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Maybe. I expect to have the next gameplay update ready late April/early May. I wouldn’t want to touch complicated mechanics in story updates since I don’t have the capacity to playtest potential conflicts. Then again, the story isn’t that far off in introducing pregnancy either.

Pregnancy shouldn’t persist. This is a deliberate change I made a long time ago, because it didn’t make sense story wise yet. I realize there are several **bugs **that let you circumvent this, but as long as it’s not straight forward I just let it be. I’m not sure it even works if you’ve managed to get it to transfer, but the month and remaining time are set at “conception”, and is different for each source. i.e Blue Maiden is set to 9 months and would take 2 days to either change to 10 months or to queue birth animation.

Sound like a bug. I probably forgot that players will have the needle at all times. I don’t have time to play-test everything organically, so issues like this come up. Sorry. Ironically, it’s partially there to prevent soft locks.

I’ll fix it in the next gameplay update.

There’s a lot of discussion in regards to gameplay and puzzles. I don’t think I’ve seen a single comment about the characters or the story.

Is the demographic here simply not interested in that?

Some comments in no particular order:

• yeah, I should probably let players use real world food for the protein puzzle. The lab was the first area that was developed and bringing items into dreams wasn’t a thing back then.
• if the diary say ‘…’ then there’s nothing left to do story wise. Most likely. I guess you can still have some generic conversations with the girls or explore the dream world for lore.
• You’ll have to suspend your disbelief and assume the PC wants to turn back. I understand this might be a crucial RP aspect, but that approach would require writing and essentially developing 2 separate games. I’m already struggling that the PC could still be male or female in the story.
• Have you ever played Yume Nikki? It’s exploration for exploration’s sake. That said, story segments will eventually be hidden behind dream exploration. For a while I made it convenient for people to experience the story without participating in exploration. That will change.
• Case in point, because I was concerned players will miss the latest story even - nightmare with Yuri - doesn’t require finding her in the basement. And once the event is done, the flag updates to having already found her.
• Yes, I suppose the story is lagging behind at this point. Last month gameplay was lagging. I only have so much free time in a day.

It should have the same effect as using the 3 mushrooms for true sight.

You can try updating your gpu drivers, but this is most likely a computer spec issue.

The place with the rift connecting the woods with the lab dream.

You get the correct firmware from the page at the outpost, near the rift. The book is used in the library.

Was that the jar? You just use it.

The doll sequence ends there.

That’s oversimplifying it but I could do it. I don’t know if that is s reasonable though. I would like for the player to have some responsibility. Either way, next gameplay update will restructure stat economy, so I’ll see what it looks like and go from there.

I’m not sure about the ‘wait on demand’ action. It would mess too much with areas that don’t expect you to pass time and load content when you move into them.

The criteria is 10 tags is the maximum. Ether way, 99% of traffic comes from 3 tags, so I’m not particularly bothered about that. You have to remember that this is not that kind of website.

It’s not a guessing game.

You can access the Lab without going through the scanner when entering from the Manor by going through the sludge. That’s what I meant. The scanner will detect all parasite including Venus, Squidrabbit and Unwidow. It will also detect if you’ve interacted with the futas, though that should reset when waking up. C-Alpha, or even the decontamiantion spray should remove all of those.

The red ghost has a randomized appearance each time. There are no variants. The transformation lasts for 7200 frames(120 seconds at base framerate). If the player is doing something that would conflict with transformation (i.e in an animation or in a menu) the timers is delayed by about 30 seconds. The transformation should always disappear when you enter Jessica’s room or when you wake up.

The mirror transformation is permanent.

Walk into the water…

You would need a level 4 card for that. As I said, the world resets but the knowledge you gain does not. You can use that to your advantage as well.

Dream locations reset. No save points. Knowledge the player character possesses persists: formulas, console passwords, journal entries. Some of that information relies on the player memorizing rather than the character, but you are expected to discover it in game regardless. i.e there’s a fake rock in the Woods. Once you gain True Sight and go through it, you won’t need True Sight anymore.

Sounds like a computer spec issue.

There’s a map upstairs.

There are two ways to escape. You almost figured out one of them.

The other is hinted at in the journal page you find there. The journal isn’t just flavor text. Every pages has useful information.

There’s currently no more story progress by earning money. Check your diary at the computer desk where you save to see if there’s any more story content available.

Yuri’s in the basement. If you’ve done the Nightmares with Yuri story event, she won’t be there anymore, since it sets her flag past the basement segment. Though I guess the diary will stop telling you to find her then, so you probably didn’t do the event.

This was set up this way because I was concerned people won’t find her and will miss out on the story event, but given my last poll on patreon, it looks like the community is fine with locking story content behind gameplay puzzles.

Milkroot only increases the size, not perfects “the maiden”.

Ok, this is intricate, but here’s how sizes work:

Both reset to the original size on waking up, plus(or minus) 1 point of difference. Prioritizes the largest difference delta. If the same, then hips are prioritized over bust. Real sizes are then saved over the dream sizes.

There are minimum and maximum size thresholds for both breasts and hips.

They trigger only upon waking up.

The total value consists of various flags you collect through the game. These flags are not stackable.

In general, maximum threshold is fairly easy to max out by just playing the game, while the minimum is more involved, and requires more complicated sets of actions.

Current list of flags will likely change as more content is added. Some of them are obviously temporary:

-Hips minimum threshold flags:

Finish intro sequence (free in freeplay) - 2 points

Genderswap route or Venus scene as male - 1 point

Spend 3 nights as Squidrabbit TF - 2 points

Complete Festival of Life ritual - 1 point

-Hips maximum threshold flags:

Finish intro sequence (free in freeplay) - 3 points

Genderswap route or Venus scene as male (free in freeplay) - 1 point

Squidrabbit TF - 1 point

Harbinger TF - 1 point

Broodmaiden scene - 1 point

Flesh Wall Nightmare - 1 point

-Breasts minimum threshold flags:

Finish intro sequence (free in freeplay) - 1 points

Genderswap route - 1 point

Max out milkroot usage - 1 point

Complete Festival of Life ritual - 1 point

-Breasts maximum threshold flags:

Finish intro sequence (free in freeplay) - 2 points

Genderswap route (free in freeplay) - 2 points

Use milkroot - 1 point

Drink coffee 5 times - 1 point

Mimic Chest - 1 point

Cursed Dress - 1 point

Jessica, Squidrabbit and Malice transformations function differently.

-Jessica: Swaps out the real version entirely, and disables all thresholds. Then it functions like normal. (Original version is “stored” for future use.)

-Squidrabbit: Forces second highest hip size at the start of a dream. Any body proportion changes that happen to PC while in this form are voided if removed.

-Malice: Forces original Malice look at the start of the dream.

Sounds good.

I’m working on dream world hub. That’s what it will do.

“Also, I fear there may be a bug I created by duplicating the game folder. The door you pick to get the keycard- the door opens, but I can’t go through it.”

Can you elaborate please?

“And then my question: I encountered the squid bunny and of course got assimilated because curiosity got me, and I was wondering if there is a permanent way to remove the state to allow me to use bioscanners. I don’t need an explanation for how to do it I kinda just wanna know if that’s a thing and if so which map it’s in.”

There are 3 ways to remove it. 2 in the Lab, 1 in the Manor. 1 in the Lab if you didn’t read the research logs behind the scanner before encountering it.

The intro cutscenes aren’t over

Because mouse interaction for every GUI has to be coded in separately. I simply haven’t done it yet. This is not a bug.

Yes, that is intentional. I wouldn’t say it’s part of the story yet.

She’s there in the afternoon and in the main lobby at dusk.

You will have to tolerate the physical stat management. The game is still in development and will be rebalanced multiple times. i.e I’m working on a dream hub that would function as another home area. This will obviously alter the stat economy significantly.

Some of this isn’t really feedback and could use it’s own thread. But, either way, Kari tells you to meet her at the Mall at dusk/sunset specifically. You can review what needs to be done to progress the story at the computer desk back home.

So I guess my take away is that there needs to be something that forces the player to use the desk for the first time.

You don’t have to use the tome to identify shrooms. Read the researcher pages and extract information from that. Making it rain is an involved sequence of puzzles that themselves have are sequences of puzzles. And guess what will happen when you make it rain? It’s also part of a puzzle. I’m not kidding that this is a difficult game. Some of the existing, seasoned players claim to have spent 7 hours on the Woods alone. The RNG is there only because you’re trying to brute force a solution.

I’ve had this in development for so long that I occasionally forget new players probably have no idea what the stats are. I’ll consider a legend or something.

Stamina(White) - Energy to spend on interacting with things and going to places when awake. Works in reverse when asleep. When completely refilled you wake up.

Body(Red) - sends you to the void on the next dream if it gets completely drained. At the moment it’s not particularly painful due negative feedback, so it’s fine to experience at least once.

Mind(Blue) - Some times used in dialogue and other interactions. If it goes to 0 in the dream world you will get a nightmare event. There are 5 events currently, only one is unlocked initially and the other 4 are added to the pool as you experience them by exploring the dream world.

Will(Green) - “Currency” stat that is used to force certain dialogue interactions or to perform extraordinary actions

Cohesion - restored by interacting with NPCs and selecting colored dialogue choice(that use up the stat of that color). Max 2 per NPC per day. Halved every day.

Dissonance - Increases by 1 point every day. Lewd acts have a 50% chance on lowering it. Resets to 0 after a nightmare event

Every time you sleep Mind decreases(or increases) by ( Dissonance - Cohesion ) * 5

Hunger and Thirst - self explanatory, but will start to drain stats if left in the red for a full period.

The day is split into Dawn, Morning, Afternoon, Dusk, Evening, Night (and a ??? state for dreams) Each period has 5 Time Units that represented by dots next to the period. After all 5 are gone the period changes. These drain when you travel (usually 3 points) and when you do something (1-2 points).

It is not lost on me that the game is borderline impenetrable to new players. I would like to take feedback from players with a fresh perspective.

Post any encountered issues or things you struggle with here.

Thanks. Will look into it.

After the intro cutscenes are over walk up to the desk and press any of the interact keys. It’s in the screenshot.

My games are made in GameMaker2. You won’t be able to run it on joiplay.