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From the Ashes of Hearts

Born and raised as an orphan, sixteen-year-old Yuuna knew to dream of having real education is vain. Living day by day in a small beach town near Kurokuma kingdom’s capital; one of the biggest and richest Kingdoms in the continent of Eilusea; was hard enough let alone having the chance to go to school.  She is after all a Fuyona -the unwanted-, the lowest rank in social status in her country's caste system.

One day, after a tragedy that almost killed her, suddenly a man came to her offering her a chance of a lifetime to attend the most prestigious magic and alchemy school in the kingdom. Little that she knew that she was sent into the eye of the upcoming storm that will change the whole structure of the kingdom itself.


  • 90k words count (will add more in the next episodes)
  • 10 CG (will add more in the next episodes)
  • 8 Side stories (will add more in the next episodes)
  • 3 possible  endings:  True Ending, Good Ending, and Bad Ending
  • 6 romanceable male Characters
  • 2 female best friends routes 








Developer team: Ara Game Studio 

Head Developer: Enajori Yui (Twitter: @EnajoriY) 

Script/ Writer : Enajori Yui (Twitter: @EnajoriY) 

Sprite Design : Attila (Twitter: @altila7) 

Sprite Line art: Enajori Yui (twitter: @EnajoriY), Karamelow (twitter: @MelowBee)

Sprite Colouring: Top Nerd, Karamelow (twitter: @MelowBee)

Background art : Enajori Yui (twitter: @EnajoriY) 

CG: Altila (twitter: @altila7) 

GUI: Karamelow (twitter: @MelowBee), Enajori Yui

Game Assets and Items: Enajori Yui (twitter : @EnajoriY) 

Programmer: Mastroider,  Zeldruck

Proof-reader/Editor: HGbox (Ray), S.B Hunter

Music / BGM : 

Sound Effect by: www.zapsplast.com,  mixkit.co, and https://freesound.org/


Progress of Game: 

-  Written:

 1. Chapter 0: Prologue  100% 

 2. Chapter 1: The First Step 100%

 3. Chapter 2: 25%

 4. Chapter 3-ending : 0%

- Programmed: 

1. Prologue  100%  

2. Chapter 1: 100%

3. Chapter 2- 3: 0%

- Sprite Art:

1. Prologue  100%  

2. Chapter 1: 100%

3. Chapter 2- 3: 75%

- CG Art:

1. Prologue  100%  

2. Chapter 1: 100%

3. Chapter 2- 3: 0%

- Background Art: 

1. Chapter 0: Prologue 100%

2. Chapter 1: 100%

3. Chapter 2-3: 75%

- Approximate percentage of completion: 50% of 4 planned episodes  

Current and Planned Features: 

 • Over 200,000 words of content and 50 choices and counting at the end of the current script 

 • Many genres and storylines to explore. 

 • Rated: PG-13 

 • Numerous Endings (Eventually there are at least 23 endings currently planned)

 • 6 Romanceable Male NPCs 

• 2 BFF (Best Friend Forever) Female routes

 • Characters’ Sprites 

 • Rivalries between Romanced Male NPCs. 

  • In-game mini-games that will affect how the game/ characters' relationship progress

Needs for Game Development: (Currently Recognized Needs) 

 • Playtesters as the game’s coding continue.

 • Copy editor and proofreader (for any grammar-related errors in the script). 


Personal Description of Ara Game Studio:

I’m Yui, the founder of Ara game studio. I love writing stories and worlds for people to learn and explore. And I thought an interesting way in which to do so was through the virtual novel medium. This is Ara game studio's first project, with many storyboards and notes for future games connected to this world. (maybe ^^;)

Notes

I am thinking of making Patreons / Kofi, for the next game chapter. But I will need to really think about it. 

 






StatusIn development
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Rating
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
AuthorYui Enajori
GenreVisual Novel
Made withRen'Py
TagsDating Sim, Fantasy, Female Protagonist, josei, Mystery, Otome, Romance, Singleplayer, Third Person
Average sessionAbout a half-hour
LanguagesEnglish

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Milcham-chapter1-windows.zip 773 MB
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Milcham-Chapter1.2-mac.zip 759 MB

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Hi! Is there any place where I can contact you that isn't Twitter since it's blocked in my country? Thanks!

Yes, you can message me on Discord if you'd like. it's yui1497

Added, check your friend requests!

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This game is amazing! The story is intriguing and the characters very interesting. And the protagonist is so fierce, I loved it!

I'm looking forward to playing the full version! Good luck with the development!

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Thank you ^^ will work hard for the next chapter :)

Wow! Nicely done!

First impressions:

* Video trailer = Impressive! Professional anime look and feel. Very classy and I'm totally blown away.

* Story = Intriguing. Love a lower caste with magical potential. I like to root for the underdog, so the story premise I already love.

* Programming = Cool! Love the highlighted character so you know who's talking.

* Art = Beautiful. From title screen, logo, character sprites, background.

Thank you, hope you enjoy the over all game as well ^^

At first I thought the choices were few and a lot of important things passed before we could actually made any so I did not really feel the game part but playing it, it was obvious choices really matter. 

With so many characters it's an ambitious project. By the way the cliffhanger was horrible... Truly sadistic.

But I'm curious to see what will become of this game.

:X I am sorry for the lack of easier/ obvious choices to help I posted a post-mortem with cheat answers to get all the good choices so u can get all the third scenes of each character as well as the sides story in the extra window.

:X I know it is ambitious work, especially since it's my first, but I will do my best to finish this game. 

n I am sorry for the way I put the cliffhanger :X ahahaha... my bad habit with my writing. 

Hope u still enjoy the game at least. <3

I didn't realize at the time but trust me if I let a review I definitely enjoyed your game ! 

I was more on a realistic view of the project but I loved it and I'm really curious to see how you will developp it. 

And I saw the post mortem post it was really interesting to read it !

Don't worry and take your time to do whatever you want with it. I'll be lurking in the liked waiting to play more ah, ah, ah ^^

Thank you ^^ I will do my best <3

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This was a really cool game!! The story got me really invested, it felt like I was watching an anime from my teens!! It's the first time I played it but it made me feel nostalgic  🥰❤️

The characters all had very different personalities, which is quite hard to do with a game that has so many, but I think it was done really well. The backgrounds and UI were beautiful and I really liked the other art as well! The CGs were especially captivating and gosh, that opening with the animations was so cool! The music was very fitting too, I particularly enjoyed the tracks that seemed more fantasy-like and magical.

I enjoyed playing as Yuuna a lot. She has a difficult background but doesn't mind standing her ground when someone is being unfair (even after her etiquette training). As for the love interests, some made more of an impact on me than others; my favorites are Makoto, Raiji and Jun. Makoto has this seriousness combined with bashfulness that makes him really endearing, Raiji's friendlyness made me instantly like him a whole lot and Jun... well, what can I say, I really enjoy characters that start off as assholes and then slowly warm up to the MCs xD

I think the only things I would critique are 2. First, I think the script needs a little bit more of editing. Not because of typos or anything along those lines, but mainly because there is an inconsistency in the used verb tense. There are times when the story is told in the present tense but then switches to past tense and vice versa.

Secondly, the other critique (feel free to ignore if you don't agree, of course, this is just my personal opinion) is that I feel that the worldbuilding loses a bit on impact by having so many Japanese connotations. Nothing wrong with Japan inspiration, of course, many games have them and it's awesome! It's just that, in the case of this game, despite the story taking place in a fictional world, the characters have a lot of very japanese phrases like "-san" or "-sama" and even references to other Japanese things. If that is the intention, of course, feel free to ignore me, but if the idea is to make a different world altogether, one that doesn't have anything to do with Japan, I think the worldbuilding would become much stronger without these Japanese connotations. Maybe creating a new word for Kendo? Or using "Miss/Mr" instead of "Yuuna-san", and "Your highness" instead of "-sama" whenever characters are talking among themselves?

Edit: Ignore the second point, you already confirmed it's set in fantasy Japan so it makes sense that the story has a lot of japanese connotations 🙈


That's pretty much all, cause the rest I absolutely loved and I'm really looking forward to the new chapters!! 🥰❤️ Awesome job from you and your team, Yui!! 💖😊

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thank you very much for the love. Sorry took it a long time for me to reply here. With my dad passing just a  week after my game release it's been hard for me to actually go and communicate with anyone honestly. I am starting to learn to let him go. <3 love ur comment pri thank you so much :)

still waiting~  i re played this several times UwU it was good

Hi, thank you for enjoying the game. Sorry for taking so long for the next update. I am hoping I can release the next episode by june/ july this year.  I will do my best to  reach the goal. ^^

Awau!!!11!!1!1!!1 The art and story is amazing!!! UwU's and OwO's tiny bean!!!

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thank you ^^, will work hard to make the game better for the next demo

Hello! I've downloaded this game and it's pretty interesting to me.  It's well-written and seems interesting.

I think Shun looks interesting :).

^^ ty, I feel energized and excited to keep working on the game. I hope the next update will be better

Yep, it's pretty good story-wise. I like the build-up! ^^. You can do it!

thank you ^^