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It's nice to see updates here! I have not gone back to replay the game with the new update, but since you are playing around with platforming still, I have a few notes on my gameplay experience if they're helpful. So if you've updated these also just ignore me here. At very least, since you're planning a series, I thought it might good to post these. Anyway feel free to ignore because I am a random internet stranger, but if this is useful:

- Apparently I am a moron because for like fifteen minutes I did not realize the arrow keys worked. I went straight to using only WASD and couldn't see anything because I thought the camera was locked and only realized it could move when I looked up a youtube playthrough. Maybe they were mentioned at some point and I missed it. I think though it might be worth doing something like flashing images of what keys work in the game on the screen at some point so the player sees "oh yeah, I can click that button. what does it do?" Also, I initially skipped the tutorial mansion, because once again, I am a moron, but also, I know there are other morons out there who might do similarly.  

- You probably know this now, but here was one point where I got stuck in danger and intrigue. 

- Some of the maps felt a bit easy to get lost on. The room where Kissy wonders about what Tortureball is thinking about her extends much further back than the playable area and so I ran over there thinking there was something. I should have realized "hey, go up to where the text is" but my logic was "hey, there's more room back there, go that way!" The exploded room I also found easy to get lost in (I mean, it is exploded, so danger and intrigue, though, so maybe that's what you're going for). Anyway, I eventually stopped checking for extra content in the nooks and crannies when there might have been some just because I didn't want to get lost. I might just be bad at navigation though. 
- For text boxes, would it be possible to make them double sided? Sometimes I approached them from the back and the text is backwards and then I had to go around. Might just be a good QoL improvement to have the text show the proper way on either side. 

Blah blah blah, that's notes on my experience. The humor and wit here are fantastic as always. I wasn't sure about the art portraits for when the characters spoke at first but those frames at the end with Tortureball surrounded by beautiful women and the boss with the plant were phenomenal build ups. Overall, looking forward to more of the series!

oh snowy, that is one of the questions. but what if i told you the answer... was inside you! 

thats right. that's why i said it (its right). remember YOU are ash. or red. red is also ash is also you. so ask yourself- what are your motivations? then you will find the answer you seek (or maybe not if you don't know why you make the choices you make that's also fine for these purposes)

anyway- some BAD new though- new schedule will probably be late 2027. I fear I will be racing against Christmas. I'll post more on this on New Years, but Misty's gym is already completely done, I'm working on what i'll call "post-game," branching path type stuff. 15 endings? or more. its a lot. its going to take a bit. but i am going fast and i definitely DEFINITELY dont want this going on into 2028. i will hate myself so very much. thats the hard FINISH IT deadline. but we'll probably be pushing end 2027. i am working as fast as I can, I know people are waiting! thanks for your continued interest i am trying not to disappoint! 

Amazing! Yeah, there's some stuff I've written recently that's a cross between poetry and intentionally awkwardly worded language where I've been like "I don't know how well this would translate out of English." So that's perfectly understandable, it's quite a task! And, feel free to contact me, I try to keep from sharing my Discord and email, but I am on Reddit and Eevee Expo frequently so if you have or make accounts on either, feel free to shoot me any questions in a DM there with any development related questions and I will do my best. 

My apologies on the delayed reply here, I was very exhausted when I got this initially, but thank you so much! And I have had other LDS members note it surprised them a bit, haha. But thank you, I am hard at work to complete this!

Thank you so much! This is beautiful and I love it, please do, that would be amazing! I've been asked about Spanish translation before, but my Spanish is not great, so if you're up for it, you have my full support! Let me also know when you're done- I can link to your translation here if you would like!

wheres the my bananas

no it is fine, thank you for your support and lack of punctuation! actually, someone is making a software to play pokemon fangames on iOS that's equivalent to joiplay:

Release: https://github.com/mateo-m/empo-app/releases/tag/v0.2.6

Description: https://github.com/mateo-m/empo-app

that's it. but also, it's a random app someone made on the internet so id suggest being careful because i dont know if it can damage your system or not (the world of iOS and iOS programming is very confusing to me). but i definitely plan on looking on more system support in the future because like you said accessibility is great and i want more people to play this stupid game. thank you! 

I am glad you loved it; thanks for playing and commenting!

is cool like the game

Hey Digaum! My apologies for the delay, it's been an extremely hectic week. I appreciate your support and kind words though. At present, I just have a policy of not sharing my personal socials with players, however. I'm fairly bad at keeping up with the people I know in real life already and otherwise am fairly low on energy and behind on a lot of other important things I need to do. If the game takes off, there'd also be the awkwardness of having to determine which players to add and which to not. That said though, you can always drop a line here and I will see it if there's anything pressing. I do enjoy hearing from you from time to time and hope things are otherwise going well!

No begging is required! Q3 or Q4 2027 is the target. Probably Q4. Definitely not beyond that though because I would die. I'm working away at it! 

Dear Fishlicka, 

Thank you sincerely for your creation of this Juice Galaxy, formerly known as Juice World. With a name such as yours, I was surprised this was not named "Fish Galaxy (Formerly Fish World)" on account of how much your name implies that you like fish. Or, at least you enjoy doing things to fish. Do any of us really like fish if we cut them up and eat them? Yes. Yes we do. Just because you murder something doesn't mean you don't love it. But you don't even murder the fish. You lick them. I imagine rather softly. Or maybe rather hardly (harshly?). 

I don't know. To be honest, I'm not interested in what you do to fish. But as a token of my thanks for the beautiful things you have done to my world with your formerly known world, I would like to offer you a tribute of fish for you to lick on your screen. Please do apply some sanitizer maybe to your screen. It might be dirty. But then again, I don't know how germs work. I didn't go to medical school. I went to juice school. But they didn't teach me anything they just killed me.

Behold. The cod. Now, I don't actually know anything about fish. I would ask an LLM but I'm too lazy to do that and people say the computers drink up all the water but maybe that's good because we need to get the fish out of the water. But I'd imagine this fish has a rather soft texture. Its skin looks circle-ly. Can you taste circles? Probably, not, but you can feel them. I don't think people eat fish skins though. They lick them. Anyway...

This little fellow is what we call a "sock-eye." You might notice that this fish is smaller than the other fish. That is actually a lie- the image is only smaller, not the fish. I have played a dirty trick using an optical illusion. Were you fooled by it? I don't know. I like to think of myself as a "mindlicka" and I don't want to know if I failed because it will break my immersion.

Wait why doesnt the fish have socks in its eyes I dont

Now this is embarassing. I don't know how this got here. Please don't look. This is a tadpole, not a fish. You don't want to lick this, it is an amphibian in disguise! Let's move onto another picture. 

Now you'll notice this fish is-

Wait a second. This is a tadpole again. And a Pepsi. Why is he so big? Did he drink the pepsi? Is pepsi like tadpole mushrooms, like mario mushrooms? I don't know. Honestly, it looks rather weird. I wouldn't lick this. 


Anyway, unfortunately it seems like we have exhausted literally all known pictures of fish in the world and that the only remaining pictures are in fact tadpoles or other animals larping as fish. This is a sad state of affairs, I know, but at very least, I hope the two fish I provided for you to lick were satisfactory and that you did not have the unfortunate misstep of attempting to lick the imposters.

Thanks once more. Keep on juicing it. I miss you and your juice already, even though I never knew you and I could just load up the game and play it now. tysm tysm gw hf

This is amayzing, hahaha. Thank you so much for registering just to say this (with a wonderful username)! It was my hope to make people laugh and brighten their lives a little and this post will be a nice encouragement on the occasional rainy day. And don't you worry about more May. There will be more May. The new game Mayed too much at first actually so I stopped Maying it but now we need it to May more so it will May again and maybe May too much Maybe? Thanks once again sincerely for the sincere rambling comment!

Littlemike I hope you have/had a wonderful time and thank you for playing but also this will be a very interesting first exposure to the Pokemon games, haha

This was a very kind and thoughtful post. Thank you sincerely and I will keep on toiling away!

Thanks so much for your continual support! Hopefully it leads to me being able to get some rest when this is all done, haha. 

Thanks so much! Those took a while because it basically required making three trainers for just one. Blah. I like how this one came out though 

thank you seed strangler please do not strangle me before buying the ports so that you are not strangled for money

fishlicka can't lick fish for free. he's gotta get money for them (the fish) to lick them (the fish).

allow me to furiously type answers as furiously as youve furiously typed your questions (furious in the performance of the action not in the furiousing of the emotion)

1- yes, and yes

2- you are ash so that will depend on you!

3- no sequel from me at least, no not ever, but there can be sequels. wait for the ending

4- i made a bunch of stupid troll games back in the day and then toby fox made undertale and my friend was like "YOU! YOU COULD HAVE MADE THIS!" Now that's not entirely true because I suck at music but making a similar long form joke game? yeah i can do that. immediately though what really launched this project was Space Funeral (there's a reference to this in the Giovanni fight) although Franken probably also had a small influence. Also some old game making buddies were involved in Bubsy 3d 2 and the Sonic Dreams Collections while another made an infamous Sonic game that I will not name (that I apparently was a big influence in but have never played because it's...). Anyway that made me feel like I hadn't lived up to my true trolling potential and so we have this.

5- butts

6- you will see this has been thought of

7- this one sticks fairly close to canon

8- eventually, but mainly the ending. 

9- as many as i can fit in and not die from overwork or miss out on other life opportunities

10- please dont get super jaundice but august 2027 is the goal im filling mistys gym right now

11- yes actually and the manga where there's the clefairy and pikachu. you get two of them because (1) i realized one clefairy was not enough and (2) because you don't have the clefairy and pikachu (so you just get two clefairies instead). jigglypuff just seemed appropriate to add given the anime. some things in this game are very very thought out while others are utilitarian for a joke

12- you get pikachu in the demo already though :( 

13- personally i find the s s anne to be adequate

14- probably but i am too i have to stop myself from focusing on it

15- text

16- i want the finished product to have a sizeable amount of content so it's not a disappointment. The final game will aim to be finishable in a dedicated day of play (e.g., someone could spend an entire Saturday on it). But, if I piece it into tiny demos, it removes the thrust of it. Hopefully, they'll be at least 5 hours of new content in the final release for a normal run, so 7.5 hours total or so including the demo, more or less, depending on how involved you get (so, 7.5 for a first run from where the demo starts, but maybe you go back and check all the dialogue and endings? That'll add some hours). But also, this could be more time. I think the playtester spent longer than this on it, maybe. 

17- no quite the opposite you will see more on this. 

18- yeah free. part of the reason im making this is because i got a bunch of free games and workshop content over the years, so this is paying forward with more free stuff.

19- the entire game will be easter eggs. there's one especially though i showed to the playtester though and he loved it

20- Misty is a tragic figure. Part of the original appeal of Pokémon was not just the Pokémon, but the cast, and Misty played the titular girl character, designed to attract the prepubescent boys with her belly button. Yet as Pokémon became a cash cow, Ash and Pikachu continued on, but Misty was cloistered away in the Water Gym when she became gradually less appealing to keep boys interested in the show. There are many other Pokégirls. But they are all necessarily vicious, existing only through the consumption of what came before them to live a short span with Ash before they too are then devoured by the next one that comes along. But Misty? She never devoured anyway. Well, not until later, possibly. 

sweat potat

I love this analogy. Glad you loved it and thanks for commenting! I'm pounding away right now to ensure the final game is even more unhinged. 

One day, this will be true. We are both impatiently waiting until then, haha

Thank you, Aoba! I'm making everything exponentially stupider as I go, so that day 1 feeling should still be there. 

For some reason, playing on web the people just get stuck in the windows outside the train as it keeps moving and it doesn't seem like you can do anything (so, nobody approaches, doesn't seem like I can move the woman). I did like the hobo latching himself onto the side of the train and staring at me from behind as we travelled, but I don't think this was intended. great sound effects though tysm

Apologies for the delay- but thanks for posting this! I'm toiling away to make the full game even more ridiculous, so hopefully you and your friends will not be disappointed!

Thank you! At this point, I cannot wait either, haha

good job you. that is in fact correct.

Weird. I saw you posted this error a year ago with an older build. Did you delete that old version of the game and redownload the newest one? The new version of the game *should* work there. You can check by opening the "Plugins" folder. If there's just a file named "Nothing.txt," that should be the latest one. If there's other files there though in the Plugins folder, delete them aside from "Nothing.txt" and it should work. 

If you are using the newest version though, I'll have to investigate that. The update fixed the issue for my phone version, but it's possible it's not working for everyone and there's something else crashing it. Thanks for the report!

Will do! Right now, I'm probably only looking for people to beta test in the future (sometime in 2027, at this point), but I'll definitely check out your app and you'll probably hear something when development is nearing its end! 

Thanks for the detailed report, Digaum! I had actually noticed this before and thought I had fixed it in the forked version. But apparently, I had just done nothing instead, haha, so this was great to note. Anyhow, I just plugged some checks to ensure that doesn't happen now for the full game. Thanks again for bringing this up! The Misty AI character also breaks animation at some points too, so I still need to go back and fix that.

tf2, i am gladdened deep in my misty-infested heart that your college collage helped you passed college (at least, a class). whenever and ifever the stars align for this game to once more be invoked in service of success in your life, i hope it provides at least similar or greater value

Thanks for playing! You save in this game by talking to the Porygons, the first which opens up after you clear the lab. Basically, I disabled save anywhere because I'm planning some horror sections later and having a save anytime feature sort of undermines the atmosphere. That said, in the demo the porygons are provided at all central hubs (and there are not really long dungeons) so you shouldn't have an issue saving. 

My apologies for the delay, Itch flagged you as spam for some reason. But, thanks so much for kind words and for interest in the completed version! The dating mechanic will permit other pokegirls too and there will be different endings based on what the player chooses ultimately. The glitchiness in the fire exit passage is intentional, although I think it's choppier than intended (which I've fixed or ameliorated more in my post-demo edits, iirc) 

That's a weird issue. What text box is it, what does it say? Are you on Android or PC? And, have you attempted redownloading?

Shot a discord friend request over btw and also tried to send a nice message with it but discord ate it :(  

Awesome, and that sounds like great experience! The response has shown up. I'll try reaching out to you sometime this week when I have a bit of free time and get some stuff in order (the project is arranged in a mess right now but its a mess I understand but I should arrange it for others). Thanks once more for taking the initative on this!

That is a hilarious happenstance and thank you for letting me know, haha. I hope your professor and other classmates enjoy, if they so see this. 

Hello Arilens, thanks for comment! I am actually working on this myself, although I am realizing extra help might help make the game better. Anyhow, since you and others have asked, I've gone ahead and thrown together a survey for anyone who might be interested: 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_F9kqaLxjNXrxm8X3LCCZXyXPk_ChpncZ_UJ9klsX8I/vie...

Digaum! Welcome back to the game page! Presently, the plan is to have an option to start after the dem for old players where they can set some preferences (e.g. dating favorites), since the game does not save after Tracey (e.g., you start post-Tracey, maybe with level 30 pokes). Although, that might change depending on how much data I can scrap from the demo. Unfortunately, I am a moron and did not systemize the date mechanics prior. But, I think with my somewhat advanced coding skill I could just cobble together a Tracey skip? 

Anyhow, you won't have to re-fight Tracey with whatever you do (I know that's everyone's favorite battle) and there will be the option to set your moves and at least preserve dating answers. But, you might not be able to keep your Clefairys' levels.