Kuroyuri 35 at 0:22.
Original submission for Touhou Pride Game Jam 7. A mouse-only experience (sorry controller users).
Soundtrack at https://fmkr-project.itch.io/kitakami-ost.
It is highly recommended to use the .zip version! (For stability reasons, and also since it contains a few (interesting?) extras not present in the web version.)
Kosuzu is invited by Akyuu to her symposium, co-hosted by Keine, about translating into the mathematical world concepts and phenomena happening all over Gensokyo. However, she's less interested by the talks than by hearing the sweet voice of her lover...
As Kosuzu's about to continue reading illustrious Japanese writer Nagai Kafuu's magnum opus, Danchoutei Nichijou, she stumbles across an old notebook that would make her remember her days at school with her first(?) true love...
Mandatory OC warning.
Also, mandatory AI disclosure... spoiler- having absolutely none of this:
Art - Creative Commons (with appropriate clauses) for backgrounds, the mighty pen & paper combo for portraits (five-year old 4H pen (that was also used to write countless math / physics exercices), if you wanted to know)
Sound - Pixabay + (too much hours spent on) MuseScore (Studio) 4
Text - Don't tell anyone but I sort of wrote about 40% of this script during work hours...
Download
Install instructions
1) Unzip the downloaded zip
2) Run the kuro.exe executable.
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oh my god.
i feel like i've been staring at a snowflake on an iceberg. that for all the elegant fractals, there's unfathomably more story supporting it. i opened the touhou pride game jam for a warm escape, yet the backgrounds prick me with a numbing reality that turns my stomach. i am filled then encased in a crystalline block of music, and together, we're slid— helplessly— through the narrative.
it's going to take a long time for me to untangle this experience. i'm crushed and sobered by its starkness. sincerely, thank you so much for making this and for sharing.