The Frankenstein control physics is odd and we could've explained that better. When you press towards either arm (O or P), your monster goes in a triangle motion (imagine a basketball player doing a dunk). So you go up-left/right and then down. The speed and momentum is dependent on what body part you assigned and if you are pressing left/right simultaneously.

Thanks for pointing out that you didn't understand the mannequin UI... now realizing that I did not explain that anywhere (even in the written guide). The mannequin UI subtracts a body part whenever you pick it up. So if you pick up a torso, the torso is subtracted. A head is subtracted if you pick up a head. HOWEVER, it resets when you go into a house and leave it. It was originally designed so that you knew if you completed the minimum requirement [two arms and two legs, torso, head], to dodge the Igor ending. We did not prioritize fixing it because we had other fires to put out haha.

Thank you so much for playing and your kind comments!! I love Ed too. :') Was fighting myself on adding an Alexander x Nina reference since it kind of fit the theme of Frankenstein. Maybe I should've anyway.

That was indeed the point -- Notes are flavor text with clues on where to find the parts. ..But ultimately, the collectible body parts are either in 1) treasure chests or 2) marked with a blood puddle. We didn't want to bog down the player with reading, so as long as you collected one body part, you can continue to the second half (which is more important/fun). Glad you had fun and thank you for your comment!

Thanks! The destruction was really hard. We originally tried to do it as a Voroni shader we passed back to the game but that was painfully complex (and live calculating a break pattern on CPU was too slow). So we ended up using this fantastic https://github.com/mjholtzem/Unity-2D-Destruction set of scripts (which I forgot to cite, I just updated the game page with it, thanks!). It lets you precalculate every sprites break pattern which took a while with how many buildings we had (it wouldn't apply to prefabs) but made for a really fun effect. Unfortunately it spawned it as a mesh instead of a sprite and I didn't have the time to figure out how to get the light to acknowledge and apply to that which is why it's weirdly unlit. Also fun fact, the cultists also have the same script on them so their sprites also blow up along with the blood splatter. 

I'm glad you were able to enjoy what was functional. :) It does only run on 1920x1080p unfortunately. I did not have the wisdom to check other sizes prior to submitting but will be sure to remedy that for future games. Thank you for your comment!! 

Glad you liked it. We had a ton of fun with the story bits and I tried to make the smashing bit as cathartic as possible.
Yea the collider thing is a great point. We didn't tune the range on those super well so they ended up a bit overly large. Also the villagers animation sometimes 'misses' even when they hit if the player moves because I coded it kind of backwards and without a final check, which makes that collider issue even more weird feeling.

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the advice. I built it on Windows, I'll see if I can't do the permissions thing via powershell.

I'm glad you liked the barks the guy who did the voice acting had a ton of fun with it especially the Gaston guy. The art team are huge grindhouse fans so they had a bunch of fun scattering those references around and trying to make the village weird and fucked up and I feel like it made the exploration phase a lot more fun.

Thank you so much! We don't like our horror without some camp to it. And we had a very pernicious couple pushing for multiple endings and luckily for us they were the programmers. Glad you enjoyed!

Thanks a bunch we had a lot of fun with the notes. I agree about the buildings and noticed that and considered the same thing. I did like how when the building exploded it pushed you back a little. I think it would have been good to maybe make them super light with low friction and upped the original push force. That way they would still give you that pop feeling but then they could be easily brushed away. Or maybe drop the collider earlier after the original push. I do agree momentum is key in that part so there is probably a beter balance to be had.

We were worried in a couple houses that things looked like body parts, but ultimately we decided to forgo something like a flashing glow because it would have ruined the atmosphere a little bit. Solid critique though. We have 6 dedicated people focusing on their own piece of each puzzle with one of our programmers tying all the art together into the project, so we're just lucky to have good people. Thanks for the review!

Thank you! We did try to find some appropriate music, but at the end of the day we didn't want it to compete with some of the smaller sounds that make up the atmosphere. It is a little noticeable on the title screen though haha. Thanks for the review!

Thanks brother, that means a lot! I'm glad the linux version worked. I called my friend mad for including it as I think anyone who runs linux could build for themselves probably, but now I'm glad we did. Cheers, Taters!

The controls can get a little out of hand, but we started with the game "QWOP" as an idea there. We didn't stick to it completely, but we did get some fun results. Glad you had a good time brother! Thanks for playing!

Thanks! Glad you liked the design! 

Yea I think the monster controls got a little hairy and we didn't manage to tame it in time. We originally started trying to make something QWOP like to make the monster feel heavy and unbalanced like Frankenstein is in the movies. So we worked out the momentum system. Unfortunately there are a lot of hidden variables tied to certain limbs. Slower legs allow more momentum in the direction they are on, faster legs have less, some arms swing more slowly allowing more travel per swing, some are faster which causes less. I couldn't figure out an easy way to explain/convey all that information so it ended up kind of hidden. And one of the first legs people find- the Ahab leg is slow and therefore has massive momentum in that direction. Also if you hold instead of tapping the O/P buttons it speeds you up 2x but adds 4x momentum which is not super obvious in the game I feel. Overall I feel like it got a little too complicated and we didn't manage to wrangle it/present it clearly before the month was up.

We do this about once a year. It's a fun/stressful way to spend a month. Thanks for the play!