EMMYCH'S PROFILE

Sorry to see this is cancelled! I deffos wish you all the luck in the world, though, since yes do I ever feel the frustration of wanting to offer something to people For Free but not having the luxury of expendable free time in order to create said thing. It is super understandable that, in lieu of being paid in interest and feedback, you'd want to get paid in actual money. I know that I personally plan to release smaller projects for a couple of bucks here and there, when I actually have time to develop something again, and will deffos be mad tacky and shoving a patreon or paypal link in people's faces when I get back to working on my larger projects that will be released for free, since yup sure do gotta eat and pay rent.

Good luck in your future endeavors! Sad to see this project go, but I'm glad you learned more about yourself and what you need from your work. ;v;

@unity & Ronove: Straight up this falls in line exactly with Penta's usual MO. They would do shitty things to me all the time to elicit reasons to feel bad about themself. They said upsetting things to pick fights, and then talked about how bad they felt so I wouldn't have room to be upset and had to focus on comforting them instead. I am 100% sure that's what's happening here since yup the timing is incredibly suspect for Reasons and yup the way they responded to you, Ronove, is very familiar to me.

Basically, don't bother engaging. They WANT a negative response, so if you don't give them one, they will eventually move on to something else.

NAH, DHM, it's a hobby. Deliver at your pace.

I think this one was one the first RM games I downloaded and played way back when I first discovered there were people other than me and my sister who used this software! I remember being totally wow'd by it, so yeah it is super neat to see you still chugging along and making progress on this game. It's very inspiring! So thanks for bein' around and bein' cool~

I look forward to one day playing the finished product, whether that be in 1 or 30 years <W<

author=Dragol
Ok, I was confused and didn't get it. Didn't know I offended you.
But... short name for Svetlana is Sveta, not Lana.

Lana calls herself Lana because she feels "Svetlana" is too Russian of a name to fit in with American culture. The game is set in a time when Russian immigrants faced open discrimination in the US, so Lana chooses to adopt a more American identity to dodge some of this/make a fresh start in a new country after fleeing Russia after the revolution. Though you can't hear it, she also has an accent that she has worked very hard to conceal! It's another reason she hates having her sibling around, as Kozmin makes no effort to conceal her accent and is openly proud of her heritage, not considering herself an American at all. This outs Lana by association.

Kozmin actually calls her Sveta all throughout the game, because she, being her Russian sibling, knows the proper diminutive for Svetlana. This is a sticking point in their relationship because it is evidence of Kozmin choosing to live in the past/wishing she could return home, while Lana actually prefers being American, as she has had access to new opportunities and chances to shape her life they way she's always wanted to.

You probably wouldn't catch this nuance from the game page alone, so I'd recommend you play the game if you have any further questions! Hopefully the material will speak for itself, and if it doesn't, feel free to PM me with any plot/characterization gaps you think you've come across and I'll be sure to address them.

*slides away slowly*