Post by Violett8271 in Monsters of The Forest comments

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I think many others will agree with me when I say this has exceeded my expectations. I have not experienced any other of your works, and so I didn't know what to expect, but I certainly was pleasantly surprised.

I was playing the version available here on the browser, if there are any inconsistencies between the gameplay and my comment,

So, my opinion on this is:

The Ant-Queen ending was very nice, and very satisfying to see.

Sadly, both the Spider and the Kitsune endings are unfinished, and the introduction to the Bee ending is, well, only an introduction currently.

But then I noticed that around two months ago, you replied to someone with your plan on which routes will be updated or made in what order. In truth, it made feel quite relieved. Such a work should not be abandoned. After all, it's a one of a kind talent for storytelling, and game-making.

Anyway, what I meant to say, the fact that you replied to someone, even two months ago (which was around my birthday, to be honest, it feels like barely a month has passed), means you are still working on this, and so, I can expect to find this updated after a while.

And also, a Moth-Girl transformation? Really? Although those are liked, I can almost never expect them to be in these types of stories, and so I am very glad. Moths are some of my favourite animals, and I really like the design of Moth-Girls.

The only bug I noticed was in the Spider path, not on any choice, but during some kind of description. I'll try to find it, and post it under this comment later.

So, uh, sorry for writing about this so close to Christmas, Yule, or whatever other holiday you celebrate in this time of year, I just had to express my gratitude towards you in some way.

Thank you for making this, and I hope you resume working on this when you have the time.

Edit: decided to edit this instead of writing under it, when saying where I found the bug. Either way, it was around the current end of the "Hide" choice after being chased across the river by the spiders that are chasing you. It's before the "Onwards, it can't be much further now"

Aaaac1 year ago(+3)

Aww thanks! It always makes my day when someone says they like my game! I'm glad you liked the ants so much. I made the game because I like ant-girls and figured they needed more content.

Yep game is under active development. It's just that since the game is mostly writing, and I'm not a very fast or consistent writer it takes a long time between releases. I also tend to get distracted with other projects, I've made like four other games while working on this one. But it's my life's work so I'll finish it eventually.

I'm hoping to have a release go out about new years. It'll be more kitsune content, I hoped to finish all of the kitsune 1 endings but it's not looking likely.

Thanks for calling me one of a kind! I wish I could claim to be a unique genius but I'm just an artist in a continuum of artists. If you liked the funny parts I'd recommend the works of Terry Pratchett. If you liked the adventure parts I'd recommend Conan the barbarian by Robert Howard (Although I've only read Hour of the Dragon.). If you liked the kitsune parts I'd recommend the works of Kij Johnson (Fudoki especially.) If you'd like games like mine, I'd recommend Runes of Pandemonium by my friend Salty Justice. (https://starlight-studios.itch.io/runes-of-pandemonium) although that's a lot better than my game. Or if you'd like another purely narrative game I'd recommend Determined, which is also a lot better than my game but sadly incomplete. (https://tfgames.site/index.php?module=viewgame&id=322)

Yep moths and moth-girls rule! A moth-girl centric work was what pushed me to do writing at all so I gotta make something with them. Sadly it's gonna be the last path because it represents the "end" of a story as open as this one. I don't want to spoil anything, but the development tag line is "What do you think of death?"

I've think I've caught that bug, but I'll do another pass over before the release. I'd just push a fix now but because of the way twine works I can only really have one working copy going at a time. At least not without rolling the dice on backing up and then deleting the current version and those are not dice to roll lightly.

Thanks for taking the time to give feedback and happy holidays!

Violett82711 year ago(+1)

Thank you for recommending more games like yours for me to play. I really appreciate it.

I also tried more of your games on here, like Snow Day, and I find them to be very well made.

So, thank you for replying, happy holidays, and I hope no ills befall you!