st possible.
I wouldn't consider adding it to a future version though - I like how this is. The simple gameplay I think makes it easier to focus on the characters themselves? It's a Visual Novel and that's what I want it to be.
That aside, I've fallen deeply, madly in love with this format of storytelling. The more I think about it; the more I love it. I'm rolling a few ideas in my head that integrate the VN storytelling style with gameplay. (Like 999 or Dangan Ronpa or Phoenix Wright. Something like if you take Castle Chase and smash it into AwaF's face and then put them in a blender together? haha)
I wouldn't consider adding it to a future version though - I like how this is. The simple gameplay I think makes it easier to focus on the characters themselves? It's a Visual Novel and that's what I want it to be.
That aside, I've fallen deeply, madly in love with this format of storytelling. The more I think about it; the more I love it. I'm rolling a few ideas in my head that integrate the VN storytelling style with gameplay. (Like 999 or Dangan Ronpa or Phoenix Wright. Something like if you take Castle Chase and smash it into AwaF's face and then put them in a blender together? haha)
I adore this game. The characters were unique and the story telling left you always wanting more. The art style is wonderful. Love the way the story can still be light and humorous even though ultimately its quite deep and mature.
I'm particularly fond of Gunn. There's something incredibly appealing about a gentle giant. This may sound silly but I was also blown away that Gunn was hairy. I actually really liked that, I appreciate the facial fuzz, the hair on the arms and chest. Really thankyou.
Gabby was also excellent. A really nice female option. I second that it was lovely to see a girl with just as much personality as the boys. I'm pan so this was very exciting.
All the characters were very well written but those two are my personal favorites. Erwin was a pleasant surprise too, I admit I did not see that coming. Clever, clever writers ;)
I REALLY liked the music. I wish there were a way to download the tracks or at least listen to them individually on the bonus page or something.
All in all it's hard to describe my feelings for this game accurately it's that good. Everyone who worked on this should give themselves a big pat on the back and maybe indulge themselves in their favorite food because you earned it!
I'm particularly fond of Gunn. There's something incredibly appealing about a gentle giant. This may sound silly but I was also blown away that Gunn was hairy. I actually really liked that, I appreciate the facial fuzz, the hair on the arms and chest. Really thankyou.
Gabby was also excellent. A really nice female option. I second that it was lovely to see a girl with just as much personality as the boys. I'm pan so this was very exciting.
All the characters were very well written but those two are my personal favorites. Erwin was a pleasant surprise too, I admit I did not see that coming. Clever, clever writers ;)
I REALLY liked the music. I wish there were a way to download the tracks or at least listen to them individually on the bonus page or something.
All in all it's hard to describe my feelings for this game accurately it's that good. Everyone who worked on this should give themselves a big pat on the back and maybe indulge themselves in their favorite food because you earned it!
Racheal
7238
A music player was something I definitely intended to add to the proposed spruced up rerelease down the road once we had an original soundtrack to call this game's own. But with how well the selection of community tracks worked out, I am definitely debating adding one to a small update in the near future (May 1st??). For now, I can link you to the source of about 85% of the music: RMN Music Pack and My Memory Lane (MML) Music Mega-Pack.
And thank you. I also have trouble describing my feelings towards the overwhelming positive reception of this game.
And thank you. I also have trouble describing my feelings towards the overwhelming positive reception of this game.
Thankyou so much! This is very kind of you :)
Whatever you choose to do people will be more than happy with the game. If you do end up adding a music player would you be including all tracks in the game or just a select few popular ones?
Also Kent's fox, is it part of him or is it just the most amazing and loyal companion in the world?
Whatever you choose to do people will be more than happy with the game. If you do end up adding a music player would you be including all tracks in the game or just a select few popular ones?
Also Kent's fox, is it part of him or is it just the most amazing and loyal companion in the world?
I really liked this game. Normally art style is a big thing for me since I'm use to seeing anime style(not very adventurous with other design, stupid me), but this one I loved a whole bunch. All the characters were so adorable and unique. (I might do fanart later if that's ok)
Its funny cause I went for Blake first cause he seemed all adorable and strong and stuff, but ehhh was mistaken. So then it was Gabby then Gunn(i really like his story but only ranked 2nd for me) next was Kent. I wasn't expecting much from him, until I noticed the dialogue the main character was talking about during the other routes.(HE IMMEDIATELY BECAME NUMBER ONE CAUSE HES ALL AWWWWW and cause of the . that was a plus. He's just so oooo I don't even know how to explain it.)
I left Erwin last cause of the whole photo thing and he seemed like he would show most of April's back story.(was not completely wrong, but his route seemed kinda iffy to me.. I like fighting thats why him and Blake were at the bottom for me)
Overall I didn't care so much for the unfinished background and music loop. I think it was able to portray the story very well. (although seeing them in PJS would've been sweet) I really hope there's like a continuation or more to it. I really want to know why May looks so much April. (unless there's no particular story behind it then meh)
Oh i think I typed too much. Sorry first time being on this site and I don't even know if I used the hide button right.
Its funny cause I went for Blake first cause he seemed all adorable and strong and stuff, but ehhh was mistaken. So then it was Gabby
(cause why not, she's a fiery tsundere kind of character)
split personality
I left Erwin last cause of the whole photo thing and he seemed like he would show most of April's back story.(was not completely wrong, but his route seemed kinda iffy to me.
especially since he cant fight
Overall I didn't care so much for the unfinished background and music loop. I think it was able to portray the story very well. (although seeing them in PJS would've been sweet) I really hope there's like a continuation or more to it. I really want to know why May looks so much April. (unless there's no particular story behind it then meh)
Oh i think I typed too much. Sorry first time being on this site and I don't even know if I used the hide button right.
