10 years in the making.... but mostly hiatus

Once again, a wild WiP appears!

Tofu Sheets Visual is officially turning 10 years old on March 20th this year, and to celebrate, I'm finally releasing the title that started it all. I never thought it'd see the light of day, but here we are xD

In a nutshell, OMH was originally conceived during NaNoRenO 2012 (my first NaNo, mind you) but it grew too big so we just kept dev'ing it many many months passed that. But on July 7th, 2013 (or July 8th in New Zealand) our team was hit with the most devastating news... Alexander Kwan, one of the cast members, had passed away. Although we tried to go a little longer, figuring out how to finish it without having to replace him, eventually we just gave up. I gave up. I shelved the project officially probably early 2014-ish if I recall, and didn't even touch Ren'Py until near the end of 2015. Fast-forward to 2021, I saw our anniversary was coming up, and I finally came up with how I could include all of his lines to honor his memory, stitch back the omitted path, and maybe... even properly finish it. 

How OMH is gonna be released will be a bit messy with the way it's been stitched back together. Since Alex had passed before he could record his lines for an alternate route, I originally intended to omit it altogether. Then, I thought, I could designate it a "fandisc patch" and just have a fill in VA on it. Same method would go for the possible "finale" patch, where the game will be extended to have the endings I originally envisioned (I'm keeping that one tentative for now, since the initial release + omitted path being released will be enough). For now, the initial bulk of the game I wrote a pseudo open ending, so it doesn't end too abruptly (same to the originally omitted path). It's the perfect way to leave all of Alex's original lines untouched, but make the game feel more "whole" by making additional content available later that players could choose to patch into the game. Plus, I have been meaning to test how to add expansion packs to Ren'Py games since I recently learned how to make multiple .rpa files, so this'll be a great excuse to try that out!

Because I started writing this back in 2012, my writing style definitely is not up to my current standard. However, I'm going to be releasing it that way for historical purposes. I did fix a lot of typos and some weird sentence structures, but for the most part, the old way of how I wrote has been preserved. I want to preserve as much of the game's original vision, from how it opens to how it'll end, no matter how cringy it might be at times haha. I mean even majority of the voiced lines are from back then so.... yeah this is gonna be all over the place wahahahaha!

I'd like to thank both El.Seth and Tasha Jade for offering their artistic skills to help make this anniversary release possible, I could not do this without you guys! And of course to my original team that have stayed by my side and were able to come back, and all the new people that have jumped aboard as well! Thank you x100! And of course.... though you're not here... thank you Alex, thank you for making me promise to keep making visual novels... I almost didn't but I managed haha, so thank you, I miss you!

Now I am weary to hype this project up so much since.... it's by no means perfect, it was always a mess to begin with, so please keep your expectations very low--but I hope you'll have a lot of fun with it and can view it along the lines of a so bad, it's good experience. Most of all, it's a nostalgia trip for me and my team, and a way to honor someone we cherish. And if you end up not liking the game for whatever reason, that's cool too! I know it's not gonna be everyone's cup of tea.

Anyway, I hope you've all had a blessed New Year's so far and well.... we'll see how this goes... wish us luck, and thanks to all of you that have played my games over the years!