Hello Girl (2023, 2025)
Have you ever felt like a rabbit with a telephone? Hello Girl is a thrilling kinetic visual novel about connection and disconnection, set during a time of great uncertainty.
Hello Girl is a visual novel, created for VN CUP #2, a visual novel jam/competition that lasted for two months. The theme was "any flavor of trans, queer & gendery nature". We won the "Diamond Heart Prize", which is the grand prize of the competition.
The game was released a few days after the competition ended, giving us some extra time to patch things up for a 1.0. We continued to update the game with small patches for a few weeks after release, and a final big update with an epilogue that concludes the Hello Girl story.
A new version of Hello Girl was announced late in 2024, to be released on Steam. It was released on March 3, 2025. The new version featured an overhauled script, new CGs, updated sprites, sounds & music.
The game was created by a core-team of three people, with additional featured musical guests
- merilynn f. paisley - project director, lead writer, programming, sfx work
- Mentha Nolana - art, writing, editing
- mara esper welsley - music, sfx, additional writing, editing
- Naja D'egoutter - music
We have written about the development of Hello Girl in our individual blogs.
Gallery
Soundtrack
The original soundtrack for Hello Girl is available on Bandcamp .