Around one month after the release of the new chapter, I need to thank all the people who came here to have a look at what we did.

To quantify more precisely how much you liked the last release:

The game is currently in 185 collections.

The game has been downloaded 975 times in total, 90 since the last release.

The game has attracted so far 100 followers, 10 since the last release.

It has 11 5 star ratings, 6946 views and has received 5 donation on a total of 19€.

I know it is not much, but to be fair, this is more than I could've imagined when starting making the game for the Yaoi Game Jam on August 2021. I am thankful to everyone of you who has downloaded the game, 

This Visual Novel has seen the contribution of the team and many people, to whom I am deeply grateful to have joined me into this journey and helped me deliver the final product.

These people are:

Edsan

Hen

Juiceyo

Mochi

Alex Itsios

Oliver Juice

And the support of:

Kaite Mirek

Sselene

The BL Visual Novel Discord Channel

The owners of the Yaoi Game Jam

and all the friends that supported me in these sometimes not easy times.

And by not easy times I mean it. I was the producer, the writer, the artist, and also the designer and the director.
I wanted this game to see the light, badly, because I knew it has something good to say and to show, and I know that some people will appreciate it as much as I do. It was exhausting to work on the game everyday, it was like having two jobs and I didn't have any break from it - and if I had, it was soon gone. I always had the enthusiasm for it though, I have to be sincere. As soon as I finished the last chapter, I was ready to dive in into the next. In fact, some of the Chapter 5 script has been written... even though you will not see it, at least not for how things are now.

Because I weighted my priorities and, as much as I want this game to go on, I don't have the strength to go once again through the process of another chapter, and I don't get back enough from it to justify this amount of effort. This means that... Captive is right now interrupted, and unfinished.

It is also because I am starting to feel the urge to experiment on another medium right now. I want to make a comic, and I think that Captive would make a great comic. So it is possible that you will see the Chapter 5.... if you like comics :)

The comic is a Work In progress right now, I have made a couple of character sheets:

And when I'll have the first release I will also update the itch.io with the links and the news - it will be once again for free, so you can read it without problems.

What you might like to spend for, though, is the Captive Artbook that I had announced as a WIP some time ago. It is now finished, with characters' sketches, some of my favourite art of the game, and also a thorough and deep commentary about the project, where it comes from, what are the themes that it wants to explore.

The reason why I didn't release this one for free is because I do believe that all this work that has been done was a big one: it took a lot of time, a lot of effort and experimenting, and especially a lot of passion, talent, good skills. I am very proud of what we accomplished, and if I gave it away completely for free it wouldn't bring justice to the product at all. So if you as well believe that we did a good job and if you would like to give us a tip, I wanted to give you a chance to do that and to receive something more in return. I really recommend the artbook. Here is a thumbnail:

This is all the news I have for now. I am sorry that I have to interrupt the game, I would've wanted to get at least one more chapter- because Chapter 5 would've portrayed one of my favourite characters and there would've been a great plot twist for Val's skills. Maybe you will see it on the comic though! So keep yourself updated through all the social media - the Instagram, the Twitter, this one page, and my Tapas profile.
I will leave all the links down here, and once again thank you for having gone through this journey with me.

Instagram

Twitter

Tapas profile