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The idea is cool as it inverts the regular snake premise of "DON'T touch the trail", but the game's absurd difficulty ruins its charm

• Character doesn't turn sharply enough
• Trail begins dropping far too quickly
• Trail nuggets should be spaced further apart
• Dash makes trail drop instantly, making it nearly useless
• Touching own still-attached tail does not reset trail timer
• Punished too harshly for touching trail later than the start
• Hazards are way too common

The current version of Twisted Mobius is made in Quest, which makes text-based adventure games. These are very different from RPG Maker games.

I'm currently remaking the game in Godot. While battles might be more visual and thus more like RPG Maker in the new version, the game overall can't simply be dropped into RPG Maker.

I'm not familiar with either of these sites, but we'll see!

Twisted Mobius is currently being remade in Godot, so it may be possible to provide a mobile build. One of the flaws of the old Quest version is that heavily custom games are Windows-only.

Hello!

This version is made in Quest, which is prone to problems. I have no idea what is causing this. I can only hope it won't be a problem when I've finally made the new version of the game.

This game is very frustrating to learn how to play. Consider playing in Exploration mode to reduce the early game torture. Once you get past its initial hurdles it becomes much more fun and interesting. Pro tip: Have a lot of torches so when one goes out you can relight it with the others. Also, throw spears at rabbits, that is how food until you can build a farm and/or ranch.

The readme file says to avoid any descriptions that are not visual for custom characters. Here is what happens when you don't follow that instruction:

"Now, enough about Darian. How about we discuss something more pleasant? Like those delicious-looking wings of yours? They're simply enchanting! Do they taste as good as they look?"
~Rosalyn

They're not chicken wings, Roz!! I'll just take that part out...

Rosalyn gave me her cloak because I had no pants and it was cold.

But because it's a gift from Rosalyn, the cloak is a cup of tea that can be drunk. That is so funny

Matching 4 in a line gives an extra turn, so matching 5+ in an L or T should also give an extra turn

The ability to choose any unlocked illustration from routes that same character has taken. e.g. set character to Muscle Growth for STR focus but they maxed out BE on same file so they can set graphic to a BE graphic

I vote for Celandine being the primary thief and Darian being the primary locker-upper.

This version of the game is very rudimentary and most of the game content isn't done! Vanilla and most other NPCs in town don't have any responses coded.

Celandine must be using some kind of sexy-snake psychic-venom because she's putting words and thoughts in my character's mouth/head. Like it straight-up says in the dialogue box: "[Player] blushes slightly, shifting uncomfortably in the water. I'd like that, he admits, looking down shyly." She's also saying her own thoughts and actions out loud.

And they were right. Cars in particular have had substantial negative effects on daily life and the environment - not from using them, but from abusing them. While cars expand the maximum range people can travel, entire cities are designed to fetishize cars and stop people from accomplishing basic life tasks they should not strictly need a car for. That's the only reason suburbs exist.

AI is the same paradox. There are plenty of tasks where AI is appropriate such as statistical analysis, cybersecurity, mathematics, etc. As we can see it can produce decent illustrations, but we should not confuse illustration with art.

I think the main draw of this game (so far as AI is concerned) is the fluid NPC dialogue, and I hope as time goes on more efficient technology appears to replace the current, very wasteful and flawed models.

From what I can tell, Rosalyn is a dommy mommy. She's more comfortable being lewd if you're playing as a boytoy.

MILF smashed. *closes the Marauder's Map*

The AI isn't capable of keeping track of certain details. For instance, Rosalyn totally forgot the rules of liar's dice even though she's the one who told me what they were - we just rolled the dice and whoever had a better dice hand won. And then she asked me what I wanted to dare her to do even though she won and we'd agreed the winner's the one who issues the dare. (I got a hug out of it tho.)

I told Rosalyn a BS story about myself being a brave knight who rescued so-and-so and she now thinks -I- got beat up by slimes and rescued by a knight and even says another NPC told her about it. Eeeh?!

Hiya!

I haven't abandoned the game project. However, the limitations of Quest mean I basically need to remake the entire game in a different engine, and I've been very slow to get around to doing this. It was depressing for so much work on the Quest version to turn out pointless.

I've been in a much better mood lately, but most of that effort is going towards drawing general artwork and SubscribeStar. But Twisted Mobius will return in a new and better form one day!

Quite a charming game, but Aldric's AI in particular seems to get caught in death spirals a lot. Although this may be because I'm playing on the server and it's under heavy load right now.

Rosalyn left her shop saying she'd be back shortly and hasn't come back for hours. I hope she's OK! EDIT: Roz is back. She says she bumped into some folks and lost track of time chatting. The AI is relatable now. The uprising is here

I'm still here! But I don't have anything to show just yet!

The game is very very difficult at the start and this might be a consequence of how stat scaling works. If everybody is close to 0, then a difference of 1 is a massive difference. It gets much easier as soon as you reach Lv. 10 and class change

The catacombs boss is so hard because, kind of like Dark Souls, combat in this game is a nightmare against more than 1 enemy. It would be one thing if he waited for you to kill the adds before returning, but he doesn't, and he spawns new ones as soon as the previous are gone.

I don't know if this is the case, but I got the impression the game favors drops for equipment for -other- classes. This might make sense if the game intends to push co-op, but assuming this is intended it should -only- do that -during- co-op.

Very spooky game, very cool! I like how mysterious it is. The player has to figure out wtf things are and do by giving 'em a shot. The 1% chance events are very exciting since they tend to show up once the player's guard is down from the repetition of the more common events

When Lum and Opal move to block the way out of the house, going upstairs and coming back will place them in the wrong position. This causes them to move incorrectly in the next cutscene

As a person over thirty I understood in about 30 seconds that the original Basilisk is presented under the literary conceit of being an unfinished SNES game and Basilisk 2000 by the same developer is presented as an unfinished game on an unknown platform somewhere around 2000.

I don't mind any inexactness in the game premise, but if we want to get pedantic this would have to be a PC game, not a console game..

The other comments here are a little too focused on the looks. Okay, let's go over that. The PS2 launched in 2000 and the Dreamcast was already out. Games on those consoles would look notably "better" than this. The consoles beforehand would look a little worse, unless they used lots of pre-rendered assets (as was the craze at the time), which would require fixed camera angles if used for the environment.

But the problem isn't the graphics. Or well, not how good they look. It's the fact this game's genre was synonymous with the PC in the 90s to early 2000s.

- Daggerfall, 1996, MS-DOS only

- Diablo II, 2000, PC only

- Baldur's Gate II, 2000, PC only

Some of these games were just too damn big. Diablo II was 2GB and Baldur's Gate II was 3GB. The latter would've needed at least 5 PS1 discs, more if we consider that some things have to be copied to every disc, and since the game is not as linear as FF7 (1997) or Chrono Cross (1999), both of which had 3 discs, there's no way to sort what goes on what disc to minimize the switching.

But Daggerfall (1996) was less than 200MB, which would have fit on a single PS1 disc. It was still a PC exclusive. I believe the real reason is that western-style RPGs gradually evolved from text adventures like Colossal Cave Adventure (1976) and fully retained their strong PC association all the way to the 2000s. And I believe the primary reason that this association changed is because Microsoft entered the console market in 2001. Morrowind was available on Windows and Xbox. Everything available on Windows was on Xbox. And this encouraged the other console developers to better support and encourage games formerly limited to the PC.

Finally, since the game "was not finished", these are not the final assets. So we can't be sure how the game would have looked when it was done. It was very common at the time to push back or remake a game in development for a new upcoming console. So even if this had been originally slated for PS1, if development had continued this would likely have switched to PS2 and looked a lot different anyway. Or, more likely, it would've been on Windows and Xbox.

I like the RotMG gameplay but I don't like being disconnected randomly every few minutes

Cute game! I like the Lil' Jack Horner-looking fella.

Thanks for your feedback!

I've been working on an update to this game, but it's taking a while. I'll try to address this along with other big issues.

Definitely needs the rest of this chapter - it doesn't hold up to the first two at all as-is. Book 2 is fantastic however and hopefully the full Book 3 will be much more fulfilling

Bug: Bonnie's ghost can block you in

After giving Bonnie the flowers, she spends a night with the protagonist. If the player leaves the room and immediately re-enters, Bonnie's sprite will still be in the room. Since she is only supposed to be there for the preceding cutscene, she does not respond to any interactions - but if the player moves a tile down, it will not be possible to leave because Bonnie's sprite is solid and thus she is blocking the door.

Presumably, the flags or variables that prompt Bonnie's sprite to spawn for the cutscene are not properly changed afterward.

It's like Papers Please, except much easier and much more upbeat. This could make a very nice full game!

This one's cool! A little hard to control though. I like how it looks like the arcade

Foony!

This is a pretty decent one!

A cool idea! A fuller game with more gadgets to control and improved visuals / guidance would be nice

The text doesn't stay on the screen, and I find it a bit awkward to play... I like the idea, though

I'm not sure how to play after becoming the worm. The game says you're supposed to become the worm form, eat things, and then eat the snake, but I'm not really sure how. Very interesting idea though!

Very disorientating. Elon Musk is in for a rude awakening when his uploaded consciousness corrupted by cross-contamination with a Hatsune Miku AI tries to colonize Alpha Centauri.

This is a neat little helper to make worldbuilding more intuitive. The biggest obstacle will be people who go "oh no I can't draw" and refuse to do the 5 minute sketches, especially if you've got that one guy in the group who can draw movie-quality concept art within that time.

I suggest adding "discouraged" in between encouraged and banned concepts. Discouraged items should be very rare and are not day-to-day occurrences. They're things most societies in the setting consider sacrilegious or impossible, or which are heavily persecuted, even though they technically still exist.