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The worst game ever? Someone hasn't played Annoyotron ... ;)

Oh thank goodness! Thank you!

Ashe, *heavy coughing sounds* years experience in TTRPGs, they/them! Originally planning on writing a fully original one-shot RPG; now working on a systemless (possibly 5E? ToV?) setting. This started as a two-page implied setting in the background of one of my player characters, but I've always wanted to turn in a character sheet with a complete city and culture document stapled to the back of it! *evil grin* It is definitely a scary place suitable for a Hallowe'en game, though the monster at hand is nontraditional ...

*whips out guitar* It's the fin-al checkmate *deedle deedle, deedle deet deet deet*

This. I recognize the file; it's a .wav, an audio file and almost certainly harmless. But I don't think it's supposed to do that.

(yes, calling pre-2000 cartoons "old" is painful to me too, but a quarter century seems about right to make that call)

- helplessness
- haircut
- old cartoons (pre-2000)

Thank you!!

The "rolling the dice" section says you get an extra die if you have an advantage, but that's the only occurrence of the word "advantage" in the rules. What qualifies as an advantage?

I'm in the "no precision platforming" camp. The concept of the game is about being clever, solving puzzles, and exploring every nook and cranny. Precision platforming is a pure twitch skill, and the mere presence of it excludes non-hardcore players.

(It's especially bad when a switch happens partway through the game, like when Hollow Knight suddenly turns into Super Meat Boy after maintaining a high but reasonable difficulty until that point.)

I guess my viewpoint is that precision platform players will generally prefer to play a game that's all precision platforming, while anyone else is likely to be turned off by its presence.

When the goblins attack me, it gets the pronouns mixed up -- "You attack" instead of "It attacks"/"They attack."

You can really produce a terrific game with very simple rules if you come up with a great idea. Tetrenga shows that. I would have guessed this took a month at least, not four days.

I was able to find a doctor who'd give me a "zero-depth vaginoplasty," i.e., just a vulva. It works for me and requires no maintenance besides normal showering.

You do, however, have to make sure that you never mention any desire for one unless it's with a surgeon you know for certain performs them, because there's the "lack of commitment" again. (And, I mean, it means you can't be penetrated, but it's up to each person how much that matters to them.)

SPOILER

I was right there with you, right there with you almost all the way through. I was just waiting for an explanation of what the flip was going on with Echo's special ability ... I was waiting for the explanation for that and it just never came.

I feel like it could have been completely justified if the explanation for Ultimate Memory had been something else -- like, this only even requires a change in Gaia's dialogue at one point. There's already another Ultimate with science-violating powers (Ultimate P. from the Epilogue) so Echo being (ROT-13 encoded) Hygvzngr Cerpbtavgvba wouldn't break the story and in a cockeyed kind of way it fits with "Ultimate Memory."

(Yes, they did it in Zero Escape, but it made sense there and it was the central conceit. It didn't just, like, happen.)

I am also *completely* in the dark about what's going on in the post-credit flashback.

I really wish this had been finished ;_; The art and the ideas are both so marvelous.

Fantastic. This is like a commercial release from the late 1990s with modern conveniences -- pure nostalgia with some new twists. Hoping also to see more gay content and the trans character being added in! Classic and fun.

Glad I could help!

It happened again and I captured it!

Error

rpg/adventure.lua:352: attempt to call field 'setAreaFlag' (a nil value)

Traceback

[love "callbacks.lua"]:228: in function 'handler'

rpg/adventure.lua:352: in function 'onTypeDeath'

rpgenemy.lua:162: in function 'onDeath'

rpgview.lua:1150: in function 'onEnd'

rpgview.lua:1374: in function 'update'

main.lua:113: in function 'update'

[love "callbacks.lua"]:162: in function <[love "callbacks.lua"]:144>

[C]: in function 'xpcall'

I managed to get past that part on a re-play, but I'll keep an eye out and keep trying the Cultist until it happens again. Worst case scenario I can just screencap it.

Yes, I guessed that they were all real place names. Still probably worth removing that specific town from the database, though, or adding a line of code to exclude it.

I'm getting a consistent blue-screen crash (just the program, not the computer) whenever, as the cultist, I successfully commit murder.

Oh! Also, one of the town names contains a racial slur -- the one that refers to the Roma, starts with a G, and has no vowels other than Y. The game correctly identifies it as a slur if you use it (it's in the Profane Book) but it also showed up in a town name, G***yville, which it shouldn't.

Was this ever finished? It feels like it was so close, if not ... but there doesn't seem to have been an update in four years? $24.99 is a bit much to ask without a clear indication there's actually an achievable ending!

*Mesmerizing.* Not only didn't stop reading, but didn't even take a break. This quality of writing and artwork and intricate mechanics are the kinds of things I'd expect in a $39.99 Spike Chunsoft release, not a fully indie project.

Once TIS the visual novel is complete, maybe consider TIS the roleplaying game?

Let be be finale of seem.

Immediately on clicking on "Click to Start" at the very beginning of the game.

Windows 10, Firefox 128.0.3.

Yes, that's what I was about to suggest -- "male/female" would ideally only really be a choice between "flat chest" and "convex chest."

*laughing* Oh WOW was I overthinking the final puzzle in the break room.

I like this a lot! Any chance of a .p8.png?

okay that's fantastic (100% accurate)

"respected"
"banter"
"cloud"
"ethical"

I gathered all the keys, nothing happened, and I have no idea what to do now. :(

It works in fullscreen fine -- but I have to fullscreen, or it doesn't.

Bit confused because I actually did sing the anthem IRL (well, some of it) and it dinged me for silence, but I'm guessing I missed something.

It would be really nice if we could still buy the expanded version on itch.io, at the same price point as on Steam. Unless Steam has demanded exclusivity, I mean. I always prefer buying on itch.io because, unless I'm VERY much mistaken, the creator gets a bigger piece of the profits.

Backed your Kickstarter. I have to say, the images for each pledge level are SO ADORABLE OMG OMG

Seconding this.

Yeah, well, it doesn't load and save properly on MY VisualBoyAdvance-M v2.1.9 emulator with an "M" at the end of VisualBoyAdvance.

Also, constructive criticism, "I'm not having that problem" is not a helpful statement. "I had that problem and here's how I solved it" is a helpful statement.

Isn't the #1, absolutely most important rule when dealing with the fae not to give them your name? :D

This is the sweetest thing I've ever seen that wasn't an actual rat.

The downloaded version is perfect! Though when I try to play in browser, the game window is too narrow; the text gets cut off on the right-hand side.