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an update on how its going.

https://rumble.com/v5333vb-thrack-thefox-test-footage.html

this geometry is the road to the final boss at the end of the game. all completely traversable by the player.  

oooh something's happening, just a little sneak peak  

I found a typo:

"security to" should be "securely to" 

or "to Stripe's security" 

rrr?

i'm still sticking with my request, we need to do *something* to make itch safer 

my suggestion would be that you don't try to make the game "long" but instead "engaging" and "challenging" 

dude it's beautiful! 

yeah I gotta say, the searchbar on itch could use a little tweaking for accessibility but at least it's all there fast and useable so I can't complain 

: )

changing mine recently 

I think i'm gonna stick to more retro style stuff for now. I'm getting some rather nice results too.

they are? then why do people keep getting malware and there are even warnings being issued?

legend of zelda jk,

but also, amorous def allows that. (visual novel furry dating sim), I dunno not my cuppa tea. 

If you do not eat, you lose your life,

if you do not sleep, you lose your sanity,

if you do not socialize, you lose Socialability.

if you do not play, you lose your soul.

that's why we're important, we provide an avenue for it where it is extremely rare.

I'll give you a follow for follow if you're interested. trying to build my own repertoire :) and gratules on your goal 

that's actually bloody damn good man, keep it up! and gratz

4.) instantly uploading our software to https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload (virus total) to be scanned via Itch internals (opt-in style) with a checkmark at the bottom to help Itch Creators seem less... shady. srsly getting people to even consider itch is relatively difficult due to the lapse in faith in the site itself. this is likely due to increased volume of developers over time while anyone can upload just about anything. of course this can also be counter productive if the service detects something as a virus when it isn't which is why it should be opt in rather than opt out. 

I'll take that offer if you are still offering. godwaygames <- my discord username. 

np

can we see the game design document then? 

a genuinely good idea. but I don't think it'll be very popular or that your suggestion will be well recieved. I personally probably wouldn't do game passes tbh. 

status update I didn't stop working on this game nor did I forget about it I just got a bit busy is all. I have recently been hired by a larger studio. : )

I'll come back to this when things are more settled there.

that it is : )

Spoilers don't read if you don't want spoilers!

you move the magnifier around clicking different stuff until you finally unleash a gateway to hell.

yes, yes it was. :)

9 hours. I had no chance of fixing my games bugs as I knew it'd take days so I just made it workable instead of trying to make it perfect. 

well? What did you guys aim for? 

Nearly complete. stopped to work on a jam instead temporarily. 

beautiful game over screen. no?

some more excerpts:

Alacampft can at one point in the game entire the nightmare 

world where he will walk by a path of tombstones from the

dream of one of the older dragons.

the tombs will read "Where are my grandchildren?"

"you forgot what I look like?"

"I had high expectations from you."

until he comes up to a bunch of tombstones that all read 

single words like

"rivals", "friends", "career"

until he comes up to the elder sitting in front of the

elder with his head down in shame in front of a tomb that 

reads "love".

Alacampft then can choose to walk away or comfort them.

later on he can leave to explore the rest of the nightmare

world with a staff and as he walks through it, the creepy

music and treacherous black nightmare

terrain will be replaced with a 

beautiful green planes world.

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A converstaion with sourflame:

Sourflame is one of he dragon-children Alacampft can befriend     

if the player decides to make alacampft and Sourflame his friend she'll eventually use a spell on him

by accident revealing to her all the things he's done in the past and erased.

Sourflame: "Alacampft...but...but why... how could you... all those people... and me..."

Alacampft: "Sourflame... i'm sorry please don't"

Sourflame will look away in disgust

Alacampft: "Do you have any idea how many times I looked down at my phone?"

Sourflame: "Huh? what's that got to-"

Alacampft: "wishing i'd someone ... anyone that I could call... I always knew,

i could never be happy with a family. i'd never have children or a wife... 

I had one chance at happiness, and when I failed to get it...

it just became a lot easier to be the bad guy instead."

Sourflame: "Well I don't have any parents and I didn't kill everyone i knew you psycho!"

Alacampft: "Sour... please understand"

Sourflame: "all I understand is that you're a monster."

Alacampft: "...i'm...sorry..."

for any further questions please simply ask here in this thread. 

thank you.

testing out the model(s).

another excerpt from the game:

Kraosmos Journal:

Entry1 = """

My Journal is left tattered and in ruins... I'm not allowed to go home anymore, not after what I did to...  Well it doesn't matter now, I'm finally on my own. who'd have thought at just twelve my mouth could be so big I'd fall into the hole and be unable to escape. I have been forced to compose a new one.

"""

Entry2 = """ 

Hello dearest Journal, it's been a week since we last spoke, I'd like to thank you for being there so I have someone to talk to when I'm alone like this. Nobody really likes me. But you? You don't have feelings or emotions or opinions, you're just a dumb book. and that's what makes you so special to me, I can pour my heart out to you and my heart remains confined to your pages."""

Entry3 = """ 

I have just seen the most horrid of autrocities, I have seen goons sweep down from the lands and steal or crush and destroy sweet innocent dragon eggs! I will not allow this to continue! I intend to seek the dragon king and inform him."""

Entry4 = """ 

it has been several days since I've written here and now I can say that I've met with the dragon king, and he has advised me that the elder guardians are the ones responsible for these horrible actions. I will go to their temple and duel them 'til death. I know it's risky and I'm probably throwing my life away, but I've nothing left to lose so it doesn't matter... I can't go home, and nobody wants to see my face, after I spoke spoke so illy about the people around me it's only fair that I die trying to save them... right?

"""

Entry5 = """

Today was a terrible day for me. and for others as well, I have nearly drowned upon a grand river, allow my explanation to reach the page before flipping anew. There was a dragon egg set on a tree, how it got there I'm unaware. but I was there in an attempt to stop its destruction I hopped down from the hill and tried to grab it as it were falling. I managed to push the egg onto shore and into the soft sands while simultaneously descending into the abyss of the rapids. I have been smacked by its pillows and rivetted by its rocks and am badly bruised. If I die here, I accept my punishment as I do not know if I even managed to save the egg... I'm truly worthless aren't I?

"""

Entry6 = """

it has taken two days for me to heal and return to where I saw the egg... while I do not find evidence of it being destroyed I also do not find the egg. I'm hopeful someone managed to find and rescue it and the poor hatchling within. I shall rest for one more day before moving onwards, and upwards the vast terrain of the groves and swamps.

"""

Entry7 = """

I cannot WAIT to put pen to paper! I have the most epic of tales to reveal to you dearest journal it has been two whole months, I have scoured the landscape making my way through muck and leach to this hidden temple upon the groves seperate from common life to meet the elders... but upon my arrival I did not find the cruel beast I had expected, no instead I found the sweetest of elders. I did not trust him at first of course.

so I demanded we do battle, yet he refused. And thus our dialogue exchanged like so:

Elder: 'Young one I do not wish to fight you but if you'd hop upon my back I will teach you to fly.'     

'I do not trust you, if you shall not fight then prove to me your worth' 

Elder: 'in due time young one. for now come with me you have much to learn and I am nie but your mentor as I am to all drakes, not your enemy. The dragon king has fooled you and it is he who has truly brought us such dread'

'I do not know who to trust... No you shall prove yourself here and now!'

And it was with that moment that I barreled through the room and jumped out the window falling down the cliffside knowing my end was within the moment.

Yet as I lay there with the wind parsing my final thoughts it came upon my eyes the elder swooping down to stop my demise with a speed of flight like never I'd seen prior. He carried me back up to the temple and there I believed him. 

"""

Entry8 = """

I have spent the past few days with the elder contemplating the trickery imposed upon me by our very king, the one destined to protect us is no more than a fraud set upon our blood in anger with motives unclear to me. Although the Elder seems to understand his evil I do not; yet this doesn't matter. I have trained for these days each of my abilities and I with many others am set to do battle against his forces and protect the innocent, yes the very dragons Who have come to hate me, I now seek to protect.

""" 

Entry9 = """

I've been set on my own again, but this time I do not fear it, I'm not riddanced with sadness and depression but instead confidence and rebellion. I have been tasked by the Elder to find one of the others known as Frostmoar who is to continue my education and prowess while directing me in my newly chosen path, the path of a scavenger for his band of mercenaries.

"""

Entry10 = """

Frostmoar and I have been in constant argument under the most petty of things over the course of the two weeks I've been here, despite being a good scavenger for him and collecting many things of value including munitions and being well trained he still sees me as only a whelpling. I think I'm going to leave as I feel I'm better utilized elsewhere. While I do not disrespect the Elder I thought I would be bringing devestation to evil while instead I sit here with this overly cautious mercenary who is more interested in building defenses than actually bringing aid to his constituents! Many pay for his protection and few if any receive it. While I do appreciate his band's efforts someone has to take the reigns, and it certainly is not frostmoar.  

"""

Entry11 = """

I've given him another week and yet while the dragon king continues his evil reign Frostmoar sits back idle. That does it, I'm leaving. While I know I cannot defeat the king on my lonesome I can deterr his plans. I'm going to the geysers of Yelmnorine where the supplies are run for his army and there I shall disrupt them and poison the food supply of those he has brainwashed. I sneak out tonight.

"""

Entry13 = """

I am happy to report the ease of my success, I stole an expensive organ disruption potion from Frostmoar before I left to spite him, and with it I've managed to do more damage to the king's plans than anyone could have previously imagined. He has been set back for months now that half his forces are destroyed. And they never suspected a thing, afterall who would expect to be poisoned by a child? I basically walked right out of the camp unnoticed.

"""

Entry14 = """

Dear journal it has been several months now and the burden of the king is now relieved from the lands. While I wish I had been the one to take his head I do not honestly hold this claim. Someone else destroyed him. regardless I have in fact played the most prime of roles in the vanqueshing of his agenda. While the others have been busy focused on themselves or on his destruction directly I personally have gone from base to base ruining them, battling their weakest warriors to strengthen myself and stop their merciless pursuits saving egg after egg and hatchling after hatchling from death. Though this war ends here, I know my unrewarded part has been the most important, and the most forgotten. Every supply line I have disrupted, every violator I've felled, and every scrape I've recieved has been the true outliner for our future; and nobody shall ever know of thy heroics. I can accept this fate... fame is but a wicked lapse of the self anyways.

"""

Entry15 = """

Thus comes the reward for my efforts. So be my luck that I should recieve as a gift, a shameful flux for my efforts! I have learned upon the need to cook the fish I catch and boil my waters! Oh if only I hadn't been such a fool... While the rest celebrate I earn my place as a jest by the infirmary's staff. By what god could have cursed me!? What could I have done to deserve dysentery!?

"""

Entry16 = """

It has been a whole year and today was my birthday.

While I expected to be left to my own devices fishing and cronching down upon a poorly baked cupcake with a single candle; I have instead found myself not alone but rather have been knighted instead! All screamed the name and new title as Kraos the brash, now a known protector of the realm as my stories have harkened the ears of bards around me. I am renewed! I am Kraosmos the brash! Kraosmos protector of the dragon realms! And I shall not let them down!"

didn't really figure out how to put the world together yet but earlier I'd come up with concepts:

her sprite reminds me of a different game... a point and click adventure, something related to psychologists 

one of the levels I'd in mind: