oscar gao | Our Lamb Amidst Mortals

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i'm oscar gao (any pronouns) and i like making visual novels. BL/GL/anything goes 🔞SOME ADULT CONTENT🔞 🏆winner of Best BL in Spooktober 2024 🎮games: rottenmondays.itch.io 🎨comms: vgen.co/oscargao 💌contact: rottenmondays@gmail.com

Nendoroid Utena Tenjou from Revolutionary Girl Utena
BirdsRightsActivist @ProBirdRights tweets: "I am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me?"
A 1-star review on itch.io made 43 days ago, saying: "If you don't like christian religions stay away. I, myself hate christian themes so I cannot recommend this VN."
A silhouetted figure of Nathaniel says "A penitent belongs on his knees," against an edited photograph of his room.
The concept of the "mass audience" has had a largely deleterious influence on art. Create art for at most 30 sickos at a time. Screenshot of a tweet by ColinBroadMoor.bSky.social @SaikoHistory, posted January 21st, 2022.
A compressed meme image that says "yaoi HAS LEAD ME TO PLACES I WOULDN'T EVEN GO WITH A GUN." I think it's the guy from Silent Hill in the corner.
Cropped screenshot of Disco Elysium. Left pop-up text says: PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT: 7 VERY HIGH 97% +1 Agreement with Cuno. This is a Red Check. It can not be retried. Two ones always loses. Two sixes always wins. Right sidebar text says: YOU - "Yes, I'm Cuno's pig. I agree." CUNO - "You are," he says with calm certainty. "This pig is Cuno's." VOLITION [Medium: Success] - Being Cuno's pig has a steadying effect on your hand. Go with the flow, man... 1. "Yes, I'm Cuno's pig. I agree." 2. Look for a good spot to cut. 3. [Physical Instrument - Medium 11] Cut the belt off.
PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT [Medium: Success] - All the muscles in your body harden. Time to *enter* him.
Chibi art of Enjel Clement from the visual novel "Rotten Angel." Black bloodstains are patterned on the background.
From top left to bottom right: Sunny Autumn CD, Sanrio plushies of Juza and Banri, an 18+ doujinshi, can badges of Juza and Banri, two Sunny Autumn prints with a Banri keychain covering the left one, two more badges of Banri, a leopard Banri plushie, a sloth Juza plushie, and prints of Kumon and Sakuya's Mankai Memory birthday card art.
Screenshot of the visual novel My Magical Cosplay Cafe. Riririri, a blonde magical girl, says "Takeshi, how long are you going to sleep? You have work to do!"
Rin Tohsaka from Fate/Stay Night standing ominously on a rooftop with a red light behind her.
Dirk Strider from the Homestuck spin-off visual novel PesterQuest.
Screenshot of the visual novel, Paradise.
text on a purple background with a very low opacity anime girl in the background. the text reads: 1 like = 1 visual novel question! 1. what's your favorite VN? 2. favorite MC? 3. favorite VN genres? 4. favorite LI / side character? 5. favorite character route? 6. VA or no? 7. choices or linear? 8. what language(s) do you play in? 9. least favorite genres + tropes? 10. least favorite VN? 11. minigames or no? 12. prefer physical or digital? 13. console or PC? 14. short or long? 15. preferred artstyles? 16. what was your first VN? 17. romance or no? 18. all ages or spicy? 19. do you own any VNs physically? (show it!) 20. do you own any VN merch? 21. VN pet peeves? 22. VNs you dropped? (did not finish) 23. underrated VN? 24. least favorite VN character? 25. favorite studio / developer? 26. have you cried reading a VN? 27. VN haven't read yet but want to? 28. ADV or NVL or speech bubbles? 29. favorite catchphrase / quote? 30. how did you get into VNs? 31. preferred pov? 32. recommend a VN you haven't mentioned!
A drawing of Himemiya Anthy pinning a pink rose to Tenjou Utena's lapel. Trailing behind Anthy are different-colored versions of her who match the colors of other duelists.
Visual novel screenshot of two guys facing each other, standing in a hallway with elegant architecture. Novel-mode textbox on the right says: "Yoyo's throat is dry as he gulps down whatever stupid joke rested on the tip of his tongue. He stares at Nathaniel's figure. Lit up from behind like one of those fucked up Renaissance paintings he saw in Art History."
Screenshot of a visual novel textbox. Demon says "A good contract lets you get away with a lot of things that aren't supposed to happen. Trust me."
First for some positives; I quite enjoyed the artwork and the music. On the flip side, the storytelling felt extremely tedious, especially as you are fed a little bit at a time in broken up pieces/sentences and you have to keep spam-clicking to read more - but if you click too many times, you may miss something. I almost didn't make it past the intro because of this design decision. I didn't particularly care for the story as a
Illustration of Touga from Revolutionary Girl Utena. Fire burns high in the foreground as he drops an illuminated exchange diary into the flames. The lighting on his face looks like a tear running down his cheek.
A painterly screencap redraw of Revolutionary Girl Utena. Anthy holds both of her hands close to her chest, and some tears run down her cheek. Utena stands in the background, blocked by the gated fence. Both girls are wearing pajamas. There's a dark and gloomy sky overhead.
Promo graphic of a pink-haired anime girl with yellow eyes, labeled "Shy Winter Girl, Trans Character Asset." A half-transparent close-up shows her smiling, then a full-body of her in a tan scarf, pink sweater, dark pink skirt, black tights, and cute shoes. A nude, censored full-body of the same girl, with each censor saying: "WHOOPS! Can't show that in a Catholic VN!" Framing the right and bottom edges of the image are various square previews of her anime-style expressions.
An old-fashioned pistol over text saying "road to hell" with an 18+ icon in the corner.
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Visual novel screenshot from Our Lamb Amidst Mortals. Yoyo, in a yellow shirt, stands to the left, blushing with a sweatdrop. He looks to a dark silhouette of Nathaniel in the foreground, semi-blocked by the textbox. Background shows an ornate hallway. Text: "Yoyo's throat is dry as he gulps down whatever stupid joke rested on the tip of his tongue. He stares at Nathaniel's figure. Lit from behind like one of those fucked up Renaissance paintings he saw in Art History."
Screenshot from Visual Studio Code. It says "Jessie Xu is a simple woman. Food, yaoi, sleep, repeat." with colored text and coded pauses between the words.
Yoyo smiling with kitty mouth, over a Twitter screenshot saying: "divine intervention is real. ❤️ God is making my life harder"
The itch.io Rate & Review page for "Our Lamb Amidst Mortals" with a filled out rating of 5 stars. The text review says "i liked when he said 'this really was our lamb amidst mortals' and the credits rolled."
Screencap of the Spooktober VN Jam Awards Ceremony intro, with Yoyo at the center.
A cropped screenshot of Yoyo rolling his eyes.
A bust-up drawing of two guys dressed as a lamb and a dog, labeled "HAPPY HALLOWEEN" above their heads. There are pumpkins tiled over the background.
A tomboy and an alien girl, sketched without faces.