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thanks for showing interest! I really need to find a way to test my games on other platforms.

your post reminded me that I need to work on that. i'll focus on it asap!

If you spot any errors, funky sentences or just general thoughts, feel free to send them my way through a private message on X,  Weight Gaming forums or Deviant Art!

I'm currently in an experimental phase with writing and gameplay so it will be all over the place, for better or worse haha.

Any feedback will help me with gameplay balance and story pacing.

Current trajectory has the next game mixing this combat but add in different combat phases, kinda like a card game, to explore new design space!

Nope, she's temporary as she's only in the party in certain zones

Any passives she learns would have no effect, I believe

After choosing an enemy to fight, the 2nd one is always random. At level 1, spending a point or 2 in HP should help keep Sonny alive against non-food foes.

Outside of battle, you can right-click to open the main menu. There, next to Sonny's name, you can see his current weight. 

In zones with NPC interactions, you can also see NPC's weight in this menu. 

Each character's hunger is affected by their  level. NPCs also automatically scale to Sonny's level.

Through the inventory,  burgers from the restaurant shop can be used on characters  to directly increase weight.  Also, when you start a new day, units gain weight based on how filled their hunger was.

At 140lbs , 220, 420 and 640, units will go up a weight stage

Here's a reply I made to someone else that has some combat tips! Hopefully it proves helpful.  The tips are on the second half of the post. Post by Nemtropy in Life with Lots of Chocolate comments - itch.io

During work sessions, 16 random cards appear. When a card is clicked, if you didn't have the item it showed, you get a negative effect, which is losing some xp. Getting too many negative cards also affects total earnings for that work session.

Try to make sure you stay stocked on items to prevent the negative cards from appearing! The 'restock' shop is where you can find those items.

Before you try combat, make sure to spend your level 1 SP (skill points) at the level up menu!

Usually DEX is a good idea. It helps your golems land their attacks.

Next is STR, as it also affects your golem's dmg output.

Avoid fighting non-food enemies at low levels. They attack HP instead of Hunger.

I recommend fighting yellow foes (they have a yellow name) until you get enough levels as your golem's orange element is effective against them.

oh, i'll check out those bugs! currently working on the new release, but i plan on releasing a free content update to this game soon as well

Thanks a lot, haha! Look forward to a new game release soon that borrows heavily from this game's combat!

She can be leveled up in normal battles if you complete the first two taste testing practices with her!

Though, it's easier said then done, haha.

Each day, talking to Deko in the forest during the 'morning' time slot earns a bit of cash early on to perhaps scout Slimjarg earlier. More so if you upgrade Deko a bit with common weapons.

Make sure to spend your 7 SP in the 'level up 'menu before fighting! 

Another player recently told me that the level up menu might not be intuitive to find, so make sure you are aware, haha

Putting 6 points in DEX will help you fight a bit more reliably. Another 6 when you level up might be reasonable too.

Sleeping during the 'Night' time slot heals for 80% HP!

I recommend fighting the chest mimic until you get a grasp of how EN works! Spend too much and you'll regen EN too slowly

Hope this helps!

Once you reach a certain point in the story, you will begin to see weight events based on a character lvl! Some characters need others to reach weight stage 5 before getting their own wg events!

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thanks for the idea! it shouldn't be difficult to start having linux versions for upcoming free titles. I'll begin researching that.

that said, I'll be unable to test them myself, haha. hopefully, it doesn't prove too challenging to maintain

In this game, aside from the big brother character, most units only heal 20% HP after resting!

For this game, you can find a gallery guide in the game page's dev logs!

Here's the link: https://nemtropy.itch.io/hobby-of-the-dukes-daughter/devlog/865092/guide-unique-...

UPDATE: 6:49 AM PST, reuploaded the download to remove leftover code

Thanks for the kind words! I'll be sure to patch out that oversight! That area is not supposed to have the 'Rest' icon in the demo, haha

edit: should be fixed now! thanks for bringing this to my attention!

You can always reach out to me on twitter if you have any questions! https://twitter.com/Nemtropy

What's the issue you're having?

Thanks for the report! I'll check that out and get a fix out soon!

Edit: Should be fixed now! Thanks again!

Nope, you won't find it here! Thanks for your question!

Thanks for the feedback and for the bug report! I'll be sure to add a save point before the final fight as well as fix that bug! 

The Mammon Mammoth fight may feel a bit wild after the dummies have been KOd as he gets +ATK/DEF/regen each time one is defeated.

Edit: should be fixed by now!

Try to keep him as far back as possible to prevent him from getting extra turns! 

Mammon Mammoth starts the fight as Yellow element, which is pushed back by red/orange elements! Then, in his second phase, he becomes indigo element, which is pushed back by yellow/green elements.

Multi-hitting moves push foes back even more!

Hopefully, this helps!

Yes!

Thank you for the report, I will check this immediately!

Edit: I have identified the problem, thank you! The game page's download has been updated!

Thanks for your post! 

I just downloaded the the Supporter edition to check and see if I got the error (i use WINrar to extract) and put the game zip folder in a new folder and everything extracted fine. 

Let me know if you tried putting the zip file in a new folder then trying the extract there!

Besides wg stage 1, the other milestones have different requirements. For example, for Genma stage 2, have her be transformed while attempting to change floors on floor 1 and 3. Genma currently only has 2 stages (1 wg, 1 be)

Currently, the only unit that doesn't have stages in ch1 is Yriosa.

Other characters are found by first finding an rare item in the Beginner Dungeon, but its drop rate increases when at least 1 of each mimic has been defeated. Once obtained, after resting a day, you can begin using Soul Stones in a new way (feeding) through the Soul Stone menu

After recruiting the unit that requires feeding 20 Soul Stones, you enable Razzle wg progress through the Soul Stones she normally asks for (recommended to do this before making any floor progress in the Exceed Dungeon)

Haha, caught your post just as I was about to sign off for the day. The first rank ups will be in Chapter 2! For gallery completion, finding the recruit in the beginner dungeon as early as possible is recommended.

Glad to hear that worked out! I appreciate the heads up!

I believe the Niodimon WG stages are tied to purchases in the blessing shop and once Niodimon's max stage has been reached, the priestess WG stages (based on her LVL) begin to occur. Let me know if you have done this, so I can pinpoint where a bug may have potentially occurred!

How odd!  Have you tried extracting other files to see if the problem is only with files downloaded from itch.io? Another thing to try is restarting your computer to see if that affects it!

Hello! The files may have downloaded incompletely! This can rarely happen for seemingly no reason when downloading files. I recommend deleting the original files you downloaded and then trying the download again!

Yea, haha! Thanks for letting me know! I'm working on updating and keeping images consistent and that should be addressed when the expansion releases later in the month!

Once you reach a certain point in the story, you will begin to see weight events based on a character lvl! Some characters need others to reach weight stage 5 before getting their own wg events!

Nice work! Another player suggested to me to make the rare material girls carry over at stage 1 in future playthroughs after finding them. Might do this for the expansion!

the material girls are more like bonus events for those that want more to do after obtaining the good ending, but you could technically level them up enough before day 44 and obtain the good ending that way. easier on hard mode of course, where rare event spawns are boosted

ah this is a bug! thanks for the report! I'll upload a bug fix within the hour!

yea, the game continues after the good ending! the page of world break only makes it easier to get the good ending, but if you got a bad ending it means you either didn't max out all party members(even unlockables ones) or find enough rare material girls (like strange thorn, bees, etc)

the good ending is easier to get after getting the bad ending once! if you have gotten the bad ending, start a new game and make sure to max everyone's lvl (well at least the one's that can lvl up) and create the 'page of world break' ritual!

thats one way, another is to turn apple into sellables with rituals, and then use up the rest fishing, then only tiny* fish should be available

You need to have no apples of any kind in your inventory for them to spawn when fishing!