Deadly Desires: LOVESTARVED - [a dark fantasy horror romance] - (demo)
LOVESTARVED OST Spotify & Other Release!
Okay, so I wasn't expecting it to go live so fast considering I only uploaded the album a few days ago, haha. But as far as I can tell, the Deadly Desires: LOVESTARVED original game soundtrack is now streamable on Spotify, Youtube Music, and a bunch of other places :D
I haven't had a chance to check it, so I hope it didn't bork the quality or anything, haha.
Anyways, now that it's live, I've also added the downloadable version to the game page (for a donation of $5), or it's available to download for free for supporters on Ko-Fi & Patreon :3
I should point out that this only contains each of the tracks featured in the current demo.
The full OST will have a few more tracks added to it once the full game release is out (and anyone who happens to have donated to download it will get those additional tracks in an updated upload of the album!)
Please note that most tracks do not have a clearly defined 'end' as I designed them to be loopable in-game. I'm not really sure how streaming services handle the looping of tracks, so it could potentially be jarring >.<
General Development Update
I figured rather than spamming a separate post about this it would make more sense to just include a note here x3
If you didn't already know, my new PC broke shortly after releasing the LOVESTARVED demo >.< After a lengthy process trying to get it fixed with the tech support team, it was determined it needed to be returned (again!), only this time, they agreed to just refund me rather than replacing parts and shipping it out again.
As you can probably imagine, this has hampered progress with development of the project :( The only device I can use right now is the old potato laptop, which isn't capable of doing a great deal. I can just about make music & type stuff on it, but it can't run Unity.
It's looking like I might not be able to get a new PC until mid-late August, so until then, I'm just going to be focusing on music-related stuff + catching up on much life admin that I neglected during the jam x3
This also means that my initial estimated/hoped release for the full otome version of the game for the end of Monstrous Desires jam in October is highly unlikely >.<
It sucks, but there's not much I can do about it, sadly. The demo took 2 months to make, and that was working flat-out in a pretty unhealthy way. The rest of the game is around double the length of the demo, so even if I could get started right away at the end of August, it just wouldn't be possible to make that Monstrous Desires deadline T_T
So yeah, I'm not super sure when we will get the full otome version finished and released, and I don't really wanna make another estimated date because as soon as I say one, my curse will probably kick in and more bad luck will happen to prevent me working on the project xD
Whenever I have a working PC again though, I'll be straight back to working on it :3
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YAY -- well not yay for your computer being bricked, that's super unfortunate and I hope is resolved as soon as it can be. It's always frustrating when your tools give out and you just wanna work on stuff! And as I've said before, I'm looking forward to more Lovestarved! But I've also been eagerly anticipating the release of the OST, so I'm stoked that it's up now. ^_^
It's not Spooktober, but some friends and I are teaming up to participate in a ten day VN jam next week, ish -- Velox Fabula. We would be thrilled if you'd be down to join our team for that. And based on the tone of your games I feel like content-wise we could be a good fit. No worries if not, though! And if you want to check out the stuff we've done in the past before deciding, we have a couple on itch here.
Congrats on the album release!!
Haha, yeah, it’s a mixed bag at the moment x3 I’m just grateful that the potato will allow me to make music at least while I’m without a PC! And the PC dying kinda gave me a kick up the butt to look into the Spotify stuff a little sooner than planned, haha. Here’s to hoping that it didn’t get messed up for streaming >.<
I’m not sure what to do about the rest of the OST for the project because I do already have a handful of extra tracks for it finished, just not all of them. I guess I’ll release an extended version or something when it’s ready. It’s just there’s one track in particular that isn’t in the demo that I’m kind of dying to release xD It’s not often I’m legitimately proud of stuff I’ve made, but there’s one track that I’m so happy with how it came out that I’m stupidly excited to share it, haha.
Ooooh, man… you’ve just reminded me of another jam I meant to account for this year but forgot to T_T August is slowly turning into a bit of a fomo month for me, haha. I missed the last Velox Fabula and vowed to try and make something for it next time!! And the same with Murderboy Mayhem >.< And now there is also Tales To Thrill this month which looks awesome! I wish I could participate in them all :(
I would absolutely love to join your team for Velox Fabula, I’m just worried I’d end up letting you down >.< I checked the dates of the jam, and realistically, I would only be able to work on something for it for 3-4 of the 10 days T_T
I’m away from home from tonight until 10th August, and when I get back on 10th, I’ve got stuff that badly needs attending to in my dad’s garden that I’ve neglected for too long, so that’s probably gonna take up all of Sunday >.< As far as I know, I should have 12th-15th mostly free, but then I’m away from home again on 16th August all the way up until the evening of the 20th August, which isn’t ideal.
I don’t even normally go away in August, but my dad is really sick and tired of the job he’s on atm because it’s gruelling work, and the recent heatwave kinda destroyed him, so he said he’s gonna let the younger folks on the building site deal with the rest of that particular job they have on atm cos he’s just too old to cope with it :( He also hates sitting at home with time off doing nothing though, so he booked a couple of mini-breaks to nature reserves and said I’m coming along too because I need time away from staring at screens xD
Not that I’m complaining in the slightest! I’m grateful for the break, and I love spending time out in nature with him :3 It’s just bad timing with all these amazing jams on in August, haha.
If you think there’s a chance I could contribute something useful in the small amount of time I’d have to work on something during the jam, then I’d still love to join you :3 But no worries if you think it would be too tight! The last thing I want is to mess up your project because I can’t commit enough time to it >.<
Speaking of your project/s, I really need to check them out when I get a chance because they look fantastic!! :3 I should give myself more time to play stuff in general cos my backlog is crazy at this point, and I always tell myself I’m gonna have a week of purely playing other people’s games, and then somehow end up working on stuff instead >.<
I also see you made something for the OST Composing Jam, and now I’m sad I didn’t manage to rate it T_T I so desperately wanted to hear everything, but that was virtually impossible. In the end, I only managed to rate around 60-70 things, and I just know I’m missing out on incredible music by not having heard more!
I just had a listen to what you made for the jam though, and it sounds brilliant :3 I kinda wanna experiment more with orchestral stuff because I haven’t tried to much since Sapphire Snowe, and that wasn’t really super orchestral heavy! The Fountain theme gives me wonderful Final Fantasy vibes :D
Anyways, I should probably shut up x3 Sorry I rambled so much >.< If you wanted to just reply re: Velox Fabula, feel free to ignore the rest of my rambling, haha. (You are, of course, also free to just ignore my entire ramble wall xD)
And thank you for your kind words again! Hope your week is an awesome one :3
Sorry for structuring this reply in bullet form, my brain is just struggling a bit to be coherent today, but!
- The Spotify release has been sounding good to me so far! And an extended version sounds like a great idea ^^
- I also wish I could participate in a bunch more jams. So much to do, so little time.
- It's totally okay!! We'd be honored to have you in whatever capacity you can manage. We have a dev discord where we're discussing ideas; if you'd like I could send you an invite? Whatever way you prefer to communicate would be fine though!
- I feel you on the crazy backlog. Feel free to peruse whenever! No pressure at all.
- Honestly time away in nature is so good, I hope you enjoy it!
- Aw, thanks for the nice words about my OST Jam submission! I'm glad the final fantasy vibes came through since I was looking there for influence. And honestly when I saw how many submissions there were I got super overwhelmed so I didn't get to rate as many as I would have liked myself.
I hope you have a wonderful week as well!!!
No worries at all! :3 And I’m sorry it’s taken me this long to get back to you when something time-sensitive is involved >.<
If I could have replied sooner, I would have, but while I was away most of the week I had no phone signal T_T The place we stayed was supposed to have WiFi, but it didn’t work, so I was only able to see and start replying to stuff I missed now that I’m home again :(
That’s a relief to hear about the Spotify release anyhow :3
There is never enough time in the world for all the jams x3
Sadly, it’s looking like I’m not going to have any time at all to join you for that particular jam T_T My doctor’s appointment that was supposed to be today has been moved to next Tuesday, and with the stress of it + travel, I will pretty much lose that entire day. But worse than that, I seem to have caught some kinda bug while away cos I don’t feel so great >.<
I think I’m just gonna have to accept that I’ll have to sit this one out, even though I desperately wish I could join you :( I really hope that it won’t have caused you guys any problems when I initially said I might have a few days to contribute something.
Please feel free to add me on Discord still if you want to though because I would love to have the opportunity to work with you another time if possible! It’s just unfortunate timing this particular jam >.<
Yeah, there were a hell of a lot of submissions to that OST jam, so I feel you on being overwhelmed there x3 It’s great that there are so many people out there making awesome music though :D
Apologies again that I couldn’t respond faster >.< Hope your week has been good & that your weekend is even better! And I hope you guys have a blast with the jam :3
Sorry for my own super late reply! Been swamped with both work on games and outside stuff.
I hope you're feeling better!! And that you were able to rest up and recuperate peacefully. Did you manage to get out into the garden, or were those plans thwarted, too?
It's totally cool that you had to pass on the project. Time got the best of us so we wound up only getting one track into the game anyway, since I was coding right up until the deadline, haha. We're thinking of doing a version 2.0 of the game after the voting period ends (and well we'd like to do version 2.0s of all the games we've done - there's always room for expansion and improvement) and audio is one of our top priorities for that so we'll see how that goes!
If the adding on Discord option is still open, my username there is curricle as well ^_^
No worries at all! And mine is super late once again x3 Also swamped with a mixture of stupid life stuff and spooktober jam madness, haha.
Funnily enough, I have covid now, so even though I was feeling better in between, I’m not doing so great again x3 I did manage to get out into the garden for a bit before getting ill again though at least! Although, we have had torrential rain the past couple of days which has destroyed some of my poor plants >.<
I hope you do manage to work on some version 2.0s of projects cos as you say, there’s always room to expand on stuff, and once the horror of jam deadlines has passed, you can work on things more freely to get them to a place that you can be content with :3
And, absolutely, adding on Discord is still an option!! ^-^ I will see if I can add you after I send this! Though, I don’t always have the best luck when it comes to Discord and it quite often tells me people don’t exist when I try to type in usernames, haha. If I can't manage to add you, feel free to try and add me instead!
I hope you have been well anyhow :3
the curse has stricken again >:( curses!
jokes aside stuff like that happens- it cant be helped so u make sure to take care of urself mely.
Im sooo happy that u got to put ur music from Deadly Desires on spotify - i will make sure to listen to it!.
i dont know if u remember but i asked u if its okay to make a video on Deadly Desires. i finished most of my prep for it and will upload it in a few days. ( i did one ending- i did the rest of camera- it was a good time ;3)
also
UR GAMES NEVER DISAPPOINT <<33- im already smitten with Erys already .-. ( cant help it soob)
anyway have a good one- and take caaaareeee <<<33
Yeah x3 I’m just glad that it hasn’t happened right in the middle of a jam and prevented me from submitting something I’ve already spent hours working on though at least, haha.
I do remember :D And that’s awesome! :3 I just saw your other post too with the video!!
Glad that you like Erys ^-^ I just want to give him lots of head pats & hugs, haha.
I hope you are taking care too!! :3
Hellooo! the moment ı opened this app ı saw your post in my feed and decided to come and put some comment :3
I am actually playing the other game ''The shuddering'' but only got like one ending so far ( ı guess ı keep making same decisions somehow lol) and ıts also very well made! ı was kind freaked out once ı just clicked ''preferences'' to lover the music a bit (ıdk why but for some reason music was supressing the VA's voice) and literally found myself in front of that entity after she ''dismissed me'' in first round but ı guess as a player who also played your other games ı shouldnt have been so suprised XD ıdk ı guess ı was caught off guard haha
Im actually happy that this time company didnt keep you on hook and refunded yay!
Its very sad that now you got stuck with the potato though thankfully ıt still can allow you to create music. plus maybe ıts sad that potato wont allow you to finish your game I think rest is alot more important for you right now. Because ı have been seeing lots of project coming from you in very short amount of time and ıt kinda feels like ıf you keep giving your all you might fall ill.
Of course ı love your games your ideas and your music but ı would also be very glad ıf you would take care of yourself since ı also believe rest is actually important step of ''working better'' soo hoooraaay for your upcoming rest and musics ı hope things about finding a good laptop will also end well ^^
Hey hey! :3 Ahh, well, that was very kind of you :D
Cheers for checking out The Shuddering too ^-^ Feel free to peek in the walkthrough if you want to find the other endings :3 I made it mostly free of spoilers.
Hahaha, yeeeeah, you should have known by now there would be something sneaky lurking in there :P I’m glad that it still surprised you though even though you know of my tricks x3
Yeah, I’m grateful that all the back & forth with the company is over because it was really stressing me out >.< I swear I aged like 10 years in the process, haha.
You’re right though, it’s probably for the best that I’m restricted when it comes to project work atm because I had been doing back-to-back jams like an idiot again and not really resting x3 Now I’m kind of forced to rest more! It’s nice to have a break from coding anyhow :3
It’s frustrating because I wanted to keep momentum with working on Lovestarved, and there are some really cool short jams in August too that I would have liked to try and make some small things for, but I guess it’s better to be forced to miss out than to force myself to keep going and then get mega burnt out >.<
Being able to make music still is nice since it feels like being a bit productive while also helping to recharge myself :3
Thank you as always for your support and well-wishes :3 You are so sweet!! I hope that are able to have time to rest as well & that August ends up being an awesome month for you ^-^