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TYSM! <3

I immediately adored the background visuals. It would be nice if it were more clear at the start that what you're typing in is your name. The song that plays throughout the game is very nice, but I don't see credits for it anywhere? It's a cute little idea with a lot of rough edges, the writing style is a little bit confusing but the characters are interesting, they look very similar to adventure time characters though. Super cool logo. Lots of potential here. Great job submitting the the jam. :)

Yes!! I have had the same exact thought, I wish we could filter by genre.

I'd suggest additional categories under romance- like BL/Gay, GL/Lesbian for some basic ones. -and I'd appreciate if you'd put my entry under the Romance GL category! LoveBites

Annish has created some memorable music- her dream music in particular was stuck in my head for days. Thank you so much for your comment, this is my first time as a team lead and being complimented on the overall vision in particular makes me very happy. I'm honored you'd compare us to Omori! 

There will definitely be more voice acting- hope you'll return to hear it all in the final version! :)

Thank you for your sweet comment. :) Our artists are very talented, I am very happy and grateful to be working with them. The full version should have full voice acting! Hope to see you back here when it's up. :)

Thank you so much for the feedback! We will do our best to incorporate it.  :)

So glad you enjoyed it! Hope you'll check it out again when it's updated or complete. Thank you!! <3 I'm a big fan of symbolism and the colors seemed like a great vehicle for it. :)

A game making you feel something is high praise! :D Tysm. <3

Thank you!

Thank you. <3

You need to eat the raw meat.
(Maybe check if you feel an urge to howl at the moon? I didn't know our game was giving contact lycanthropy, whoops!)
((Thank you so much for playing and commenting. <3 ))

tysm <3

What a cute, campy artstyle. It's colorful and eye-catching but still easy to separate the background from the characters which surprises me, really great job! Such an amusing little story, bro.

That's super impressive! Doubly great job, especially solo. I hope you're enjoying your first game jam. :)

Thank you! :)

Thank you! Chiara was our UI artist. :) 

What a sweet story. The bond between the main couple was very cute, and the cuts to the bickering gods were amusing. The carnival track would get a bit too loud at points (played at the beginning and towards the end?) but otherwise the music was good at setting the mood. Very campy and fun, good job. :)

Thank you so much, Chiara is our UI artist and they did a fantastic job, especially considering they joined our team in the last week of the jam! We're hoping to have it finished at the end of the month for Monstrous Desires. :)

Thank you so much for playing it on stream, so glad you enjoyed it. <3

Beautiful entry, everything fits together very well and overall it looks very professional.  The game has a unique, polished feel to it, and I love the inclusion of tarot card readings. Great job! :)

Thank you so much!

Thank you so much!! <3

What a pretty main screen with the falling leaves. Lovely poetic writing style.  Early typos, "kicking you into action in (a) heartbeat(.)" "it(')s a fox", and some others throughout the game. The audio was really quiet for me. The character art had a good style to it. Overall, very sweet and emotional, charming little story, has some flaws but held my attention and I felt emotionally touched by the ending. Great job! <3

Hello! I'm Biz, the project lead for an established team looking to add on a 3rd Programmer, a Background Artist, and a UI Artist/Designer to help break up the workload. This team is meant to continue on through the Monstrous Desires Jam that goes until the end of October as well, so we strongly prefer team members who will continue beyond Spooktober.

LoveBites: An Existential Romance follows the story of a woman with a troubled past, living as an overnight worker when she's cornered and attacked by a beastly wolf. Next thing she knows, she wakes up in a remote log cabin and soon realizes she has been turned into a Lycanthrope. Now she is must take control of her future, lest she lose herself to the beast within. This sapphic game features three main love interests: Ashina, the captor, Akari, the hunter, and Cameron, the childhood friend.

Our current script has 15k+ words and we're finishing up the main route. We're using Ren'py for programming, and the team has 2 other artists working on backgrounds and sprites. We're using a mostly black-and-white traditional/sketch style, with a few key colors that have significant meaning (blue, red, and yellow).

One of our artists has been having hospitalization issues so we're in dire need of someone to help out with finalizing backgrounds with the assistance of our other artist who is setting up the basic layout and perspective. We'd also consider a VSFX artist if one happens to be interested. It's an ambitious project for sure, and we're hoping to find two more passionate team members to help us out. Thank you for your interest, and I look forward to hearing from you!

Hello! I'm Biz, the project lead for an established team looking to add on a 3rd Programmer, a Background Artist, and a UI Artist/Designer to help break up the workload. This team is meant to continue on through the Monstrous Desires Jam that goes until the end of October as well, so we strongly prefer team members who will continue beyond Spooktober.

LoveBites: An Existential Romance follows the story of a woman with a troubled past, living as an overnight worker when she's cornered and attacked by a beastly wolf. Next thing she knows, she wakes up in a remote log cabin and soon realizes she has been turned into a Lycanthrope. Now she is must take control of her future, lest she lose herself to the beast within. This sapphic game features three main love interests: Ashina, the captor, Akari, the hunter, and Cameron, the childhood friend.

Our current script has 15k+ words and we're finishing up the main route. We're using Ren'py for programming, and the team has 2 other artists working on backgrounds and sprites. We're using a mostly black-and-white traditional/sketch style, with a few key colors that have significant meaning (blue, red, and yellow).

One of our artists has been having hospitalization issues so we're in dire need of someone to help out with finalizing backgrounds with the assistance of our other artist who is setting up the basic layout and perspective.

We'd also consider a VSFX artist if one happens to be interested.

It's an ambitious project for sure, and we're hoping to find two more passionate team members to help us out.

Thank you for your interest, and I look forward to hearing from you!

Fun little game, music is good but I feel it doesn't really fit the mood of the game. Slight spelling issue at the end screen using "off" instead of "of". It's fun to play though, good simple gaming loop. :) I feel silly fueling the bricks that are inevitably going to murder me. :P

I want to name my firstborn child after this game. Good thing I'm not having kids.

rock on

Thank you! I was inspired by Doom, I'm glad you like the music. Thanks for taking the time to play and give your thoughts, I really appreciate it. <3

What an impressive entry! The battle sound effects are so amusing, and the music fits in well with the environments. Graphics are cute and creepy. The death cutscene is particularly cool. NPC dialogue is very ambitious for the timeframe. Reminds me of games like Undertale and Omori. You should be super proud of this submission, great job!

Not really sure what's going on or what I'm supposed to do- some guidelines in the description would be helpful. :) Cool little UI and interesting looking art concept.

Charming little game! I enjoyed going through the puzzles, I do wish the rising water towards the end was faster, that one didn't seem like much of a challenge. I enjoyed the spooky audio atmosphere, SFX fit well. Great job with a two-person team! 

Lovely peaceful soundtrack, all of the SFX fits in naturally as well. A bit frustrating haha but fun. I  wish jump was spacebar instead of W, as that's more standard and natural. The page art is very impressive, and overall everything looks good in-game as well.  Love the creative blurb, that extra effort goes a long way. Excellent submission!

Thank you so much for the thorough commentary! I have a big smile.  I really appreciate it, and good luck to you as well. <3

Indeed, thank you! I really enjoy adding sound design / sfx elements to music to really relate it back to its purpose/context, and it has made me really happy to see a few people commenting on it. Funny enough, I usually only really consume horror games/media through secondhand experiences like play-throughs, but I really love composing for that genre, there's something so simple yet expressive about it. Probably also has to do with my value in music making the listener feel something.

Have a happy day yourself. :)