I haven't even downloaded the game but that white cover, although it is simple, caught my attention and reading the comments from the fans has left me very hyped for what awaits me in this story.
Thank you again for sharing your art with us. This work's quality is so surpassing that I feel compelled to offer praise. I spent over twelve hours experiencing the Band Camp installment. Upon finishing, I felt hollow and fulfilled at once, just as if I had raced through an amazing book. Your idyllic Midwestern campus setting conveys wistful romance. The plot is fascinating, among the genre's best. Your characters are remarkably alive; the sheer belief and care they elicit matches the best novels I've read. I've been comprehensively immersed in your world.
I enjoy the curated selection of great classical works, along with every other adept music choice. The visuals are superb: an astonishing fireworks show, a lively carnival, the memorable transitions. The magnificent final performance has been on my mind since I watched it.
The sexual elements are potent, both in romance and in fun. I strongly approve the casual exposure of the rehearsal outfits and the outdoor nudity. The sex scenes are hot, and make shining use of body language.
Your work bespeaks enthusiasm and vastly more effort than any other AVN. There may be bigger stories out there, but I've never seen physical events of this scale even attempted. It's a triumph of design and execution. I describe the AVN experience as 'reading', but yours transcends that mode with synergy between text, images, and audio. This story can only be conveyed as a visual novel. I laud you for realizing that potential.
Perfect Pitch evokes my past joys playing an instrument. Moreover, G.E. band camp reminded me of tech week in high school theater. Those heady days before opening night are full of hard work with others pursuing the same grand objective. This chapter captured that atmosphere better than anything I've ever read. Thank you especially for helping to surface those great memories.
I have type 1 diabetes. I'd never before seen a character with Type 1 in media, and I value it much more than I expected. The depiction felt authentic, and strengthened my empathy for her. I simultaneously hoped to see her check her blood sugar or give herself a bolus, and relished how little was made of her condition by others. I'm grateful you chose to portray her with it.
Most A-wing girls had already come nearly alive; the entire ensemble did the same this chapter. You've skillfully depicted a community of young, gifted, driven people. The dorm events deftly built connection with the girls. Many have rare characteristics, unlikely origins, and difficult pasts. I appreciate the sense of shared history with some, and the new insight others offer into life experiences that have never touched me.
The overall pacing is exceptional. The MC's romance with Kaylyn is a strong, satisfying core for the story. I laughed, cried, and felt pride for her. The 'Knee Play' scenes are genius. The supernatural elements add welcome intrigue. First watching the marvelously composed visions, my subjective witness was two to five times longer than the actual scene length. Your work is among the most successful I've encountered at conveying trauma.
Perfect Pitch has become important to me. Band Camp had a huge emotional impact; I'm deeply glad that this story is part of my life. I'll be an avid reader, watcher, and listener for as long as the project continues!
Reviewing comments like this is a surreal experience for me not just as a hobby VN developer, but as the developer of Perfect Pitch specifically. And I say this because so much of the impression you've shared above reflects in near identical fashion that which inspired me to create the project in the first place.
I think it's in our nature as human beings to chase rich, visceral emotional experiences. That's probably not only the foundation which undergirds the development Perfect Pitch, but maybe even the thesis for the game itself. Perhaps it would sound strange to a player to hear me say, but having completed the production of this update, I've also had the experience of a profoundly hollow feeling accompanying me this past month. A very natural, very human consequence of traversing the 2-year liminal space I found myself in when writing this update.
You've drawn attention to a number of personal connections you've made with characters and events in playing the game, and I really admire you for sharing that. When I put this project out into the world, there's really no way of me knowing what the impact will be. Comments like this show that the solitary hours typing away at my computer can create profound moments for others in ways that others have done for me.
I just finished the latest of the content yesterday, and I have to say you have truly achieved a beautiful experience here. The aspect that sticks out to me the most is the immense effort you put into this game to express your passion for music in its totality. The way you take the effort to display not only the music itself(interposing the sheet music into the movies so the viewer can follow along is such a great touch), but to even highlight the unique culture of musicians(I particularly enjoyed the way you clearly illustrated how "unique" marching band folks can be,), is just awesome. The writing, both from an overarching plot perspective and a individual character perspective honestly surprised me in its quality. All the characters felt real(even goofballs, nay, ESPECIALLY goofballs like Alexis and Amber) and I was always eager to see and learn more about them. The mystery of the main plot has me intrigued about how it will unfold. So suffice to say sir you have done your job at making me "turn the page"(er, click the window as it were). I just wanted to express my immense enjoyment of your game. Hopefully myself and many others will be able to enjoy more from you in the future.
Edit: Also, I wanted to ask, is "Liminal Space" an original composition made by you? I got chills from it bro. The woodwind quartet section in the middle especially got me(I guess a bit of bias on my part as I used to play sax in my ensembles but hey).
Hey, thanks, friend! I'm glad that the effort I make to showcase the culture of musicianship, even if it's through my own imperfect lens, is evident to you in the writing of the events. I want characters to feel authentic, flawed, and relatable when I write. It's why most events receive around 6 to 7 revisions before settling into the state you would see them in game.
It's easy to assume that the developer knows their characters best, but in some ways, I feel like you all might know them better than me. Or maybe it's better to say you know a less fluid version of them than I do. Many times it's tricky to uncover a character's role within any given event idea, and in those moments, characters can feel murky to me. But that gradual discovery is part of the fun of writing, I suppose.
This is an absolute masterwork, I haven't finished the camp update yet, but I am willing to give you a quarter even half of my salary every month to make sure you finish this game,cause this game is geting better and better and I really can't bare its lefted finished. Sorry if that sound heavy ,but just know you got some really,really enthusiastic fan supporting you.
Thanks so much for the support and for the encouragement with this project. It has been a long two years of chipping away at progress on the update, but I'm glad to hear it has made such a positive impression on you.
Alright, I had to make an account on this site specifically so I could comment on this masterpiece. Pardon this Great Wall of China Text but there is so much I have to say.
I grew up playing quite a bit of music and instruments, and one of my biggest regrets is not getting into marching band when I was still in school. I'm in a stage of my life where I am trying to reconnect with my musical roots and find new ways to express myself, and this game has easily lit a fire under my ass to finally commit to it after a few years of waffling.
The details, music, everything in the game really contribute to an immersive experience that I couldn't put down. As much as I try to avoid binging wonderful content such as this, I had to keep following along with bated breath. I'm not gonna lie, originally I was a little put off with how some of the character's vernacular and ways of speaking felt "off" or "extra", but I quickly learned to appreciate the diversity of each character. From their upbringing to the way they speak, it really helped to distinguish each character and really feel immersed in each of their stories.
That being said, I was and still am on the edge of my seat regarding every little bit of the mysteries going on with the game, and I constantly found myself with an elevated heart rate, anxious and wary of how things were going to play out and affect the world and narrative. I am dying to know how things will progress, and equally excited to get to know each character further. I absolutely have to know where things are going to go from here, and am anxiously awaiting even more character development (which there has already been a plethora of), especially for my favorite girls (Lily, Jayd, Kaylyn, Willow in no particular order).
While this is obviously an adult visual novel with nsfw elements, those clearly take a backseat to the immersive and inspiring world that you have created here. I truly thank you for such an eye-opening and inspiring narrative, I am going to go through withdrawal waiting for the next update (which will hopefully come sooner rather than later, but you can't rush perfection and I will wait for that fateful day, and the subsequent ones up until a full release).
That being said.... I am so thirsty for the mysteries to be revealed, and hopefully some of my suspicions confirmed, that if this ever goes unfinished, I swear I will sacrifice several orphans to curse you and your bloodline for the rest of time :). Mostly a joke, but I truly am excited to see future dev logs and hopefully as quick a turnaround as you can possibly manage for whatever is to come. My sincerest and greatest kudos to you, my friend, hopefully I was able to emulate the MC here in a winding tangent filled with copious amounts of praise and warmth.
Wow! What a thoughtful post, and thank you so much for sharing it.
There are many complimentary statements in your message, but what I appreciate most is the degree to which you feel invested in the characters and their lives. Especially to the point where it's making a yo-yo out of your sympathetic nervous system. That's an uncommon experience for any sort of media, and I can certainly speak to just how rich that type of thing makes a story feel to me. So to be on the receiving end of that fills me with gratitude.
I also appreciate your statement about wanting to explore new avenues of self-expression. Despite blue's clues and sesame street drilling it into us, I don't feel like folks often make it a point in their daily life to be creative for the sake of being creative. Sometimes it's for fear of failure, or a fear of producing something that's terribly uninteresting. Heck, I struggle with that more days than not. In fact it's one of the sources I draw from when I consider how MC views his own poetry writing.
Anyhow, thanks again for your message and for spending however many hours it took you to make it through the game. I'm glad to have created something that you found to be particularly meaningful.
As a matter of fact, I don't have a PC or Mac to play this game, but I found out that many games with Ren'py engine can work with JoiPlay, so I would like to know if there is any way to solve this error, I know it's not a game thought for phones but maybe there is a soluțion?? <img src="https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzE4NjcxODMwLmpwZw==/original/bPXBrp.jpg">
Oh, that's a bummer! The issue you're seeing is a result of the ren'py engine opting to use these big, bright and colorful emojis by default with one of their releases in the last year. It really messes with appearance of the dialogue when including a heart or other non-text shapes, so I turned off that option in the code.
Unfortunately, if I went back and switched that out it would affect all tablet and desktop users. And you're right, I really never built with mobile in mind.
I'm not sure if this would throw some other error entirely, but if you used a source code editor (Notepad++ is free, for instance) you could simply use that software to open "screens.rpy" and then delete lines 8115, 8121, etc from the code and see what happens. I'm obviously no programmer though, so maybe save a back up of the game somewhere before poking around in the guts of it.
excuse me for bothering and I found the file and copied it, then I put it somewhere else so that I have the original copy, now I'm the kind of stupid person who doesn't do anything if he's not told beforehand that what he's doing is right, so if he please can you tell me if I have to delete the whole sentence/code or just the numbers<img src="https://img.itch.zone/aW1nLzE4Njk1Mjc5LmpwZw==/original/6aSh32.jpg">
Hah, thank you! I was sure the first comment I'd get about that was someone wanting to be snarky about how little effort I put into the thumbnail. Hope you enjoy the update.
i get not having a patreon or what have you, but like ever considered a ko-fi or something as just a no questions asked tip jar? cause i reaaaaaallly wanna throw some money at you
I'm always given pause when someone holds such passion about Perfect Pitch that they suggest supporting the project in this way. Thank you very much for expressing that desire— I do not take the sentiments behind it for granted.
In the absence of some catastrophic occurrence that leaves me destitute and starving, I am certain that I will never solicit, accept, or otherwise allow folks to contribute financially to Perfect Pitch. I really do not like the idea of attaching monetary value to this game. It's a similar feeling to another inquiry I occasionally receive about creating a Discord community or any other forum for this game outside of the Itch comment section.
I'm not trying to make money, garner attention, or do much of anything at all except remain creatively connected to music. At this point in my life where I no longer teach nor perform, I'm simply grateful for this outlet that adds value and richness to my life.
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Thank you again for sharing your art with us. This work's quality is so surpassing that I feel compelled to offer praise. I spent over twelve hours experiencing the Band Camp installment. Upon finishing, I felt hollow and fulfilled at once, just as if I had raced through an amazing book. Your idyllic Midwestern campus setting conveys wistful romance. The plot is fascinating, among the genre's best. Your characters are remarkably alive; the sheer belief and care they elicit matches the best novels I've read. I've been comprehensively immersed in your world.
I enjoy the curated selection of great classical works, along with every other adept music choice. The visuals are superb: an astonishing fireworks show, a lively carnival, the memorable transitions. The magnificent final performance has been on my mind since I watched it.
The sexual elements are potent, both in romance and in fun. I strongly approve the casual exposure of the rehearsal outfits and the outdoor nudity. The sex scenes are hot, and make shining use of body language.
Your work bespeaks enthusiasm and vastly more effort than any other AVN. There may be bigger stories out there, but I've never seen physical events of this scale even attempted. It's a triumph of design and execution. I describe the AVN experience as 'reading', but yours transcends that mode with synergy between text, images, and audio. This story can only be conveyed as a visual novel. I laud you for realizing that potential.
Perfect Pitch evokes my past joys playing an instrument. Moreover, G.E. band camp reminded me of tech week in high school theater. Those heady days before opening night are full of hard work with others pursuing the same grand objective. This chapter captured that atmosphere better than anything I've ever read. Thank you especially for helping to surface those great memories.
I have type 1 diabetes. I'd never before seen a character with Type 1 in media, and I value it much more than I expected. The depiction felt authentic, and strengthened my empathy for her. I simultaneously hoped to see her check her blood sugar or give herself a bolus, and relished how little was made of her condition by others. I'm grateful you chose to portray her with it.
Most A-wing girls had already come nearly alive; the entire ensemble did the same this chapter. You've skillfully depicted a community of young, gifted, driven people. The dorm events deftly built connection with the girls. Many have rare characteristics, unlikely origins, and difficult pasts. I appreciate the sense of shared history with some, and the new insight others offer into life experiences that have never touched me.
The overall pacing is exceptional. The MC's romance with Kaylyn is a strong, satisfying core for the story. I laughed, cried, and felt pride for her. The 'Knee Play' scenes are genius. The supernatural elements add welcome intrigue. First watching the marvelously composed visions, my subjective witness was two to five times longer than the actual scene length. Your work is among the most successful I've encountered at conveying trauma.
Perfect Pitch has become important to me. Band Camp had a huge emotional impact; I'm deeply glad that this story is part of my life. I'll be an avid reader, watcher, and listener for as long as the project continues!
This was very moving to read!
Reviewing comments like this is a surreal experience for me not just as a hobby VN developer, but as the developer of Perfect Pitch specifically. And I say this because so much of the impression you've shared above reflects in near identical fashion that which inspired me to create the project in the first place.
I think it's in our nature as human beings to chase rich, visceral emotional experiences. That's probably not only the foundation which undergirds the development Perfect Pitch, but maybe even the thesis for the game itself. Perhaps it would sound strange to a player to hear me say, but having completed the production of this update, I've also had the experience of a profoundly hollow feeling accompanying me this past month. A very natural, very human consequence of traversing the 2-year liminal space I found myself in when writing this update.
You've drawn attention to a number of personal connections you've made with characters and events in playing the game, and I really admire you for sharing that. When I put this project out into the world, there's really no way of me knowing what the impact will be. Comments like this show that the solitary hours typing away at my computer can create profound moments for others in ways that others have done for me.
I just finished the latest of the content yesterday, and I have to say you have truly achieved a beautiful experience here. The aspect that sticks out to me the most is the immense effort you put into this game to express your passion for music in its totality. The way you take the effort to display not only the music itself(interposing the sheet music into the movies so the viewer can follow along is such a great touch), but to even highlight the unique culture of musicians(I particularly enjoyed the way you clearly illustrated how "unique" marching band folks can be,), is just awesome. The writing, both from an overarching plot perspective and a individual character perspective honestly surprised me in its quality. All the characters felt real(even goofballs, nay, ESPECIALLY goofballs like Alexis and Amber) and I was always eager to see and learn more about them. The mystery of the main plot has me intrigued about how it will unfold. So suffice to say sir you have done your job at making me "turn the page"(er, click the window as it were). I just wanted to express my immense enjoyment of your game. Hopefully myself and many others will be able to enjoy more from you in the future.
Edit: Also, I wanted to ask, is "Liminal Space" an original composition made by you? I got chills from it bro. The woodwind quartet section in the middle especially got me(I guess a bit of bias on my part as I used to play sax in my ensembles but hey).
Hey, thanks, friend! I'm glad that the effort I make to showcase the culture of musicianship, even if it's through my own imperfect lens, is evident to you in the writing of the events. I want characters to feel authentic, flawed, and relatable when I write. It's why most events receive around 6 to 7 revisions before settling into the state you would see them in game.
It's easy to assume that the developer knows their characters best, but in some ways, I feel like you all might know them better than me. Or maybe it's better to say you know a less fluid version of them than I do. Many times it's tricky to uncover a character's role within any given event idea, and in those moments, characters can feel murky to me. But that gradual discovery is part of the fun of writing, I suppose.
This is an absolute masterwork, I haven't finished the camp update yet, but I am willing to give you a quarter even half of my salary every month to make sure you finish this game,cause this game is geting better and better and I really can't bare its lefted finished. Sorry if that sound heavy ,but just know you got some really,really enthusiastic fan supporting you.
Thanks so much for the support and for the encouragement with this project. It has been a long two years of chipping away at progress on the update, but I'm glad to hear it has made such a positive impression on you.
Got recommended this by someone and damn tihs is the best game i've tried in a while
Alright, I had to make an account on this site specifically so I could comment on this masterpiece. Pardon this Great Wall of
ChinaText but there is so much I have to say.I grew up playing quite a bit of music and instruments, and one of my biggest regrets is not getting into marching band when I was still in school. I'm in a stage of my life where I am trying to reconnect with my musical roots and find new ways to express myself, and this game has easily lit a fire under my ass to finally commit to it after a few years of waffling.
The details, music, everything in the game really contribute to an immersive experience that I couldn't put down. As much as I try to avoid binging wonderful content such as this, I had to keep following along with bated breath. I'm not gonna lie, originally I was a little put off with how some of the character's vernacular and ways of speaking felt "off" or "extra", but I quickly learned to appreciate the diversity of each character. From their upbringing to the way they speak, it really helped to distinguish each character and really feel immersed in each of their stories.
That being said, I was and still am on the edge of my seat regarding every little bit of the mysteries going on with the game, and I constantly found myself with an elevated heart rate, anxious and wary of how things were going to play out and affect the world and narrative. I am dying to know how things will progress, and equally excited to get to know each character further. I absolutely have to know where things are going to go from here, and am anxiously awaiting even more character development (which there has already been a plethora of), especially for my favorite girls (Lily, Jayd, Kaylyn, Willow in no particular order).
While this is obviously an adult visual novel with nsfw elements, those clearly take a backseat to the immersive and inspiring world that you have created here. I truly thank you for such an eye-opening and inspiring narrative, I am going to go through withdrawal waiting for the next update (which will hopefully come sooner rather than later, but you can't rush perfection and I will wait for that fateful day, and the subsequent ones up until a full release).
That being said.... I am so thirsty for the mysteries to be revealed, and hopefully some of my suspicions confirmed, that if this ever goes unfinished, I swear I will sacrifice several orphans to curse you and your bloodline for the rest of time :). Mostly a joke, but I truly am excited to see future dev logs and hopefully as quick a turnaround as you can possibly manage for whatever is to come. My sincerest and greatest kudos to you, my friend, hopefully I was able to emulate the MC here in a winding tangent filled with copious amounts of praise and warmth.
Wow! What a thoughtful post, and thank you so much for sharing it.
There are many complimentary statements in your message, but what I appreciate most is the degree to which you feel invested in the characters and their lives. Especially to the point where it's making a yo-yo out of your sympathetic nervous system. That's an uncommon experience for any sort of media, and I can certainly speak to just how rich that type of thing makes a story feel to me. So to be on the receiving end of that fills me with gratitude.
I also appreciate your statement about wanting to explore new avenues of self-expression. Despite blue's clues and sesame street drilling it into us, I don't feel like folks often make it a point in their daily life to be creative for the sake of being creative. Sometimes it's for fear of failure, or a fear of producing something that's terribly uninteresting. Heck, I struggle with that more days than not. In fact it's one of the sources I draw from when I consider how MC views his own poetry writing.
Anyhow, thanks again for your message and for spending however many hours it took you to make it through the game. I'm glad to have created something that you found to be particularly meaningful.
Nvm is not working in next year maybe i will purchase a good PC and i will play it
Awesome! these next days are going to be great,
Oh, that's a bummer! The issue you're seeing is a result of the ren'py engine opting to use these big, bright and colorful emojis by default with one of their releases in the last year. It really messes with appearance of the dialogue when including a heart or other non-text shapes, so I turned off that option in the code.
Unfortunately, if I went back and switched that out it would affect all tablet and desktop users. And you're right, I really never built with mobile in mind.
I'm not sure if this would throw some other error entirely, but if you used a source code editor (Notepad++ is free, for instance) you could simply use that software to open "screens.rpy" and then delete lines 8115, 8121, etc from the code and see what happens. I'm obviously no programmer though, so maybe save a back up of the game somewhere before poking around in the guts of it.
How did I not come across this one in the past, looks amazing, might need to invest some time into this soon.
Glad to see the update here!
Perfect Pitch is finally here!!! I can't tell you how excited I am! Thanks so much for all your hard work. I hope your doing well!
WoooOo
Havent seen a comment relating to your cover art for the game. The White Album is one of my absolute favorites of all time, you got good taste :)
Hah, thank you! I was sure the first comment I'd get about that was someone wanting to be snarky about how little effort I put into the thumbnail. Hope you enjoy the update.
I'm glad to see the update's out! I see it's a big one and can't wait to play through it. Keep up the good work and I hope you're doing well.
Thank you very much! Very surreal to get the product of a little over two years of my life published. Hope you enjoy it.
Also, be sure to stand up and stretch every so often with this one. It's a whole lot of content.
i get not having a patreon or what have you, but like ever considered a ko-fi or something as just a no questions asked tip jar? cause i reaaaaaallly wanna throw some money at you
I'm always given pause when someone holds such passion about Perfect Pitch that they suggest supporting the project in this way. Thank you very much for expressing that desire— I do not take the sentiments behind it for granted.
In the absence of some catastrophic occurrence that leaves me destitute and starving, I am certain that I will never solicit, accept, or otherwise allow folks to contribute financially to Perfect Pitch. I really do not like the idea of attaching monetary value to this game. It's a similar feeling to another inquiry I occasionally receive about creating a Discord community or any other forum for this game outside of the Itch comment section.
I'm not trying to make money, garner attention, or do much of anything at all except remain creatively connected to music. At this point in my life where I no longer teach nor perform, I'm simply grateful for this outlet that adds value and richness to my life.