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yeah i really want to get better at just putting shit out there too instead of maintaining a pristine itch page or whatever. funny timing with me doing the same think with rat world lmao

mentioend it on bluesky but i really liked the different enemies. going "oh knife haver deals less damage? pshaww" to "OH SHIT THEY'RE FAST" was great.

the vibe of just having a knife equipped in the 2k menu was really good. maybe accidental but it worked

Enjoyed this at first since I like a good clicker. Fun interface.

Then I went to get a cup of coffee after hiring a bunch of coworkers and realized the true beauty of the game.

watched this on riggy's stream, and wow was the concept of being able to take a photo anywhere so very very cool! i liked the ridiculously expressive lady too lmao

there wasn't a single drop of chemistry between us. ...but goddamn it that just made me want her more.

this was so neat! very cool animations and i like that it has some bite to it

...wait.

oh noey. lol

This is a neat take on the backpack autobattler! I kept seeing items that were like oooooh I wanna try that next (the sniper rifle especially). I wound up just buying a ton of knives and barely winning every fight lol.

20 coins but still struggling with breadbasket, got up to $108 this time. i think i need to make my textile city bigger, or just have two textile cities? hmmmm

i think my only suggestion for the game would be a mass reset button for trade routes. i often want to restructure everything once i build a new industry, would save some clicks

tried to find a secret ending but no luck... very cute!

I'm at 16 total coins... currently chewing on The Breadbasket with a few different strategies and not missing the mark by ~$50 each time. Great game, truly.

Alright, took me a bit to figure it out but I've cleared the tutorial zone and the Spice Narrows now. Gonna keep plugging away at this over time, this is great!

thanks for the feedback! while the game is meant to be overwhelming (and if we update it we will probably be making it more so with pop-up ads, pvp, etc), i fully agree with the layout of the game being very poor. game jam struggles!

thanks for playing, glad you liked the autobattler swappy system!

goddamn that's fast lmao. i never actually beat mythic dark lord (I did beat ketos), but i nerfed his Malice Spikes to 50% potency instead of 100% right before release so I'm glad I made the right call there to make it actually possible haha

karsu and i are trying to figure out what we want to do with it! so hopefully there will be a betterer or otherwise similar-but-greater version eventually.

i experimented with some plugins that let me adjust skill loadouts but they didn't play nicely with the intense battle ai (not like that) that i had set up for the classes. in the end i decided to make chars do what they say on the tin the most -- mages got the short end of the stick there but also eh, "balance" since they're so powerful otherwise hehe?

glad you liked karsu's writing, we need more yuri games ~

~ thank you for the kind words!

sort of my ultimate dream is making just chill grind games where people can load up and listen to a podcast or whatever during. glad i'm making more strides toward that ~

(i say sort of because the actual project i've spent the past year on is extremely unchill at its core with 65 characters and even the very rough state its in making it about 15 hours but. like. oh well. lol.)

Hehe, it being overwhelming is part of the point, but I get it lol. Thanks for playing!

"My primary gripe is how purchased assets, RTP and all other tools that make developing a game easier are perfectly fine while AI generation will get you disqualified."

even discarding the idea of humanity and personal creativity, since apparently rogue ai has a soul lol, people made those and either donated them to the community or received money for their creation. ai slop is stolen and unoriginal in ANY regard.

so, i use a lot of ayato sound create music in my games. i don't think i've actually released anyhting using it yet despite working over a year on Ratfishing, but it was both odd and fun to hear ayato's music in gensun's jam entry. yes, it's public, anyone with $12 or w/e can use it, and it can sting a little to be like awwww I wanted to be """the first"""". i felt the same about my colleague ephiam who makes cool retro games -- he used really cool retro music and graphics packs I would also like to mess around with. (you can buy his original AI-less game here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2769210/Scarmonde/ ) but like, oh well! it's great that we can use these public items to produce our hobby without stepping on anyone's toes, while supporting cool artists, and not burning down the planet.

being a shill for this stuff eats away at one's soul i fear. you're defending theft and needless energy consumption in order to be able to produce something less than the sum of its parts while, like sawyer explained, you can create something more fun and immediately enjoyable just by scribbling in ms paint or w/e. if you keep up with wanting to generate your games' assets I wouldn't be surprised if that creative spark eventually died. maybe this sounds hyperbolic, but we're already seeing AI use lower people's capabilities or drive them insane in the news.

sorry if i've turned to be super harsh but like, this stuff needs to go. it's sad to see someone who is clearly creative fall into its trap. not to mention that there's many people way worse than you in terms of honesty and integrity who are trying to shill and force the slop machine. do you really want to be part of that crowd?

nevermind this game has an awful message lol. i like the crayon-core art but like dude settle down

oh i also had to give sound a 5 cuz i use ayato sound create in my own projects hahahaha

I rated this highly in most categories though I did have some issues (I didn't see the warning and softlocked my game re-training Fred, thankfully had saved right before; then during my second attempt at Vice the message window was stuck at 1 line tall lol).

I really like the concept! "Where's Harold" in a like, religious sense is pretty neat. The art was nice too.

After dying a second time to Vice even with tinfoil hats and such I gave up, especially since I seemed to be stuck with the message window bug.

Will probably take a look at your other games since I liked the vibe overall.

Hehe glad you enjoyed yourself! We're all fictional whales...

I liked this! Definitely buggy, I couldn't really guess properly my first time through because the front desk was in every scene covering the important bits :p But then I played it again and only the guide disappeared but I knew where to click to find them again.

The edutainment aspect was pretty neat. I liked that you did actually have to put all the clues together yourself and the game just let you be wrong up until then. I would have liked some music but eh! Had a vaguely creepy vibe in a good way.

well i did everything right that time and died to the t-rex LOL

still i like it, i'll let another friend who's gonna play it LP it for me though

was kind of surprised that the battle system weakpoints were randomized!

i swear i treid that but maybe i just tried to harvest the fields or w/e. thanks!

I really wanted to like this but I got stuck and cannot figure out how to progress. I tried using the idol, tools, and flint in various places without success.

The battle system is goofy in a great way. Did some "play by email" with it on discord with my bf.

Holding off on a rating for now because I may just be stupid lol. I liked what i played!

literally that visustella plugin is what lead me down the road to wanting to make insane grind games like these

Ooops just saw Sawyer didn't want people voting on the fixed version. Is the only change seeing the final boss fight? Cuz that did not affect my rating at all since it felt pretty minor overall.

I quite liked this one, lol! Maybe a little too long especially with how you have to figure out that you (I'm pretty sure) HAVE to use the return scroll to reset the dungeon, but eh.

I'd really have liked a more understandable dungeon map layout. For a short and sweet dungeon crawler it felt really spread-out and confusing (and greeeeeen).

I loved Kasey's facesets lol. Some funny shit.

At one point I found a golden statue but couldn't interact with it?

FTR, I did play the fixed-up version.

I found this tough to get through. I'll focus on what I liked.

• I thought it was cool that Harold and Davina's portraits turned toward the story walls. Nice touch.
• The battle theme staying similar but building on itself throughout was neat.
• Any game with a princess carry gets a nod from me.

I would recommend reconsidering enemy placements so that their HP bars are not covered by Harold and Lucius's portraits. Another big gripe was the size of the trees relative to their tile width, which made the race more difficult than it needed to be.

that was cute! i liked a lot of the art and ideas here. the badge system was a nice way to keep equipment simple but interesting.

some of the bosses were a little too tall for their status effects or weakness popups etc to show well which got a bit confusing.

linked it to some friends, curious to see what the characters they picked get!

fine with this, we kinda expected ours to take a little longer slash be replayable anyway

...although personally, I think Lucius is cuter.

Enjoyed this as someone who struggles with contrast in games pretty often. Fun little shmup, love the cows lol :)

Just Hold On by Zircon!

https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/271030

Thank you, works just fine now! Amazingly fast support, thanks again!

Hello, I just purchased this but the linked archive only includes the corrupted knights. Considering I bought this for the dragon and valkyrie, it'd be appreciated if the download could be updated! Thank you!

admittedly i think its pretty easy to not even find the ending since i never added a map 😅

thanks for the kind words!

Friend and i have been enjoying this one! He made a city that met all 8 achievements and I kept trying to make my agrarian paradise of ＢＯＳＴＯＮ to work. I got to a lot of money but couldn't unlock anything more without giving up my beautiful golden fields. Great game