THIS GAME WAS JUST P E R F E C T. 10/10 DEFINITELY WORTH THE PRICE AND ONE OF MY CURRENT BIGGEST FIXATIONS!! also mini question ; how many secrets are in the game? how do i find them? so far ive managed to get the secret ending but i dont know how to get the rest of the secrets
I’ve never used itch.io before, so im sorry if i did this wrong!
spoilers!
thank you so much for making this game! i don’t play games often, but this one really helped me in a way that’s hard to describe. I don’t think i have DID, but that video game you play in Tate’s apartment really means the world to me. I feel like there’s a lot of me’s inside me all trying to just get by life, and it’s hard to balance all the sides sometimes. That minigame just felt like it was made with such love and it really reflects how I feel about myself, especially with moths. I just appreciate you guys so much for making this, thank you. It’s a very comforting video game overall, its a nice way to cope.
I bought the game a few days ago, and the truth is that I loved and enjoyed the process of playing it. I wanted to ask; How could I get different endings? I would love to unlock them all without watching any video that explains it^^
Hi sorry to bother but im genuinely unsure what to do while you wait for Tate to get home from work. I don't know if i missed the game cartridge or what but its making me very frustrated.
you dont need the cartridge to progress unless youre trying to get the true ending
you need to-
make sure you get the cutscene when you click on his bed, grab the rope on the wall and the whiskey on the table then go into the bathroom and grab the bleach and then head back out into the living room
hello- sorry to bothered you but i have a question- when the chase scene in the hospital start,my game bugs and i can't move but,i just can waiting for having the "game over" screen- i'm not sure if its a issue with my PC or something else?-
you cant move at all or are you slow? if youre slow, you take the pills from your inventory you got earlier
if youre frozen and cant move, i recommend closing the game and either closing all other programs and relaunching or restarting your computer and then only having the game open when you play again! some computers with slower processors dont like running the game if theres other programs open O: lemme know if this helps and if not i can look into it more!
Hello!! i love the game so far but i cannot save the game whenever i want to, are there any specific moments where you save it or am i missing something?
yep, you cannot save whenever! save spots are the diaries through out the game (the main one is in randalls closet to the left) and if youre playing as mya you can save with her cat
theres also prompts throughout the game that prompt you to save automatically.
hmm thats strange, i even downloaded the game from the itchio to test it and it seems to be working fine on my end
your sound card might be messing up, i recommend restarting your computer (or shutting it down for a minute) and then trying again and see if that fixes the sound O:
if that doesnt work, there may have been an error when you unpacked the file, you could delete the download and the files and try redownloading and re-unpacking to see if that fixes it!
also make sure your computer didnt accidentally get muted! i bump my mute button a lot myself without realizing it XD
i already did all of that and it still wont have sound and its not conected to anything im playing music right now and it works just fine but the game still doesnt have sound and it wont give me the city map so i cant even start the game
thats really weird x_x can i ask if youre playing on a windows or mac with winebottler?
and it wont give you the map? did you go to the bottom path of the map and click to leave? are you getting the item sparkle or is nothing happening at all? im trying my best o figure out what could possibly be going on, but youre the first person ive seen have this issue and the game is working fine on my end and for all my testers so im a little at a loss :(
you can also try FN+F1 and make sure audio is enabled, it could have gotten turned off somehow
if nothing manages to work, you can get a refund from itchio i believe ;-; im very sorry for the issues, it doesnt seem like an issue with the game though which makes it hard for me to fix this OTL
the download screen tells me to click a blue box, but i see no blue box on the screen when it does.. this saddens me because this game seems very fun and i've heard good things about it.
ah ok ive seen this issue a couple times, its your computers firewall
first make sure it downloaded at all, sometimes on windows 11 or updated browsers it wont even download it unless you allow it to, so try to download the file again and see if theres a pop up in your downloads box, you should be able to select "download anyway". if not, try to use a different browser like firefox or chrome if youre not using one of those
next, once you get your browser to behave to download it, you should be able to open what file it downloaded to from your downloads, open the folder its in and it should look like a blue box icon. click on it and your firewall might say "its a virus cause we dont know this developer" which is totally common with itchio games, it even happened to me when i downloaded it onto another computer and also when i got baldi's basics.
you should be able to click a small button in the corner that says "more options" and then you can hit "run anyway". itll extract the files to the same folder the blue box is in, but now itll just be a new folder you can open. open the new folder (not the blue box again) and scroll down a little til you see an icon that looks like a red dragon and click on that to launch the game.
im sorry it giving you some trouble :( if you cant get it to work, i do plan on uploading to steam soon and youll receive a free copy of it there for owning it on itchio!
Hey so me and my friend have been playing the game, I was wondering is there any real moments with Eve except for the end of the game? I really like Eve so I was just curious, also I love this game btw it’s become my heart and soul I’m obsessed!
theres an easter egg in the long/last dream, but a lot of her content i had in mind was cut due to time restraints and just struggling to make it flow :( i do have some plans for her in the future though!
I’m excited to see what you have for the future and thank you for telling me! We have gotten almost all the endings! This game makes me so emotional I love it so much!
the game was amazing me and my friends loved playing it I loved the lore and characters also trying to find all the little secret easter egg type things one of my more favorite hyper fixations so thank you! <
I LOVE THIS SM. Purple dc is my new favorite game, I was already obssesed with the demo but this? ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE!! I love the art style, the plot and the little details in everything, it all just shows the dedication put into this game, kudos to the people behind it! scopophobia studios attheir best, as always! (Poor vic needs a break, the dude os way too old for this, two games and one comic is wild he just wants a peacful day to draw)
Yep yep, in the begining, you can see its him because in the news they say they found him dead as one of the victimes from the loverman killer, just a little detail but yk
In the hospital chase scene after Mya turns into Moths I can't run? I've tried both shifts and restarting the game but Randall just walks slowly and runs at a normal walking pace.
Hii! This is a mega fan speaking heh. You know, now I can't buy the game due to lack of money, so I'm going to look for a gameplay of the complete game (although I'm Brazilian and I have a hard time finding someone playing it). Goodbye! S2
This doesn’t happen a ton of times but it happened a few times, So when the game instantly started (this mostly happened in the extended demo-and it happened like once in the full game) Randall would face the hospital and not move? He would be facing the opposite direction and I assumed he would just turn around but he didn’t and I could not move him-I exited the game and relaunched it and that fixed it but just thought I’d say.
this happened to a friend of mine! i genuinely have no idea whats causing this ;o; im gonna see what i can do about adding a "face down" extra movement event to ensure he's in the right place for sure
it seems to be a glitch rather than a bug though which isnt necessarily something i can fix x_x but ill try my best to figure out a work around! thank you for letting me know about it, my friends computer is super messed up so we assumed that was what caused the glitch with him, but knowing its happened to someone else helped a ton!
I have a question what app did you use to make the pixel characters.I am trying to make my own game and it's kinda hard trying to find a good one app if you don't mind also I love your games.
hello! all the pixel sprites were made in aseprite and were drawn by my husband bileshroom!
but i will say, pixel art was actually the most grueling part of the game development process, each sprite took quite a while to draw and that was using the same basic process for each of them. every sprite requires 3 frames from each angle; front, left, right, back, each with a step animation for a full walk cycle.
theres not really an app to have it done for you unfortunately, aseprite is just a program for drawing specifically pixel art ^^; i know theres some free bases for walk cycle sprites out there though if you search for them that might help !
If youre making an rpgmaker game like this one, i recommend using placeholders while you work on the game and then focusing on those later ! rpgmaker has some preset sprites you can use in the engine that you can use as placeholders ^^
you are so kind i see you take your time to reply all kind of questions even if they are not directly related to your game… i feel that by following you and playing your games i got to know you better and i like that
hello! I ran into such a problem that I can't buy your game. I've been waiting for the game to be released for a long time, but in the end I can't buy it. the paypal method does not work, since there are sanctions in my country and it is impossible to register for paypal. It doesn't support my card. I saw somewhere that the game should be released in steam, but I don't know for sure. :(
i am struggling to find the 12th diary paper😞 i dont know if i am just extremely slow but i can not seem to find it anywhere in the world it is located at in the guide
OH no problem! someone else had a bit of difficulty finding it so ill copy and paste the directions i gave em!
from the doorway you enter the black and white world, go up about 6 steps and then turn left and go forward until you see the first big TV with an eyeball, the diary page will be to the left of that TV (like two steps above it and 5 steps to the left of it)
Okay but like , I'll be really honest the upgraded chainsaw part on the first dream is a great change ! It really made that part more interesting that it already was :00!! Great job!!! 🙏🙏 It suprised me a lot and made me excited :3
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! ive been wanting to do more with that part for so long and i finally got the idea for it ;w; im glad its working right and is a good addition >w<
Hiya I'm really excited to play the game! but I think I'm having a bug where after Randall wakes up after the cutting his hair scene the apartment becomes unwalkable? I can only walk if I enter the menu and click out again.
ah its an FPS issue with your graphics card i think! try closing out of other programs before relaunching, if it still lags, restart your computer and try to run it again O:
Hey- every time I go to save it comes up with an error that says, "Script 'Game_System" line 91: TypeError occurred. no implicit conversion from nil to integer". Is anyone else having this problem? If so- is there anyway to fix it?
hm i just tested it myself on the version of the game uploaded and it seems to be working for me
could i ask some things to narrow it down?
-is it any save location or just one area specific?
-did you transfer saves from a previous version of the game?
-did you transfer saves from an old copy that allowed saving from menu? saving from menu has since been patched and if you transferred saves from a copy that allowed it, it could mess up the script and cause the error youre having
Hi thank you for replying! It's not in one specific area- its every time I try and save the game! I also haven't played this before so I didn't move any save files
OH no worries!! interesting that you got an error tho O: was the option to save popping up in the menu? if so thats very odd and im not sure why its doing that sjhgfhsdf
I'm so exited for more PURPLE content, not only was this game just so cute, scary, sad, and all over just amazing, but the idea of the game is just AWESOME... I can't wait for more, considering how the game ended :3 Wonder if any of your guys other characters will meet up, I'd love a big collab, it'd be silly :D
hello! I looved this game so much, everything was awesome!! and I have two questions if you can answer them! first, where is the 12th diary page in the black and white world? I've tried looking for it but sadly couldn't find it, if you could give a location/directions that would be awesome but also fine if you cant :) next question is will you be working on a next project sometime soon? [not meant to be rushing in a way but just curious!] or have already begun one? :p and that's all I wanted to know! ^_^ hope you have a nice day/afternoon/night whatever time it is! :3
from the doorway you enter the black and white world, go up about 6 steps and then turn left and go forward until you see the first big TV with an eyeball, the diary page will be to the left of that TV (like two steps above it and 5 steps to the left of it)
hope that helps ;w;
as project wise, i am working on getting purple prepped for a small update and a steam release but then we'll be focusing on an updated demo for the sequel "The Phobia Project" and then once that's done we may be focusing on our adults only murder VN, but thats up in the air currently
tysm for answering my questions!! and just wanna mention I'm super excited for the phobia project for whenever the demo/full game will come out! and I actually usually watch a walkthrough of the old version on YouTube when I'm bored lol ^_^
Wonderful game! I heavily relate to the main character and I don't know if this is what you were going for but the game felt oddly comforting and cozy. I loved it. But I do wish to ask, as a fellow indie game maker, did you use RPG maker to make this game? and which version? if you feel comfortable telling me, I'd like to make my own custom game but I'd like to know the best version for this type of game. Wishing you the best!
that means a lot to me ;w; and im glad it gave off that vibe! ive heard many different interpretations for the feeling of the game, and cozy is one that i personally feel towards it as well
and i used RPGmaker VX Ace ! I highly recommend it if you want to get into making pixel rpgs like this! its a very fun program to use and extremely versatile! theres so many scripts to play with that really push the limits of the engine and its fun to experiment! i wish you so much luck in your game development journey!
THANK YOU SO MUCH! It was an honor to get a reply from you, and honestly after playing the game and becoming a bit obsessed with Tate and Randall (comfort characters) I can't wait for the plushies! Thank you for the well wishes and I hope you and your partner are doing well! you deserve it. <3
yes! you need to collect all the diary pages and get the true ending in the same run, once you get to the bonus room after the ending credits of the true end you can use the arcade machines along the back wall to play bonus chapters and one of them includes a small scene with eve/tate ^w^ (the amount of diary pages determines which chapters unlock, i.e 2 pages to unlock the first one, 4 pages to unlock the first and second, etc)
oh?? what do you mean the wrong side? it should put you on the side before you placed the board, the board has to be in place in order for you to get into the lobby area
you only wanna take the board anyway if you havent solved the xray puzzle since one of the xray clues requires the board, but if you got that already you can just leave the board in place on the 2nd floor
that should be fixed now! once you get the garden spade, if you try to take the board with you, you should get an auto scene where randall places the board back and doesnt let you pick it back up to prevent soft locking like in the demo ^^
you could try "winebottler" ! ive heard from some people it allows you to play rpgmaker games on mac! i cant promise itll work well/at all though since i do not have a mac and cannot verify it ;w; but i recommend searching it on google and seeing what you think!
So I have a question, will we be able to get a CG Guide? Because I've played through the game and got all the endings, plus the main one, and I still am missing MILLIONSSSS. And a few I knew I got weren't even in there, like I had never gotten them in the first place! ENDING AND CG SPOILERS |
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For example, the one where Mya is bending down to pick up Sausage, but instead of Randall (or Moths I guess) Being there, Tate was standing there.
Or at the end of the secret ending where Tate and Randall share a smooch, I didn't have those either! Maybe it just didn't count me as getting them?
i dont believe i included tate standing behind mya in the gallery O: i thought it might have been a little superfluous ;u;''
and oh? the kissy one should work O: there may be a chance youre playing a version of the game without the "save at ending" fix!
theres also a small issue where the game over cg during the tate/messiah ending doesnt get locked in due to there not being a save bc its a game over, im working hard to get that fixed by tomorrow if you'd like to wait til i update the dev log with the newest version! you can redownload the game after ive uploaded the newest version and just drag and drop your save files over and you shouldnt lose anything!
I also added a little more content in the moths dream as well as fixed up some other small areas in the game ;w;
my apologies for the trouble! im a solo programmer so i missed some small things here and there, but im workin hard to fix em >w<
YIPPIEEEE! It's all good, thanks for the heads up, also, I erm... I for some reason can't launch the game on itch so I have to use a file, so I don't really know how to save it exactly- thanks for the response by the way :D
Been playing thru the game for the past few days and its been an awesome ride! Did 3/6 endings so far! We are also a system and reading Gaspar's explanation of their experience to Mya in the cafe scene was so on-point it made me and other system friends watching us play legit cry /vpos. This game is so special and so important to us, thank you so much for creating this and allowing others to experience it <3
I have a question tho! During Moths nightmare sequence, is there some sort of easteregg code youre supposed to imput in the telephone room? The one where every phone says 1 5 or 9! Thats the only one we couldnt figure out ourselves </3
Thank you so much, this means so so much to me!! Im glad gaspars description was understandable to others with DID cause when ive seen people without it they were very confused by his wording XD im so glad the game resonated with you also, it genuinely means the world to me
OH and as for the numbers! They correlate to the combo you input on the locker near the legs in the red water room! Its a significant year in the game and a combination of those 3 numbers ^w^
Are you supposed to step on the buttons in the neat laid-out numpad on the floor, using the telephone booths, or some mixture of both? I've attempted that number combination a few times but nothing seems to change @~@ so sorry for the bother!
Looks like I vented to Fox and he made a whole game about me lol
Jokes aside, I would like to talk about how important this game is to me. I met it at the beginning of last year, at a time when I was obsessed with visual novels and indie games in general. When I saw the gameplay, I was... Obsessed with everything that involved this universe. I received a report of ADHD and am under investigation for autism, and I developed such a HUGE hyper fixation on purpleverse. I spent hours researching every piece of lore, I kept creating theories in my head, as if I were investigating an enigma. I analyzed every CG, every page of Randall's diary, every single thing. Nowadays I still LOVE purpleverse, I'm not hyper focused like before, but I still love every story that is told. I even dyed my hair purple because my friends said I was LITERALLY Randall in appearance and personality, I think I should be a little worried about that XD
But like it or not, I identify a lot with Randall. I don't have DID and I didn't even kill my uncles, but his constant lack of memory, low self-esteem, attempted suicide and self mutilation, The fear of rejection, the bad relationship with family is so... Relatable. non-ironically I cried at the end of the game. I'm glad that's the point of the game: for you to know you're not alone. And I also like the fact that the developer knows what it's like to have these problems.It's not a million-dollar company that only makes relatable games to sell, but rather a person with problems who wants to vent and make other people relatable. This is so... Cute and heart-warming, you know?
I'm excited to uncover the story of Purpleverse, but don't put pressure on yourself! Take a break, get some air and rest. Making a game practically alone is difficult, and I say that as developer too.
I played the extended demo nearly 2 years ago, and I gotta say... PURPLE was worth the wait!
The story was interesting to uncover as the game went on. Although it was emotionally painful to see Randall's memories. I really felt bad for him, and it was sad to see Moths hurt people in the name of protecting Randall. But it also made me want to see where the story went. (Some of those endings were positively devastating... and some were wonderful— like the Therapy End, which might just be my favorite one.)
Even beyond the story, I really enjoyed the gameplay (and the art! The updated CGs and animations were so good!) The puzzles were interesting, the maps were very cool (I particularly enjoyed the dream sequences) and the entire atmosphere of the game was just very well done. And, of course, the soundtrack just added to that! There were parts of the game that made me so tense, partially because of the music and sound effects.
I think, however, my favorite part of the game was the characters. Particularly Mya and Randall. They're both very likeable characters, and their friendship is just so sweet. (I also loved Mason. He's freakin' adorable, and such a sweetheart)
It was a very heartfelt game, and even if I don't have DID, it's been really cool to see so many people relate to PURPLE. Y'all did a great job with this game. I can see the love (and the time) that you've put into it. I'm very much looking forward to the sequel! Sadly I didn't find all of the secrets, but that gives me a reason to go back and play for myself at some point before playing the sequel.
(Also, as an aside, I adored the song on the credits of the True End. It had such a melancholy feel to it. It suited the game so well.)
This game is amazing in so many ways, but mostly because I relate somewhat. I have DID, and one of my alters is so much like Moths, except for... a certain really dark habit ^_^; My relationship with them is so similar there were a few times I thought I was reading similar words to my own in some of the later journal entries. Overall though the story is amazing and it's based on the dev's own feelings about their experiences, which is valid. Nothing was too hard to figure out or get through, and the art is fantastic! Definitely one of my favorite games ♥
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THIS GAME WAS JUST P E R F E C T. 10/10 DEFINITELY WORTH THE PRICE AND ONE OF MY CURRENT BIGGEST FIXATIONS!! also mini question ; how many secrets are in the game? how do i find them? so far ive managed to get the secret ending but i dont know how to get the rest of the secrets
LOVE THE GAME TO BITS AND PIECES!!! finding all the little secret bits and endings was such a joy that I can never tire of <333
I’ve never used itch.io before, so im sorry if i did this wrong!
spoilers!
thank you so much for making this game! i don’t play games often, but this one really helped me in a way that’s hard to describe. I don’t think i have DID, but that video game you play in Tate’s apartment really means the world to me. I feel like there’s a lot of me’s inside me all trying to just get by life, and it’s hard to balance all the sides sometimes. That minigame just felt like it was made with such love and it really reflects how I feel about myself, especially with moths. I just appreciate you guys so much for making this, thank you. It’s a very comforting video game overall, its a nice way to cope.
p.s tate is very hot whoo
I loved playing this game sm <3
I bought the game a few days ago, and the truth is that I loved and enjoyed the process of playing it. I wanted to ask; How could I get different endings? I would love to unlock them all without watching any video that explains it^^
theres a walkthrough and an ending guide+diary page locations file on the downloads page for free :D
ohh! Thanks<), I didn´t notice
Hi sorry to bother but im genuinely unsure what to do while you wait for Tate to get home from work. I don't know if i missed the game cartridge or what but its making me very frustrated.
you dont need the cartridge to progress unless youre trying to get the true ending
you need to-
make sure you get the cutscene when you click on his bed, grab the rope on the wall and the whiskey on the table then go into the bathroom and grab the bleach and then head back out into the living room
hello- sorry to bothered you but i have a question- when the chase scene in the hospital start,my game bugs and i can't move but,i just can waiting for having the "game over" screen- i'm not sure if its a issue with my PC or something else?-
you cant move at all or are you slow? if youre slow, you take the pills from your inventory you got earlier
if youre frozen and cant move, i recommend closing the game and either closing all other programs and relaunching or restarting your computer and then only having the game open when you play again! some computers with slower processors dont like running the game if theres other programs open O: lemme know if this helps and if not i can look into it more!
Hello!! i love the game so far but i cannot save the game whenever i want to, are there any specific moments where you save it or am i missing something?
yep, you cannot save whenever! save spots are the diaries through out the game (the main one is in randalls closet to the left) and if youre playing as mya you can save with her cat
theres also prompts throughout the game that prompt you to save automatically.
theres no sound and the game dosent start:(
if the games not starting, there wouldnt be sound ^^;;
can i ask your process for launching the game?
i open files press on the game file and click on the red dragon the game opens but theres no sound at all.
hmm thats strange, i even downloaded the game from the itchio to test it and it seems to be working fine on my end
your sound card might be messing up, i recommend restarting your computer (or shutting it down for a minute) and then trying again and see if that fixes the sound O:
if that doesnt work, there may have been an error when you unpacked the file, you could delete the download and the files and try redownloading and re-unpacking to see if that fixes it!
also make sure your computer didnt accidentally get muted! i bump my mute button a lot myself without realizing it XD
i already did all of that and it still wont have sound and its not conected to anything im playing music right now and it works just fine but the game still doesnt have sound and it wont give me the city map so i cant even start the game
thats really weird x_x can i ask if youre playing on a windows or mac with winebottler?
and it wont give you the map? did you go to the bottom path of the map and click to leave? are you getting the item sparkle or is nothing happening at all? im trying my best o figure out what could possibly be going on, but youre the first person ive seen have this issue and the game is working fine on my end and for all my testers so im a little at a loss :(
i tried to look up if anyone else has had this issue with rpgmaker games and someone said try F6 or FN+F6 to toggle it or you can check this fix someone else used- https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/no-audio-when-running-game-exe....
you can also try FN+F1 and make sure audio is enabled, it could have gotten turned off somehow
if nothing manages to work, you can get a refund from itchio i believe ;-; im very sorry for the issues, it doesnt seem like an issue with the game though which makes it hard for me to fix this OTL
this game wouldn't open up because it's "not commonly downloaded" so i feel like my money has gone down the drain because it wouldn't let me play :-(
the download screen tells me to click a blue box, but i see no blue box on the screen when it does.. this saddens me because this game seems very fun and i've heard good things about it.
ah ok ive seen this issue a couple times, its your computers firewall
first make sure it downloaded at all, sometimes on windows 11 or updated browsers it wont even download it unless you allow it to, so try to download the file again and see if theres a pop up in your downloads box, you should be able to select "download anyway". if not, try to use a different browser like firefox or chrome if youre not using one of those
next, once you get your browser to behave to download it, you should be able to open what file it downloaded to from your downloads, open the folder its in and it should look like a blue box icon. click on it and your firewall might say "its a virus cause we dont know this developer" which is totally common with itchio games, it even happened to me when i downloaded it onto another computer and also when i got baldi's basics.
you should be able to click a small button in the corner that says "more options" and then you can hit "run anyway". itll extract the files to the same folder the blue box is in, but now itll just be a new folder you can open. open the new folder (not the blue box again) and scroll down a little til you see an icon that looks like a red dragon and click on that to launch the game.
im sorry it giving you some trouble :( if you cant get it to work, i do plan on uploading to steam soon and youll receive a free copy of it there for owning it on itchio!
Hey so me and my friend have been playing the game, I was wondering is there any real moments with Eve except for the end of the game? I really like Eve so I was just curious, also I love this game btw it’s become my heart and soul I’m obsessed!
theres an easter egg in the long/last dream, but a lot of her content i had in mind was cut due to time restraints and just struggling to make it flow :( i do have some plans for her in the future though!
and thank you so much!!! ;w;
I’m excited to see what you have for the future and thank you for telling me! We have gotten almost all the endings! This game makes me so emotional I love it so much!
the game was amazing me and my friends loved playing it I loved the lore and characters also trying to find all the little secret easter egg type things one of my more favorite hyper fixations so thank you! <
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Purple is one of my favorite games rn and I try to tell as many people about it as possible!! Purple game love all around raaa!!
I LOVE THIS SM. Purple dc is my new favorite game, I was already obssesed with the demo but this? ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE!! I love the art style, the plot and the little details in everything, it all just shows the dedication put into this game, kudos to the people behind it! scopophobia studios attheir best, as always! (Poor vic needs a break, the dude os way too old for this, two games and one comic is wild he just wants a peacful day to draw)
wait he appears in the comic???
Yep yep, in the begining, you can see its him because in the news they say they found him dead as one of the victimes from the loverman killer, just a little detail but yk
Spoilers?
In the hospital chase scene after Mya turns into Moths I can't run? I've tried both shifts and restarting the game but Randall just walks slowly and runs at a normal walking pace.
did you take the pills in your inventory? ;w;
i put a bunch of prompts as reminder, did the flashing red not work for your game? ill need to know if i need to bug check anything!
I did forget the pills I was playing on a different save and forgot. sry 4 bothering ty for responding:)
no worries! got a little worried it may have not been working ! glad to know everythings running correctly ^w^
Hii! This is a mega fan speaking heh. You know, now I can't buy the game due to lack of money, so I'm going to look for a gameplay of the complete game
(although I'm Brazilian and I have a hard time finding someone playing it).Goodbye! S2im brazilian too hi!
oooooooooooooooooooooooooh! finally (acho que ja podemos parar com o inglês, então?)
this game is so cool starts foaming at the mouth
This doesn’t happen a ton of times but it happened a few times, So when the game instantly started (this mostly happened in the extended demo-and it happened like once in the full game) Randall would face the hospital and not move? He would be facing the opposite direction and I assumed he would just turn around but he didn’t and I could not move him-I exited the game and relaunched it and that fixed it but just thought I’d say.
this happened to a friend of mine! i genuinely have no idea whats causing this ;o; im gonna see what i can do about adding a "face down" extra movement event to ensure he's in the right place for sure
it seems to be a glitch rather than a bug though which isnt necessarily something i can fix x_x but ill try my best to figure out a work around! thank you for letting me know about it, my friends computer is super messed up so we assumed that was what caused the glitch with him, but knowing its happened to someone else helped a ton!
game was PEAKKKKKK
I have a question what app did you use to make the pixel characters.I am trying to make my own game and it's kinda hard trying to find a good one app if you don't mind also I love your games.
hello! all the pixel sprites were made in aseprite and were drawn by my husband bileshroom!
but i will say, pixel art was actually the most grueling part of the game development process, each sprite took quite a while to draw and that was using the same basic process for each of them. every sprite requires 3 frames from each angle; front, left, right, back, each with a step animation for a full walk cycle.
theres not really an app to have it done for you unfortunately, aseprite is just a program for drawing specifically pixel art ^^; i know theres some free bases for walk cycle sprites out there though if you search for them that might help !
If youre making an rpgmaker game like this one, i recommend using placeholders while you work on the game and then focusing on those later ! rpgmaker has some preset sprites you can use in the engine that you can use as placeholders ^^
and thank you for enjoying our games ;w;
Thankkk youuuuu sooooooooo muchhhhhhhhhhh
you are so kind i see you take your time to reply all kind of questions even if they are not directly related to your game… i feel that by following you and playing your games i got to know you better and i like that
;o; this is a very kind message thank you ;w; i wish i had the time to answer every comment i got, but i try really hard !
hello! I ran into such a problem that I can't buy your game. I've been waiting for the game to be released for a long time, but in the end I can't buy it. the paypal method does not work, since there are sanctions in my country and it is impossible to register for paypal. It doesn't support my card. I saw somewhere that the game should be released in steam, but I don't know for sure. :(
Yes, it should be released in steam soon, ig.
Or you can ask someone from another country to help you with the payment
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i am struggling to find the 12th diary paper😞 i dont know if i am just extremely slow but i can not seem to find it anywhere in the world it is located at in the guide
OH no problem! someone else had a bit of difficulty finding it so ill copy and paste the directions i gave em!
from the doorway you enter the black and white world, go up about 6 steps and then turn left and go forward until you see the first big TV with an eyeball, the diary page will be to the left of that TV (like two steps above it and 5 steps to the left of it)
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
Okay but like , I'll be really honest the upgraded chainsaw part on the first dream is a great change ! It really made that part more interesting that it already was :00!! Great job!!! 🙏🙏 It suprised me a lot and made me excited :3
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! ive been wanting to do more with that part for so long and i finally got the idea for it ;w; im glad its working right and is a good addition >w<
Hiya I'm really excited to play the game! but I think I'm having a bug where after Randall wakes up after the cutting his hair scene the apartment becomes unwalkable? I can only walk if I enter the menu and click out again.
ah its an FPS issue with your graphics card i think! try closing out of other programs before relaunching, if it still lags, restart your computer and try to run it again O:
Thank you ill try that!!!
Hey- every time I go to save it comes up with an error that says, "Script 'Game_System" line 91: TypeError occurred. no implicit conversion from nil to integer". Is anyone else having this problem? If so- is there anyway to fix it?
hm i just tested it myself on the version of the game uploaded and it seems to be working for me
could i ask some things to narrow it down?
-is it any save location or just one area specific?
-did you transfer saves from a previous version of the game?
-did you transfer saves from an old copy that allowed saving from menu? saving from menu has since been patched and if you transferred saves from a copy that allowed it, it could mess up the script and cause the error youre having
Hi thank you for replying! It's not in one specific area- its every time I try and save the game! I also haven't played this before so I didn't move any save files
I figured out the issue! I kept trying to save from the menu and I realized I couldn’t do that- I’m sorry for the confusion!!
OH no worries!! interesting that you got an error tho O: was the option to save popping up in the menu? if so thats very odd and im not sure why its doing that sjhgfhsdf
I'm so exited for more PURPLE content, not only was this game just so cute, scary, sad, and all over just amazing, but the idea of the game is just AWESOME... I can't wait for more, considering how the game ended :3 Wonder if any of your guys other characters will meet up, I'd love a big collab, it'd be silly :D
This is the best game I've ever played, i'm so excited for it to be released on steam! Gonna get all my friends to buy it immediately LOL
hello! I looved this game so much, everything was awesome!! and I have two questions if you can answer them! first, where is the 12th diary page in the black and white world? I've tried looking for it but sadly couldn't find it, if you could give a location/directions that would be awesome but also fine if you cant :) next question is will you be working on a next project sometime soon? [not meant to be rushing in a way but just curious!] or have already begun one? :p and that's all I wanted to know! ^_^ hope you have a nice day/afternoon/night whatever time it is! :3
thank you so much ;o; and no problem! spoiler-
from the doorway you enter the black and white world, go up about 6 steps and then turn left and go forward until you see the first big TV with an eyeball, the diary page will be to the left of that TV (like two steps above it and 5 steps to the left of it)
hope that helps ;w;
as project wise, i am working on getting purple prepped for a small update and a steam release but then we'll be focusing on an updated demo for the sequel "The Phobia Project" and then once that's done we may be focusing on our adults only murder VN, but thats up in the air currently
tysm for answering my questions!! and just wanna mention I'm super excited for the phobia project for whenever the demo/full game will come out! and I actually usually watch a walkthrough of the old version on YouTube when I'm bored lol ^_^
Finally was able to get the game I've never been more excited in my life asdfghjkl :3
Wonderful game! I heavily relate to the main character and I don't know if this is what you were going for but the game felt oddly comforting and cozy. I loved it. But I do wish to ask, as a fellow indie game maker, did you use RPG maker to make this game? and which version? if you feel comfortable telling me, I'd like to make my own custom game but I'd like to know the best version for this type of game. Wishing you the best!
that means a lot to me ;w; and im glad it gave off that vibe! ive heard many different interpretations for the feeling of the game, and cozy is one that i personally feel towards it as well
and i used RPGmaker VX Ace ! I highly recommend it if you want to get into making pixel rpgs like this! its a very fun program to use and extremely versatile! theres so many scripts to play with that really push the limits of the engine and its fun to experiment! i wish you so much luck in your game development journey!
THANK YOU SO MUCH! It was an honor to get a reply from you, and honestly after playing the game and becoming a bit obsessed with Tate and Randall (comfort characters) I can't wait for the plushies! Thank you for the well wishes and I hope you and your partner are doing well! you deserve it. <3
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...........how do i find jerma.......lol
IS THER EJERMA??????
MAYBE. idk if it’s meant to be known abt tho LOL
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i’m determined … i WILL find him ….. if it’s the last thing i do …
ALSO.
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is there a scene with eve and tate?
been trying to find all the things i’ve seen in the game files now that i got all the endings lolyes! you need to collect all the diary pages and get the true ending in the same run, once you get to the bonus room after the ending credits of the true end you can use the arcade machines along the back wall to play bonus chapters and one of them includes a small scene with eve/tate ^w^ (the amount of diary pages determines which chapters unlock, i.e 2 pages to unlock the first one, 4 pages to unlock the first and second, etc)
i see!!! tysm!!
Sorry to bother but where is the last page of the diary? i got them all and im just missing that one...
i cant remove the board and when i do he crosses to the wrong side, help
oh?? what do you mean the wrong side? it should put you on the side before you placed the board, the board has to be in place in order for you to get into the lobby area
you only wanna take the board anyway if you havent solved the xray puzzle since one of the xray clues requires the board, but if you got that already you can just leave the board in place on the 2nd floor
I left it there but at the chase scene I kept dying because I couldn't remove the board and moths kept killing me 😭
that should be fixed now! once you get the garden spade, if you try to take the board with you, you should get an auto scene where randall places the board back and doesnt let you pick it back up to prevent soft locking like in the demo ^^
kgbdjfghdsbj im playing it rn and no vadik ivanov till now im going insane
vadik was sadly cut due to time restraints ;-;
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I REALLY WANT TO PLAY YOUR GAMES BUT I DON'T HAVE A WINDOWS AND I ONLY HAVE A MAC!!!
you could try "winebottler" ! ive heard from some people it allows you to play rpgmaker games on mac! i cant promise itll work well/at all though since i do not have a mac and cannot verify it ;w; but i recommend searching it on google and seeing what you think!
Ok!!!! TYSM And I will try it!!! :)
So I have a question, will we be able to get a CG Guide? Because I've played through the game and got all the endings, plus the main one, and I still am missing MILLIONSSSS. And a few I knew I got weren't even in there, like I had never gotten them in the first place!
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For example, the one where Mya is bending down to pick up Sausage, but instead of Randall (or Moths I guess) Being there, Tate was standing there.
Or at the end of the secret ending where Tate and Randall share a smooch, I didn't have those either! Maybe it just didn't count me as getting them?
i dont believe i included tate standing behind mya in the gallery O: i thought it might have been a little superfluous ;u;''
and oh? the kissy one should work O: there may be a chance youre playing a version of the game without the "save at ending" fix!
theres also a small issue where the game over cg during the tate/messiah ending doesnt get locked in due to there not being a save bc its a game over, im working hard to get that fixed by tomorrow if you'd like to wait til i update the dev log with the newest version! you can redownload the game after ive uploaded the newest version and just drag and drop your save files over and you shouldnt lose anything!
I also added a little more content in the moths dream as well as fixed up some other small areas in the game ;w;
my apologies for the trouble! im a solo programmer so i missed some small things here and there, but im workin hard to fix em >w<
YIPPIEEEE! It's all good, thanks for the heads up, also, I erm... I for some reason can't launch the game on itch so I have to use a file, so I don't really know how to save it exactly- thanks for the response by the way :D
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Been playing thru the game for the past few days and its been an awesome ride! Did 3/6 endings so far! We are also a system and reading Gaspar's explanation of their experience to Mya in the cafe scene was so on-point it made me and other system friends watching us play legit cry /vpos. This game is so special and so important to us, thank you so much for creating this and allowing others to experience it <3
I have a question tho! During Moths nightmare sequence, is there some sort of easteregg code youre supposed to imput in the telephone room? The one where every phone says 1 5 or 9! Thats the only one we couldnt figure out ourselves </3
Thanks again!
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Thank you so much, this means so so much to me!! Im glad gaspars description was understandable to others with DID cause when ive seen people without it they were very confused by his wording XD im so glad the game resonated with you also, it genuinely means the world to me
OH and as for the numbers! They correlate to the combo you input on the locker near the legs in the red water room! Its a significant year in the game and a combination of those 3 numbers ^w^
Are you supposed to step on the buttons in the neat laid-out numpad on the floor, using the telephone booths, or some mixture of both? I've attempted that number combination a few times but nothing seems to change @~@ so sorry for the bother!
Nope, it needs to be used in a locker in a red world behind the toilet door
ooohh, so is the telephone world only a hint for the password for the locker?? if so then we figured it out backwards LMAO XD thanks!
know I’m gonna sound crazy here but-How do you get that scene w/ Gaspar and Mya? Ik it’s prob an extra scene or smth but I rlly wanna get it.
you have to collect all of the diary pages and then get the true ending! i have guides for both available in the downloads ^^
ty! :>
Looks like I vented to Fox and he made a whole game about me lol
Jokes aside, I would like to talk about how important this game is to me. I met it at the beginning of last year, at a time when I was obsessed with visual novels and indie games in general. When I saw the gameplay, I was... Obsessed with everything that involved this universe. I received a report of ADHD and am under investigation for autism, and I developed such a HUGE hyper fixation on purpleverse. I spent hours researching every piece of lore, I kept creating theories in my head, as if I were investigating an enigma. I analyzed every CG, every page of Randall's diary, every single thing. Nowadays I still LOVE purpleverse, I'm not hyper focused like before, but I still love every story that is told. I even dyed my hair purple because my friends said I was LITERALLY Randall in appearance and personality, I think I should be a little worried about that XD
But like it or not, I identify a lot with Randall. I don't have DID and I didn't even kill my uncles, but his constant lack of memory, low self-esteem, attempted suicide and self mutilation, The fear of rejection, the bad relationship with family is so... Relatable. non-ironically I cried at the end of the game. I'm glad that's the point of the game: for you to know you're not alone. And I also like the fact that the developer knows what it's like to have these problems.It's not a million-dollar company that only makes relatable games to sell, but rather a person with problems who wants to vent and make other people relatable. This is so... Cute and heart-warming, you know?
I'm excited to uncover the story of Purpleverse, but don't put pressure on yourself! Take a break, get some air and rest. Making a game practically alone is difficult, and I say that as developer too.
I played the extended demo nearly 2 years ago, and I gotta say... PURPLE was worth the wait!
The story was interesting to uncover as the game went on. Although it was emotionally painful to see Randall's memories.
I really felt bad for him, and it was sad to see Moths hurt people in the name of protecting Randall. But it also made me want to see where the story went.
(Some of those endings were positively devastating... and some were wonderful— like the Therapy End, which might just be my favorite one.)
Even beyond the story, I really enjoyed the gameplay (and the art! The updated CGs and animations were so good!)
The puzzles were interesting, the maps were very cool (I particularly enjoyed the dream sequences) and the entire atmosphere of the game was just very well done.
And, of course, the soundtrack just added to that! There were parts of the game that made me so tense, partially because of the music and sound effects.
I think, however, my favorite part of the game was the characters. Particularly Mya and Randall. They're both very likeable characters, and their friendship is just so sweet.
(I also loved Mason. He's freakin' adorable, and such a sweetheart)
It was a very heartfelt game, and even if I don't have DID, it's been really cool to see so many people relate to PURPLE.
Y'all did a great job with this game. I can see the love (and the time) that you've put into it. I'm very much looking forward to the sequel!
Sadly I didn't find all of the secrets, but that gives me a reason to go back and play for myself at some point before playing the sequel.
(Also, as an aside, I adored the song on the credits of the True End. It had such a melancholy feel to it. It suited the game so well.)
This game is amazing in so many ways, but mostly because I relate somewhat. I have DID, and one of my alters is so much like Moths, except for... a certain really dark habit ^_^; My relationship with them is so similar there were a few times I thought I was reading similar words to my own in some of the later journal entries. Overall though the story is amazing and it's based on the dev's own feelings about their experiences, which is valid. Nothing was too hard to figure out or get through, and the art is fantastic! Definitely one of my favorite games ♥
Awesome game !!!! Check the video I made of it