Line #77 Creator/FoxEye


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2	[[caption-width-right:205:The circle's logo as it's shown in ''VideoGame/SacrificeGirl''.]]
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4	"Fox Eye" is a DoujinSoft circle that was established in 2008 and led by a designer who codenames himself "Fox". Their niche is developing underwater fantasy games with a large emphasis on maintaining an OxygenMeter in order to complete their games without letting their (usually female) protagonists drown. Thus, the main focus and challenge of the games is to learn the required timing for when and how to travel underwater, and answering the call to resurface for air. The circle has covered several different VideoGameGenres with the Oxygen Meter [[SignatureStyle as their central and unified mechanic in mind]].
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6	The underwater/drowning theme of this circle owes itself to its main designer's [[AuthorAppeal huge fascination for it]], as Fox seeks to portray the beauty of girls in all sorts of safe and dangerous underwater scenarios, while also building a gathering of fans that share his same thoughts. As such, despite the relatively-clean, all-ages material that can be seen in their previews and their developer's website, most of Fox Eye's games can be seen as NotSafeForWork due to the large drowning focus of the developer giving off {{fetish}} vibes, among other NSFW {{Fanservice}} tropes in certain games such as {{Stripperiffic}} and ClothingDamage. It is not uncommon for some fans to even mistakenly view some of these games as [[HGame H-Games]] due to these factors (however, the circle does have near-genuine examples).
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8	Owing to its niche, this circle is quite small, as nearly all of the work that is put into Fox Eye's games, such as programming, debugging, character design, stage design, script writing, sound effects, and website development, [[CopiouslyCreditedCreator are all done by Fox himself]]. He tends to hire and collaborate with musicians, voice actors and (sometimes) English translators from other groups and parties to cover the rest of the game's development.
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10	Although developing games has been Fox Eye's main forte, the circle has been expanding its output into other mediums, such as releasing artwork on Platform/{{Pixiv}} (found [[https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/11426437 here]]), itself. On April 3, 2020, Fox opened up a fanclub on [[https://fantia.jp/fanclubs/34554 Fantia]] (a Japanese alternative to Patreon), so that fans can further support Fox Eye and gain access to exclusive artwork and {{manga}}-styled stories.
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12	You can visit Fox Eye's [[http://www.foxeye.squares.net/ official website]] (Japanese). There's also a sister site called "Fox Eye ABYSS" created in 2016, that exclusively covers the developer's [[HotterAndSexier R-15/18+ games]], starting with ''VideoGame/BlueGuardianMargaret''. Find the Fox Eye ABYSS website and the link to their games under that label [[http://www.foxeye.squares.net/abyss/index.htm here]] (Japanese).
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14	In addition, Fox runs an account on [[https://pawoo.net/web/accounts/730837 Pawoo]] (a social networking service owned by Pixiv), where you can usually read up on updates and development of their upcoming titles. Fox also has an [[http://foxdev.blog17.fc2.com/ FC2 blogspot]], where he will post bigger announcements on his projects and always post download links for his [[TemporaryOnlineContent Christmas Eve-only event games]] (some of which were subsequently brought back permanently as a purchasable CompilationRerelease).
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16	Several of Fox Eye's non-event games can be purchased and downloaded from Platform/{{DLsite}}, with several of them offering demos beforehand (see [[https://www.dlsite.com/home/circle/profile/=/maker_id/RG08151.html here]]), while other games are instead {{Freeware}} titles that can be downloaded either from the circle's main website or from their own dedicated websites.
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18	%%Per the creator's wishes, do not create any further pages or details that focus on Fox Eye's limited-time Christmas Eve event games, as they were not meant to be shared in this way. The five event games listed below that may or may not already have pages for them can be kept here due to being part of the Fox Eye Limited Game Collection, which can be purchased and downloaded at any time the player desires. Everything else, from the freeware games to anything else that can be bought from DLsite, is fair game.
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20	!! Doujin games developed by Fox Eye:
21	[[index]]
22	* ''VideoGame/DancingMarina'' (A game developed before the Fox Eye circle was established) (2007) -- VerticalScrollingShooter
23	* ''VideoGame/SensuiNoKakera'' / ''Diving Fragments'' (The second pre-Fox Eye-developed game) (2007) -- AdventureGame
24	* ''[[VideoGame/BluePortTheSummerMemories Blue Port: The Summer Memories]]'' (2008) -- AdventureGame
25	** ''VideoGame/BluePortJSummerSkyPrelude'' (2011-2012) -- AdventureGame
26	* ''VideoGame/AquaCube'' (2008) -- PuzzlePlatformer
27	* ''VideoGame/{{Holdover}}'' (2009) -- {{Retraux}} {{Metroidvania}}
28	* ''[[VideoGame/WaterLeavesBigTreeOfMizugami Water Leaves: Big Tree of Mizugami]]'' (2009-2010) -- ActionAdventure
29	* ''[[VideoGame/PolonMemoriesUnderwaterReverie Polon Memories: Underwater Reverie]]'' (2011) -- KineticNovel
30	* ''[[VideoGame/TsukiToNingyoToMinasokoNoBoken Tsuki to Ningyo to Minasoko no Bōken]]'' / ''The Moon, the Mermaid, and the Underwater Adventure'' (2012) -- Top-Down AdventureGame
31	* ''[[VideoGame/BarelyBreakoutUnderwaterReMix Barely Breakout! Underwater ReMix]]'' (Based on the original ''VideoGame/{{Breakout}}'') (2012) -- PuzzleGame
32	* ''[[VideoGame/SacrificeGirl Sacrifice Girl: The Curse of Demon Snake]]'' (2013) -- SurvivalHorror {{Metroidvania}}
33	* ''[[VideoGame/{{Sufferer}} Sufferer: The Adventure of a Solitary Island]]'' (2013) -- {{Retraux}} ActionRPG
34	** ''[[VideoGame/SuffererTheFinalEscape Sufferer: The Final Escape]]'' [[labelnote:*]]Bundled with the original as a part of the ''Sufferer [=FanBox=]''[[/labelnote]] (2014) -- [[StealthBasedGame Stealth-Based]] PlatformGame
35	* ''[[VideoGame/HadesVanquish Infinity UW Dungeon: Hades Vanquish]]'' (2014-2015) -- {{Roguelike}} PlatformGame
36	* ''[[VideoGame/LetsPracticeTakaharaSan Let's Practice, Takahara-san!]]'' ([[TemporaryOnlineContent Christmas Eve 2014 Event]][[labelnote:*]]Rereleased in 2019 as the first of five games included in the ''Fox Eye Limited Game Collection''[[/labelnote]]) -- PointAndClick ActionGame
37	* ''VideoGame/SlideLoopPuzzle'' ([[TemporaryOnlineContent Christmas Eve 2015 Event]][[labelnote:*]]Rereleased in 2019 as the second of five games included in the ''Fox Eye Limited Game Collection''[[/labelnote]]) -- {{Crossover}} PuzzleGame
38	* ''VideoGame/BlueGuardianMargaret'' (Fox Eye's first "ABYSS" title) (2016) -- ActionAdventure {{Metroidvania}}
39	* ''VideoGame/AtNightInAPartyTheWhisperOfTheSea'' ([[TemporaryOnlineContent Christmas Eve 2016 Event]][[labelnote:*]]Rereleased in 2019 as the third of five games included in the ''Fox Eye Limited Game Collection''[[/labelnote]]) -- Turn-Based [[BlockPuzzle Block]] PuzzleGame
40	* ''VideoGame/KarinsSkinDivingDiary'' (Fox Eye's second "ABYSS" title, originally planned for smartphones) (2017) -- PointAndClick AdventureGame
41	** ''[[VideoGame/KarinsSkinDivingDiaryPlus Karin's Skin Diving Diary! plus]]'' (2018) —- An UpdatedRerelease with new postcard artwork in conjunction with its English release.
42	* ''VideoGame/NaticaAndSandyUnderwaterRescue'' ([[TemporaryOnlineContent Christmas Eve 2017 Event]][[labelnote:*]]Rereleased in 2019 as the fourth of five games included in the ''Fox Eye Limited Game Collection''[[/labelnote]]) -- [[ActionGame Action]] TowerDefense
43	* ''VideoGame/NaticaStarSplash'' ([[TemporaryOnlineContent Christmas Eve 2018 Event]][[labelnote:*]]Rereleased in 2019 as the fifth and final game included in the ''Fox Eye Limited Game Collection''[[/labelnote]]) -- ActionGame
44	* ''VideoGame/FoxEyeLimitedGameCollection'' (A CompilationRerelease of five Christmas Eve event games[[labelnote:*]]''Let's Practice, Takahara-san!'', ''Slide Loop Puzzle'', ''At Night in a Party: The Whisper of the Sea'', ''Natica & Sandy: Underwater Rescue'', & ''NATICA STAR SPLASH''[[/labelnote]] from 2014-2018 with [[UpdatedRerelease brand new content]]) (2019)
45	* ''[[VideoGame/InTheAquariumSinkingWithKana In the Aquarium: Sinking With Kana]]'' (The third "ABYSS" title, and a {{spinoff}} of ''Karin's Skin Diving Diary!'' Compatible with smartphones.) -- Art Collection / VisualNovel (2019)
46	* ''[[VideoGame/LakeBottomGirlFineAndTheSunkenStarship Lake Bottom Girl - Fine and the Sunken Starship]]'' (2021-2022) -- AdventureGame
47	[[/index]]
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50	!! Tropes associated with Fox Eye:
51	* ActionGirl: Yuna of ''Sufferer'', Mana of ''Hades Vanquish'', and the titular ''BLUE GUARDIAN: Margaret'' stand out among the rest of Fox Eye's protagonists for this trope. Yuna must fight off hostile animals and pirates to escape from a dangerous island, and can find a sword to help her out with this, Mana must literally invoke the trope EscapedFromHell by kicking around underworldly beings and shooting them with a flare gun, and Margaret fights by DualWielding holy guns to fend off demons that have invaded the tower of a water deity. Due to Fox Eye's artstyle, they all also double as the circle's biggest examples of a BadassAdorable.
52	* ArtEvolution:
53	** Shows throughout every character from the circle's earlier years that still gets more artwork from Fox following his use of this trope later on. His earlier girls are often given more well-toned bodies to better match their frequent swimming activities and the figures of Fox Eye's later characters, [[FanservicePack making them slightly taller, curvier, and overall more attractive in the process]]. Compare this [[https://image.ibb.co/dsemry/Rico.png 2008 art]] of Rico from ''Blue Port'' to this [[https://image.ibb.co/iO87yd/topimg3_Rico.jpg 2018 portrait]] of her from Fox Eye's website. Or compare this [[https://image.ibb.co/bAQqmy/Chie.png 2011 art]] of Chie from ''Blue Port J'' with her own [[https://image.ibb.co/jUQ6Ry/topimg4_Chie.jpg 2018 portrait]] also from Fox Eye's website.
54	** All of the [[TemporaryOnlineContent Christmas Eve event games]] included in the ''[[CompilationRerelease Fox Eye Limited Game Collection]]'' has had their artwork updated, changing things such as [[FanservicePack improving the details and changing the poses of the heroines]], and upgrading the SceneryPorn of their surroundings. The original versions of said artwork are still available for comparison's sake.
55	** In April 2021, [[MilestoneCelebration the 1st anniversary of Fox Eye's presence on Fantia]], in response to the discontinuation of UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash, Fox announced that all of the circle's games' websites that used Flash will be converted into an [=HTML5=] format so they can be fully-accessible, again (which includes most games' websites from 2008's ''Blue Port'' and ''Aqua Cube'' all the way up to 2014's ''Hades Vanquish''). The announcement of each website's redevelopment is commemorated with brand new Fantia artwork of each game's respective protagonists, showing an even deeper look into how Fox's has improved their looks and his drawing skills since their first appearances.
56	* AuthorAppeal:
57	** Fox really enjoys portraying girls in underwater fantasies and all of the activities they can be put through in them, such as swimming, deep-sea diving, breathholding, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick drowning]]. This is applied to each and every game in the circle through settings that would allow these different situations to occur, such as featuring deep lakes, aquariums, [[BeachEpisode beaches]], [[PoolScene swimming pools]], [[HotSpringsEpisode hot springs]], [[DownTheDrain underwater caves]], [[UnderwaterRuins flooded ruins]], [[DrowningPit submerged pits]], and/or other such UnderTheSea and DownTheDrain locales. Outside of Fox's games, this is also shown in the standalone artwork, mini-comics, and animations he's made. See OxygenMeter and SignatureStyle below for more details.
58	** To a much lesser extent, Fox seems to favor [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold blonde-haired girls]], as [[PlentyOfBlondes there is a larger amount of Fox Eye characters with this hair color than any other color]]. Three of them (''Blue Port''[='=]s Rico, ''Holdover''[='=]s Marie, and the titular Natica of the ''Underwater Pinch'' animation, ''Natica and Sandy: Underwater Rescue'', and ''NATICA STAR SPLASH'') also have blue eyes and wear their blonde hair in ponytails, making them appear to be [[{{Expy}} expies]] of each other. This gets [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] and [[DiscussedTrope discussed]] by Fox in [[https://image.ibb.co/bM8PGy/F12276_E2_782_F_4471_A94_F_31_D8_A93514_B5.jpg some crossover artwork]] that points out the more intricate differences these three girls still have with each other. [[spoiler:Ironically, he prefers black-haired girls in RealLife]].
59	* AuthorAvatar: [[http://www.foxeye.squares.net/img/sakusya.jpg Fox draws himself as a cute]], SuperDeformed [[ADogNamedDog fox]] that converses with his fans, as well as some of his own characters, on the development of his games. Said characters may even be an AudienceSurrogate for the circle’s fans wondering about Fox’s activity and progress.
60	* BarbieDollAnatomy:
61	** Fox Eye truly goes to great lengths to cover their heroines' naughty bits when they suffer too much clothing damage with either HandOrObjectUnderwear or a SceneryCensor whenever possible, but if no such methods are present, such as during gameplay, their nips are never drawn on their sprites, anyway. However, all of the more adult-oriented "Fox Eye ABYSS" titles [[AvertedTrope avert]] this trope with a passion ([[NippleAndDimed but only with uncensored breasts]]. Their crotches still always count for this trope).
62	** Slightly [[AvertedTrope averted]] in regards to the circle’s [[TheOneGuy very small amount of young male protagonists and allies]]. The boys are always drawn with nipples when they're topless, and you are more likely to see them drawn with genitalia (albeit covered, [[FemaleGaze rather thinly]], by their swimwear, [[RagingStiffie and becoming more noticeable when they’re turned on]]) than you will see that of a completely naked girl.
63	* ChoiceAndConsequenceSystem: While ''Into the Aquarium: Sinking with Kana'' is an art collection of the titular heroine's time in an aquarium, the title can be read like a VisualNovel where making different choices can lead to different outcomes, such as making Kana wear a worn-down swimsuit over a fresh new one [[ClothingDamage and eventually becoming naked from it tearing off over time]], or [[DidntThinkThisThrough having her drown from taking the wrong way to catch a breath]].
64	* ClothingDamage: Many of their 2D games, such as ''Mermaid'', ''Holdover'', ''Sufferer'', ''Barely Breakout!'', and ''BLUE GUARDIAN: Margaret'' can have this happen to all of their protagonists as a secondary {{Fanservice}} feature, though similar to the ''VideoGame/SenranKagura'' series, as they become more and more naked, they'll take more damage-per-hit and overall become much easier to kill. In the case of ''Barely Breakout!'', this is actually invoked to beat most of the rounds and induce [[DefeatByModesty a completely different kind of "death"]] to the game's heroines.
65	* {{Crossover}}: Unless otherwise noted (Such as the relationship between ''Karin's Skin Diving Diary!'' and ''Sinking with Kana''), characters from different games are treated as hailing from different worlds and universes, and as such, they normally don't get to interact with each other. So on the occasion that they ''are'' drawn together, it's often treated as this trope. Natica seems to be a favorite to use for this, as she is shown with [[{{Expy}} her closest counterparts]] Rico and Marie [[https://image.ibb.co/bM8PGy/F12276_E2_782_F_4471_A94_F_31_D8_A93514_B5.jpg on one occasion]], and Takahara-san, Yuna, Karin, Mana, and Margaret [[https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/67542028 on another more special occasion]].
66	* CuteClumsyGirl: Some games plots are literally started from an innocent girl goofing up at a moment's notice.
67	** Erica, the heroine of ''The Moon, the Mermaid, and the Underwater Adventure'', accidentally dropped too many more chlorine balls than necessary in the her swim team's deep pool. She panicked and tried to recollect them before they dissolved too much and oversaturated the pool, but she was so focused on doing this that she forgot to give herself time to swim to the surface to catch a breath, leading her to drown at the bottom of the pool until she was taken away to a different land by a mysterious force.
68	** Both Mana and Yurina of ''Hades Vanquish'' end up being this way. [[spoiler:Yurina accidentally gives Mana alcohol when she got thirsty during their sleepover. It would eventually lead to Mana catching a hypothremia-induced coma, because she tried winging not having dried panties to wear in time for the sleepover with her long green dress. [[DeconstuctedTrope Both of these accidents combined are what led Mana to die and enter the underworld of Hades to begin with]].]]
69	* DarkerAndEdgier: Most of Fox Eye's catalog focuses on ideal underwater fantasies of adventure and discovery, covering both realistic and surreal environments. However, two of their games, ''Holdover'' and ''Sacrifice Girl'', are among Fox Eye's darkest-themed games, as they're so far the only two to feature violent and bloody deaths, such as getting impaled by spikes or shot by lasers for the former, and attacked by sea monsters or eaten by giant demon snakes for the latter (the blood can be toggled off in both games, however). Their storylines and settings are also among the bleakest seen from Fox Eye as they both give their heroines a sense of helplessness and isolation in the face of dangers they have little to no way of fighting against. Other games have this trope to a lesser extent, such as ''Hades Vanquish'' and ''BLUE GUARDIAN: Margaret'', but it's downplayed due to those games' heroines being [[ActionGirl Action Girls]] capable of defending themselves from the start despite the latter [[HaveANiceDeath having a bevy of disturbing deaths to dodge]] and the former starting her adventure as a dead soul [[EscapedFromHell escaping from Hell]].
70	* DidntThinkThisThrough: ''A lot'' of drowning peril situations in this circle are based around this trope, and get {{invoked}} in the circle's games to various extents of TrialAndErrorGameplay. Most protagonists take a dive on their own, but this can threaten them of drowning when they potentially get stuck or trapped somewhere underwater and there's no one around to bail them out. Chie and Natica are notorious examples of this, since they have their own respective friends that can watch their backs and vice-versa, and are prone to being less than a breath away from losing their lives by drowning whenever they're diving on their own.
71	* DrowningPit: Sometimes in these games, the heroine is forced into one of these against her will, usually either as an execution, or from falling into a trap. Other times, she may deliberately [[InvokedTrope invoke]] one upon herself, usually either to practice her EscapeArtist skills, or she's a ThrillSeeker that likes to nearly drown herself [[{{Fetish}} for the sheer pleasure of it]]:
72	** For an example of a involuntary use, in ''VideoGame/BlueGuardianMargaret'', [[spoiler:if the player gets caught by a wizard towards the end of the game, Margaret is [[ShamefulStrip stripped naked]] and thrown in a tank that slowly fills with water. The first time, she passes out and has to find her stuff again. Get caught again, [[TheManyDeathsOfYou she drowns for real.]]]]
73	** For an example of a voluntary use, a selection of artwork for ''Let's Practice Takahara-san!'' features the titular protagonist sitting in a bucket that fills with water until she's ''almost'' completely submerged (her kneecaps still stick out of the water). [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] because Takahara isn't actually trapped. She can climb out whenever she wants (and is filling the bucket herself with a garden hose).
74	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Nearly all of Fox Eye's games star a cute female protagonist. The only exception is one of their 2008 games, ''Aqua Cube''. The game initially stars the young male Yuu who rescues his older sister, Aya, but they switch roles later on in the game and Aya becomes the playable lead, instead. Due to the game's mechanics, it was also the only Fox Eye game where you have to manage two {{Oxygen Meter}}s at the same time until ''Natica and Sandy: Underwater Rescue'' brought it back almost 10 years later.
75	* {{Ecchi}}: While most of the circle's games have some degree of {{Fanservice}} (usually of the MaleGaze variety), it's the HotterAndSexier ABYSS titles that [[InvokedTrope deliberately]] qualify for this trope. ''Karin's Skin-Diving Diary!'' and ''Sinking with Kana'' are straighter examples, while ''BLUE GUARDIAN: Margaret'' leans dangerously close to being a flat-out {{Eroge}}.
76	* {{Fanservice}}: Even without counting [[AuthorAppeal the developer's trademark drowning fetish material]], the fact that all of Fox Eye's games share a general theme of UnderTheSea fantasies makes it a good opportunity for most of the their heroines to wear revealing or skin-tight swimwear. Several of the circle's girls are pretty well-endowed, and often also have thick, shapely legs to match their swimming capabilities. Several games also have ClothingDamage in the vein of the ''VideoGame/SenranKagura'' series that eventually leaves the heroine completely naked after taking enough damage. There's usually plenty of artwork of the games' heroines for beating them with or without OneHundredPercentCompletion that tend to be pretty fanservicey, as well. [[spoiler:Some games with art collections are even generous enough to have their guides offer you special inputs and CheatCodes to unlock all of their artwork as an option, so you can view and enjoy the eye candy without having to first earn them by playing the games themselves if you wish.]]
77	* FemaleGaze: Seldom used compared to the huge amount of MaleGaze the circle has due to its equally-huge amount of female protagonists, but expect this trope to inevitably occur whenever there's a youthful male character among a given game's cast, usually by nearly [[AvertedTrope averting]] BarbieDollAnatomy with them. Examples include [[LevelUpAtIntimacy5 Yuu]] in ''Aqua Cube'', [[{{Fundoshi}} Kai]] in ''Karin's Skin Diving Diary!'', [[spoiler: and after certain conditions are met, [[NakedPeopleAreFunny Apollo]] in ''BLUE GUARDIAN: Margaret''.]]
78	* {{Freeware}}: All of these kind of games are cataloged directly on Fox Eye's website, including the Japanese version of ''Sacrifice Girl'' (which is identical to the English trial version, alternate language notwithstanding). Some of these same games, such as ''Holdover'' and ''Sufferer'', can also be freely downloaded from their own dedicated websites.
79	* GenreShift: While the circle as a whole typically goes through different genres and characters every game, some previous characters have made encore appearances from this process:
80	** ''Sufferer: The Final Escape'' is the ImmediateSequel to the original ''Sufferer'' and continues to star Yuna as its protagonist. However, while the original ''Sufferer'' was a top-down {{Retraux}} ActionRPG, ''The Final Escape'' is instead a [[StealthBasedGame Stealth-Based]] PlatformGame that combines the on-land platforming and sneaking around of ''Holdover'' with the underwater swimming mechanics of ''Sacrifice Girl''.
81	** ''Natica and Sandy: Underwater Rescue'' is a TowerDefense game where the former character must protect the latter character from ravenous [[PiranhaProblem piranhas]] and [[ThreateningShark sharks]]. Natica is brought back as the playable protagonist of ''NATICA STAR SPLASH'', which is an ActionGame focused on collecting underwater stars.
82	** Karin debuts as the protagonist of the turn-based BlockPuzzle game ''At Night in a Party: The Whisper of the Sea''. Her second appearance is the titular lead of the PointAndClick AdventureGame ''Karin's Skin Diving Diary!''
83	** Kana is among the characters Karin meets in the aforementioned ''Skin Diving Diary''. Kana later on [[AscendedExtra becomes the protagonist of her own spinoff game]] ''In the Aquarium: Sinking With Kana'', which is entirely an art collection that can be read like a short VisualNovel.
84	* KineticNovel: ''Polon Memories'' and ''Sinking with Kana'' aren't actual games, but rather collections of artwork that come with short stories of what's happening in them. The former is more straightforward with describing its titular character's life, while the player can sometimes take branching paths to affect what happens to titular protagonist of the latter, feeling more like a VisualNovel with a ChoiceAndConsequenceSystem that leads to MultipleEndings.
85	* HotterAndSexier: Fox Eye is already known for its light {{Ecchi}} content and fetish material, but games labeled under "Fox Eye ABYSS" are meant to directly highlight that the game will contain R-18+ material, skirting nearly into HGame territory ([[DownplayedTrope but not quite to the extent of actual H-Games]]). Specific things to encounter from these games include its heroines completely averting NippleAndDimed, and potentially being subjected to BestialityIsDepraved by aggressive animals and monsters.
86	* LighterAndSofter:
87	** The ''Blue Port'' games. Yes, the [[SignatureStyle risk of]] [[OxygenMeter drowning]] is ever present (and it's [[DarthWiki/NightmareFuel realistically-graphic]]), but there's no monsters, the girls aren't trapped or severely handicapped, and the games overall feel more like SliceOfLife simulators where the focus is more on the exploration than on the danger (that doesn't stop players from keeping the girls under [[VideogameCrueltyPotential for the lulz]]).
88	** While ''Sufferer'' wasn't too dark of a game to begin with, its ImmediateSequel, ''Sufferer: The Final Escape'', is this compared to the former. While the first game focused on Yuna escaping an island infested with hostile monsters and pirates that are out for her blood, ''The Final Escape''[='=]s most notable danger ([[AuthorAppeal besides drowning, of course]]) is Yuna [[DefeatByModesty getting embarrassed around any other beach-goers and fisherman that see her in a damaged swimsuit, if not completely naked]] (it depends on [[OldSaveBonus what her final condition was by the end of the first game]], [[VideoGamePerversityPotential should the player allow it]]).
89	* {{Mascot}}: As many girls as Fox Eye has created, these few stand out to represent the circle as a whole.
90	** The titular Polon of ''Polon Memories'' is one for Fox Eye as a whole, with other mascots including Takahara-san from her titular ''Let's Practice, Takahara-san'', and Rico from ''Blue Port''. Polon is featured in the header of Fox's [=FC2=] blog page, and was also his Platform/{{Twitter}} profile picture for several years before switching to Chie from ''Blue Port J''. However, once Fox Eye's Twitter account was suspended and they migrated to [[Platform/{{Pixiv}} Pawoo]], Polon has returned as the circle's avatar for their new social network residence, and their first image post there is new art of Polon, as well. Following the July 18, 2018 update to Fox Eye's main website, Polon would then get two art pieces of herself to be displayed on the site's front page in a timely matter, compared to the single art for the other Fox Eye girls featured there. Indeed, Polon has among the most official artwork of any Fox Eye character, among the strongest affinity for underwater life (which goes well with the developer's [[SignatureStyle overall theme]]), and even has the most interactions with Fox's own AuthorAvatar.
91	** Natica, whose first game appearance is in the event game ''Slide Loop Puzzle'', is considered a mascot for the circle’s Fox Eye ABYSS faction, alongside Karin of ''Whisper of the Sea'' and ''Karin's Skin Diving Diary'', and the titular ''BLUE GUARDIAN: Margaret''. As such, any ABYSS game that they star in will put them in HotterAndSexier situations, primarily by allowing them to [[AvertedTrope avert]] NippleAndDimed unlike the rest of Fox Eye’s heroines. Natica is also used the most in artwork that [[{{Crossover}} brings several Fox Eye protagonists together]], including Polon, herself, and has also been featured frequently in the circle's Fantia blog posts, such as starring in a couple manga-styled stories, including a weekly storyline. Similarly to Polon, Natica's affinity for diving underwater is shown to be greater than many other characters from the circle, and she looks to sometimes outpace even Rico as Fox Eye's [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold top blonde mascot]].
92	* NonIndicativeName: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. Despite being named Fox Eye, this developer's games have nothing to do with foxes nor their eyes beyond different variations of the developer's logo, such as the one from ''Sacrifice Girl'' that provides the page image. The "Fox" in "Fox Eye" references [[ADogNamedDog the lead designer nicknaming himself after]], and [[AuthorAvatar drawing himself as, a fox]], while the "Eye" in "Fox Eye" refers to the vision he has of the games he develops.
93	* TheOneGuy: The amount of male protagonists in the circle can be counted with one hand. As mentioned above in EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, ''Aqua Cube'' has Fox Eye's only male protagonist in Yuu. Every other game only has a female protagonist, or up to 3 of them in the case of both ''Blue Port'' games, while any other males in these same games are either nameless [=NPC=]s, MissionControl, or even enemies up to the BigBad. ''Sacrifice Girl'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen was going to introduce another male protagonist to travel alongside its female lead]], but this idea got scrapped. The closest Fox Eye has reached to this character type since this is Kai of ''Karin's Skin Diving Diary!''
94	* OurFairiesAreDifferent: ''Barely Breakout! Underwater [=ReMix=]'' has Momoka, an [[FairySexy attractive]] green-haired fairy [[YourSizeMayVary that can switch between being small or being human-sized]]. Her wings also turn invisible when she dives underwater. Unlike most fairies, however, [[OxygenMeter she can't breathe underwater]], and as such is one of the three girls that will need to be saved from drowning in the game's [[TimedMission Rescue Puzzles]].
95	* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: True to the circle’s devotion to UnderTheSea fantasies, mermaid characters show up from time to time. Some of Fox Eye’s human characters (such as Natica and Sandy in ''Underwater Rescue'') like to dress up as mermaids, while actual mermaids (such as Medina from ''The Moon, the Mermaid, and the Underwater Adventure'', [[spoiler:and Rittie, the titular ''Whisper of the Sea'']]) wield mystical powers, such as increasing how long a human can [[OxygenMeter hold their breath underwater]].
96	* OxygenMeter: The cornerstone of the SignatureStyle for single every game made by this doujin developer, represented by either a shrinking air bubble or a decreasing bar. Each game has it behave differently, such as having it completely separate from a LifeMeter[[note]]''Holdover'', ''The Final Escape'', ''BLUE GUARDIAN: Margaret''[[/note]], to draining health after the Oxygen Meter runs out[[note]]''Water Leaves'', ''Mermaid'', ''Sufferer''[[/note]], to basing the Oxygen Meter's {{Cap}} on how much health is left[[note]]''Hades Vanquish''[[/note]], to making it into the game's TimedMission[[note]]''Aqua Cube''[='=]s captured and submerged sibling, ''Barely Breakout![='=]s'' Rescue Puzzles, rescuing an anchored Sandy in ''Underwater Rescue''[[/note]], to having the Oxygen Meter also represent the character's LifeMeter, which means, depending on the game, drowning may be the ''only'' way they can die at all[[note]]''Sacrifice Girl'', the ''Blue Port'' series, ''Let's Practice, Takahara-san!'', ''At Night in a Party'', ''Karin's Skin Diving Diary!'', ''NATICA STAR SPLASH'', ''Lake Bottom Girl''[[/note]]. To play up the AuthorAppeal regarding this mechanic further, most of Fox Eye's games also give their characters [[AlmostOutOfOxygen verbal and/or vocal cues when they're running out of air]], and this is occasionally the only way to know that the character is even drowning at all if the game actually has no visible meter. Some of these same games also have ways to improve how long their protagonists can hold their breath, such as a one-use oxygen recovery item or a permanent oxygen powerup. This mechanic is used somewhat more realistically in these games than in others, as while a character is submerged, their oxygen will drop faster the more they move around, and decrease at a slower pace if they stay still while underwater. In some games, the oxygen meter will also even recover rhythmically as if it's following the protagonist catching their breath.
97	* {{Retraux}}: Counting all of Fox Eye's games in the list above, Fox has started developing games since MediaNotes/TheSeventhGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames up to the [[MediaNotes/TheNinthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames ninth]]. However, several of them were intentionally developed as if they were made during either the [[MediaNotes/The16bitEraOfConsoleVideoGames fourth]] or [[MediaNotes/TheFifthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames fifth]] generation. For some examples:
98	** ''Holdover'' looks like a game that one could find on the Platform/{{MSX}}, while also resembling a classic ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' game, being a {{Metroidvania}} and all.
99	** The first ''Sufferer'' game's was intentionally designed to be an 8-bit ActionRPG experience, to the point that Fox made his own chiptune music for the game. The tabs on this game's Japanese and English websites are even spot-on recreations of the designs of [[Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem Famicom and NES controllers]], respectively (minus the buttons and their labels). However, its graphics (Yuna's [[GraphicsInducedSuperDeformed sprites]], in particular) more closely resemble 16-bit graphics of what can be seen in games like ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'' and ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''[='=]s Platform/SuperNintendo games (''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV IV]]'', ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV V]]'', and ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI VI]]'').
100	** ''Water Leaves''[='=] low-poly graphics are intended to invoke the nostalgic look of Japanese-developed Platform/Nintendo64 games.
101	* SignatureStyle: As mentioned above, every Fox Eye game has one or more of the designer's many girls ([[VideoGame/AquaCube and in one case]], [[TheOneGuy a boy]]) explore underwater areas at the high risk of drowning, with an OxygenMeter of some sort to gauge how much time they have left before they drown, with various games giving you different opportunities to temporarily and/or permanently extend the meter's length. This is mainly out of both AuthorAppeal and for inviting in players that have a {{fetish}} for this material, as well. With that said, [[TruthInTelevision there is quite a lot of realistic and]] ''[[DarthWiki/NightmareFuel graphic]]'' [[TruthInTelevision effort put into how this circle portrays drowning]], such as having the heroine [[AlmostOutOfOxygen struggle to cover her mouth and nose, making her swimming look sloppier and/or more frantic]], having her face turn blue from lack of oxygen circulation to the brain, and leveling how hard she gasps for air upon reaching the water's surface (assuming she makes it in time), which can range anywhere from exhaling her breath softly to ''painfully coughing up water from her lungs''. Due to the VideoGameCrueltyPotential of these factors, and the {{Ecchi}} content the circle has in general, this has the side-effect of making all of Fox Eye's games appear to be fully-fledged [[HGame H-Games]], and playthroughs of these games are often grouped alongside much more blatantly-explicit H-Games by content creators on Platform/YouTube and Platform/NicoNicoDouga (in reality, only the circle's "[[HotterAndSexier ABYSS]]" games are intentionally closer to being this way).
102	* TemporaryOnlineContent: Besides the mainline games listed above, Fox has also released event games to download from his [=FC2=] blog almost every Christmas Eve since 2012, but ''only'' for that day, such as the above-listed ''At Night in a Party'', ''Natica and Sandy: Underwater Rescue'', and ''NATICA STAR SPLASH''. Anyone who missed these events missed out on downloading and playing these games, and may not even know that they existed due to their very limited availability making them quite obscure compared to Fox Eye's larger games, [[NoExportForYou including the lack of an English version for them]]. Five of the most popular of these games would later on [[AvertedTrope avert]] this trope by being put into a CompilationRerelease titled ''Fox Eye Limited Game Collection'' in 2019 for those that missed their events, with the games also being [[UpdatedRerelease Updated Rereleases]], with brand new artwork, a voice actress for Natica, and even an English translation for all 5 games released later on.
103	* UnderTheSea: The primary objective of this DoujinSoft developer is to invoke this trope on ''all'' of their games in some way or form to [[AuthorAppeal appeal to the creator's desires of underwater fantasies (and dangers)]].
104	* UnexplainedRecovery: Tends to be [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]]. A major factor of Fox Eye’s AuthorAppeal is how often its heroines are portrayed drowning in some sort of underwater peril as the circle's primary source of {{Fanservice}}. Mainly outside of the games, such perils tend to be drawn as hypothetical artwork, as the girl is usually shown to be alive and well by the next artwork she’s put in. However, at times, this may get {{Handwave}}d as having the heroine go through an expensive medical treatment to get revived from her drowning, or having the girl summon a HeroicSecondWind that helps her immediately spring towards the surface even after, or right before, losing consciousness. So even if they ''are'' drowned, they're never usually KilledOffForReal unless the plot calls for it.
105	* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Considering that ''every single game'' from this developer makes it a [[SignatureStyle trademark]] to put all of its cute and attractive heroines [[OxygenMeter in multiple dangers of drowning]], this trope is ''very'' much in effect at anytime the player desires. Even then, [[TheManyDeathsOfYou drowning is hardly ever the only thing that can kill them in their games]], nor is it even the most brutal or graphic way for them to die, as what's listed in DarkerAndEdgier above [[BloodyHorror can attest to]].
106	* VideoGamePerversityPotential: Can apply to every Fox Eye game that lets a heroine suffer from ClothingDamage. You can beat some of them while completely naked, and even get some unique artwork that reflects the girl's complete lack of clothing, though doing so is typically no easy feat as it often makes them [[OneHitpointWonder more vulnerable to damage]].
107	* VirtualPaperDoll: The art collection for ''In the Aquarium: Sinking With Kana'' features a playable visual novel with the art available. A bonus section allows the player to pose/dress Kana using a selection of preset expressions and positions. There are only a few expressions and poses available, and only two outfits. The customization emphasizes how much of Kana's [[TanLines tanned body]] [[{{Fanservice}} is showing]], and since it's an [[HotterAndSexier ABYSS]] title, [[VideoGamePerversityPotential the player can pose her completely naked, nipples and all]].
108	* VisualInnuendo: One piece of artwork for ''Let's Practice Takahara-san'' features a rather blatant example of this. Takahara is [[{{Fanservice}} completely and willingly naked]] (albeit, her nipples are covered by HandOrObjectUnderwear), she's sporting a rather suggestive LuminescentBlush, ''and'' she's sucking on a hose of air. ''[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything And]]'' [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything she seems]] ''[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything really]]'' [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything into it...]]
109	* YourSizeMayVary: Momoka of ''Barely Breakout! Underwater [=ReMix=]'' is a [[OurFairiesAreDifferent fairy]], but she can switch between being fairy-sized to being human-sized in order to be more in line with the rest of the characters in the game.

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