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I'M WORKING ON IT! XD

Yup, I'm a massive fan of Nethack!

Both of those things are stuff I'd like to add! First I'm going to work on boring but necessary stuff based on feedback I've gotten, like better controls and UI, but I want Ratty to have some story stuff as well as Bitey. Ratty is meant to be one of the tfd friends of the gloomy rat on floor 4

That is a good idea and would be easy to add. Could I ask what key you would feel makes sense for "wait"? I am thinking maybe the . key?

Yeah the stairs down I just removed cos I haven't finished any content past the rat king so if you try to go down it just glitches out. 

I will see if I can add useful tooltips to the stats, and work on the inventory and equips since a lot of people have mentioned it is confusing or awkward

I'll clean up the interface too. Initially I had everything in green with ascii but as I started making sprites you're right that now it looks super out of place. It might be worth me spending some time drawing a nice pixel menu for things with icons

For Dirk's ending you need to be human and ask him to train you over and over. Eventually he steals your body, and after that if you hit sanity 0 you get his ending

Thank you for the feedback! Yeah there's nothing further to do once you beat the rat king, I haven't finished any content deeper than that since it's still early days. I'll see what I can do about the controls and making them a bit more intiutive. Adding space as a command key is easy for sure.

As for the adult tag, I mostly just added that because most of my other games are furry smut and I still haven't quite decided if I want to go that direction with this one. I'm torn honestly. Right before I posted it, the stuff with Dirk was much more adult and I cut it all out at the last minute.

There's a happy ending you can unlock!

Keep resisting changes

That's the plan! I want it to lead to transformations, like Temple will make you into a kitsune like him, etc

Uh oh, I will fix that

This is a badass idea!

lol a few people noticed that, I'm gonna leave it in though

Thank you! :D

From work! I do JS at my job

It's meant to yes and higher runs are supposed to give correspondingly more upgrade points

Wait did it not tell you you succeeded? That is not correct, I will check that

Not yet, it's gonna be for endings eventually! I will make the levels come faster

Mercer does need to get transformed...he's a hot dilf

Hmm, I will lower it a bit! Thanks for the advice!

Yeah I cannot figure out why that happens lmao

They are meant to but maybe it isn't working - I'll check!

That's odd, I will see about making a proper save

I will see what I can do, and yeah it's rough but I was hoping it has potential. Yeah each love interest is going to have an outcome, hopefully

Which boss? That shouldn't happen, that sounds like a bug

Oh that is supposed to happen, I will have to check the code on that page

https://bluesquirrel.itch.io/castle-nox

Sorry it took so long!

Keep rejecting your options long enough and the mascot will get annoyed at you and you'll get a chance to be his socks instead

Wait really? On the browser version on twitch?

Yup

It's a secret to everybody but I actually enjoy making wholesome friendship stuff more than porn

Could you tell me more? I can probably fix it

Also not mine sorry

Yeah this was one of my first attempts at this sort of game, in the sequel (which I'll post shortly) there's a bit more to it

Oh it's barely a real ending, just if you refuse to get adopted you get a short bad ending where you stay in the pound and sulk

I can look into it!

That one will be getting added! I'm working on adding old games today actually

I didn't make midnight manor! Which one was M&C?

It's on the front page! Just click the "Story Index" link

Fife is at the campfire every night