There are, like, multiple full playthroughs of the game on YouTube now, you can go check them out
I got to meet up with other members of the team and we got to hang out IRL and have a nice time :)
Thank you for playing, for sharing, for checking it out, for telling people about it. For anything that gave this one little game a little bit of real estate in someone's head for a little bit of time.
Thinking back to a year ago, there are so many ways I might have imagined feeling now - and most of them were bad. I was determined to be pessimistic pre-launch. Instead, thanks to you, and yours, we get to feel satisfied. I don't think there's anything better. Thank you.
*(I won't link this, but it's out there! Someone made money on Patreon off drawing sexy Amarantus characters! What greater success is there!!)
Trading cards & community items now available
Thanks to all of your support, Steam's decided we qualify for trading cards, badges, custom emoticons, and all that other cool stuff.
We've got......five trading cards!
We've got badges!
I spent a loooong time thinking about how to translate Amarantus' rich painterly art style into 18x18 pixel emojis. I wanted them to be emojis I could actually imagine people using, but that also had a distinct Amarantus Energy.
I hope you enjoy what we did with them.
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Thanks for all your support this past year, folks. See you in a few weeks for the one-year anniversary.
-R
Our biggest sale yet!
Amarantus is 25% off to celebrate international women's day! Ari always drinks his respect women juice. If you've already played Amarantus this is a great opportunity to pick up the artbook and soundtrack for 25% off, too! Check out our stream for the event (I had a good time playing the game for the first time in months - it turns out I've forgotten a lot of what I wrote in there) and respect some women in your life.
-R
The Amarantus artbook & soundtrack are now available!
Hurray! The artbook is here!
I've spent months chipping away at this project, and I'm so happy to finally get it out to you.
The Amarantus artbook contains all the comic inserts from the game along with commentary, plus discussions of how some of the game stuff works behind-the-scenes, character discussions + concept art, and other interesting stuff to look at, if you enjoyed Amarantus and/or are interested in the experience of making a game over ten years.
P.S. Amarantus was recently shortlisted at the Queer Games Festival and has just been nominated for the Freeplay Narrative Award. We're honoured and proud (the company we're in for the Narrative Award is truly wild), and I hope you are vicariously proud too!
Amarantus wins Excellence in Narrative at the AGDAs!
Back at the start of October, a few members of Team Amarantus headed to Melbourne International Games Week. We'd been lucky enough to get a nomination for Excellence in Narrative at the AGDAs, and though we figured it was an extremely long shot - the category was stacked! - we decided it was a good reason to see each-other again and live it up for a bit.
Well, things didn't quite go as planned.
sorry about the weird focus of this photo I was very excited and am not a photographer
We're extremely honoured, and proud, and grateful, and still can't quite believe this is real life.
Thanks for playing Amarantus, thanks for being interested in it, thanks for clicking on this article.
P.S. While we were at MIGW we also went to Parallels, a showcase of Interesting And Unique Games From Around Australia, and I haven't stopped thinking about Proximate since. A text-only 2D narrative horror game; incredibly cool; check it out.
Update notes for Sept 16
Some typos corrected
Some track timestamps changed to loop seamlessly
MacOS & Steam Deck support added!
Thank you everyone for your support this past month (six weeks, even!) since launch. We're so happy our game found you, and you found it.
Here's our Amarantus V1.1 update for all of you:
MacOS support! Thank you for your patience, Mac owners. We hope you enjoy.
Steam Deck support! The Steam Deck's earned a bit of a reputation as a Visual Novel Machine so we're excited to have Amarantus running natively on the Deck. (Tip: changing the font size to Large in the Accessibility settings makes for a really nice experience.)
Cross-platform cloud saves! For those of you who started out on a PC and want to mix it up a bit.
Improved controller support! We've remapped some of the controls and improved the controller experience generally.
More save slots! We've received requests for more save slots to help you get Truly Chaotic with your choices. The number of save slots has now gone from 21 to 39. Get wild!
Minor text and branching tweaks.
Amarantus is out NOW
get it get it get it
(there's a new updated demo with save files that carry over, too)
Amarantus launches later this month!
Amarantus is releasing on June 27 2023.
We've been working on this game for a long time, and we're excited.
