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The mother may seem harsh but shes the one who never eats ToT

You made a playdate game woow! ^u^ I had a glitch where I'd keep returning from the store every time a child returned home but it didn't break anything so its ok, shame about running out of time before music but thats just Jams, this is suuuper impressive! :)

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Yeah...at about 1am I said to the designer, "did you notice that the mother never eats," but it was way too late for that lol.

Can I ask if you played the .json or .pdx version?  The music issue is related to the .json version, because you can't upload music assets to the Pulp web-player unless they're programmed in Pulp's midi interface, and the game uses an MP3 soundtrack.  It sounds like I may also have forgotten to update the .json version with bugfixes that are in the newest pdx. [Edit: yeah, the .json and pdx versions are basically different branches now, it looks like I never got the "ignore player input so you can't make the same choice twice" code to work in the .json, sorry about that!]

yeah I imported the json, I couldn't work out how to upload the whole pdx folder? I tried these buttons but they both want the .json Id love play again so I can rate for audio too :)

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Sadly the PDX only works with the simulator (which comes with the free Playdate SDK), or on an actual PlayDate.

After hours of installing dependencies, I was able to test the PDX version. I like the song. I ran into a bug, though. I bought the dagger and the game crashed after I wiped out all the children.

Thanks for the report! I don't know what caused it, but you're the first person to do that, including the dev team, so I'll have to check it out.

I'm the first to...wow, what a dubious honor. Here, I was able to reproduce the bug and this time I remembered to save the crash report.


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Thanks, that's really helpful!  Based on that error report, it may be that no-one has actually had all the children die since we released the "full" version of the game, lol.  Perhaps the whole ending is broken.

EDIT: Ugh, looks like a recent update which enabled easy save-games causes a crash when converted using Pulpmill like this game is.  I'll look into a fix.

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Well, good luck. We were going to finish our entry but not after these awful results.

Seriously, the ratings are absolute trash. I may not be the best, but my graphics work is objectively better than at least 60 of the games that inexplicably scored above me. Yes, I'm butthurt.

one of the first games I reviewed was an incomplete pornographic demo where a maid slowly walks across three screens to find a tentacle monster to sit on.  One place above me in the rankings.

I feel you man.