Spark Hearts
A downloadable visual novel
Premise
When a student in the most prestigious educational program in the world realizes the world is not what he grew up believing it to be, he begins to reject it and lead others with his own good and virtue.
Explore Wander, a world of virtues lost to ignite the golden flame of the future.
Setting
Spark Hearts takes place in the world of Wander, a planet where its inhabitants coexist symbiotically. The planet thrives as its people live good and virtuous lives.
About
Spark Hearts is a free safe for work furry visual novel.
The Team
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Director & Writer - Comet
Art Director - Cyanroll
Sprite Artists - Karla Circe, Mookie Tamara, Racesolar
Engineering - Comet, Domingo
Voice Director - Nick Nocturne
Main Composer - Masm
...and many more talented people!
Development
Spark Hearts is currently under active development. As such, some assets may appear to be placeholder only. We intend to improve the quality of the game with each update.
Current Platforms
- Windows
- Other platforms are under consideration
The game is best experienced on a 16:9 display at 1920 x 1080 resolution.
How to Play
- Download the game (it will be a ZIP file)
- Extract the folder
- Open the folder and double click on the .exe file titled Spark Hearts [Version Number]
- You may get a Windows Security warning. Click More Info. Click Run Anyway
Support Us
Consider supporting us on social media and Patreon!
Download
Click download now to get access to the following files:
Development log
- Spark Hearts 1.0.1 Update Notes74 days ago
Comments
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could you please add windows and linux tag to the version people using the itch app launcher cant download it and for Linux we can play VNs on linux/steam deck via wine and proton(from steam)
This demo was so much fun! I love that the team built the game from the ground up instead of just using Ren'Py. The Danganronpa-style 3D animation is going to look so good. (Also, fingers crossed that this game is a murder mystery!!! 😂)
Hello! I'm A Furry VN Enthusiast, always wanting to try New VNs out there & I seem to found one.
The artwork is superb, props for such backgrounds (3Ds included)! Animation top-notch & voice acting good enough although the writing needs work especially on the dialogues & direction of the story. Overall though, Good Amazing Effort! Will Give A+ for that!
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Its a great place of resources for VN Developers. There are many of them which can help you become a better developer as am sure they are willing to share their experiences & gives you some tips. You can also search for specific people with talents like artist/musician/proofreader/editor/programmer etc.
Overall, there's a lot of helpful people and a nice atmosphere. I hope you will enjoy the server & wishing you luck for the future & how the next update will pan out!
I feel it's too early for me to give my full opinion but the overall presentation like the art and CGs are really good but the voice acting and dialogue felt really stiff to me. I understand this is the first version so everything is bound to change.
Okay so- first impressions are a bit negative to be honest. Whilst the artistic presentation and quality is top notch, and the music is excellent; the writing and voice direction is where this build falls incredibly hard.
Aside from the voice acting (as they're directed it seems) being all over the place and off-putting, the dialogue they're saying is unnatural and pulls the reader right out of the story. The writing itself is way too repetitive to get into it authentically (the over-use of "virtue" is especially irritating), and the characters feel akin to dolls that say their lines without having an inner-world.
I was only able to get to the presentation of the school's historian program before I couldn't read/listen any further. Because I didn't believe it would get any better; if this was the writing quality so far then that was as good as it was gonna get. The opening with the history of "Wander" was not a good foot to start on, but this was revealed to be 'the villain's'/Director's words, maybe it would be better if we actually got the MC's perspective (not a fan of MC being his actual initial's btw). But the quality didn't improve, and you can only appreciate the character art and music for so long before you just have to drop what you're absorbing.
ESPECIALLY when the writing has no substance to it.
Overall; I was excited for Spark Hearts, and was incredibly disappointed. But if anything I hope that with all the effort going into this project that the most important thing about a Visual Novel, the writing, can be improved to reflect the rest of the project!
I think I agree with you here. Great visuals so far, love the camera movements as well, it sets the VN apart, but the dialogue is.... something.
Originally I thought his grandparents calling him "MC" was placeholder text, but when I realized it was his initials, it makes the entire conversation...weird.
At one point Maru says "In the media I've consumed..." and that is just the most unnatural way to put it. His inner world should illuminate his personality to the audience, and the way he speaks in his own head is like a robot or an alien.
I won't say anything about the visuals/VAing as its still in progress, but definitely they need to focus up more on the writing.
Spot on. I think the art direction is fine (although I think that the camera work is a bit spotty, as it reminds me of a more jarring version of dangaronpa if I'm being honest).
For me, here was what I thought: the intro should just straight up be dropped in all of its capacity and it should simply start with you being in the class itself, or start with the broken down group of people that MC was talking to (as their conversation I thought was actually pretty interesting, and brought up ideas that weren't really addressed ever again in the demo).
The voice acting is a bit awkward overall, and the demo doesn't really give a good representation of what the actual game play loop would be. If it's going to only be talking primarily, then... Yeah, the dialogue needs a bit more refinement.
I think the premise could be interesting as a subject to tackle, but there wasn't enough for *why* they were Historians or anything-- we don't even know why they were selected and based on the general dialogue, there isn't even really anything that you could begin to piece together as to why.
on the itch pc app and it wont let me download the game not sure why this happens but ive seen it with a handfull of other fvns :/
either way downloaded it off the web and will give it a play later UwU
it's because it's not tagged properly, the way to tell is that it'll have the little icon for what device it is for next to the file name. I don't know a workaround so i also just downloaded it from the web lol
ooooohhhh thank you!
btw is there a way to get the app to recognize the files from a browser download?
for whatever reason, I don't think there is. I've tried to do it before by doing Library>Installed items/view all>Manage install locations, but it always just says that the folder is empty even after extracting so I just give up there. Annoying having to go into your files every time to play, but a small price to pay :)
yeah i saw that as well and even tried changeing the file name to try and match other games
Please tell me he uses the power of love and friendship to vanquish his foes? lol i haven't read it yet
Artistic presentation and audio presentation are 5/5.
Really my only notes I have are that sometimes it's a little jarring when there's narrative text, because it'll be in quotes and MC's nameplate will be present in the textbox, so in non voiced sections, there's confusion on when Maru is talking vs having internal thoughts.
I'm interested to see what future builds bring to the table, I think the team had an amazing first impression with this first build
I'd love to give it go but I'd need a Mac port
It should be fairly trivial to export a Mac version from Unity. So I hope they do that at some point.
I love the interactive background omgggg
It is amasing!
Please please pleaaaaase tell me there is a chance there will be a android port?
Amazing work so far. I love each of the characters and the story is exciting. Everyone has done a good job and I'm happy to see the future development.
IT'S FINALLY HERE!
So excited to play :