Ballad of the Cosplayer
A downloadable game for Windows
After entering a cosplay contest finale, you thought all you needed to do was strike a cool pose and leave with the winnings-- only during that final moment you're transported to another world!
Now under the guise of being the summoned "Demon King" you must convince the monsters around you that you're in fact one of them.
Not to mention a "hero" and almost-literal god are out for your neck! Will you survive and possibly find romance or die trying?
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The first demo features...
- The first part of Act 1
- Fully customisable MC with 3 body types, pronoun and name choice.
- 25k words (about 30-50mins of gameplay)
- Point and click elements
- 15+ CGs and variations
- Over 30 different choices
- 2 Bad ends
The full game will feature...
- 4 Acts filled with complex and meaningful choices
- 4 love interests with intersecting storylines
- Side characters that have their own story arcs
- Choices that effect not only who you romance but the fate of Runera
- 3 Main endings per love interest with 20+ Bad endings!
- CGs that include the MC
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- Futotori (Dax) - Coding, Art, Writing
- Explaurer (Lauren) - Editor
- Syd - Sound Track
- Takusan - Sound Track and Sound Effects
- Partoosh - Plugins
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This game was originally made for Yaoi Jam 2024
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Development log
- Updated! Version 1.2!89 days ago
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Loved it. Looking forward to more. I just wish the game was a bit more optimized. The animations are lagging and text speed is slow for me.
Thank you!! I'm reworking the whole game atm, including with optimisation, new features and better story flow! Should be out earlyish next year!
it keeps giving me this and idk how to fix it (i'm using a windows 11)
Error
AbortError: The play() request was interrupted by a call to pause().
~link here bc itch.io won't let me~
Ohh that's very strange. It's likely because the version I shipped to was windows 10. I'll see if the issue is the type of windows or something else, thank you for bringing this to my attention!
I enjoyed this quite a bit! They characters already have vibrant personalities with a lot of life, and I can tell the world has a lot of thought behind it, enough to draw me in. I definitely want to learn more. Also I am sooo curious about Mariel and the others too, definitely want to see where this goes!
Version 1.2 was fun af! Can already see in just the demo that choices matter, the NPCs have great full personalities and all the art and music are top tier. Love it
Big fan, can't wait to see where this goes
Thanks for your feedback! I intend to add more CGs in the start of the story to make it more interesting and I might add more moments before the start of the routes! The start has a lot of world building to help focus solely on the characters later, but I can definitely see it becoming dry so I'll try to segment in more interesting moments between. The extended demo will have all of act 1, so you'll be introduced to Mariel and Kiera as well as experience the start of Zaerell's and Nyx's routes (one of which does include Nyx and a bath lmao).
Thanks again for playing my demo! Your feedback is super helpful and means a lot! I hope to see you again for the extended demo and full game!
Ahh!! This was so fun! Can't wait to be even more gay for Zaerell in future updates!!
Thank you!! There's a lot of him to come
this was soooooo fun!!! i adore the witty writing and i genuinely let out laughter at some points because of the situation the mc was put in... the character designs are also wickedly COOL and i'm kind of in love with zaerell.... i look forward to more!!! thank you for sharing such a fun and amazing creation with us!! ^__^
Aaa I'm so glad you like it! Thank you so much!!
I keep getting a type error? other than this the game seems to run fine, idk whats triggering it, maybe when i try to load a save?
Hmmm that's strange, when are you getting the error? What does the error say exactly as well?
This is awesome! Can't wait for more updates.
Thank you!! Keep an eye out for dev logs and X/twitter posts! I'll try to keep everyone as updated as I can
I'm a mac user *sobs* seems really cool tho!!!
I'll work on getting a mac version out soon!
I love this concept so much, but the save seems broken? or maybe I'm not allowed until I reach a certain point?
Yes! I'm working on the fix right now, should be up in an hour or two!