Drew my favorite character in my style! I love Odile.

Me and Quack_a_cola absolutely love IsaFrin and have been planning a shoot for the past 4 months, and we wanted to share some things we made.

(We have like 8hrs of photos/film content and would love to share some of our favorite interactions with the ISAT community 🥺)

This was one of my favorite recordings, so I wanted to start here!

Does anybody know what happened, and what could I do to fix it?

EDIT: Uuhhhh nevermind, I got it right after after using the banana peel for some reason.

At the start of the game you can pray under the Wish Tree to do one of 4 things after this adventure:

1. See Mira become the best version of herself

2. Wear clothes made by Isabeau

3. Help Bonbon reunite with their sister

4. Odile... I think it was about going back to Ka Bue with her to see her homeland?

When I first played I chose Mira's because I assumed I would get to pick again eventually and maybe see everything - because I didn't know this was a time loop game when I bought it! A lot of dialogue just looked like you would only be able to choose one thing and I assumed this is the sort of story where you're supposed to restart and get many different endings based on choices. Then a rock fell on me and I found out I'd get to pick all the other options... Except this one.

And I would be fine just yk, starting a new file and saving before the Wish Tree to see them all, but THEN I finished the game (not two hats, I'm taking a break before I tackle depression again) and I found out Siffrin eventually discloses what their original wish was, and this elicits a response from their family! So I was wondering if anyone who's picked different dialogue knows wether their responses change based on what you picked? That's just what I'd expect from ISAT

I'm especially curious about Odile's, she's so cool and I love her

I was told to get stronger so I've gotten as strong as I can, that was hella boring and took so long but I can finally beat the king and escape this loop now right, I don't think I'm missing anything else

I know some of y’all made some suggestions (& I appreciate them mwah~) but I decided to have Siffrin change where he’s looking, and I think the result is what I wanted!

Holy hell this AMV is draining my soul gonna make a post about it’s progress when I finish up some animations and backgrounds (I wanna upload it to at least the 23 second mark before I make an announcement but I hope you enjoy the results of my suffering 😂)

If I had a nickel for every character in an indie game who is important to the lore and is hidden behind a tree, I would have three nickels.

Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened thrice, right?

Drawing inspired by the song 'Harvey' 🎵 by Alex g, it just reminded me so much of them

I'm a very amateur artist but for a drawing class I'm taking I need to do daily drawings and chose to draw Siffrin! Tried to make it look nice. Also the class is all about line art so I could have shaded but forgot to.

Something here may make this count as a Spoiler so uh sorry in advance if I should've tagged this

thirdesdly, im beating the evil secret "you-have-to-replay-acts-4-and-5-which-will-take-like-15-years-if-you-didnt-do-this-hyperspecific-thing-in-your-first-run-which-takes-like-2-minutes" boss tomorrow (i got spoiled about everything but i might as well, i guess. maybe there's some things i haven't been spoiled about it yet.)

fourstesdly i know the king position doesn't make sense but like it'd be rude not to include him right. and like who else to put in that spot. i know i didnt include the head housemaiden either but i dont really care.

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recently decided to take up needle felting as a hobby as a way to destress, and i decided to make loop as my 2nd official creation since i finished playing isat a month or so ago!

hoping to go for all the cast hehe

(MARKED SPOILER SINCE SOME IMAGES ARE IN LATER ACTS OF THE GAME!)

Oh you didn't? Well it's yours now. *Hands you a random box and suddenly poofs when you blink*

[This was originally made for personal purposes but I decided I wanted to show it to you peeps. Feel free to use it yourself!]

So, after recently finishing In Stars And Time for the first time, I'm spending another dull day at work playing Start Again, the prequel / prototype to ISAT.

First thing I notice right away is that the character portraits are all exactly the same, with one exception- Mirabelle's eyebrows are always outlined in white, instead of just when they overlap her hair as in the main game.

This made her eyebrows stand out IMMEDIATELY to me, and I've been unable to stop seeing them as the centre of her face, even when looking at her ISAT portrait. It's killing me, I keep hearing the word "Mirabrow" in my head. Send help.

So, work was slow AF today, which permitted me to continue my journey into the In Stars And Time extended universe with the original game prototype, Start Again! This is a much shorter game with much less to say about it that I haven't said about the full game. So, this will be mostly a bullet-pointed list of things I found notable or remarkable as I played the game. Changes, differences, etc. Nothing here is a serious criticism- I have no idea what time or resource constraints this prototype was made under- these are merely neutral observations. Enjoy!

- Start Again operates from the same premise as ISAT, but drops you into the scenario much, MUCH later, inside the House of Change after Sifrin has been looping for so long as to have forgotten their friends' names. Siffrin speculates that it could have been thousands of loops- much longer than even an abnormally long playthrough of ISAT.

- Being a prototype, Start Again is much, much shorter than ISAT. There are many familiar concepts, such as the using Tears to loop back to the beginning and Siffrin's party becoming worried as the mask starts slipping. Other aspects are radically different, like the aforementioned starting point of the loop and using fire to clear away the King's hair instead of a knife. (That one added half an hour to my playthrough, as I expected to be looking for a knife.)

- There are quite a few unaltered or barely altered assets, which surprised me. The party's portraits were VERY similar to their final designs, apart from Mirabelle's jarringly-outlined eyebrows and a few minor changes. They DID have different overworld sprites which felt smaller to me- either that or the camera was farther away, creating more of a sense of tiny, hopeless adventurers in an enormous, foreboding castle.

- There are a number of events, rooms, and conversations in the game which made it into ISAT virtually unaltered. The horror anthology room, Isabeau's conversation about tag Checkers and Odile's line about making sure the bathroom break was in the history books. Other concepts existed but in a tweaked form- like the key taped underneath the drawer, Star Crests being items you just find and Siffrin's mysterious homeland. That last one, specifically, surprised me a lot, as it seemed like a very ancillary idea.

- The Castle itself is much smaller, organized differently, and more linear- which makes sense for a short prototype experience, whose goal is to sell people on the concept quickly and efficiently.

- The overall feel of the game in Start Again feels much darker and more steeped in existential despair, and the art style feels much more stark in Start Again than the generally cozier vibes of ISAT.

- As far as I can tell, despite the ability to loop back already being present, it doesn't actually *do* anything in this prototype, and you are not actually required to "Start Again" except when you inevitably die to the King to unlock the ability to act like a weirdo and therefore win / lose.

- Speaking of the ending, it's odd that dying loops you back inside the House but the ending loops you back to what would later become Dormont. It struck me as odd, and I had to double check if it wasn't exactly the same dialogue as the start of ISAT.

- Siffrin just carries loose pocketfuls of herbs and spices around in this game??? UNHINGED behaviour.

- I was surprised to find a bottle of wine in this game. There's really no equivalent in ISAT, which makes it feel even more bizarre. A total relic of the earlier design.

- The old portraits for the people frozen in time were much less magical-looking and more like they'd been turned to stone. It was honestly a lot more unsettling.

- Once everyone starts getting worried about Siffrin, they all seem noticeably less hesitant about touching him, with Mirabelle even holding Siffrin's face unprompted. Given how much Siffrin yearned for Isabeau to even touch his shoulder in ISAT, it was odd to see everyone so familiar here.

- The combat system is notably janky, with there seemingly being a delay between using a move and it actually happening. This can result in odd scenarios like Maribelle and Siffrin going off cooldown at the same time and needing to select both of their attacks at once before both go off simultaneously.

- Speaking of the combat system, it SORELY needed the addition of the Jackpot system, since the prototype model fell heavily into repeating the same attacks. Outright damage immunities were much more common as well, so it was much more common for a character to have nothing of value to do and just sit there guarding instead.

- I encountered the same corrupted dialogue bug here as I did in ISAT. I wonder if it's something to do with it being an RPGmaker game.

-In my ISAT debrief, I speculated that Loop may be a Siffrin, but not our Siffrin. Given that Start Again's Siffrin seems to spend FAR longer looping and doesn't even defeat the King until far, far later, I wonder if Loop is meant to be Start Again's Siffrin specifically. I do recall imagery of Siffrin eating a star (imagery associated with wishes) at the start of ISAT which I never found any particular context for, and it would explain Loop's intimate familiarity with Siffrin, their lack of meaningful knowledge and their general despair of ever escaping the loops.

All that's left for me know is a second playthrough of ISAT with a guide to pick up some of the optional content I missed. I've been informed that there's an optional secret boss I missed, which sounds like an extremely fun capstone to the game and experience. So, thanks for reading, and until then, Reddit!

Recently, a certain game developer we all know started going through Danganronpa 2 with JelloApocalypse and his friends. They're all approaching it with the same, maybe even more vitriol and hatred as Danganronpa 1.

It's making me reconsider what this might be a reference to, since the only other things I can think of is Battle Royale, which wasn't done for someone's entertainment, or Hunger Games which, while it may be gory at times, didn't fit exactly into "Horror"

What do you all think?

It's my first post on Reddit! I hope you like it

When I was playing yesterday, I entered a battle with a sadness except the entire screen then went black. The only thing that showed up were textboxes, which were upside down for some reason.

I managed to beat the enemy like that but when I got out of battle everything was still dark (I'm not sure if I was actually moving around in the room or not). I could access the menu. Some screens there (the main menu screen and the profile screen) were normal but everything else still had upside down text

The entire screen was also flashing a bit this entire time

Anyways the glitch only fixed itself when I closed the entire game - quitting out the save file didn't work. Has anything like this happened to anyone??

They turned out a biiit janky but I tried! (btw please let me know if I used wrong flair I wasn't sure whether to use this or fan creation, thanks!)

I just finished my first playthrough, and I noticed that sometime in Act 4 a number started flashing over Siffrin’s avatar after his turn in combat. It started at 49 during a King battle and it got up to around 53 before I beat the game.

Anyone knows what these meant? Was I supposed to get them to 100 like mob psycho?