Auro-Cyanide

The road is long.

Two strangers sit side by side as night falls over. The car speeds down the open highway.

Without a soul around them, everything seems to slip away. On a journey to no one knows where, all they have is words and time. And that time is dwindling fast.

The shadows are chasing.

The Shadows That Run Alongside Our Car is a visual novel by Lox Rain.Shadows was made over the course of four days during mid-August 2016 and was released August 19, 2016. The game features two character routes and six endings. Recommended for ages 15 and up. Made with love and Ren'Py.

Shadows is pay-what-you-want, but you can download the game for free.

Content Warnings: mentions of suicide, killing, and violence, explicit language.

All the info and downloads are here on itch.io!

Lox Rain consists of Lorelei (Writing/Main Coding), Laiska(Writing/Editing/Sprite Coding), and Auro-Cyanide (Art/UI). For more information about the individual contributors, please follow the above links. You can also find us on Twitter at yandere, petitscygnes, and AuroCyanide.

We’ll be tracking the #shadowsVN tag on Tumblr/Twitter! Enjoy!

Where We Lay Our Scene (WWLOS) is a visual novel developed by Cyanide Teafor NaNoRenO 2016. Auro-Cyanide did the art and graphic design while Loreleihandled writing, programming, and sound coordination. 

The game features four character routes (varying genders and sexualities) and has 13 different endings. The game is commercial and is distributed via itch.io for $4.99. The game should take at least 6-8 hours to finish, on average.

S T O R Y

Christian Marino has become a household name, what with his face and body always visible when you open a magazine or look out your subway train window. But now famous model Christian Marino finds himself at a crossroads. What will he do with his life once his well-known and much-cherished looks fade? Is there even anything more to him below the surface that everyone else sees? As he considers these issues of future and identity, he’s suddenly cast as the lead role in a film based on a bestselling novel. With fresh new challenges to face in an unfamiliar environment, this just might be the solution Christian was looking for—to more problems than one.

The main theme for this game is crossroads. Rather than having “good” and “bad” endings, each love interest has a friendship ending as well as romantic “A” and “B” endings. Neither romantic ending is meant to be better than the other.

For more information about the game and to download the demo or purchase the game, please see the official website.

The game costs $4.99, but if you’d like to leave us a tip, we’d really appreciate it! Comments, criticism, and cookies are all very welcome! There is also a survey you can fill out after finishing a route, which will provide us with important feedback that we’ll use for our future projects. We hope you enjoy our game!

I bring exciting news! Break Chance Memento is getting very close to completion and as such we are looking for Beta testers to make sure it’s the best game it can be. I’ve finished all 55 CGs and the other assets and only have a handful of standalone images to complete and Lore is now coding the game together as I speak. The game will be fully ready for testing within a week or so in a near polished state.

We are looking for Beta testers who:

• Have a strong grasp of English
• Have the patience and time to go over the game multiple times (and try to break it!)
• Are able to give clear feedback and follow-up
• Are free in the next couple weeks to do the testing

Break Chance Memento is quite a large game so it’s very important that you have the time to do something like this. Active Beta testers will be credited in game and of course get a free copy of the final version of the game as well as any add-ons we do.

If you are interested please fill out this form with your contact details and other information!

We’ve also recently created a number of social media accounts specifically for Cyanide Tea that we both have access to. They are for major announcements and fielding comments, our individual accounts will remain business as usual.

Twitter: twitter.com/cyanidetea_dev
Facebook: facebook.com/cyanideteadev
Tumblr (in progress): cyanideteadev.tumblr.com

Please follow us if you are interested in our work!

Thank you everyone for your support, we are both ecstatic to finally be so close to releasing this game. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact myself or Lore.

Have a great day everyone!