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[ FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT BEFORE LONG-TERM HIATUS ]

Hello Everyone!

This isn't really a final FINAL announcement but an announcement regardless. 

First of all, I would like to thank everyone for sticking around for "The Kid at the Back" since first release up until now. I am still currently in hiatus, juggling both boothing, travelling and working on the game. For now, I'll just be answering some general questions here.

Are you a game company/team/group?

As I have stated in my IP Guidelines and multiple times throughout my journey,  "The Kid at the Back" is made by ONE PERSON. I am not a company, I am not a team studio, I am simply a one-man dev, and I do all of the coding, the writing with the help of some friends, and most especially the art.

Second, I only made this Visual Novel for FUN. It is a passion project, and I don't have a proper schedule for working on it since I have other real-life jobs to do. I travel most of the time, and I do artist booths within my country, so my time is minimal. This means I only work on the game during my free time.

Are you accepting help with your game development?

Third, as much as I appreciate people willing to help me, I would rather have full control of my game, this is MY project and MY journey on game development so having people into the mix will crush my workflow.

Are you accepting collaborations?

The only official collaboration I have as of May 15, 2025 is with Plush Wonderland. Other than that, I don't accept collaborations at this moment.

Is the game complete/finished?

People keep mistaking my game to be finished when it is NOT.

it is still in progress and it is a very very SLOW progress, I have multiple lines to redo, re-code, and re-write and correct along with writing the last remaining days. doing new sprites and CG art.

When is the next update?/When will you release Day 3?

This question has been answered ages ago but I will be stating it here once and for all so that I don't have to keep repeating myself. 

No, I won't be updating the DEMO anymore.

VERSION 2.3.3 will be the LAST demo update, slight grammatical errors and everything because I will be focusing on developing and fleshing out my game's dialogue and writing rather than thinking back on the demo and its errors, forcing me to not make any progress and staying stagnant which I do not want.

The next big "update" will be the full game itself.

I will occasionally post in my patreon about my progress but once again, it will be slow and I will only post if I feel like sharing do please don't expect a lot, I won't be increasing the slots for soulmates either. 

Anything I post in twitter will just be regular announcements, as of May 17, 2025, "The Kid at the Back" is collaborating with Plush Wonderland on the new collaborative work on 20cm dolls, I don't handle the doll's development and shipping, etc, it's all on Plush Wonderland, I only do checking and approving on merchandise to be sold by Plush, so if you have any questions about the doll, please ask Plush Wonderland directly.

Best Regards, Fantasia.

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[ FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT BEFORE LONG-TERM HIATUS ] - The Kid at the Back (DEMO) by 𝖋𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖘𝖎𝖆 | TealCat

Hello Everyone! This isn't really a final FINAL announcement but an announcement regardless. First of all, I would like to thank everyone fo

OMG HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALAN‼️‼️

Birthday boy!!

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Very pretty princess

Hello Reo Kitty!!

I love them so much your honor

Reposting in case I'll need this

Hello i'm a normal person here's some stuff i drew to illustrate different traits different "person getting controlled" tropes can have

edit: obligatory possession shorthand code link because people seem to be using this like the possession code but just. without the code part

edit: DO NOT BE HORNY ON MY POST 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

How I felt like watching the game plays one after the other

IM FAITHFUL TO GRIM I SWEAR

if you're gonna say the marauders, include peter too! give peter personality! if you believe in cannon, the reason his betrayal was so heartbreaking was because they were such good friends! peter is one of the marauders, they're all best friends with their own dynamics in their relationships with each other. stop making him this little boy obsessed with james or just this guy you're forced to include. include peter too!!

consider this a peter pettigrew appreciation post, and expect headcannons for him coming soon :)

I will literally sob I love them all so much<3

things i personally would like for ga-ming because i'm biased:

him and yun jin as long distance friends/acquaintances; for one they're the two poster children of liyue traditional performing arts, and for another they both seem to like tea. i hope yun jin teaches him how to get more customers/paying clients bc OTL mans lion dance troupe is struggling. hc that gaming brings her new tea shipments fresh from yilong port/chenyu vale :3

him and chongyun. somehow fandom (ie at least 3 ppl) has collectively had the same delusion that he and cy will interact and im here for it. them vying for xiao's attention or being claymore training buddies or whatever i just need them to have voicelines together

on a similar note if gaming likes spicy food. HAHAHAHA another person who triggers chongyun's yang energy...........

but from what we know of xinyue kiosk's cuisine style + the fact that gaming's canto, it seems unlikely that he'll prefer spicy stuff (maybe a seafood special dish????). so maybe they'll be ok having dinner together

they already look like they're plugging gaming and xiao interaction but IT WILL COME TRUE. TRUST. the whole "donning/taking off a mask" parallel, lion dances bringing good luck vs xiao's task of subduing evil during lantern rite, and his concept art waving at xiao and calling him senior/adeptus or whatever, anyways I need this to be in game. it would be SO FUN because this means xiao is literally just collecting pyro kids (hu tao, xiangling, now gaming) who've simply decided to like him. he could bring a lantern rite performance to wangshu inn since he travels anyway and xiao doesn't like the crowds

xiangling gives him free food and guoba likes him. don't have much thought behind this one i just want the pyro users to hang out and idk lion dancers should get free things i think. she provides cabbages for him during his shows (she swears on this kind of thing for wanmin's good luck and growing fortunes)

idk what else. i just need him to get integrated into liyue 6ang (xinyan xiangling hu tao chongyun xingqiu yun jin group)

i'll be thoroughly shocked if any of these actually come true but i can daydream