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Thanks so much! I've had nights like that with my friends on other games so I'm glad to know that I've been able to repay the gaming community with similar experiences.

Thank you so much! I'm still working on my unicycle lessons so I'll be able to catch up to and force the monkey to play the game upon release. 

Ok

Hey! I apologize for the delayed response. I get asked about joiplay frequently and was just a bit tired at the time, haha. For the full game, I do plan on providing joiplay support. At present though, I would have to completely hack up the demo's code to get joiplay working, which would just kill any progress I'm making now on the final project (which, will already be hard to finish with impeding life stuff). That said, I do sincerely thank you for the interest and will do my best to have the final product playable for you!

this is an amazing comment and i love you as much as a content creator can love a random poster they just met on the internet. thank you sincerely for this and your artistic inspiration! this kind of commentary makes the long slog to the finish bearable, haha. regarding updates: I'm in the long haul right now so it'll probably be like three years. But, I have been toying with the idea of semi-regular updates (I don't want to do too much and annoy people, though). Just follow me on here (which you already have!) and I'll try to post stuff at least 2-4 times a year in the meanwhile. Once again, thank you so much for this great comment! 

oh gosh its been a while. i think under the bed is the only place that works? So, the room with the window and the cabinets. The bed in the top right corner, I believe.

Woah, I was totally unaware of this! Thanks so much for posting it- I had some open time today and ended up binging all of it, haha. It was a wonderful encouragement in a somewhat discouraging week in other life happenings. I especially enjoyed his arc of starting it as a joke but then genuinely loving it. The chat's comments on the songs were also appreciated- I don't make the songs, but I do spend a lot of time curating it, haha. As a side note, I also have to say- I think Tolomeo might be the most skilled Pokémon player I've seen play this- he knows his competitive strats pretty well. Anyway, thanks for the encouragement on my continuing progress to finish this! 

Yes! But it'll be probably a few years, so long as life doesn't explode moreso than normal

Hey, thanks for following up! Quick question: Did you download your version of the demo prior to this Sunday? I believe I patched the low obedience cap in that recent update (and just tried testing it) but if it slipped through the cracks, I definitely want to fix it because I don't want the game to be that frustrating! 

It's there! Open the Options menu after loading a game. Apparently, it doesn't show if you open Options from the start menu though.

That said, I was completely unaware of this discrepancy until now. I'll put it on the lists of things to fix, thank you!

now i have to finish the full game, on which i am devoting all my spare few hours of free time :(

You know, that's a great idea. Thanks for the suggestion!

thanks for the comment! are you using joiplay? at present, this game is sadly not supported by joiplay

*edit* just pushed the update that fixed some of these critiques 

Hey, thanks for the comment! I'm actually trying to push an update this weekend that will fix some of those issues and some softlocks. This was an accidentally induced. Initially, May's Torkoal was overleveled and players would just lose quickly and move on, so it wasn't actually too frustrating. But, in the recent updates, I lowered the level to give them a chance but I'm finding this results in a very long stall battle... followed by a stall battle... and then later Smeargles, which is just too much frustration. I'm going to nerf the Torkoal again and also probably the Smeargles and I'll also look at the Beedrills. My purpose in design is to provide a comical level of frustration to the player without inciting anger (kind of like friends joking or teasing one another). Admittedly, I haven't struck that balance quite right yet and still need to adjust some things. That said, thanks for the feedback once again!

Bizarre 0_o Well, I'm glad it finally worked, haha, and hope you have fun with the rest! If an error pops up any time when you play, please take a screen shot and send it over! 

Geez, that's literally the basic give item script. This is good information to have. Joiplay right now is just so finnicky with this demo (and, I'm also introducing some more complicated code for the final) that I'm going to plan to see how they update it in the next few years because if work on it now I just won't have the energy to finish the game. Hopefully, some of these errors will just been non-issues as their emulator gets better but I'm definitely going to try ironing out the wrinkles for the final release if they're not. Thanks for the report though and I'm sorry I couldn't be of more service!

From what I've seen, it crashes on the Gary battle for a lot of people (and also in my own tests). Does the Gary fight work for you?

Yes! In the game's folder in Audio and the various subfolders (BGM is where most stuff is), most songs are named after the composter/game they're from, the console, and their title/track. There are some exceptions as I've had to replace some songs to avoid copyright claims or didn't name the right originally but these are listed in credits.txt in the main game folder. 

Gary's battle is specifically the boss song from Plok!, where I take like three songs because it's an awesome soundtrack. Rest in peace, Geoff Follin. 

Sadly, RPG Maker XP games, which this was made in, just doesn't work on IOS. I apologize, Essentials is just the standard for this sort of thing but runs on 20 year old technology. Hopefully I can get an android port working for the full game, though.

Thanks for checking! It was a very minor update where I swapped out a song. No new content will be added until the final release- just minor changes and bug fixes.

so apparently, i just found out where this was from, haha. 

for reference, the "professor tree" joke is actually from a short troll game called Pokemon FTW that one of my old game making buddies and eventual members of Arcane Kids made. There are a couple of gags that I take from that game (and give credit to the creator in the credits.txt file) 

joiplay crashes right now due to a simple essential plugin, seemingly : ( 

i'm not sure if i'll ever get the demo working on android just because i have to keep making but i'll definitely devote a block of time to getting the full game running on android

Hello dots-x86, thanks for the feedback! I just wrote a lengthy reply to OrangFan below you on this, haha. 

Hey, thank you so much for registering to leave a comment and bug reports- I sincerely do appreciate it! I'll add those to the list for the next set of fixes. For having extra character options, I do want to emphasize that I understand the desire to play as a character that bests personifies you. However, at present I don't plan on adding any character customization for design reasons I can't fully explicate at this time. But for instance, certain planned gags wouldn't be possible with broader character customization (for instance, the Mormon dating jokes in the demo really only work if the protagonist is male). I also have some gags upcoming that subvert the presentations of women in Japanese bishojo media (which the Pokemon anime partly grew out of in the 1990s) by applying them to the player, which also only work with a male character. I know this might not be the answer for which you were looking but I do think it will contribute to an overall funnier full game and the design choice will make sense when complete (Also, as a side note: Leaf is planned to appear). That said though, I once again do sincerely appreciate and value your feedback and your willingness to take the time to write this. Thank you so much for playing!

Thanks so much, it means a lot! I've thought about a discord but the game is presently eating way too much of my life as is so it'd probably be a bad idea. Also, I'm avoiding involving any money with this project as it uses a lot of copyright content from a billion sources. I do appreciate your interest in it though, it is quite kind! 

Thanks for giving it a try! At present, the game only plays on Windows as Joiplay breaks with battles. I think I have the problem pegged down but have not been able to fix it yet but hopefully will have something resolved by the official full release. I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.

Oh yes, Joiplay. I worked on it several hours but it appears to be a crucial plugin that's causing the issue. I could try to fix it now, but joiplay is also constantly updating and may just fix it themselves prior to full release. If not, I'll take a look again when the final product is done. 

And also on that note: Probably no more games of this scale from me after this, haha. Thanks for the interest, though! Making a project this large is fun but exhausting and I'll need to dedicate the time to more pressing things in the future, sadly. 

(sorry for the confusion, btw, I answered the other questions on one of your replies on the subpages)

Also, per second question on sequel: This will very much be a this-is-my-last-game sort of thing before I start working on more important stuff, haha. Once this is done, I don't foresee myself making any more games of this calibur. But thanks for the interest!

Hello Digaum. I'm going to reply to your question here for the sake of visibility and cull the one on the main page. 

Regarding the Gary bug: This is an issue with a plugin. I've fiddled with it'd take a week to fix and Joiplay may release an update that fixes it anyway before the full release. So, I'm just going to let it sit for now as I really need to prioritize just finishing the game. 

Concerning the other question: To be straightforward, this isn't a fetish game or one that is meant to be arousing, just jokey. As such, I won't be adding anything along those lines.

Hope all is well! 

hello digaum! yes, haha. the demo was unfortunately cut short for feasibility, there's parts of the remaining game in the rest of the files. i didn't remove them just because releasing and releasing the demo every time something breaks is a pain and much of the additional stuff will be reworked quite a bit. please feel free to browse, but if you do want to discuss it, please do it somewhere secretive as I don't want to spoil anything too much to the general audience! 

hahah i was curious if anyone would ever see some of those. thanks for spading and for the compliments! i'll try to keep adding some extra stuff for people who look around at areas they aren't supposed to in the final product!

Weird. I've not seen this error before, thanks for reporting! There's a lot of extra stuff that's just Pokemon Essentials data but not used in the demo. The Unown sprites never appear so the game may still run fine. Does it still run without those files? Or, have you tried extracting all but those files?

This is good to know, none-the-less, as I intend on purging a lot of the extra stuff in the final product (which, will probably prevent errors like this). But, I don't know all the gags I'm going to pull at this point, so I'm waiting to the final product before removing all that crap.

Hahaha, thanks so much! I'm working steadily on the full version now and hope it will even go above and beyond your expectations!

Thanks so much for your kind comments! It's so nice to see people so excited for the full release! And, I was unaware of those bugs, so I will definitely look into fixing them. Thanks so much again!

haha, thank you! i'm working hard on the rest of the game to make sure you can have more! 

Hello Rock9878! I've been told this a couple times now. I'm fairly sure I know what the issue is, it's just a matter of finding time to implement a fix and finding an android device for myself to test it (there are emulators, but I'd rather not use them on my PC). I'll try to tackle this sometime within a week and if I manage to fix it, I'll make a post and let you know!

Thank you sincerely for reporting this! I've been walking back and forth to the Gym for half an hour now and can't replicate it (to quote the npc, "This walk never gets old!" :( ). I'm guessing something triggered in your save that's not in mine. If you don't mind, would you grab your save file named Game.rxdata in C:\Users\(YourUSERNAME)\AppData\Roaming\NOT Pokémon

and then upload it to https://ufile.io and post the link for me? That would help a great deal!

each and every day my father in law would tell me

i dont know how youre going to take care of my daughter

if the world unravels gps won't help. you're going to need MAPS.

MAPS...

now thanks to Lilith Zone

my father in law has never been happy

thank you Lilith Zone. thank you for your MAPS. 

As always amazing series. Just wanted to post though: Are you familiar with René Girard's Violence and the Sacred? I recently read a few sections of it where he argues that sacrifice exists because humans inherently want to kill each other. To suppress that urge, society hence regulates violence to sacrificial victims, for whom there is no family or clan retaliation for their deaths. This therefore allows humans to fulfill their violent urges without causing society at large to collapse via an endless process of revenge. Anyway, something about that argument just struck me as something one of your antagonists would say while BB was tied to a table. 

On a completely related note, I made BB look like Misty.

hahaha, thank you so much! man, I originally thought I had too little in this release, so it's nice to hear that I was underestimating the amount of work I've put in. This means the rest of the game will get done quicker (I would say it won't take a lightyear, but as we all know that's a measurement of distance and not time). Anyway, thanks again sincerely for playing!