...because they...have a Patreon? You know, where they are taking people's money. A patreon that hasn't been updated since Oct 10, 2024. Are you dense? It's literal fact that they've not given anything to their paypigs in months. It's not hypothesis. It's not hyperbole. It's objective fact that 113 little gooners are paying money to someone who has given precisely nothing in return since October of LAST YEAR.
As this has no reviews (at least none that show publicly) and no comments, I'll assume at least a handful of others share my trepidation. There have been myriad attempts to share malware through lewd "games" on here, making many reasonably dubious to try things from new users. That goes doubly so when there are no images of the game, and no option to try it within one's browser. I get not every engine is compatible, but it doesn't diminish the point. People often just show a random screenshot of the game when such things are made in Twine, and that would greatly aid your game in getting seen, then played.
I eagerly await the progress of this masterpiece in the making!
Such are the troubles of those who dare to put out good projects. Just make sure to take breaks when needed and not try too hard to appease everyone! End of the day, it's your passion project, so just make it turn out the way you want! Don't feel the need to reply further; I've taken up enough of your time as it is. Best of luck, and may fortune favor your endeavors!
I didn't even really mean unique animations, but tiering the ones already present. For example, we really only see the facial view in the stomach acid for a fleeting moment. A shame to not see it more! With the animations already in the game, you could just have each play out at differing stages of health, which makes it so that 0% HP just plays the full thing with no escape. With the wolf for an example, the start would be her holding you. Next phase could be her starting to swallow you, leaving you dangling out of her maw and staying there. Third would be her swallowing you all the way. This would give people more time to see the whole animation pre-death and do away with the need for brand new animations. More animations are great, but why not just further highlight what already exists? I think adding more unique animations would be a task better suited for much later, as more enemy variety and actual level progress would better serve the game. I also find that new areas and enemies help prevent burnout since it keeps you moving forward. Not wanting people to button mash is a fantastic direction that I'm glad to see! Sometimes, you just want to keep playing.
That is a fantastic balance between the two, and one that appeals to both of my sensibilities. I love exploration and completing things like that, but I won't lie and pretend to be the biggest metroidvania fan either. Hitting a wall that would be more or less impassible for me (or more importantly, my patience) would lead to me looking for a full save just so I could get the gallery, at which point I'd likely never play again. Having the gallery as an optional unlock does make me more likely to actually go back later and get through whatever was blocking me before. In short, I think having that helps it appeal to a broader audience.
Thanks for taking the time to actually read, let alone respond to feedback. It's one thing to see a game have such an outstanding first launch, but it's another entirely to see such responsivity from its developer. I sincerely wish you the best of luck with your game and hope it can flourish. There are very few games like this one, and fewer still that have even a modicum of this game's quality. Best of luck!
Add vore animations into the grapples based on % of HP. Full HP, just a grapple. 75% HP, maw teasing. 50%, head in maw. 25% Swallowed. 0%, full finisher. It would make the game more engaging and, overall, add more enjoyable gameplay for an undeniably vorny audience, as the only current way to get the content we want is to die.
Give more control over digestion speed, as it happens woefully fast and is hard to enjoy. One moment, you're fully swallowed, then 3 seconds later, everything's already ended. Just letting players press Space to move on the stages of digestion allows for far more enjoyability from the players, and actually lets people see the work that's already been done. Win win.
More dialogue would be great. Love the direction of each character having their own flare for things, so having more teasing/demeaning dialogue would be yet another boon for this game. Especially if given the addition of the character not instantaneously digesting.
Don't put a lock on the gallery. Having immediate access to that is not only unfathomably based, but also lets people see the sheer volume of work put into a rather misleading v0.1 file name. I certainly didn't expect there to be as much content present as there already is, and being proven otherwise made for a delightful realization.
Absolutely fantastic first iteration, and one I sincerely hope gets even more love put into it! The quality from even the very first version is astounding!
Gotta walk before you run, right? Without the ability to save, adding in a quick restart function would go leagues for both testing and accessibility for the player. What better way to find bugs than to let someone quickly run right back into them while playing normally?
Were I to try to pin down the issue more directly, I'd say it's the lack of ability to prevent the full sequence from beginning. Being able to struggle rapidly out of the initial grab, rather than being dragged under and going through the full struggle, would really make things less aggravating when retreading old ground. That's a problem that a lot of games overlook. It's fine the first time, but what about the second? The third? Maybe even the 8th? Even really GOOD things get annoying at that point, especially if you're dying because of difficulty ramping up. The issue with the vore was the speed. I think the struggle system you made is really neat, given that it's normally just button spam. The issue it brings is in speed, as you can't just spam your way out once you're starting to get annoyed with the frequent stop-go of running into effectively invisible enemies.
In short: Consider adding a brief window to escape immediately before getting pulled into the "swallowed" state. Maybe allow a single QTE that makes the monster spit you out instantly. If you fail it or don't do it, then you get sucked down. Keeps it interactive, but speeds things up. Doesn't intrude upon getting vored, either.
That being said, the enemies do NOT suck. The game's very early on, and as you said, you're learning! Don't be that hard on yourself! Can they be improved? Definitely! Do they suck? Absolutely not. The enemies themselves are pretty neat! They merely need refinement to really shine as their own entities! And that comes with time and experience. Nobody starts at greatness, least of all perfection. Give yourself some more slack!
Hey, as a player of many games, I appreciate the addition of options! You'd be shocked (or perhaps not) by how many people making fetish games forget that their players are there for the content. What's the point of a niche game when the niche content is awful to experience because of bad mechanics? Having that included so early on is a grand sign.
I'll definitely give it a try soon, especially with such a rapid response to feedback! You're certainly on a great path of growth, so I wish you the best of luck with your development going forward!
You can run straight out of the map the moment you leave the tutorial by going left. Since there's no restart button, at least not that I found, you have to restart the entire game, elsewise you just fall forever. This also means redoing the tutorial. I stopped playing at that point.
An immediate issue is how the vore is, at least from what I saw, always the exact same. It's more of a nuisance while playing than just enjoyable, as it constantly gets in the way of progression. The fact that you see the exact same animation everytime makes it more annoying than enjoyable as a result. Entering a ghost mouth, but getting the exact same animation as the tongue or worm, is a tad boring. Obviously, it's a very early demo, but one can only critique what is already present.
That being said, allowing people to immediately customize their HP and Stamina is a fantastic idea. It really lets people enjoy the game, which is kind of the point, right? Great touch, there. However, the font is...it's awful. Looking at the settings with that font on a 1440p monitor is prone to give migraines.
Cannot play game on Chrome Browser. When I loaded it, it was stuck on the title. When I refreshed the page, I got an error.
"I can't use (load-game:) immediately after loading a game."
Additionally, waiting 1 minute and rebooting the browser doesn't make the error stop showing up. A downloadable version may fix many of these issues.
Update: Came back 6 hours later. Still have the same exact error as above.
Having to start from the VERY beginning anytime you get digested is really, really discouraging. Given that a lot of people are here for literally that, punishing players so harshly for seeing the scenes is rough. Lacking a generic save feature is...odd. I'm not sure why a clunky passcode is necessary for this.
Really good for something made in a short time! Gameplay is really slow, making it a bit tedious to actually try to complete. The lack of animation for being vored makes for a rather lackluster finale, and some dialogue/taunts would definitely be a great addition to make this feel more substantial. The footsteps are very, very annoying after a walking for a bit. It sounds more like an overtuned heartbeat, and with no options present, it definitely drones on a bit.
All that said, for something made in such a short time, you should be really proud of how it turned out!
Thanks for getting back to me so fast! That was an absolutely fantastic step by step walkthrough that was both concise and professional! That all said, it sadly did not fix the issue. After walking through the steps, the application didn't run any differently no matter how many times I rebooted or even toyed with the new settings file myself. I also placed the "settings.json" file in every other subfolder just to see if anything happened. I also removed the brackets from the code and, again, no change. Typed the name and code out manually once to ensure that something didn't go wrong while copy-pasting, and again, no change.
If it helps at all, no settings file existed to begin with, nor was one created after deleting the entire Carnal Witch folder and relaunching the game. Sadly, it seems like creating one had no effect at all. Sorry to trouble you with such a strange issue! The browser version works perfectly fine, thankfully, so I was still able to play your delightful little game all the same.
For whatever reason, the game shrinks to impossibly small scale whenever it boots. I'm on a 1080p monitor and, for about 1 full second, it is almost full screened. Then, it immediately shrinks upon loading the logo screen. None of the usual tricks work for sizing it up, either. The exe is effectively unplayable for me.
I get that money helps and we all have bills, but you spend as much time talking about money as you do describing your game. That's a terrible way to actually get people invested in this. It makes it seem like you care less about telling a story than you do about making money off it. You're also immediately after an insane amount of patrons. 2000? That takes most people years to get. Months if they're incredibly lucky and making very, very high quality stuff.
Not a promising start or look. Feels like something you'll abandon if it doesn't make enough money. I'd highly advise reworking your approach, being more professional, and for the love of god, being more passionate.
