Oh, man, I wish the geese had something to do with it x3 I think I remember what it is, so I'll put it below spoilers :3 Thanks so much for checking out the game and taking the time to complete the random side stuff like this <3

SPOILERS

It sounds like you pretty much did most of the steps. I know you said you listened to the audio clip, so I don't know if you will have also done this, but as far as I can remember, you need to download the audio clip and reverse it to hear the true message.

BUT... to be honest, even if you do that, it's still somewhat difficult to hear the password being spelled out >.< It's probably a pain in the butt to sit and listen to, and it makes the tiniest bit more sense if it's a word heard before in a bonus section of a couple of my other games. Just in case you wanted to try and get it yourself, I'll put it a little below.

Hoping my memory isn't betraying me here since it's a long time ago that I made this game, but I think it's:

Anathema

I can't remember if it needed to be typed exactly like that or with all caps/all lowercase or anything like that though >.<

Aaaaa x3 Well, I don’t have the words to thank you enough for checking out the game and then leaving such a lovely comment <3 I'm so glad you had fun with it! :D

I still feel deep down like this is probably the best project out of everything I’ve managed to make so far, and I’m soooo proud of the jam team, but it will never stop annoying me that this is one of my least played games, haha.

It honestly means a lot that you think it’s of commercial game standard :3 I poured my heart and soul into it, and I know everyone on the jam team who worked on it did too. With my low self-esteem, I often doubt that the things I’ve done are any good until people tell me otherwise, and as I’ve recently learned while attending a post-ASD diagnosis support group, autistic people like me are often unpaid or underpaid for what they do because of lacking the social skills to ‘make it’ >.< 

It means the world as well that you like the OST! I think Limbo Line’s music was the second OST I ever worked on, so I was still in the process of learning as I tried to create tracks, but I tried my best at the time, haha. One day, I will actually get around to uploading my missing OSTs to YouTube!

There are a fair few endings and little hidden side stories and stuff all over the place in this one, haha. I’m not sure how long it would take to find everything, but it definitely requires multiple playthroughs picking different options at break times and stuff :D 

That’s so cool that you had fun with Admin Acheros :D I don’t think he gets that many shoutouts compared to some of the other characters, but I agree, he’s definitely precious, hehe. 

Thank you so much for playing & for all your kind words <3

Aww, thanks so much for checking out this one and for all your kind words! It really means a lot ^-^ We certainly worked our butts off on this one, haha. There’s no way on earth we could’ve done it without such a wonderful team.

Hmm, did you go through the walkthrough? If that’s no help, you’re welcome to drop me a message any time and I’ll do my best to help if I can :3

And Niard loves you too :P as long as you give them plenty of compliments x3

Probably one of the most awkward effects I’ve ever done on a voice actor’s recordings, haha. I can’t even remember everything I did at this point, but it was a lot. The VA was incredible though :3 No number of fancy FX would’ve worked if it hadn’t been for the brilliant voice work recorded in the first place :D

Thanks so much for checking it out and taking the time to type up such a kind comment <3 It never fails to make me mega happy whenever I see someone has played and enjoyed this one since it’s still my personal favourite, but one of my least-played projects x3

Also, *high five* for the Inside No.9 love ^-^ Interesting about Tava too! I was worried that they would wind up becoming the most unloved in the cast, haha. I don't know why, but I thought folks might like Nyari best, but then I read some stuff where people had said she's too bitchy and two-faced so they don't like her much xD

What system are you playing on, and in what resolution? :o It was designed to be played 1920x1080 16:9, so, unfortunately, if played in anything else, some of the UI can get a bit screwy :( Sadly, it rarely seems to scale properly to accommodate other resolutions, which is why I decided to lock it to 16:9 only in my most recent release and have black bars for others instead. Annoyingly, it still doesn't help with square resolutions entirely >.<

*High five* for getting that :3 Even if you hadn't, I think I did name the episode in the credits doc, haha. It's not the only Inside No.9 VN adaptation I've done either! Though it is the most elaborate one since this one has a heck of a lot of differences to the original.

Really wanted to go off in a lot of different directions with this one and build a different world while still incorporating the original story and ending from that episode ^-^ And none of it would've been possible without the awesome team I got to work with! I just thought it would be a really fun episode to build off of and I loved the way the story was told on the CCTV feeds.

Apartment No.9 is an adaptation of the ep Tom and Gerri. And The Graveyard Shift is an adaptation of the ep The Stakeout :D Tbh I'd love to do adaptations of all the eps, but that would take a ridiculous amount of time >.< even if I didn't add extra choices, paths, endings, characters, or settings and just went for a kinetic version following the episode scripts without deviation, that'd still take forever with how many episodes there are now T_T I will probably do at least a few more though over time! 

Aww, well, I'm honoured <3 it means a lot cos I love this project to bits, but it's still one of my least played games alongside Apartment No.9, so I'm always chuffed whenever it gets some love ^-^ The team worked crazy hard to get it finished in time for the end of the jam. I'd really love to be able to do some spin-off type stuff with it because it was such a fun world to live in for the month, and I'd like to spend longer with it cos all the characters really grew on me by the end of the jam, haha. 

And I'm glad you approve of the non-binary characters :3 I've had a very small amount of hate over it for some reason >.< 1 or 2 nasty comments and a couple of abusive 1* reviews from folks who clearly don't like that aspect of it! But I've had that in the past for some of my older games for simply having pronouns unstated, or for having a choice of pronouns. I don't know why anyone would get angry about either of those things because I mean, what's wrong with having more inclusive options? T_T But anyways, I have a few friends who are non-binary, so it made sense to try and have a more diverse cast of characters :3

So happy you had fun with it ^-^ It always gives me fuzzies when I see some Limbo Line love, haha. It was such a fun project to work on. 

Also, *high five* for the Inside No. 9 love :D I haven't seen the new Christmas special yet, but I'm excited to! Hoping it's a gooden :3 It's such a good shoooow <3

Thank YOU for taking the time to check the game out and write such a kind comment ^-^

Hehe, there is rather a lot of silly mixed in with the serious in this one x3 It's been so long that I can't even remember all of the choices and the endings now xD I do remember confusing the crap out of myself trying to make sure everything lead to the correct places though, haha.

Anyways, hope your workload doesn't squish you too much so you can survive and have time to relax x3

Aww, woo! So glad to hear it <3 It's probably still my favourite project of all the ones I've worked on so far x3 and yet still one of the least played T_T haha. It wouldn't have been possible without the awesome jam team! We sure worked our butts off to get it done in time, haha.  

Huzzah \^_^/ So glad you ended up having fun with it! Yeah, that was one wild September xD Now you can probably see why I tried to tell myself this year that surely making 2 shorter games couldn't be more difficult than making 1 longer one x3 cos I was thinking in terms of Limbo Line, haha. That was really pushing the limit of what could be squeezed into a 1 month jam game though x3

Again, it would've been impossible without having such an awesome team! Everyone worked craaazy hard. I remember being up at like 4/5am and saying to the lead artist, you should go to bed, and she was like, well, YOU should go to bed xD How on earth everyone managed to produce as much art as they did in that month, or how the VAs recorded all those lines, I do not know, but clearly, everyone was as crazy as me, haha.

I was so desperate to try some new things I'd never tried before, which is where a lot of the side stuff came from. I have this rule/challenge I set myself to try and learn something new every time I take part in a jam. But I went a little wild on that front with this project! I still think if proper coders saw my code for the phone stuff they would probably laugh their asses off at me because I know there must've been a more efficient way of doing that! But I was just happy I managed to figure something like that out on my own really x3 even if it is probably backwards as heck.

“The janitor is better at sucking up compliments than actual garbage”
This made me laugh out loud when I was reading through everything you wrote xD

And it's funny you should mention Star Trek because my family and I had actually been watching Star Trek Discovery around the time Spooktober was going on last year, and it was actually seeing the character of Adira Tal that made me want to include some kinda host x symbiote type character in the mix somewhere!

I guess I should probably put everything else under a big ol'....

!!SPOILERS WALL!!

Totally agree with you on that password, so thank feck for Google auto-correcting I guess x3 Doesn't help that my mic is not the best, but also all the effects kinda drown out the whispering too much >.< I had a lot of fun with the mini ARG though, haha. I remember when I walked down to the place to put the poster with the number to call puzzle, my dad was really paranoid we were gonna get security telling us off xD The place I put it is public land, but the spring borders an extremely posh estate who have cameras everywhere, one of which is directly facing that spring. He kept telling me to hurry up with the photos because it looked like we were acting suspiciously and someone was probably watching x3

I would've liked to have done more with it because I had hoped to add the Architect from a couple of my other games to the end of that particular puzzle, but there just wasn't time in the end.

Oh man, it's been so long that I can't even remember what Nine's reaction to the DD funeral package was xD Not gonna lie, I too would love to have done more with all the Deadly Desires stuff, haha. So much of all the side/extra parts were rushed because of the jam's time limits >.< Some of it wasn't even remotely planned, haha. It's just I kept having random ideas of things I wanted to add, especially when the team was discussing various things in the team discord server cos there were several occasions when someone said something and I immediately thought, ooo, I know, we're gonna add this! It eventually got to a point where I had to force myself to stop adding things if we wanted to get everything finished in time.

But hey, there's no saying stuff can't be explored in the future at least :3 In fact, the lead artist and I really want to return to the project and its characters at some point in the future! We were hoping to possibly add DLC or spinoff scenarios themed around other jams, so like the possibility of romance and stuff when Valentine's sorts of jams happen in Feb (though that didn't work out this year, and I ended up doing Yandere Jam instead!) or even making a spinoff or alternate reality kinda story one year for a future Spooktober. LPB has been super swamped with college work though commissions, so it's not really been possible for either of us to get together and team up to work on new stuff. But yeah, we'd both like to :3

That's interesting your opinion on Kiol's VAs :o I don't think I could pick a favourite if I were just completely unbiased myself. As a player though, personally I would pick/prefer the masculine voice option just cos if a game tells me to pick between male/female masc/fem for a character that isn't MC, I will always pick masc, haha. And for MC I will always pick fem. Just cos those are my personal preferences.

Yeah, with Kiol's voice, I knew I wanted to give the player a choice because ever since making Impostor, I've tried my best to give players an option, whether there's romance in the game or not. Kiol seemed like the perfect character to be given multiple voices I figured it would also help solve the issue with Mallory on the phone, as I feel like if the VA for each version had just used a slightly different voice, it still might have been recognisable and given the game away far too early >.< So using both voices helped with that problem too.

I'm just really glad you decided to check it out and that you ended up enjoying it overall :3 LPB recently made some anniversary art that she posted on Twitter and I retweeted to try and get the game some more plays. A few more downloads did trickle in, but not many T_T haha. It's so frustrating because I feel like maybe people who like my other games avoid this one because it's not a dating sim/there's no romance? And that's fair enough if they're only interested in playing stuff that has that sort of content, but I do wish I could tempt more people into checking out Limbo Line somehow x3

Anyways, thanks for all your kind words again <3

It's totally fine :D I think it's just really sweet that you decided to come back and leave such a lovely review ^-^

I guess I better say the rest under...

!!!SPOILERS!!!

Hehe, yeah, I don't think many people would really wanna be stuck in Kiol's locker forever x3 And I'm not sure many people would really wanna be saved by Niard either xD but I suppose it's better than living the rest of your life in a cupboard! I don't think I'd mind being saved by Niard though cos the character really grew on me while I was putting everything together x3

Yeah, that's one of the bad endings where Mallory/Kiol kills Nine :P I had fun putting that one together with all of LPB's awesome art :D And the bad end with Lefu! That was so fun to make, haha.

You're right though, if the credits roll and you have the little chibi of Nine in charge of the office, that's the good ending :D

To be honest, without checking the guide, I can't remember all the endings myself xD There are a bunch of main endings where most of em are bad, and the only sorta good ones are the one you got with the credits the one where Niard rescues you from Kiol's cupboard x3 Pretty much everything else is a bad end! And some of them are bad ends that have nothing to do with the main story, like if you interact with the djinn or you mess up with the demon on the phone, haha.

I'm so glad you enjoyed it anyways :3 Thank you so much for playing <3

Hehe x3 oops! Thank YOU for playing it :3 And for taking the time to leave such a sweet comment <3

Hey hey! :3 I used Google translate to read your comment, so I hope that I'm not making any mistakes here. It seemed like the translation was pretty good though because everything made sense :D

Thank you so much for playing the game and taking the time to leave such a sweet comment ^-^ I really appreciate it. I'm so glad you decided to play the game yourself after seeing it on YouTube, and even more happy that you ended up enjoying it :3

Sadly, it's one of my least played games, but it's my favourite one that I've made so far, and the one I'm most proud of!

The lead artist (LazyPolarBear) and I did want to explore the Limbo Line world and characters more at some point. We even hoped to make a sort of spin-off for a Valentine's jam or something, potentially with some romance,  but we both ended up being too busy and burned out to do that this year. Both of us would really like to make some sort of new content related to the game at some point though! I'm just not sure when we'll end up having the time to work on it >.<

It would be really cool to have this and some of my other games on Steam, but sadly, the $100 fee is really offputting, especially when it's a free game so we would never get the money back :( I also totally suck at marketing and social media, so the game would probably get buried quite easily on there, and then no one would know it exists >.< One day though I might be able to add it :3

Thanks again for all your kind words ^-^ I hope you have a great week!

Oooh dear... Poor Nine x3 I haven't seen the video yet, but yeah, I can see the oops from the thumbnail, haha. But hey, at least that particular bad end is one that's pretty easy to avoid :D If I'm remembering correctly, I think that's the one where you just don't answer that one call and go investigating instead x3

No worries, it's no bother at all. I just replied to your other comment in the bugs section with a link to a guide of helpful tips for opening my games on Mac, but I will link it here too in case anyone reads your comment and also has the same problem :3 Hopefully at least one of the bits of help on there will work for everyone.
https://melancholy-marionette.itch.io/darling-duality-winter-wish/devlog/227880/...

Woo! I'm glad you had fun with it :D It was definitely my favourite project so far to work on :3 It was just amazing to have the opportunity to work with such an awesome team to bring it all to life cos I sure as heck couldn't have made this one on my own with the huuuuge amount of art and voice acting involved!

I'm so proud of everyone, and for once in my life, even proud of myself for what I managed to learn while working on this, haha. I was determined to figure out how to have things like the phone, the PC, and the ARG, haha. But going into the jam, I had no idea how to actually get stuff like that to work xD I'm sure the way I coded them is probably extremely messy and totally wrong. There had to be an easier way to do it, but just the fact that I managed to figure out a way to make it work made me happy x3

I'm a big fan of bloopers in anything, haha. If I buy a DVD and there aren't any bloopers in the extras, I'm disappointed xD So I always ask any voice actors I'm working with to keep their bloopers if they don't mind them going in a blooper reel :D

It still makes me a bit sad that this is one of my least played projects x3 cos I personally feel like it's the best one, but it's not had many downloads at all >.< So thank you very much for taking the time to check it out and leave such a lovely comment ^-^

Glad you had fun :D Hehe, man, all those endings were soooo fun to make :3 And because we had such amazing artists on the team for the jam, it meant it was possible to give things a much more cinematic look! 

I haven't had a chance to check out your videos for it yet, but I will do when I have more time :3 Thanks so much for showing Limbo Line some love cos it's my least played game for some reason >.< It even has less downloads than Yandere Heaven, despite YH only just being released this Feb when LL was out last year >.< It's like for some reason, people skim past it x3 but I feel like it's probably my best project so far since I was able to team up with so many wonderful people for the jam to really bring everything to life together :3

Thanks so much for checking it out :3 I haven't had a chance to watch any of your video yet, but I will when I can!

Glad you can see the love :D We all worked craaaazy hard on it, haha. Many, many late nights were had that month x3 It's also my least played game for some reason >.< so I really appreciate you showing it some love :3

As you can probably guess, it's my favourite trope x3 along with the yangire, haha. 

It's a tough one to answer with Limbo Line because while I personally believe that one of the characters can be described as a platonic yandere, some folks out there would say that there can be no such thing as a platonic yandere >.<

I can sorta see both sides of the argument! But being asexual myself and knowing how strongly I can feel about certain subjects or people, I personally believe that platonic yandere types can exist, and that you can absolutely have strong (unhealthy) feelings for someone without there being a sexual or romantic element to them necessarily. Certainly strong enough to be considered detrimental to your own the object of your feelings'mental health x3 

So yeah, make of that what you will, haha. Just know that there is no actual romance in Limbo Line! But there is absolutely a character in there with obsessive and other yandere-type traits :3 

It's easier to answer regarding Clarity in Qualia, haha. There is 1 true yandere character in the mix 1 character with yandere-like traits who I still haven't decided quite how far to take their yandere-ness! However, I wouldn't recommend playing the current demo for CiQ as it is incredibly outdated. I've since changed the sprites added VA for the new version of the demo (which is currently finished, but unreleased due to general lack of interest in the project.) I would say with CiQ, you're better off waiting until I've eventually released the whole game. Even if I were to release the new demo, the yandere character doesn't display any of their yandere-ness within the introductory portion of the game. 

I'm not gonna completely abandon CiQ. Not when the story is already written, the new sprites are complete, and the characters all have VAs cast >.< There's too much work gone into the project to just leave it behind. But it is sorta just paused at the moment while I focus on getting some updates for DD out first. 

Thanks so much for playing my other stuff :3 I'm so glad you've had fun with them! 

Hey hey! I remember your username ^-^ Thank you so much for continuing to play my games and posting such lovely comments! I really appreciate it :3

That's so sweet of you :3 I'm actually a tiny bit ill at the moment, haha. I finally got to meet up with a friend that I hadn't seen for 2 years, and we went out and about, and now I have a cold xD I guess because we've been being so careful with covid around that now we all have weakened immune systems so as soon as we go places we get ill from all the bugs >.<

I did take most of October off after finishing Limbo Line at the end of September for the jam :3 But I kinda wound up playing all of the jam games which became quite hard since there were so many xD I'm supposed to be going back to working on DD now, but I have lots of brain fog and just tired all the time even though I've been getting plenty of sleep >.< I'll take it slow though :3

Thanks again for all your kind words! I hope you're well and that your week is going great so far :3