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Hello Jonesy!! Really enjoyed this game and can't wait for the sequels. With how this one ended however I feel like maybe an update for it might apply? It just didn't seem right for the "Non-Family" member peeping turned out to break her heart as it seems to have done when she is returning to the room they set her up in. I thought it was presented that there was more to his relationships with Eve and the others in his group, including her, that should have set her mind to view what she watched as "Motivation" for her to desire to be part of that, or hoping to experience that, in the near future.  

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Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed it. The sequel, "New Year's Day(e)" is  currently in development, but the first 4 chapters are available to play. The sequel picks up the story right after the end of "Christmas Eve". Feel free to play it. It gets more into the relationships of Daye and the other girls. It also has a different tone and can get pretty dramatic at points, so consider yourself warned. I also have the first two chapters of Siren Song available, so be sure to check that one out, too. Thanks again. Cheers!

Thanks for the fast response and I will keep watch for Siren Song too. A "Lil" drama is good. Builds up the story part of the AVNs for those of us who play not just for the fapping parts.. LOL. I personally like having a story to follow. Some of them have been really good stories too! Time to chase down the New Year's Day(e) story. Thanks again! Keep up these fun stories and don't let anyone dictate to you what you can say or do. 

ive tried downloading this like 10 times and everytime the download fails... is this something wrong on my side?

I think it must be on your end. I just tried all three and they worked fine. Maybe try a different browser like Chrome vs Firefox?

hello.. i just paid 10 dollars for christmas eve, and it says i should be able to download the 1.0.0 final version but the mega link supplied leads to version 4.1?  i'm a little confused.

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Give me a few minutes and I will fix this. I thought I had it pointed to the correct files. I'll get the correct ones loaded up. I'll put them onto itch proper so you shouldn't need to use Mega at all. For what it's worth, the only difference between 0.4.1 and 1.0.0 is a couple of minor adjustments like the outline of the text and such. The story itself, as well as the images are all exactly the same.

EDIT: All builds have been updated. Sorry for the confusion!

thank you for your swift attention to the matter.  i loved siren song, and it made me want to sample more of your work.  i grabbed new years daye too. :)

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Thanks so much for helping support my work! Please keep in mind, Christmas Eve was my first attempt at a VN, so it's a little rough around the edges (more so than my other stuff)!

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it's cool...i don't know of anybody's first effort at anything that came out to be a masterpiece. :)  i enjoyed christmas eve and started new years daye.  keep up the good work, i'll be looking forward to it.

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I love this game, and can't wait to play the sequels. one of my favorite aspects to the game is the music. I tried to look up some of the songs, but can't find them anywhere. where did you find the music? do you have a playlist that you can share?

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Hey! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I really think the music adds another dimension to the story as well. I found most if not all of it on the pixabay website. It's a site that offers free 'royalty free', no copywrite music. I believe there are a list of artists in the credits at the end of the game. Thanks for playing and I hope you enjoy New Year's Day(e). I'm currently working on chapter 2 of Siren Song which is very "music forward", so check it out as well!

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You sir, are a genius! Short but awesome game! Didn't see the scene on the white floor (pic 10 to the right) Did I miss something?

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Thanks! Im glad you enjoyed it. The scene you're talking about is from chapter 4 during the Eve/Daye fight.

Is New Year's Day available yet? If so can someone please link me to it?

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Yep! Chapter 1 is anyway. Here you go. Thanks for playing!

Thank you! Can't wait to play. Keep up the great work!

Can you install this without a mega account?

Hey! You shouldn't need to sign up with Mega just to download. It should do a "pre-download" and then actually download the file really quickly once it reaches 100%. I dunno why it works this way, it just does.  I hope this helps!

Whenever I click download I get a pop-up that says "you are not logged in"

When i try it i get the choice: open in Mega App or Open in Browser. Choose open in browser and you shouldn't have any problems.

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Hello Jonesy  I think it's really good that the game is well received by everyone. Take your time to make the game super good , but please do not waste too much time . Christmas Eve has a good story board. Please keep it up and you will be a great game developer . hawaii4560 / aloha
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While I didn't play it as the chapters were released (I got it a couple of days ago from another site), it's clear you've been developing as a developer :-)

There were a few minor things I thought didn't quite make sense, but this was a fun little story and very cute girls (I hate those weird pointy eyelashes Eve has though). 

Thanks for a few well-spent hours.

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This was was nice. While it's similar to another game, I'm really looking forward to where you decide to go with. The fourth chapter was the best of them. You can really see how much extra effort you put into it. It was worth it.

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Short but well done.

Glad to hear you will be making this into a series. If I'm honest I would have preferred it all to be one game, but I take it this wasn't planned and now it would be awkward with the name and all. I don't mind though.

I assume you don't have enough time for Easter Daye, haha. I am curious about how you are going to continue the project. While this worked well for the first game, I don't think "one girl per game" approach will make sense from here on out story-wise.

Looking forward to what you do next!


P.S.

You gave a shoutout to Lockheart at the end, would you have any links to share?

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Ok this one was good and so much potential for sequels/seasons. Maybe a sequel for each girl while slowly building relationships with the others is nice. Finish it off with a nice harem time and explore a few kinks along the way. Take it step farther and give pregnancy options for the girls.(for those who like that stuff) =]

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Compliment ! This Game is made with love . Like it very much

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Kaylee needs a happy ending, the sad music combined with Evie and her jokes makes it that much sadder.

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I know! I feel bad for her, too! She's such a sweetheart and really deserves to be happy. I'll see what I can do to fix things in the next story in this series.

Please do not hear what the others say ! the game is amazing , the christmassy music fits too . Please continue ! (aloha1960 , hawaii4560)

Can you log in by SubscribeStar . I can support you there !!!

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I downloaded yesterday and played straight through in a couple hours. I took a chance on a new creator due to the uncanny likeness Eve has to a person in my real life that I happen to have a huge crush on. It's actually unreal how much they look alike. 


Anyway, I was very pleasantly surprised! It was a very fun, cute, little story. 


Positives: 

Images are of great quality. The renders look great for the most part and are very easy and pleasant to look at. 

Pacing was appropriate for a story of this length. A good amount of buildup before any adult scenes is good but some creators take this too far and pump out two years of content with a quarterly update with barely any teases of anything more to come. This isn't that. There's plenty of steak here with the sizzle although it didn't feel too rushed. 

At the end of chapter 3, I was wanting moremoremore! Evie is addicting and makes the viewer never want her story to end. 

There's enough ancillary characters that make you curious about future releases of not only this title but a potential "Jonesy Universe" of games hopefully. 


Cons: I don't have much to offer that hasn't already been mentioned elsewhere unfortunately. 

The closeups on some of the naughty bits were a bit disappointing. They seemed to be very basic or rushed and less detail put into them than some of the gorgeous closeups of Evie's face or set dressing. 

I'll be that guy; the lack of feet content. I'm sorry to those who "aren't into it" or are repulsed by the fetish but I've got to mention it. Evelynn has got simply gorgeous feet. I mean truly stunning. So I kept hoping there would be an option/pathway that would allow me to enjoy those pretty little soles and toes. I hope someday we are able to do that in some capacity!

The payoff of what Evie pulls out of the drawer never showed up. After the scene when she takes it, she shows up in a skirt and I thought, "Oh man. She's wearing that plug." But you find out later that she isn't. And she never does. Although I ASSUME that will be payed off in the last chapter. Or hope so at the very least! HAHA

My biggest issue (and it wasn't that big!) is with the dialogue. Some of the dialogue was a bit unbelievable to me. I would have liked if Evie were just a bit more shy and nervous given the subject matter. I think she came across as a bit too forward for me to suspend my disbelief. And at certain moments I actually chuckled a bit and thought, "Okay. No one would ever say that. These are not things that people just say." While I understand that a bit of humor is a part of the genre here, I just think at times, the dialogue took me a bit out of it. While I know these kinds of works are passion projects, I might consider you enlist the help of a bit of an editor or somehow engage with a test audience before future releases to get that detailed feedback. 


OVERALL:


I really liked this. Enough to even create an itchdotio account to leave this review/feedback! I couldn't be more pleased to have found this a day or two before Valentine's Day as now I'm so incredibly excited to finish this story in a couple of days!


Thank you for your art, your hard work, and dedication to bringing this and future releases to life. You've won me over as a fan and I will be following your career with great interest! 

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Hey Itchanon,

Thanks for all the input. I really appreciate it! I'm so glad to hear you liked the story and I hope that you like what I have in store for you in chapter 4.

As you already know, this is my first attempt at this type of project. I have come to see this as 2 separate stories. One being the obvious story called "Christmas Eve", and the other, more subtle story, is the one about myself progressing as a developer. I started this in August and already I am looking back at chapter 1 and thinking, "Man, I made some hits, but I definitely missed the mark a few times, too." I personally like that. It's like an accidental journal. 

Anyway, I am still working hard, but I will not be able to meet my target release date of 2/14. I blame it on my characters. They keep hijacking the story and making me write/render/code more scenes! I'm getting to the last scene as of this morning. Hopefully I'm going to have it done by this coming weekend, but we'll see.

Thanks again for all the support. I hope to hear from you soon!


-Jonesy

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Hey Falauren! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I want you to know I am definitely going through the whole story a few times and fixing any typos I can find before releasing chapter 4. I understand how distracting they can be. 

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Hi dev is  pregnancy  planned? Also if you plan to include lesbian content make it avoidable or give the opportunity to prevent girls from being lesbians. I don't know why most games don't have the opportunity to avoid it.

Hey, thanks for checking out the game. I hope you've enjoyed it so far. While I can't make any promises, I don't currently have any plans for pregnancy content and none of my current female characters are lesbians. That said, they may have messed around with each other from time to time just for fun. Generally, I try to let my characters dictate what they want to do and I try to think about what would seem at least somewhat natural or realistic as far as what I imagine their personalities to be. I feel that by doing it this way, the story writes itself. Will we meet a lesbian or pregnant character in the future? Maybe. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

What about impregnation with the MC being the father?

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It's not currently on my radar, but I like to keep my options open.

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The whole story is amazingly enthralling and heart-warming and, courtesy of delightful little Evey, completely and utterly enchanting in every aspect. In particular though "The Glimmering" movie night scene was, for me, the most brilliant of all the brilliantly done scenes. To be able to and then to actually succeed so  convincingly in conveying such tenderness and sensitivity, both in your writing and, in particular, the way you have not only rendered everything, but most notably of all, Eve's breath taking eyes in the firelight as she sat in her Dad's lap has been a truly rare and, in my own personal experience, unique feeling for my heart, for me and hopefully for all who are fortunate enough to discover you and this absolute masterpiece. This is a truly amazing accomplishment.

You should be so very proud of your creativity, imagination, your capabilities and, above all , your sensibilities. You simply MUST, I implore you, follow through on this story to the very end. I am not a wealthy person, but I paid $30 for the pleasure of Chapter 3, because this, for me, is all I can afford to pay for a gift which, in truth, is, to me, absolutely priceless. This whole story will be, I feel sure, an experience I shall cherish and subsequently cherish with each new chapter right to the very end of this already pulsatingly heart-warming tale.

Please do your best to remain energised. Please continue to write all that your heart is clearly telling you to write and with the exact same warmth and sensitivity you have done so inspiringly thus far and please, please, please do continue to illustrate it, at the very least, to the stratospheric level you have already attained or perhaps if possible (although I have no idea how you might achieve it) even higher. There is no sky left to limit you, Jonesy...

Discovering this been the biggest juiciest, sweetest, most succulent cherry on my Christmas and New Year cake. Thank you so much, (Mr?Ms?) Jonesy for blessing me, and of course, us all, with Evey at Christmas! Stay happy, stay healthy and, please, stay focused, keeping that magic wand and spell book at your side at all times...
Happy New Year and, of course, roll on Valentine's Day!

Thank you so much for all the praise! I am not the type of person that accepts praise very well, but it does mean a lot to me, so thanks. I also really appreciate the donation. That will definitely help purchase more goodies for upcoming chapters/projects (this stuff gets expensive quick!). 

I really have tried my best to make the conversations feel natural and to convey through dialog, thoughts, and actions how much the characters truly love each other outside of the naughty stuff they get into. I'm happy to hear that I succeeded with that on at least some level.

I haven't written the script out properly for chapter 4 just yet, but I have a collection of ideas and directions I want to explore. At this point though, it seems like the characters are calling the shots. I'm just  going to start rendering and writing and see where they lead me. I'm sure wherever they take us, it will be a fun time that will also get you right in the feels. Until then, be safe!

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

-Jonsey

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With me, criticism or praise is generated purely on merit and to the degree to which it strikes me. Both are always earned, never volunteered, no matter what the benefits or inducements.

Anyway, as I said before, for whatever reason, "Christmas Eve" has totally spontaneously struck a profoundly resonant chord in me, presenting as it does, a brilliant and joyous validation of two of my own deep-seated, personal beliefs;

Firstly, that "the heart knows no bounds" and my own (here shared) assertion that, behind closed doors and exclusively between indisputably consenting adults, it should not be required to either, regardless of human society's futile artificial attempts to restrict and suppress it.

Secondly, that in the very best of novels, story and characters are so well crafted that the latter, within the confines of the story structure itself, can, to a great extent, actually influence and dictate their own actions, interactions and reactions thereby effectively writing their own dialogue too. 

So, I'm really, really looking forward to future developments (no hurry...quality over speed always) with both fascination and, of course, no little excitement and by that I do not mean solely THAT kind of excitement. I am equally encouraged that you seem to be very relaxed in your approach. I think ideas and innovations flow more freely when the mind is relaxed, open and positively engaged rather than closed and narrowly focused and thereby pressurised predominantly, if not entirely, by expectation of results and their associated deadlines.

So, please do continue to "Keep Calm and Carry On", as my tea mug reminds me every morning and I'll continue, with each subsequent chapter, to donate what I can to help support this, my current favourite, cause.

Anyone here that uses JoiPlay to play this on mobile. Did you manage to get the game running? Or is it also crashing no matter what with JoiPlay, really want to play this game but just not a fan of playing VNs on PCs

Ur download shows an android icon but there is no apk file from the download

Sorry about that. Thanks for letting me know. I'll try to get it ported to Android soon. In the meantime, I fixed the icon.

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Love the game and if there is a follow up to it. It would make for a good harem VN centered around the MC, his stepdaughters, their friend who thinks the MC is hot and the late wife’s best friend who is watching the other stepdaughter.

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You and I think a lot alike! ;P

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what is your pateron link

Sorry! I'll have that up soon. Still getting all that set up. Thanks!

the mega link wont load properly that might just be me but idk.

nvm it loaded it only took it 17 minuets

Great job! I like the dialog between the MC and Eve. It seems more realistic than most VNs I've played. Looking forward to chapter 2. Any idea of a release date?

Hey, thanks for the support!  I tried to make the style of the banter back and forth as close as possible to real conversations I've had or overheard. I'm rendering my butt off right now. My goal is to have chapter 2 done by the middle to late November, but we'll see. I'll try to keep everyone up to date in the Dev Log. Thanks again!

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Please feel free to leave me some feedback. I'd love to know what you think of the story so far.