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AFTER SCHOOL is a coming-of-age story about detention, baseball, gangs and friendship. Join Ellis in his chaotic adventures as he meets others both cute and terrible! Then maybe —  finally make a friend?

  • 3 Character routes to explore — Explore the stories of Dante, Adrien and Chester, with sappy friendship endings, the possibility of kissing one of them and some...not-so-good endings.
  • 3 full CGs, as well as 6 partial CGs to unlock!
  • About 30-45 minutes of gameplay per route, with a total of 23k words

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GASSSS 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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I remember playing this game ages ago when I was new to visual novels. The story and art have stuck with me ever since! :)

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Thank you so much for leaving this comment!! This really made my day <3

I really like Adrien and the soundtrack, he's a sweet boi

also I kinda silently yelled out "NOOOO" when I got Dante's Bad End, it stabbed right in the heart.

I'm glad you do!! and noooo not the stab I hope you got the good end after :')

I did get all the endings, thank you for such a simple but amazing game <3

This VN is sooo gooooood! The characters and the dialogue are so well done. The soundtrack is amazing god help me I need to save some of those on my spotify. It's so wholesome 10/10 gives my heart the warmsies.

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Thank you!!! I'm glad to hear that! ^^
If you haven't already found it, I've put together a playlist of all the soundtrack songs that are on spotify! The link is at the bottom of this page: https://feverfiction.carrd.co/#afterschool

Ooooh gonna check it out! Thanks!

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this is just so -- i am wordless. it is so cute!!

the art, the characters, the story. it is all so amazing and well-done!!! congrats for the incredible work ^^

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Thank you so much for your kind comment!!

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thanks to you I am now in love with Dante ^///^

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you're welcome HAHA (also thanks!! glad to hear you liked him)

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This has to be one of my favorite v.n. to date. The art, the dialogue, the characters, the plot?  I am so damn happy I stumbled across this. I'm not the kind of person who goes back to do all the possible routes in these kinda games, but when I played through the friendship route of Adrien's for the first time, I needed to see the rest. And, boy am I glad I did. Not only that, but I loved the soundtrack in this game. Some real bangers for a banger game. <333

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Thank you for your kind comment! I'm glad you enjoyed it!!

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Just finished all the routes and I have to say this is probably on of the best VNs I've played. The pacing and dialogue flow really well which isn't something I see all that often to this quality. Each character feels like an actual unique person and I literally can't get enough of them!

P.S. Overprotective Ellis is my fave~

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Aaa thank you so much for this kind comment!! I'm so glad to hear you've enjoyed it!

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I've completed your game offline since the start of August and have typed a longass commentary in Notepad of my adventure in real-time as I play, but I have COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN to paste it into the Comments here as I intended to, I'm so sorry!

I was one of the people who saw your game under a thread in twitter and promised to try it, and I'm so very glad I did!!

Here's my adventure;

  • Dante and a game called "Devil-" I see what you did there
  • BROOOO THIS WRITING......
  • DANTE GOOD END IS SO GOOD..... ;A; There's a sense of comfort and open-ness in the way the boys communicate. The way Ellis connects his thoughts feels believable and relatable, you have a way with words and makes us feel what he's feeling. The conversations and banters doesn't feel like it's dragging on, which is something I notice a lot in VNs. The way you write them feels natural. It's really charming. It feels really nice. The music makes it chill too. Like I'm playing this while it's raining outside, and god, the relaxation I get from this combination is superb.
  • I think I'm in Adrian route now, and it's fascinating that it sheds light to more of Ellis' past. Like I only just learned he moved just last year :0
  • Adrien's friendship end was so sweet... ;v; How did you manage to write all these complicated things so seamlessly, I'm in awe...
  • Adrien romantic end makes a lot of sense too what with Ellis consistently getting mesmerized by his swings... This is adorable, thank you for this warmth in my heart... ;-;
  • I'm in Chester route now and I appreciate the consistency of the state of Ellis' PSP being broken a month ago, which is something that was mentioned in Adrian's route as well
  • Ellis immediately responding angrily to the possibility of Chester getting bullied is *chefkiss*
  • "Suddenly, you're hit with the urge to protect this small, impressionable kid." Oh, I LIKE this protective Ellis.
  • The arm-wrestling part with Sam from Dante's route returns!
  • That bit about Ellis' dad and him sitting by the phone... Oh, you poor sweet child...
  • Oh no.... Oh no, Chester, oh no.
  • Oh this hug with Chester draws out more emotion from me, because I can personally relate in seeking strength, oof
  • CHESTER GOOD END GET!!! Aaaahhh that was nice...!
  • I snagged the bad end too for the full Gallery so now I feel complete, but my kokoro is brokoro;

THIS ENTIRE THING WAS SO, SO GOOD... I adore your art, your writing, your sense of threading the conversations into something that means a lot  to these characters... It's all so good. I enjoyed After School, and I thank you for making such a great visual novel.
10/10!

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omg tHANK YOU FOR THIS COMMENT!! I'm glad you enjoyed it and I'm so happy to hear your thoughts like this;; I had lots of fun writing these characters! The story went through quite a bit of editing to get all those nitty details in place. Personally I'm not good with dragged out scenes so I wrote the pacing to my preference but glad you liked it! Ellis' backstory was too lengthy to cover in one route so I split it up. I love him a lot so I wanted to write a lot for him...

Honestly, each character was written with a bit of my own heart so I'm glad to hear you were able to resonate with their feelings;; Writing is something I'm still working to improve so this comment really encourages me! Thank you again!!

beautiful beautiful art!! adrien is a cutie <33 although this was short, i loved every little second of it !!

Thank you so much!! I'm glad you enjoyed it <3

Ohh that was really cool! I loved the artstyle, and the characters were awesome ^^ Like someone under me said, it'd be really cool to see the other two guys with more development for a possible romance route. Also Ellis was a great protag in my opinion ^^ I like his character a lot~ Oh and the cgs were *chefs kiss* 

Aaaa thank you for your kind comment!! I'm so glad you liked Ellis (I really enjoyed writing him heheh) and the art :'D I'd actually love to write about them again (possibly in a different setting?) someday to explore more for them too! 

Thank you for playing!!

hi, I got a problem :c I can´t pass from day 1. Is this a demo? Since I read the comments talking about the routes, I´m confused but also excited to play it â™ˇ

Hi! I'm so sorry, I made a mistake with the code when I uploaded v1.1 but I've fixed it now! Please redownload the file and it should run fine. Also, thank you sooo much for letting me know!! I hope you enjoy it!

thanks!!! can´t wait c: 

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I got the good and bad endings for Dante and found there's no romance ending...I was like, "Oh, okay...but I'd love to see one..." Umm I think Ellis and Dante will be somehow cute together lol

But well I understand what you said (like their relationship won't develop so fast and they're more like very good friends) and agree with you...so my wish turned into wanting to see a longer story and how things went on after the ending. I feel like the game still has much to tell...For example, it must be funny to see Ellis pass the exam and his teacher's eyes pop out heheh

So plz tell me you're going to write something more about this game qvq

Thanks for playing the game!! And yes...I think they'd be cute together as well heheh

Oh man that sounds like a fun epilogue story! But to answer your question I don't have any sequels/continuations planned for this game. Although, these characters have grown on me a lot so I'd still want to write about them in a different universe/story someday! 

Currently I'm working on (finally) starting a comic project (though it's a completely different genre and cast) so sadly I won't be able to make games for a while;;

Oh OK :)  Good time to use my imagination  ; v ;

Sad that I can't see your comic...You probably know from my comment time that I'm not from your country...So I can't visit most of the websites :(

Well maybe someday I can get rid of that problem. Still, when you post other things related to this game plz tell me! (Even if that's a few years later heheh)

Aww man that sucks;; I'll see if I can upload a pdf of a comic oneshot here tho! (It was drawn last year but I just started posting it) And if my comic project actually runs successfully I might set-up a site for it that will hopefully be more accessible!

And sure thing! I'll definitely update it on itch.io :)

w....wait c...c..c..comic? Do share hehe...

omg of course I just released it last month heheh
Tapas: https://tapas.io/series/Sixth-Sense/
Webtoon: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/sixth-sense/list?title_no=609981
You can read on whichever platform your prefer! Tapas goes page-by-page while Webtoon goes panel-by-panel and is more mobile-friendly

Done and read. I will forever hold onto this amazing comic now ^^

aaaa thank you sm for taking the time to check it out!! T___T

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Is there a romantic end for Chester? I got good and bad but not sure if ı there is a one,or is there?

Sorry, there isn't, you've already gotten both possible endings! I was going to write one because Chester lowkey has a crush on Ellis but it didn't seem to fit well, especially with all the things going on so I didn't :(

Anyway, thanks for playing!

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I see. By the way will there be more games in the following months? And,games was awesome. 

Thank you!! I don't have any plans to work on any new games right now because I'm focusing on starting a comic (if you might be interested in that, I post updates on my instagram/twitter @FEVER_FICTION) 

I do hope to do another short game somewhere down the road though!

I love this game! I appreciate the bad endings, which I think made a lot of sense for those particular characters. And the romantic end is just so cute!

Thank you and I'm glad you do!! I whipped up the bad endings on a whim but I'm glad they were fitting ^__T

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This game was really interesting and I love the way you draw everyone, it's very adorable! The tender friendship endings made me really happy and the characters themselves were really interesting. Amazing job!

Thank you!! I'm happy to hear you found them interesting,,,, thanks for leaving a comment too!

Hi! I really really liked what I've played of the game so far.  And please share your playlist with me lol I love the ost!! I've finished Dante's and Adrien's both endings, and I liked it a lot!! Please keep the amazing work!!! 

Aaaa thank you so much!! I'm glad you've enjoyed the game! Since you asked for the playlist, I finally went and put it together after sitting on it for months lol thANK YOU FOR MAKING ME DO IT........anyway here's the page with the character playlists and soundtrack playlist: https://feverfiction.carrd.co/#asplaylists

Not all the tracks are there since some artists weren't on spotify, but you can find them in the credits!

omg thank you sm !!!!! i only saw it now because some of the songs started playing on spotify and i was thinking about the game and then about my comment and here i am lol,, i really appreciate it <3 (i was searching for some of the songs by their lyrics lmao,,, google answered me with "how to get rid of toxic relationships".. and then i saw the names in the credits and felt stupid). again thank you sooo much and i'm glad i remembered you about the playlist because your music taste is GOLD. i loved the game so much!!! thank you again <3


(and sorry for writing like this,, i'm using my phone and i disabled the caps option sjdhs,,, and it's 4:55 am here... don't mind typos !!! haha)

ok i just saw that adrien's playlist has my favorite troye sivan song and i'm ccrying. i love him. 

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I'm glad you enjoyed the playlists!! I picked the tracks for a mix of the genre/mood, lyrics and sometimes just general vibe for the character. Making playlists is one of my favourite past-times so I'm glad someone out there does listen to it!! I think about characters and their playlists....a lot. And yea Adrien's music taste is def troye sivan;; which was your fav one?? Mine is actually suburbia....which he never plays :'))

The tracks in the game are really indie so some of them are only on bandcamp, so pretty difficult to google :') If there's any track you want to find but isn't sure which it is, feel free to ask me! I did use.....very many tracks lol I'm very meticulous about sound design.

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sorry for replying so late :( i’ve been addicted to persona games and didn’t enter itch.io at all ><

i’m really really bad at picking songs for playlists (even for myself) so i admire you a lot!!!! mine’s the good side!!! i really love these kind of songs. but i love suburbia too... i actually love all blue neighbourhood and bloom songs lol

thank you so much!!! really. i’m actually listening to “through the looking glass” right now!!! i love this one and “roswell” so much <3. oh and thank you for being so kind to me and for the amazing game!!! ps. i love your art style a lot. it’s so beautiful :’) <3

This is great!  Thanks for sharing, I really liked the personalities and relationships you managed to build here.

Thank you for playing too! And yea I really wanted to write them well so I'm glad that came through!

i love all the characters in this, but especially ellis! i think the way you did the friendship and romance routes was great because none of them felt like a "better" route than the other.  i'd love to see more of ellis and his family if you ever make another game in the same universe. (i'm especially curious about yang's background!)

Thank you for the kind comment! I don't usually write romantic endings actually, despite the genre. While writing I wanted to go with what felt natural and what I felt each character needed, if that makes sense.

I'm glad you liked Ellis! He's very precious to me and I definitely have more on his family..... I'm actually planning to write some more details on what happened in the past year plus family background in the upcoming development pdf. Mostly I wanted a space to drop stuff I wasn't able to include in the game because they didn't fit. I'd try to include a bit of Yang's background as well, so if you're able to support it that would be great!

This was wonderful to play! It's been a while since I've played a VN that felt so firmly rooted in the real world as well as the problems that exist in it, and that dealt with them realistically without being tragic (it made me think back to Butterfly Soup, which was also a great experience).

I really, really love how friendship and romance were handled in this game (especially as an aromantic person, but just in general, too!) Dante and Chester's routes didn't feel any lesser for not involving kissing – in fact I appreciate that neither of them were thrown straight into a romantic "good ending" that would probably be way too fast considering how much else is going on in their lives, even if the interest was there. (I can totally see Chester awkwardly confessing to Ellis at some point, though. It would be pretty cute.)

I also love that it's a valid choice to end Adrien's route in friendship – of course, I would have loved for that ending to have a unique CG, but I realize that would have been a considerable amount of extra work. There were also a few typos in the script and it was a bit jarring that the title screen didn't have music (especially when music is used so well everywhere else), but those are small issues! I'm already impressed with how polished everything is when this is only your first game.

I'm looking forward to seeing the development PDF, and to any future games you make!

Aaa thank you for the thoughtful comment! I started it off with pretty wild ideas but as I worked on the characters I guess it came together that way? (Also I loved Butterfly soup too, it's a great game!)

I actually felt compelled to write romantic endings to fit the genre but...decided to do what felt natural for them instead. Also, I really wanted to write a strong friendship between Ellis and Dante, rather than anything romantic (Dante's also kinda asexual).

Ohh could you let me know where/what the typos were? I ran it through a spellcheck and got some friends to look over it, but some things might've slipped by. Also I'd consider adding music to the menu in future games! I actually enjoy sound design so it might be fun to play with that too...

And thank you again! I can't wait to start on some new projects already haha

Haha yeah, like, some pretty intense stuff happens, but I don't think it felt impossible or unrealistic

I'm glad you decided to go with what felt natural, it works really well! In fact, I think Adrien's romantic ending feels stronger because in comparison to the other routes you can tell that Ellis and Adrien have actual chemistry lol

And tbh I don't remember anything off the top of my head and I don't think I have the patience to go back through the script to pick up typos haha,, But I'll keep in mind that you're someone who appreciates having those pointed out to you for future reference!

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If you can't rmb then that's fine! I just figured I should fix them if someone did find any :')) Also yea writing them was like "are they sorta flirting....." and then I felt like a parent lmao

OH M~ the story is so precious and heartwarming! i fell in love with each character, especially Ellis! he just seems so relatable to me. i also really loved earning each CG! each moment felt very special. and, i must say, the music choice was a very nice touch! each piece set the mood for each scene! all in all, a great visual novel! i loved every bit of it! Cx

Thank you so much for leaving a comment! I'm so glad you loved the characters;; I really focused on writing them in this story so I'm glad it came through! Also I enjoy sound design and the mood for some scenes are really important to me...tho I also have to be thankful to the artists who are kind enough to share their work for use!

Anyway this comment made me really happy so, thank you for taking the time to tell me! <3