The Snow is Red - Prologue

The Snow is Red - Prologue is a short visual novel horror game developed by JADE - an indie developer from Bangkok, Thailand. Viewing from a person who met his neighbor, you realized you are confronted by unknown force however it gives you comfort as well .

## Story

After taking smoke break in his own apartment, you tried to resume your work again when suddenly the laptop crashed. Troubling with the issue he tried to fix it when suddenly someone ringing his front door, signalling there's a visitor coming to your apartment. A girl by the name of Claire greets you as she is new in the apartment. To make herself home, you tried to subdue Claire to have a coffee while chatting and relaxing. Claire tells you that she is freelance illustrator that able to draw characters, animals, and many more. After chatting a while she then ask you to become her friend, saying yes makes her comfort however she "accidentally" slipped her mug and while taking care of the mug it's reveal that she is a demon.

Days restarts again and you are back in the terrace, smoking the last cigarette before starts working again. It's revealed that you are stuck in endless nightmare where Claire tortures you for eternity. To break the cycle you then confront Claire and hug her, ending all nightmare he endured. With the cycle ends you are back to reality as the snow is white. Not long after a visitor rings the bell and you met Claire and another mysterious girl called Noir.

## Gameplay

The Snow is Red - Prologue serves as straightforward visual novel horror game where players can navigate on their room while advancing through the story. The game offers multiple ending that player can achieved, one of the ending serves as true ending where player must achieved both two endings. In The Snow is Red - Prologue players can interact with objects in the apartment such as laptop, TV, sink, and shower.

## Characters

* The protagonist is unnamed protagonist stuck in endless snow pouring city.
* Claire is a freelancer illustrator and neighbors of the protagonist.
* Noir is a girl possibly friend of Claire.

## Development

According to a devlog made by JADE, the game originally developed during Winter Visual Novel Jam 2022. The event starts in December 1st 2022 and ends in January 1st 2023. The idea of The Snow is Red soon started based on the event theme "winter". JADE needed a month to finish the game and The Snow is Red - Prologue released in December 31st 2022. Following the end of Winter Visual Novel Jam 2022 JADE released a devlog stating many of the elements of the game are planned to be tweak especially for the story and sequences . Furthermore with many changes made to the game JADE revised the game title from The Snow is Red - Post Jam to The Snow is Red - Prologue hinting to full game. The Prologue Update brought numerous changes such as dialogue rewrite, bug fixing and visual adjustment, and many more .

## Trivia

* Players can caught glimpse of Claire when looking at bathroom mirror.
	+ this can only happen after the first interaction.
* According to the developer, The Snow is Red tells a never-ending loop during winter season.

## Official Links

* The Snow is Red - Prologue Itch.io Page
* JADE Official Ko-Fi Page
* JADE Official Twitter

## Gallery

Claire talking to the main protagonistThe protagonist welcomes Claire to his apartmentA static TV leaving the protagonist baffled
## References

1. ↑ [1] Synopsis of The Snow is Red on Itch.io
2. ↑ [2] JADE. *Post-Jam Update.* Itch.io. 5 January 2023.
3. ↑ [3] JADE. *The Snow is Red : Prologue update*. Itch.io. 16 January 2023