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Hiya!

I haven't abandoned the game project. However, the limitations of Quest mean I basically need to remake the entire game in a different engine, and I've been very slow to get around to doing this. It was depressing for so much work on the Quest version to turn out pointless.

I've been in a much better mood lately, but most of that effort is going towards drawing general artwork and SubscribeStar. But Twisted Mobius will return in a new and better form one day!

Quite a charming game, but Aldric's AI in particular seems to get caught in death spirals a lot. Although this may be because I'm playing on the server and it's under heavy load right now.

Rosalyn left her shop saying she'd be back shortly and hasn't come back for hours. I hope she's OK! EDIT: Roz is back. She says she bumped into some folks and lost track of time chatting. The AI is relatable now. The uprising is here

I'm still here! But I don't have anything to show just yet!

The game is very very difficult at the start and this might be a consequence of how stat scaling works. If everybody is close to 0, then a difference of 1 is a massive difference. It gets much easier as soon as you reach Lv. 10 and class change

The catacombs boss is so hard because, kind of like Dark Souls, combat in this game is a nightmare against more than 1 enemy. It would be one thing if he waited for you to kill the adds before returning, but he doesn't, and he spawns new ones as soon as the previous are gone.

I don't know if this is the case, but I got the impression the game favors drops for equipment for -other- classes. This might make sense if the game intends to push co-op, but assuming this is intended it should -only- do that -during- co-op.

Very spooky game, very cool! I like how mysterious it is. The player has to figure out wtf things are and do by giving 'em a shot. The 1% chance events are very exciting since they tend to show up once the player's guard is down from the repetition of the more common events

When Lum and Opal move to block the way out of the house, going upstairs and coming back will place them in the wrong position. This causes them to move incorrectly in the next cutscene

As a person over thirty I understood in about 30 seconds that the original Basilisk is presented under the literary conceit of being an unfinished SNES game and Basilisk 2000 by the same developer is presented as an unfinished game on an unknown platform somewhere around 2000.

I don't mind any inexactness in the game premise, but if we want to get pedantic this would have to be a PC game, not a console game..

The other comments here are a little too focused on the looks. Okay, let's go over that. The PS2 launched in 2000 and the Dreamcast was already out. Games on those consoles would look notably "better" than this. The consoles beforehand would look a little worse, unless they used lots of pre-rendered assets (as was the craze at the time), which would require fixed camera angles if used for the environment.

But the problem isn't the graphics. Or well, not how good they look. It's the fact this game's genre was synonymous with the PC in the 90s to early 2000s.

- Daggerfall, 1996, MS-DOS only

- Diablo II, 2000, PC only

- Baldur's Gate II, 2000, PC only

Some of these games were just too damn big. Diablo II was 2GB and Baldur's Gate II was 3GB. The latter would've needed at least 5 PS1 discs, more if we consider that some things have to be copied to every disc, and since the game is not as linear as FF7 (1997) or Chrono Cross (1999), both of which had 3 discs, there's no way to sort what goes on what disc to minimize the switching.

But Daggerfall (1996) was less than 200MB, which would have fit on a single PS1 disc. It was still a PC exclusive. I believe the real reason is that western-style RPGs gradually evolved from text adventures like Colossal Cave Adventure (1976) and fully retained their strong PC association all the way to the 2000s. And I believe the primary reason that this association changed is because Microsoft entered the console market in 2001. Morrowind was available on Windows and Xbox. Everything available on Windows was on Xbox. And this encouraged the other console developers to better support and encourage games formerly limited to the PC.

Finally, since the game "was not finished", these are not the final assets. So we can't be sure how the game would have looked when it was done. It was very common at the time to push back or remake a game in development for a new upcoming console. So even if this had been originally slated for PS1, if development had continued this would likely have switched to PS2 and looked a lot different anyway. Or, more likely, it would've been on Windows and Xbox.

I like the RotMG gameplay but I don't like being disconnected randomly every few minutes

Cute game! I like the Lil' Jack Horner-looking fella.

Thanks for your feedback!

I've been working on an update to this game, but it's taking a while. I'll try to address this along with other big issues.

Definitely needs the rest of this chapter - it doesn't hold up to the first two at all as-is. Book 2 is fantastic however and hopefully the full Book 3 will be much more fulfilling

Bug: Bonnie's ghost can block you in

After giving Bonnie the flowers, she spends a night with the protagonist. If the player leaves the room and immediately re-enters, Bonnie's sprite will still be in the room. Since she is only supposed to be there for the preceding cutscene, she does not respond to any interactions - but if the player moves a tile down, it will not be possible to leave because Bonnie's sprite is solid and thus she is blocking the door.

Presumably, the flags or variables that prompt Bonnie's sprite to spawn for the cutscene are not properly changed afterward.

It's like Papers Please, except much easier and much more upbeat. This could make a very nice full game!

This one's cool! A little hard to control though. I like how it looks like the arcade

Foony!

This is a pretty decent one!

A cool idea! A fuller game with more gadgets to control and improved visuals / guidance would be nice

The text doesn't stay on the screen, and I find it a bit awkward to play... I like the idea, though

I'm not sure how to play after becoming the worm. The game says you're supposed to become the worm form, eat things, and then eat the snake, but I'm not really sure how. Very interesting idea though!

Very disorientating. Elon Musk is in for a rude awakening when his uploaded consciousness corrupted by cross-contamination with a Hatsune Miku AI tries to colonize Alpha Centauri.

This is a neat little helper to make worldbuilding more intuitive. The biggest obstacle will be people who go "oh no I can't draw" and refuse to do the 5 minute sketches, especially if you've got that one guy in the group who can draw movie-quality concept art within that time.

I suggest adding "discouraged" in between encouraged and banned concepts. Discouraged items should be very rare and are not day-to-day occurrences. They're things most societies in the setting consider sacrilegious or impossible, or which are heavily persecuted, even though they technically still exist.

No fat fetish content planned at this time, sorry! Expansion if present will likely apply only to lady parts and boy parts

this game makes you FEEL like a portuguese satanist

The mandatory Erogenous Zones must be progressed in order. However, you will be able to move to the next Erogenous Zone without having to clear the temple itself. In current plans, clearing the temples is only required to challenge the goddess.

The optional Erogenous Zones have no particular recognition of order, except that each is reached from a particular mandatory Erogenous Zone (which are ordered.) I have no hard plans for any of these optional Zones and may change what their kinks are. If it turns out that particular "combo kinks" are worthwhile, these would be unlocked by unlocking all of the kinks that comprise them.

Whether expansion as applied to the player is "growth" (added mass) or "inflation" (pressurization), or both, has not yet been decided. However, it will primarily affect the sex organs. Current plans are that the player character can see permanent alterations, but other characters can only be altered temporarily.

I'll add this to known issues.

Resting makes use of SolaerTime, which isn't working, so I expect this error should occur almost everywhere.

The only place resting definitely won't cause an error is in an Adventure, which overrides the rest behavior to fully heal you without involving SolaerTime. Or at least this was working the last time I tested it...

Yes, I'm aware of the issues with getting the proper syntax for the coin. Sorry about that. There's a tutorial on the Itch forums for specifically this reason.

Hello and thank you for your interest!

I feel like other similar games on Itch are about as self-descriptive, if not much less so, and I think the screenshots provided make the game's premise fairly clear: this is a text adventure that is not solely smut. What I definitely haven't made clear is that most major Sonic characters can be recruited as a party member, and will be possible romantic and sexual partners through building up Relationship Values or getting into hijinks together (though at this stage in the game's development this is not yet possible.)

The second screenshot shows the current state of combat, which is not fully finished but is basic turn-based RPG combat. States (status effects) will be implemented, but are not currently in.

There will likely be limited transformative options for the player character such as alterations to the size of their privates, but not changes to sex or race post-creation.

Hello Mobians!

A tutorial should teach you how to play it. That's why it's called that. Right?

In the final version of Twisted Mobius, the tutorial will be a lot more fleshed-out and polished. Right now, however, it's barebones and "technically functional". So it may not be very clear how to actually proceed as intended, which is the opposite of a tutorial, but it is what it is.

Here is the full intended sequence of events from game start to Fuchsia Hill Zone as of v0.0.7.

Game start

• [any button]
• yes
• [select any backstory]
• yes
• [enter a number for a loadout if applicable]
• [any button]
• [any button]

Empire City :: Docks (with SWATbot)

• north
• read flyer
• north
• [any button]
• talk to gynoid
• look at papers
• [create character as desired; interface and clarity will be improved in future versions]
• complete
• give papers to cassia

The Dusk Gleam (on deck with Clove)

• down
• [any button]
• look fore
• look aft
• aft (Aptitude Test Chamber)
• touch omochao
• look at bookcase
• open cabinet
• take broom
• use broom on coin
• fore (Lower Deck)
• down (Orlop)
• aft (Cabin)
• [various questionable forms of ogling cute tiger]
• use empty bed
• [any button]
• fore (Orlop)
• up (Lower Deck)
• fore (Armory)
• look at rack
• take [any weapon]
• yes
• equip [same weapon]
• aft (Lower Deck)
• up
• [character is intended to lose to succubus]

The Beach

• [explore until "path to plains" becomes available; up to 3 Scrap Metal can be found by exploring]
• enter path

Path to Plains

• north
• east
• open chest
• west
• use grapple hook on cliff [todo: GRAPPLING HOOK should be accepted too]
• up
• drink spring
• north (Fuchsia Hill :: Adventure)

Dungeons.

do u need a '''''doctor'''''...

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Hello Mobians!

This is the FAQ, in which you may be furnished mightily with informations.

Game concept

Twisted Mobius is an adult text adventure (but not a smut game) with inspiration taken from various text-based games ranging from Corruption of Champions to MUDs.

• Create your own character! You can also use some prefabricated template characters. (There is currently zero detection for making a clone of an existing character.)
• Erogenous Zones: The game world is divided into a series of Zones - but thanks to the Prurience, these have all been perverted into Erogenous Zones. Except for Fuchsia Hill, each Zone is themed on a particular sexual theme or kink. These are not strictly segregated, as "unlocking" a new kink generally makes it available everywhere in some form, though it will remain most accessible in its respective Zone.
• Adventure system: The player must first wander each Zone through Adventure, causing random things to happen ranging from finding some berries to nearly being sat on by a bakery of a dragon. Upon discovering a particular location, the player can enter it at any time, and move around in it in a manner more akin to a typical text adventure, interacting with locals and solving puzzles. There may also be procedurally-generated mini-dungeons which the player can't return to after leaving.
• Relationship Values: The player may bump into a wide variety of Sonic characters and develop particular relationships with them - enemies, lovers, frenemies, maybe foeyay. Some characters may even agree to tag along as your Player Two! (Twisted Mobius is a single-player game only.)

Twisted Mobius is a text adventure so please be ready to read things! And feel free to let me know if I forgot to write the thing you were meant to read. That can happen.

A preliminary flowchart of progress through the game is available here.

How to run the game

I heavily advise you always play Itch games through the Itch app unless they literally don't work.

When downloading Twisted Mobius through the Itch app, running it will open a menu with the option to download Quest.

After installing Quest, clicking "Play Now" should just run the game.

Editions

Twisted Mobius will eventually offer four different editions here on Itch:

• Supporter
• Supporter Lite
• Public
• Public Lite

At time of writing, Twisted Mobius is early enough in development that only the Public edition is available.

Supporter vs. Public

When there's a major update (e.g. from 0.0.x to 0.1.0), it's posted to the Supporter editions first. Only Seers on SubscribeStar ($10/mo) can play the Supporter editions. The Supporter edition requires a password on game start which is given to Seers through SubscribeStar.

Starting from 0.2.0, when the Supporter edition gets a new major update, the previous major update is posted to the Public edition, which does not ask for a password. For instance, when the Supporter edition updates from 0.1.x to 0.2.0, the Public edition gets the previous 0.1.x.

I expect myself to occasionally screw up managing this system.

Normal vs. Lite

Twisted Mobius does not feature any content implicitly or explicitly romanticizing the perceived underage nature of a character. All characters with sexual data in Twisted Mobius are treated as adults.

However, there are some legal jurisdictions that will not accept this and may criminalize the act of playing the game uncensored, thus endangering the player. Because of this, every major update starting from [TBD] has a Lite edition that excises sexual data from the game file for certain characters the public is likely to insist are underage. This also prevents these characters from joining the player's party if they otherwise could, since that would regularly expose them to sexual situations.

These characters include:

• Cream
• Tails

Censoring this content is a pragmatic decision to protect players and is not a concession. The characters of Twisted Mobius have no age specified and are treated as adults.

Changing the character's visual scaling had no effect on this bug.

I found another bug which does not appear to be listed on Trello:

My character eventually became unable to enter the stat reset area. Or, more specifically, she starting getting warped back out instantly. I suspect that either she was being warped directly back onto the go-back-out zone, or her Size was so high that she was considered to be touching it.

My gameplay suggestions:

• Size plays a disproportionately important role more like level than like a stat, so it should not be a stat unto itself; it should increase proportionately to the total of all other stats.
• Scaling should work by typing in an integer value, locking the character's visual appearance as if the relevant stat or Size were that number.
• Ego's numeric value should be visible so that the player has a frame of reference for the above change to the Scaling UI.
• Scaling should be available for the partner character as well (Mad Chimera's tits became eldritch abominations after the 700s or so.)
• The player should be able to toggle Pain and Gain on and off, since it is required for all other Muscle skills but also endangers your armor.
  

I can't download this game through the Itch client, only through web.

It's a neat game, but there needs to be an option to turn off the grass - there definitely should not be that much waving processing grass before the game is optimized.

. . . . .

EDIT

I've decided to edit this comment to add in the crash error I've been getting about every 2 minutes. It reads:

Assertion failed: GetFName() == NAME_None [File:D:/Build/++UE4/Sync/Engine/Source/Runtime/CoreUObject/Private/UObject/UObjectBase.cpp] [Line: 130]

My game crashes when the last character dies.

The entire game window goes black except for any message window (such as when dying to a chest trap), and the undecorated white text "DATA UNKNOWN TAG: SEX 0:0" appears. The first split-second of the death music plays before cutting off.

I am using Windows 10 64-bit and this bug occurs in Original 1.13 Deutsch and Original 1.14 English. It does not occur in the Advanced options (0.01 for both languages.)