
Keyframes
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
OUT NOW: YOUR FIRST SPRING SEMESTER!
Between exams, friendships, and figuring out what a savings account is, college might just be one of the busiest times of your life. No one said adulthood was going to be easy, but it’ll be a little less painful to navigate with your two best friends by your side ... and three new chance acquaintances, who happen to be the right people at the right time.
Welcome to Wryn Mayer!
Bumble headfirst into the last two weeks of your second Spring Semester. With an ensemble cast of five, you'll find yourself in silly situations, entertaining impulse decisions, and forging new friendships— or maybe even romance?
Features
✦⠀~280k words
✦⠀3 Love interests
✦⠀Customizable name, pronouns, and a personality quiz that determines what type of seasonal MC you are
✦⠀8 CGs
✦⠀In-game phone where you get calls and chats
✦⠀Partial voice acting
✦⠀An insane amount of replayability
Be warned, this game contains cursing and suggestive humor.
Other features include the tears of the team, and an upcoming Kickstarter! You can follow the campaign's pre-launch page before it officially starts in the latter half of October, 2024.
NOTE: This game is scoped to have multiple chaptered segments we have dubbed "Seasons". The entirety of your first Spring Season with our cast is playable!
Cast
Love Interests
Friends
Credits
*To be updated again as we release more of the game!*
— Project Lead & Director —
Marina
— Writers —
Marina, Lilly, Floss (Twitter), and Rachel (Twitter)
— Artists —
Tsy (Twitter), Khoai (Tumblr), Roisale (Twitter), Alexis (Twitter), Krstina Mastilovic (Twitter| IG), Robin (Twitter), Poob (Twitter | IG), Cameron Felt (Twitter)
— Sound —
Diantre’ “HI-T3C” Butler (Website) and Charles Craggs (Soundcloud)
— Voices —
Peach (Twitter) as Cameron
Zoe (Twitter) as Deja
Katrielle (Twitter | Twitch) as Reynah
Charlatean (Twitter) as Jamie
Noah Keawekane(Twitter) as Elio
— VO Casting Director —
Orpheo Fenn (Twitter)
— Programmers —
Shawna (Website), Marina, Marionette (Itch.io), and Crescence (Twitter)
Status | In development |
Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
Rating | Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars (686 total ratings) |
Author | (BLANK) HOUSE |
Genre | Visual Novel |
Tags | Amare, josei, second-person, Singleplayer, Slice Of Life |
Download
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Development log
- ☀️ Post Summer Kickstarter Plans ☀️Nov 28, 2024
- Summer is Funded! Woo! + Other NewsNov 14, 2024
- Keyframes: Summer Kickstarter is LIVEOct 28, 2024
- Keyframes 1.1 Patch and more KS FAQ!Oct 24, 2024
- Spring Release Announcement & KS FAQOct 08, 2024
- Kickstarter Launch PageSep 24, 2024
- Another Mini Update!May 31, 2024
- Keyframes Devlog #1Dec 05, 2023
Comments
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is there a guide to getting all the cgs? i only got 2!
i can only dream of playing this in mobile 💔
any tips on how to get jamies route haha...
im so attached to all the characters LMFAOOO hel
ESPECIALLY JAMIE LIKE STOP PLAYING WITH MEE
This is so so cuteee ahhhh my eyes are blessed from the art of this game >< i also love the filipino words mention on this like sobrang cutie talagaaa plus let's not forget the story for this first season, i also loveee it AND the characters are simply amazing and beautiful (I really just love jamie accckkk)
idk why we can't romance cameron when we clearly have chemistry with them... I WANT THAT COOKIE SO BAD AND THAT COOKIE WANTS ME BACK... PLEAAASEEE OH GOD...
ive replayed this game too many times i love it SO MUCH, i literally cant wait for summer to be out. PERCY MY LOVEE
Will there be a update soon?
THIS GAME IS SO GOOD I SWEAR TO GOD I' GOING TO DIE IF THIS WON'T BE CONTINUED. THEY'RE ALL SO INTERESTING I'M GPING TO CRY
DEVS. MAKE CAM A ROMANCEABLE CHARACTER AND MY LIFE.. IS YOURS !!!!!!!!
I need more to survive!! this game is the best! The atmosphere is so nice and the game just makes you so happy and is very engaging. Good job! Can't wait for more.
Oh myyy, Percy is so prettyyyy. I'm crying. Elio is so nice and Jamie is cool. Reynah is lovely, deja ashsskskdjd love her, Cameron???!?!? My baby aaaaaah. The game is pretty great, well done!!! Can't wait for more.
I adore this game so much! Keyframes really brought me back to the my favorite parts about my college days, mainly the way bonds were forged in the fires of studies, extra curricular, and events.
(mind minor spoilers in my review, fellas!)
First off! I love all of the characters dearly! To the diligent Deja, the cute and cool Cameron, the endearing Elio, the playful Percy, the judicious Jamie, and the queen of my heart, Reynah <3 Everyone is so charming and nuanced (gap moe, as one could say) in a really compelling way that makes me want to know more. For example, Cameron being socially anxious when they were so silly in their introductions to us was just a brilliant execution. I also love how we get to hang out with our friends + get to know more people (like Reynah! I loved the shopping trip together aww), and not just the boys. I ADORE the trio and maintained my crushes on ALL three of them HIHI (but would also love to just hang out as friends if they want!!! theyre so fun and cool), but as someone on the aro+ace spectrums who cherishes friendship, I'm so happy for the chance to hang out with them as a group and individually as friends! I love KF will be a slowburn, and how we get to know the boys over time!! It makes my heart full to be able to have a long journey of friendship and discovery with the cast <3 It's also SO APT that it's college, where a lot of self-realizations take place!!! as someone who went through the sexuality/gender rollercoaster of questioning, I'm excited to see how everyone develops, not just with that aspect, but also with their relationships and personalities <3
On the technical side, I love everything about this game! The writing is so good - both the narrative prose and the dialogue are so engaging. Really witty and funny! I also love the many variations of the very creative events and branches! Really ups the replayability! The world-building of the school is also so good! (the Coop Co-op!!! oh that takes me back to school superstitions <333) I can't wait to replay again after scrolling through the KF tags on social media haha. The character designs are also ON POINT <3 everyone is SO CUTE AND STUNNING with their individual aesthetics! the artstyles are also so good! the UI??? the main menu??? the clever polaroids CG hanging thingy? the way the characters portraits can also be in CG? the texting that reminds me a lil of persona 5 (positive) and the anime shocked react during the foam pit fight? ITS SO GOOD and you can tell that everything is well thought-out!!! i love it!
technical wise, the music is also so good and engaging!! it's really perfect for the vibes, and i'd love to listen to the game's OST while studying law (LOL). i also really love and applaud how you guys thought of the game mechanics and programmed them so well! i liked the WATO, the Quick Time Events (that could be changed in settings thank you so much) it's really fun!!, the STATS are so cool and the 'failure checks' are really interesting to see for flavor :O once again brilliant game design for replayability
<3 TLDR: yall did amazing!!! one of my top favorite visual novels <3 so excited to come along this journey with the cast!!! <3
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I am IN LOVE with this game. I cannot express ENOUGH how overwhelmingly excited i am for the next chapters. I will be checking for updates like a HAWK. 😂🤍
yall i got this not knowing what to expect and i went into it and i am BLOWN AWAY like its amazing
my one singular complaint is that i cant romance cameron or deja LMAO i absolutely adore the two of them
realll i love cam so bad </3
OMG I LOVE JAIME SM SCREAMS AAAAAAAAA
WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CANT ROMANCE CAM 😭
THATS WHAT IM SAYIN!!!!!!
o.m.f.g!!! amazing!! but i really have to say, the "little brutus" store in the food court?! I cackled o hard when I saw it, absolutly brilliant!!
perrcyyyy perrcyyyy
this ate
This was so fun to read!!! Really REALLY excited for the next updates
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MY FAVORITE VN OF ALL THAT IS TIME OMG!! i love all the characters so much and I'm so so so excited for the next updates ( ≧ᗜ≦)
I also made a playlist for it in case any1 wants to check it out!! ^o^
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4YiAzPU7dVZyIMysr1bY8M?si=d401e498a4094fc7
love this!!!
tysm!!! :DDD
THIS IS SO PERFECT!!
omg i love this playlist so much
this is one of the best VNs i've read. so excited for more :D
It's only the demo and IT'S TOO GOOOOD (Thank you Jamie for being ridiculously charming which led me to downloading this game)
guys.. how many of yall are still obbsessesd w hias projec because im literally cryig bcuz i want more when does the summer ersion come out ps im gonna cry gr
They mentioned that the earliest they can release the summer version is June 2026 (I think)
2026!? wow gotta get comfortable then, do you remember where this was said?
wish u guys had a discord and a late backer shop:(
Will it ever be out on Android.. 💔
ah, a fellow olnf fan.. good to see ya there
finally someone has taste.
Heh.. hello 😼
wassup fllow olnf fan
im so in love w that
As someone who came to this demo off of Our Life, i gotta say, this project is looking great, and I'm really looking forward to it.
I like most of the characters, and the characters I don't like aren't because They're badly written, it's just personal preference.
And because i enjoyed this demo so much, I wanted to share my thoughts in the form of constructive (I hope) criticisms of some things I noticed.
Sorry if this sounds like me demanding things be a certain way, or something, I'm not trying to, I've just never given constructive criticism before and am generally socially inept. Likewise, I'm coning off of Our Life, which I feel is very similar to this VN and as such will be my closest comparison.
Spoilers ahead
So, my main criticism would probably be the game kind of.. Contradicting my choices? If that makes sense? There were sometimes where the game would either disregard/forget a previous choice. I'll give two examples. The first being early on, you're allowed to say you avoid touching people, even your close friends, but later, when you go to the diner, you're offered a hug, and the only option to refuse is to say "not this time" implying that you usually allow them to hug you, which completely contradicts a character boundary I set in the first act.
The second example is the Coop scene, where Percy can give up his shirt, and Elio his very important hat. There are unique sprites for these, and Percy even says something along the lines of "you won't be seeing the items again until after exams" yet, in the very next event, not only does Percy have His shirt back, which could be explained by him having multiple, but Elio has his hat back as well, which just feels like the game completely forgot they left them in the Coop.
My second criticism would be, and may possibly just be me misunderstanding the system, but the way the personality stat system works, and the portrayal of the MC in general.
For the Stat thing, its a super cool idea, I love it. Having a visual representation of your personality takes out part of the guesswork involved in making sure my character is who I want them to be, my complaint comes from however, me not understanding how my choices effect those stats.
For example, I started with a Fall personality. High compassion, minimal Confidence, low Composure and Charisma. Great! I like playing my chatacter as a kind, dorkish, socially anxious klutz. And i loved how i could portray that klutziness by failing QTE's (another system i love) however.. While it was obvious what choices would increase my compassion, i found my characters charisma and composure increasing, and Confidence going into the negatives.. And i had no idea what caused that. I found i didn't know how to lower composure or charisma, since I wanted them low, or how I lowered confidence, so i could keep it low. A comparison from Our Life would be the option color system, where certain choices were given certain "moods", like calm, confident, anxious, sad, in the form of the choice selection being a corresponding color, adding an easy to understand, but not blatent, layer of understanding of how the option would effect my characters personality.
As for the MC's personality.. I will admit this is simply a personal nitpick, but I found it kind of.. How to word this right.. Locked you in? into being a perfectly socially adjusted extrovert. As someone who likes to play a socially anxious/awkward introvert, even the Fall personality, what feels like should be the most introveted personality, felt squarely extroverted. And there were no choices to not be "normal", or to be more of a passive, or.. "troubled/anxious/awkward" person.
Even the options to refrain from commenting were framed more like "Eh, too lazy to talk" rather than "I prefer to keep quiet if possible"
(Or maybe there was and I just had too high composure/charisma to get them? But that again leads to the first thing of not knowing how my choices were effecting things)
The first time (and honestly, the most egregious time) I felt this was in Percy's introduction where, in a situation where my character would feel flustered, or awkward, my options were, what felt to me like "Get mad and judgemental" (something out of character for a "kind/anxious" character) "Flirt back" (something wildly out of character for a socially anxious character) and "flirt back a little differently" (same problem as option 2)
Which surprised me when later, my character would automatically get flustered by him in scenes where I would have absolutely have decided to have her get flustered by him.
Again, comparing to Our Life, where my character was free to be an absolute nervous wreck of a person who barely spoke and had multiple chances to let my character have anxiety attacks.
Another nitpick with the Main Character I had was.. Again, a nitpick, but no option to choose whether our character swore or not.
It was.. Incredibly jarring to choose for my character, who at this point, has negative Confidence and Compassion so high it's literally off the charts, to join in The Big One challenge, and exclaim "Mama didn't raise no B*tch!" (A word that I personally find INCREDIBILY offensive), prompting me to immediately reload a save to undo what was previously an in character choice (I like to think of my character as a big eater), yet with one line immediately turned into a horribly out of character choice.
But.. Hey.. maybe that's just how it's supposed to be? Maybe the MC is supposed to be a normal, extroverted person and I'm expecting far, far, too much, or expecting something that's against the Devs vision for the game.
Thats fine by me. I'm not the one making the game, I'm not the one putting my blood, sweat, and tears into this game.
Our Life is Our Life, and Keyframes is Keyframes.
And it's not my place to demand it be one way or another.
I just figure, demos exist to not only show progress of a game but for a dev to gather constructive criticism and apply it to the game.
So I figured i'd try to lay mine out there, just in case.
Regardless, even if the full release doesn't change anything and remains the same as this Demo, It'll still be an incredibly high quality VN at the top of my recommendations, and I'll still love it and replay it probably like 100 times.
Heck if I had money I would throw it at this game SO hard.
What you're doing is amazing and i understand it's a ton of work.
I look forward to following it's development and can't wait for more!
Sorry for the long winded post, lol.
Good gravy, I can't wait for summer!
Edit. Does anyone know how to get the bottom right polaroid?
Yes! It's from the Spring Festival Event. At some point when you have the option to "take a break with Cam" Do that :D
Thank you! I had no clue what I was missing lol
Omg I love them all! I can't even decide between the boys (jkjk Percy is my baby!) but seriously they are all great.
I love games with amazing chemistry between ALL characters! The banter had me giggling more than once xD
I can't wait for it to be done <3
Also also I am so happy the stretch goal for NPC Sprites was reached....I love the NPCs so much! Gotta practice that secret handshake!
GOOD MORNING GOODAFTERNOON GOODNIGHT
FIRST OF ALL TY FOR MAKING THIS LITTLE PROJECT IT REALLY CHANGED MY LIFE ( LMAO ) SECONDOFALL CAN ANYONE HELP ME GET THE PICTURE WHERE PERCY JAMIE AND ELIO ARE IN THE RAIN WITH ELIO PUTTING MUD ON JAMIES FACE?? I THINK THATS WHAT I SAW ( i saw it on twitter ) BUT PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME. IM A PERFECTIONIST AND I CANT LEAVE JUST ONE PICTURE BEHIND. I NEED TO PROVE THAT I REALLY. LOVE. THIS. GAME. ty and goodbye<3
hiii pretty sure you just have to make elio's rute! there'll be a scene where you go out to the rain and when you have to go back to your place don't invite them and then percy will send the pic! hope it helps ^^
AWWEEE THANKS SO MUCHHH
hello!! i have gotten all the extra polaroid pics, but in the main screen there's a blank pink-ish picture next to a box with a clover sticker. is it supposed to be that way or am i missing something? i've replayed this game hundreds of times but i can't put my finger on it
Is there a date set on when the summer break part will come out?
Ive read a little about it and to anyone lazy they say it will come out sometime in the summer 2026
Game is so cute but I do not have arrow keys on my keyboard and there is no way to assign them to different keys. Gotta be a passive player in all these games T-T
Might be a chance to relieve my college years again. I'm interested... and Elio certainly caught my attention, eheheh 😙
i have the fattest crush on percy and cam WDYM I CANT BE WITH CAM
Elioooooo got me
lo unico que suplico es poder enamorarme de cam