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Thanks! To be fair, you got to enjoy the game in the optimal way: coming it at the end when ALL the content is finished, polished and bug tested. You got gangbanged by content, in the best possible way. But that content still has to work, and I'm glad to hear it did!

Ha, and I'm glad you enjoyed the poster scene, since that was a fairly simple add: no real new art, just fiddling with formatting a little. But I wanted to flesh out the BJ path so it wasn't just: go to club, BJ three times in a row. 

I regret to inform you this is not the last time "horrible" things will happen to Scratch though. But also nice things may happen, some of them this next chapter (though not on first release)! As always, it will be the player's fault either way. But yeah, that last Khazeem one is a fun one isn't it?

Hey, no worries, no one has to like what I make, as long as you're polite (and you certainly have been). And, if I'm understanding right, you DID actually enjoy them in a way, just a somewhat roundabout way. But there's plenty of stuff I'm not into as well. I'm glad you were able to appreciate the game to some degree despite the difference in taste.

Notes are what social media sites call "DMs" these days. Don't worry though, I tossed YOU one. Just look for the notification up in the corner. And no worries, FA is an old site, it's just the only thing with direct messaging I spend much time on. 

Ha, and thanks. Man, I've been in the jungle of the fandom a long time, and there's definitely a lot that's...not so great. But there are some real, positive human interactions out there too. Glad to provide when I can.

Thanks! I know the feeling: it's easy to just pass things by without commenting, especially for bigger games, items on Amazon etc where you think "Is anyone actually going to read this?" But that's the great thing about games this size: they're big enough to be viable as more than a hobby, but still small enough that people will in fact bother to read what your write. Including me!

Hypnosis stuff is awesome, I really started to get into it a few years back, which is one of the reasons CS ended up happening. Very under-served IMHO. I think it's something people like to winge about because it's a fantasy with a little bite to it, but it also suffers because so few people seem capable of doing it justice. Really fun if you can actually get across why it's great though, that feeling of powerlessness, of reality becoming plastic, of pillars you depend on just being re-arranged in your head.

Which is all to say, glad it's hitting for you. I always say my strategy for these games is pretty simple: I just try to make something I would enjoy playing. And so far it seems like a lot of others were looking for the same thing and didn't realize it. This isn't a quick little goof for me, a casual side-experiment or hobby. I'm careful not to take it TOO seriously, but there's a lot of me in these games, the writing, the characters. I can't deliver amazing visuals, cutting edge gameplay or tech marvels, but the one thing I can do is give a shit about what I'm doing. That's why the characters aren't generic (or sparkledogs): I can't stand crappy characters. That's why there aren't annoying insincere jokes every five seconds: I can't stand that crap (though there ARE plenty of dad jokes here and there). I do my best, in my humble way, to try to take these games seriously, and to take the players seriously. Why on earth should they give me their time or money if I don't?

There's so, so, SO much slop out there these days, it drags me down a little almost every day thinking about it. Slop on Steam, slop in the movie theater, slop on streaming services, slop on Youtube. And I know at the end of the day this is just a silly little porn game. But I hope in some small way these games can be a respite in that sea of garbage. I hope some people can stop, take a bite, and go "Whoa, this was actually made by a PERSON! With FEELINGS and BELIEFS and EXPERIENCES that color everything in subtle ways. Who actually cared!" That's what art is: humans communicating with humans in a way words (direct words anyway) can't. And this can ooze out almost anywhere if you let it: in a car, a circuit board, a table.

Or even a dumb porn game.

Also, if you're on FA, toss me a note (Bitshift). May be able to help you out.

Aw, thanks! And good to hear, that's definitely the intent. I've mentioned it before, but both games are very much designed so that the corruption has to be deliberate: you COULD play through properly (even if it may be a bit tough for you, it's certainly possible), but it's easier if you just give in. And then having some degree of accelerating weakness where the more you give in, the harder it is to go back to normal, until that option is cut off entirely. It's easy to just slap together some bad end game overs and sprinkle them into an otherwise normal game, but it's way more impactful and fun if you leverage the actual INTERACTIVITY of the medium to tempt people to allow it to happen, bit by bit.

Ahh, ok. See, that absolutely makes sense then. I can just seize on things sometimes, and I don't want to sound like I'm attacking someone, for exactly this reason: sometimes there are good reasons I just can't think of. Sorry to hear though, and good luck getting everything sorted.

No, stock RPGMaker is somewhat compatible with mobile, but I use a bunch of custom stuff that only really works on desktop. Also, I don't want to be mean, but what's your situation that you have NO desktop, laptop etc? I understand needing to keep things cheap, but pcs ARE cheaper than phones. Corporate/school surplus stuff from 10 years ago (which is MORE than enough to play this) is like $80 on Ebay. You can get a monitor for $20 at any thriftstore. Unless you're buying second-hand, phones START at like $200. 

How are you able to function without a desktop? How do you do paperwork, browse anything other than social media, write anything longer than a paragraph? A number of people have asked this, and the whole scenario behind it genuinely baffles me. If you're someplace other than the US, where the availability is different, fair enough, but it's not a cost issue. Are you a university student crammed into a tiny dorm? But then how are you doing your coursework? Is your living situation so unstable/dangerous that you're afraid anything not on your person will be stolen? What's the story here?

Haha, aw thanks man. Winter's always...rough for me, so these comments give me life, especially now. Glad you were finally able to get to it! Are you sure you have your scene count right though? 3 is unavoidable if you lose once in the Gutter itself. 4 is the set of scenes for the job at the video store, so if you took the job at the strip club you'll want to go back to a save and work there instead. Ooooh wait, this is CS ONE, didn't notice where you were commenting. Let me check quick (and yeah, definitely check out 2 when you can, it's like 3 times the content.) Ok, 3 and four should be getting to the Diezel fight with LESS THAN the full 3 defeats to the mobs. You'll have a choice in the kneeling scene to give in or keep struggling: struggling loops you, giving in should be scene 4 if I'm remembering right.

But thanks again, and I definitely will!

Just tested, and interacting with the sparkles to start the mini-game, at least in the normal story flow, works from both top and side. Are you sure you're on the most recent version, 1.0.5, as there was a bug like this earlier that was patched? Are you using mouse movement, or arrow keys? I recommend arrow, as mouse can introduce some strange issues occasionally.

Should be about the same. No effect on outcome yet, these side stories each build toward an end of their own, but that won't come in 3.

Yes, there will be both boar AND...Chapter 2 related content in Chapter 3 :D. Only the boar scene will be in the initial release though, the other stuff will come later. As with Chapter 2, it will take a while for me to complete and slot in all the content I have planned.

Be sure to check the dev log posts here if you haven't already, those are the best way to keep up to day on development progress. To answer briefly though, my last stated plan was to have the first test version (playable to the end to two endings, but buggy and with much more content to come) out to SubscribeStar supporters in September, with public release in October. My last internal estimate indicated that may end up having to slide forward a month, so Oct/Nov instead, but right around there. I expect to be doing another progress update at the end of this month, so keep an eye out! I also tend to let people know a bit before hand when it's nearing completion in case they want in on the early look.

Thanks, same to you. Next update is planned for the end of this month; should have some fun stuff to show off :D.

Sorry for taking so long to respond to this. I'll stick to English, since I assume your browser can translate anyway. To clarify, Mezz doesn't necessarily forget EVERYTHING that happens. Depending on the playthrough, he can certainly leave the Gutter remembering certain sexual encounters he had. But the important thing is that he doesn't remember EVERYTHING. In the two endings where he leaves, he assumes (incorrectly in one of them), that what happened is over now, and the conditioning has been removed, which "resets" him for the next game. He certainly knows he's not a virgin, but (unless I'm mis-remembering my own writing) nothing says he was a virgin when he encountered the boars for the first time, let alone the hyenas, or even that they were the first enemy he ever lost to (although probably the first he ever lost to that badly).

I mean yes, but the whole point of this series, more or less, is sadism on the part of the player (or masochism, if you're self-inserting). It's about watching the confident hero get his shit kicked in. Also, you get to have your cake and eat it too, because there's three different ways you can have stuff play out: "bad" dead ends, the pure route where he wins, and the trained routes where he "wins." 

But yeah, he's a good guy. That's deliberate and important, because it wouldn't be as much fun to mess with him if he was some cardboard character. Grinding a person down until they're just a sextoy isn't, as you put it, impactful if they weren't really much of a person to begin with. They have to have something to lose: power, dignity, friends, a potential lover teammate. But, for the pure cinnamon buns out there, there IS eventual Scratch content planned that will ONLY be available on the pure route, so there will be some actual content there and it won't just exist for the sake of contrasting the "bad" ends.

I've never been a huge fan of snake anthros actually. I mean they're fine, I don't hate them, but they just don't give me as much to work with in terms of getting me worked up. But there may be some...snake like things in one of the Chapter 3 packs eventually.

Ha, excellent! That was my hope: something that plays like it's "unfair" at first, but is actually solvable if you try. And the main content is behind failing anyway, so not a huge punishment.

Oh they're out there. Most of them just happen to be in Japanese.

Ah ok, that makes sense then. Well glad to help!

Yeah it's a useful bit of theming, although it does have its limits. I'm lucky I'm only planning five chapters, as there are only so many fun hypno colors out there.

No problem. Do you mind if I ask why though? They should be fairly clear on desktop.

Yup, definitely a trick to it. He looks like he has one special, but he actually has two, that act as fakeouts for each other. Pay attention to the icons, they're slightly different for each. Once you've got that figured out, it's just a question of figuring out the counter for each: there is a given counter for each special that works every time.

Aw, thanks! And yeah, definitely doing more with Scratch in the future, though that will probably be in the packs for Chapter 3 rather than initial release..

Exactly :D.

Ha! This is way more thought that you were giving it I'm sure, but this actually brings to mind an interesting point, which why this would never actually happen: it's always been important for me to keep a clear distinction between the "normal" and filthy parts of the game, and to have a normal part in the first place. This is one of the key things that separates the games from most other porn/ero games and one of the things that (IMHO) makes them so much fun: they're deliberately NOT horny all the time. If you're "good" and play Mezz heroically like you "should", the CS games are almost totally normal RPGs. Things only go crazy if you self-sabotage and DELIBERATELY let things go off the rails. And that distinction is important, because it represents narrative acceleration, rising action. A lot of horny entertainment makes the mistake of starting at 100, and if you start at a hundred you have nowhere to go. Mezz is, normally, genuinely, canonically, NOT a slut, which is why it's hot when he's made into one.

It's been brought up in the past. For various reasons, it's not a good fit.

A good opportunity to point out people can certainly link their stories like this as well, doesn't have to be visual art. Also, good to see but not a fan of that site. Any reason you didn't go with AO3? Or sofurry? Or hell, even rentry.org if you just need a place to dump formatted text and don't care about the community element?

All translations are fan translations, though I occasionally work with some to make sure they're especially polished. So if someone wants to I'd love to see it, but that's what it comes down to.

这里隐含着两个问题，我把它们分开来说。第一，梅兹所做的事情和他如何结束第二章的一些状况会延续到第三章吗？是的，绝对会。其次，这些游戏总是有一个 “荡妇模式”，即在一定数量的损失之后，游戏会改变为不那么以战斗为基础，而更多地以性为基础。这种状态会延续到第 3 章吗？例如，如果 Mezz 处于 “荡妇模式”，那么他在第 3 章开始时也会 “荡妇 ”吗？不会，游戏与游戏之间总是会重置的。在故事方面也是：每章结束时，他总是不知道自己已经被驯服或训练过或其他什么。

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There are two questions implied here, so I'll split them. First, will some status of what Mezz did and how he ended Chapter 2 carry over to Chapter 3? Yes, absolutely. Second, these games always have a "slut mode", a way the game changes to be less combat based and more sex based after a certain number of losses. Will this STATUS carry over to Chapter 3, IE if Mezz is in slut mode, will he start out slutty in 3? No, that always resets game to game. In terms of story also: he's always unaware that he's been tamed or trained or whatever as each chapter ends.

Nope, different thing. There are only so many glowy eye colors to choose from, sadly :D.

The ear tags don't explicitly carry over visually, but you'll notice he pockets them in the slut ending. Things do accumulate, and will continue to, as the games go on.

No hints on that yet, but there will definitely be new stuff.

Potentially. There isn't a ton of that to go through though, and I tend to keep it fairly close to the chest just because there's always the chance old stuff gets repurposed down the line (has already happened in a few cases). Also I tend to talk about a lot of that here and there in devlogs before and after. But certainly worth considering.

Some truths must only be found deep within.

You can get the gallery stuff back yourself very easily. Either use the "gallery unlock" file, or simply open the Gallery.js file in www\js\plugins yourself in notepad and change all the 0s to 1s. Don't forget to save!

lol.

Really major stuff will always be posted to all 3 (Here, FA, Substar), but I assume most people who care about the game are keeping an eye on/following here. The FA at this point is mostly so I have a contact point, as I don't have a discord, email, twitter etc that I give out. But, since you asked, I'll post this up there now as well.

Exactly. You may not see it depending on whether you go down that alley (it's out of the way) and what "path" you're on with various flags.

Nah, I know Daigaijin's stuff, definitely not his style. This is way too digital. Good guess though.

As long as you put it on both there shouldn't be an issue. Always good to have backup options.