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Thank you, i totally agree with the sentiment of inclusion and respecting the pronoun and genital preferences of all players! But unfortunately in the present day, video games are written by people in machine code, and considerations like these require more people, smarter people, and more complicated code. I promise i did try really hard!!

The game is open-source if you happen to remember some of the specific places where you got "he'd", or if you want to expand the game to include separate preferences for genitals/gender, expand the dialog choices, or even offer alternate more complex pronouns, or let the Pokemon themselves be non-binary. The possibilities are only limited by your free time, patience and technical expertise!

https://gitgud.io/argonvile/monster-mind/-/blob/main/source/poke/hera/HeraShopDi...

https://gitgud.io/argonvile/monster-mind/-/blob/main/source/poke/hera/HeraDialog...

If you want to fix those dialogue typos, here are the two classes which include about 99% of Heracross's dialogue in the entire game (except for the places where they show up during other pokemon's puzzles.) If you remember the exact thing they said, you can just CTRL+F it and find it really quickly!

https://gitgud.io/argonvile/monster-mind/-/blame/main/source/poke/hera/HeraDialog.hx?ref_type=heads#L927

For example line 927 here, Heracross talks about abra and says "...if he..." and then line 950 includes the alternate female dialogue "...if she...". Maybe there are some mistakes or oversights! It's also possible you misread the dialogue, and they were talking about a male Pokemon in the game, but you thought they were talking about you instead. I'm not sure! Let me know if you find anything I should fix.

I'm sorry for your negative experiences with my game! Let me know if there's anything concrete I can do to remedy them.

holy crap, congratulations!!

Yeah no clue, let me know if you figure anything out! That's crazy

whoa that's crazy! it looks kind of cool though... i wonder what's happening? all the colors are present but they're just shifted 180 degrees around the color wheel

Oh, I'm sorry! It's a pretty resource intensive game, so I'm not sure if there's much I can do to improve that. The game is open source if you or anybody else have any ideas for how to improve the performance or prevent the freezing.

You're welcome, say hello to all of my Pokemon friends! They've been waiting to see you again 😀

Some people have reported that kind of problem happening occasionally with Sandslash but I haven't seen it myself! You might see if you can reproduce it... If anybody, it seems like they'd be the type!

I don't understand what that means, "the game comes out of nowhere" -- does that mean like you're using Youtube and the game pops up or something like that?

Heracross is such a little sweetie! I love them too, they're so needy but they're always stuck running the shop. If you ever solve puzzles with them, and find the secret room in the shop after -- you should spend some time there and make their day 💜

I'm glad you find the sex parts of the game interesting, and I'll be curious if there's a specific character in the game that eventually resonates with you a little! I'm asexual myself and there may or may not be an asexual character in the game, it's left up to interpretation. But the game is very sex-positive and everyone in the game enjoys their time with you, so I hope you continue visiting with them to say hello 😀

Wow awesome, that's amazing!

Some people on the Discord have started working on new Pokemon, but it is such a big undertaking! Nobody has ever finished

The passwords are compatible! When Grovyle asks you about your name and gender during the intro, you can tell them you've met before. They'll ask for your password and it will have all of your progress.

This only occurs when starting a new game! So if you already talked to Grovyle, you can start a new game through the settings menu.

They're very difficult, Grovyle provides tutorials for the other kinds of puzzles if you click the "Tutorial" button on the main menu! There are different tutorials for every difficulty, and Grovyle walks you through some steps and tools which make them a lot easier.

They are still very difficult though, even with Grovyle's help! It is a difficult game. Don't be afraid to ask Abra for hints!

Sorry, you have to make do with just the glove for now! Although if you save up money you can also buy sex toys such as dildos in the shop.

Thanks so much for all your tireless work!

I've added an android version this morning. I'd love if you tried it out, let me know!

I've added an android version this morning. I'd love if you tried it out, let me know!

I've added an android version this morning. I'd love if you tried it out, let me know!

I've added an android version this morning. I'd love if you tried it out, let me know!

I've added an android version this morning. I'd love if you tried it out, let me know!

I've added an android version this morning. I'd love if you tried it out, let me know!

oh no, i'm sorry! i'm not sure, i haven't seen that before

Sorry, not every pokemon can use every toy! But, every pokemon can use some toys, and every toy can be used by some pokemon. Try different combinations!

https://gitgud.io/argonvile/monster-mind/

it's written in something called "HaxeFlixel" which can cross compile to android, but the process for getting your computer set up to build to android is pretty hard! I spent a few days trying to get it working but couldn't do it. Maybe you can figure it out!

thanks a lot!!! 🌈

Sorry, I don't know how to fix that kind of a problem! You can screenshot your password in the future, which will save most of your progress including your items and your rank. Otherwise it's sort of up to the browser what it saves and what it purges, and I can't really control it

Wow congrats that's nuts, you must have opened so many boxes!!! Some people don't even think it exists ha ha~

holy smokes that's amazing! i still haven't bought that many yet... did you also find THE THING? (in one of the boxes?)

> How do I do that?

Make sure you let Grimer eat one of your dildos at some point -- then, after buying all the items in the shop and Heracross should only have two things for sale, mystery boxes and the Heracross phone!

When you use the Heracross phone, you can call any Pokemon you want. Usually people will pick Lucario, but nothing stops you from calling Heracross or Sandslash even though they're already in the house! And if you call Sandslash or Heracross something funny happens.

> Also I would like to thank you for making this game, the one review I made on it alone re-sparked an academic journalism I had thought I had lost, specifically gaming journalism.

Wow that's cool, it's so funny how stuff like that gets lost sometimes! I'm glad I could help you out in some small way~

Wow thanks for the detailed review! It's unusual for games to balance porn and gameplay, but I wanted both parts to be good so that players would feel rewarded for their gameplay and not just want to skip to the porn. But you're right, I've seen MUCH better looking graphics in porn game and some of the stuff people do is insane!! But I'm very happy with Monster Mind and I'm blown away you've played it for 33 hours.

If you're looking for extra things you haven't finished yet -- many people overlook giving Grimer one of their dildos to eat, and many people overlook calling Sandslash on the Heracross phone. And, some people overlook playing with Pokemon in Heracross's back room! All things are unnecessary to complete the game, but there's some funny dialog and special scenes if you do them.

Wow that's so strange! I wonder what would cause it, just for you and just with Magnezone. ...Maybe it has something to do with their lightning effect? I think they're also one of the larger characters, so it could be a memory thing...

Wowwwwww thank you! You're right, that's exactly what I was going for with the character dialogue -- I wanted them to feel like real people with real problems who are just your friends in this little video game. Not everything they say is very sexy (and some people have actually complained that their dialogue ruined the mood) but I think it helps flesh them out and make them feel like real people, and not just animated gifs that you click until they cum.

Ha ha Grimer's such a goofball, I'm not sure if they really belong in this game but I'm so glad I included them! I wanted to include a lot of moments which surprised people, where I put something in the game they'd never expect. I hope I did a few things like that for you~

Thanks so much for playing my game, I'm glad you enjoy it so much!!

oh no, i'm sorry! if you haven't tried downloading the game for windows, it seems a lot more stable than the web version.

I'm sorry about the soft locks! It probably has to do with some resources not getting cleaned up or something like that. I tracked down a ton of those errors but there's probably still one or two left. The HTML5 version is the most susceptible, i think the windows version is a little better at dealing with it

I'm glad you're enjoying the game, you can still play with most of the pokemon on the novice puzzles... sandslash is the best one anyways!! and they hate 4-peg puzzles as much as you ha ha~

They were inspired by my life and by the lives of my close friends! You're right, a lot of the stories are very personal and I think it's why the characters seem so real in some ways.

AI means many things, but the game already has AI during the minigames.

If you want an AI where you can talk to the characters organically, I've tried recreating them in character.ai website! It is kind of fun but it didn't do a great job copying their personalities -- and it doesn't understand the nuances of the game, so it often talks about weird Pokemon stuff like their trainers or how cramped it is in their pokeball.

I mean it sounds like you both got what you wanted! Maybe it's not a perfect ending but I swapped too and I like to imagine Abra is having fun in my human body, even if they're not quite as clever as they used to be. (Maybe that is why it is taking so long for me to code a second game! Ha ha~)

Sounds great, thanks for the tips!

i haven't played it yet but i'm always in favor of more innovation in the "lots of cute monsters" genre. i don't personally like investing in alpha games so i'll wait for the final release to see what people think!

you have to buy the entire store, (including one specific item that only triggers if you do something very weird with grimer,) and then the phone will show up!