Well, it is finally here. A working launch, I hope.

I am hardly an expert in Game Jams, as this was the first one I took part in, but I get a nagging feeling Yaoi Jam 2021 might have been cursed…… or I would, if I believed such things.

When the deadline for submission neared the zero hour Devs who hadn’t yet began uploading their games to the Jam. Then judging from what was being said in Discord, folks began either having issues or finding bugs with their projects after they had been released.

Yours truly was not an exception. From a Ren’Py Launcher who crashed and froze when trying to make the build, to an itch.io that took an ungodly amount of time to upload the game file (so much I truly thought the deadline had passed before it was uploaded to the page), the last day of August turned out to be a nerve-wracking, stressful experience that left me drained.

Of course, it wasn’t over yet. After it was all done I found there was a bug in the build I made.

With my head turned to water, I simply decided to go ‘F-it’ and call it a night. I blocked the download of the faulty build and decided to go back to it later.

And later, here we are, finally. The issue was dealt with, and after some more Ren’Py Launcher screw-ups I finally have ‘Shinikake No Koi’ released for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

I hope you enjoy it, and that it does not cause your hard drive to melt, or something.

Not that I believe in curses, of course. I also don’t believe in faeries…...