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Café Rouge
An Otome Visual Novel
Developed by @Sonya, @DAX, and @KUMA







Isis Black, your average American teenager, happens upon a part time job opening at Café Rouge. During the day, it is your normal quaint cafe and bakery. When night takes over, it is transformed into a five star restaurant theater cafe, with live stage performances and mysterious customers coming in the middle of the night.
As Isis delves deeper into this strange cafe, she becomes tangled in the mystery of its haunted world. Will she find friend or foe? Will she follow fate or make her own destiny? Will she find love?
That's for you to decide...


Features: 
+ Complex, branching storyline
+ Change the protagonists main name
+ Original GUI
+ Original OST
+ FREE (Main 3 bachelor routes are free)
+ Pay $5.00 for 1000 points immediately.


Hello everybody! I'm so so excited to tell you guys that Café Rouge is coming back, on CloudNovel, as CloudNovel's first commercial game! It will be available for free with in-game purchases on CloudNovel or downloadable (Windows or Mac) on Steam or Itch.io for just $20. To play online, it'll only cost $5.00 to purchase 1000 cloudnovel points that will give you enough points to unlock every feature in the game! To unlock every feature without paying in-game purchases, just purchase the downloadable version on Steam or Itch.io for $20, and every route and bonus features will be unlocked.

The only thing different in this 2020 remake is the brand new character art (and slightly rewritten story to fix all plot holes, THE MYSTERY WILL BE REVEALED FINALLY)!!! The artist who is doing the art for Cafe Rouge has worked for Rejet (creator of Diabolik Lovers) and Otomate (PlayStation 4, PlayStation vita, and PC otome games company in Japan)

For those interested, or who don't know Diabolik Lovers or Otomate, they are very popular brand name otome games in Japan. I am PRETTY sure if you are an avid otome games fan, you heard of them.

So for those who don't know Cafe Rouge, it is an online flash game created back in 2012. I created it back when I was 18 years old, and it grew viral with 1.6 million plays. The video trailer with original 2012 game is below. I didn't finish telling the story because I grew bored of it back then, but now I'm ready to remake Cafe Rouge on CloudNovel, fix all the plotholes by rewriting the story (most of it will be the same) and use brand new art from artists who've worked on professional otome games from Japan. This will be CloudNovel's first commercial game with in game purchases! Or you can buy the full game without any in game purchases, with everything unlocked on Steam for $20.

Here is my progress:

Characters: Main Cast done, Kickstarter Custom Characters not yet started
CG Illustrations: (19/40 completed)
Writing/Script: (65,000 words | Complete, with minor revisions to fix plot holes)
Original Sound Track: (7/7 completed)

Logo: DONE
GUI: (In Progress)
Text box (1/1) DONE
Choice boxes (1/1) DONE
Settings Screen (0/1)
Option Buttons (8/8) DONE
Save/Load screen (0/1)
Extras/CGs screen (0/1)
Main Menu (1/1) DONE


Characters (Main Character & 6 Dateable Males and 3 Dateable Females)


























Background Art Samples







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Love the character designs. Can't wait to see it released.

Looking forward to the finished game! 
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Here is the original design of MC's work outfit:


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Also here is Isis/main character's work uniform, completely finished: 
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HOLY FRICKEN FEATHERS, MY FAVORITE CHARACTER ANTOINE (OWNER OF CAFE ROUGE) IS ALMOST DONE, TAKE A LOOK AT THIS GLORIOUS COLOURING:
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Here is Antoine



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 So it's midnight, I finished adding major features to the forum, and I'm transferring all Cafe Rouge art onto this progress thread. Thank you for reading, stay tuned for more art to be released!
Sonya said:
So it's midnight, I finished adding major features to the forum, and I'm transferring all Cafe Rouge art onto this progress thread. Thank you for reading, stay tuned for more art to be released!

Good luck!
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Antoine with a suit, and short hair. For those of you who know/played the original cafe rouge, you know what this version is.
 
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Valen Michaels (is pink hair a good color??)
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Sonya said:

Valen Michaels (is pink hair a good color??)

too much pink imo
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Textbox added, options UI might change because they look really small...
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Sonya said:

Textbox added, options UI might change because they look really small...

wooooh so cool
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It’s final, the artist and I decided Valen is going to have pink hair. We tried blonde and brown, neither looked as good as pink.

yep Valen has pink hair, *throws Valen to mono*