
I am Pancake. On the last day of college, I met her – How are you my dear?(Can't run, please turn off the antivirus system!)
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I’m Pancake, a 2020 grad from a coastal uni. My college dream? Making a game that that mattered. By graduation, all I had was nothing but a rough demo.
Years later, [So Long, My Youth] is here: a photo-based visual novel weaving together memories of college life. Each screenshot is a real photograph, each dialogue line inspired by my lovely friends. Maybe I wasn’t born to make games, but I had to prove this piece of youth mattered.
[So Long, My Youth] isn’t perfect, but it’s a slice of my heart—hope you find yours in it.

【🎓 To the ordinary college days we all know】
No flashy underdog stories—just honest snapshots of uni life: morning basketball with bros, heated classroom debates, fantastic beaches, community internships. Boring to some, unforgettable to us. Because youth has always been a little bit random, right?

【📸 Unique Art: My Youth Photo Album】
Over 100 in-game scenes are taken from my original photographs. Behind the simple composition and lighting lies raw emotion—framed to tell a story: black-and-white vignettes (reality) → full-color display (memory) → soft-focus freeze frames (closure).

【✍️ Prose Like Water: Years of Polishing】
The entire script is concise—under 50,000 words—but I obsessed over every line. My goal? To craft prose that’s lean, natural, and as quietly powerful as the sea—words that don’t just tell a story, but leave a mark.

【✨Youth/Photography/Visual Novel】
Call it a photo-novel, a digital memoir, or a "youth diary told in pixels"—heck, call it realism, call it "that indescribable thing"—labels don’t matter. What does? So Long, My Youth is raw, honest, and steeped in the kind of emotions that stick.

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Ps:If a DLL is missing, please run the "缺少 dll 请先安装我.exe" in the folder; if a Trojan is detected, please close the antivirus software before playing the game.
NOTICE: Dive into our campus visual novel—a lagre text-based adventure! The English version will launch on Steam months after the Chinese release. Thank you for understanding as we perfect the localization!
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Languages: Simplified Chinese
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说实话一开始我非常佩服制作人“赛博乞讨”的精神,因为诸如《百鸟朝凤》这样的好电影也会因为排片少,有过制作人给观众下跪的先例,这个精神是很难能可贵的,最后也成功让更多普通观众接触到了《百鸟朝凤》这部好电影。于是我怀着敬意,购买了游戏,并且尊重作者的意愿连着打通关了,然后...没空打字了,医生要收电脑了。等等,为什么把我绑起来??评论区的各位看到以后快来救我,我的地址是精卫中心具体在...哎!你别碰我!你碰我我拿So long My Youth揍你你信不信?你问什么是So long My Youth?哼,我不跟没玩过的肉块讲话!沙耶!沙耶!
如果你4年只能做一个这样的游戏, 那么我庆幸她跑了不用跟你这个废物受苦。
从小黑盒过来的,作者说可以玩完退款, 所以我先挂13天差评,等第十四天退款。
[h1]回忆装点了你的星空,那一瞬的定格即为永恒 [/h1] 作者一定对这部作品倾注了不少心血吧,从很多小细节都能够看得出来。做游戏的时候看着那一张张的照片,瞬间就能勾起当时的那些回忆,或喜或悲,不难想象作者坐在电脑前又哭又笑的状态。能把这一切记录下来,完成当时的愿望,就很棒了,不是吗? [b]但,很抱歉,作为玩家,对于这样一款售价为8元的商业作品,只能说不尽人意,并不推荐大家游玩。[/b] 接下来的评价可能有些尖锐,如果作者感到觉得有任何不适,可以联系我删评。但如果作者还有意愿继续做游戏的话,这些评价希望能对作者有所帮助。 首先,这部作品的程序问题相当严重,有不下三处明显可复现的BUG[主界面,历史对话,图片鉴赏],游戏上线前作者真的有从头到尾认认真真的试过每一个功能吗?哪怕完完整整的自己去过一遍自己做的游戏呢?整体程序的体验感很差,使用上有极强的粘滞感,可以在很多地方把渐出渐入的效果缩短时间或者删去;历史对话界面降低背景亮度,真的晃眼...;希望能加上一个文本显示速度。 其次,演出效果,这点真的无力吐槽了,极频繁的对话框抖动及位移,旋转,大小不一,颜色各异的文本...已经完全沉浸在自己的艺术里了。 最后,文本,写剧本时要掌握力道,适当的使用方言俚语可以让文本更加口语化,拉近与玩家的距离,但整篇大段的使用各种无厘头的文字只能让玩家感到疑惑[尤其时篮球场那段,查询作者的精神状态],显然有些用力过猛了。 当然了,这部作品也有我认为不错的地方,最后那段月光下对话的情节设计的相当不错,可圈可点。 希望作者在之后能够创作出更加优秀的作品吧,加油喵。
我被小红书和小黑盒联手网爆了。
难以被称作一个游戏,也难以被称作一个故事,通篇只看到了作者的自我感动。
缺钱了可以卖你的木琴
我花了8块买了个PPt,我是SB
秦惠王欲伐蜀,而不知道,作五石牛,以金置尾下,言能屎金。
至此艺术已成!!!哈基米!
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