I had SO much fun with this! I’m surprised you consider this a “buggy mess” since I had a really smooth run - the closest I came to bugs was the “guard” command dropping off often and the fuck scenes/end slideshows not covering the entire screen. Both were minimally impactful!
It took me a second to click with how the bug spawning worked since the top right egg button blends in with the environment but it was a real lightbulb moment to get it. I did wish the spawn timer for the bugs was a little faster, but that was because it was so fun just swooping in with an entire army of the little guys. Insane, insane work getting this system alone up and running in a month!
Also man - the worldbuilding? Genuinely so fucking cool. I’m always down for a good hive mind, and the way that the lore built on itself from the initial slideshow to the first character interactions to everything through the main game was really well done. Each of the sex scenes was really well done (that last one was so soft and sad!) and that ending slide show was so cute. Also the references to the “jam” did make me laugh a lot.
This feels like a step up from your game last year, and I loved seeing the aliens from that game in this one - definitely understand why you’d leave this project as is after burning the candle at both ends, but if you ever return to it I’d love to see it.