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I'm holding off trying this until a save that doesn't require cloud is implemented then. Call me old fashioned, but I like my game saves to store on my hardware and not be accessible to third-parties. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but it seems super shady having to log-in to google to play a game that isn't on google play and is single player with no ads or features that would require google at all.

Okay, cool, thanks! Because when I played the demo I enjoyed it, but it wasn't something with enough content yet to keep me invested long due to early early stage of development, obviously. That being said, I'm very interested in seeing where this goes. Like if there will be a full campaign with preset goals and such and whatnot. Because, if so, or if I enjoy the additions in the future enough to feel it will keep me replaying a long while, I'd like to be able to purchase it or drop money toward it via itch. I don't like subscription-based programs and I am fully against Patreon for their BS they have done to other devs like The Arcadean.

So, is it always going to be patreon moving forward? The last free update was .60 back in July, I noticed.

Love the art style. Love the parodies of characters from my youth. Only complaint I have is the game seems to like to have a lot of latency issues and crashes often. For example, I can click to go to the next text spoken, but it may take a few seconds before it does so, and sometimes not at all, making me spam on my left mouse hoping it does something. Other times, if the location changes (like when you exit the school from the inside) it just outright crashes the game after making my screen flicker between inside and outside. When it does this, it uses new and old images. For example, I finished the Geography class and met with the group in the hallway. They departed and I backed out screen-by-screen to the outside where it showed the goth chick. Then, my screen began flickering to an image of the hallway outside the geography class with the group standing beside me, and the lone goth by herself before the game crashed. I'm on a Windows 11 laptop btw. That flicker between older scenes and the new one happened almost every new location change. At least 25% of the time.

I just loaded the game and holy crap these color choices for the text, man. First off, if you go to 'Preferences' you can't read things like the fullscreen or windowed options because it blends in with the background. Secondly, first screen of the game... that green text blends into the background in a weird way. If you do a background box, typically you use a color that is darker, like an opaque black, not a weird pastel pink...

Can't play this game with these colors. Strains my eyes too much. Sorry. Got like 5 screens in and gave up.

Okay, gave this game an hour of my time. It crashed thrice from different things, such as the fishing mini game, entering the portal the first time, or simply trying to exit the app by choosing quit. (Playing on a Windows 11 laptop for feedback). Got bored trying to find the demon girl. The journal says to go through her portal, but when I did it kept saying she wasn't there. Went looking for her, found her at night by a shore. It cut to morning but quest didn't update. Kept trying to find her and couldn't. So, yeah... giving up here. Wasn't really feeling the story or characters (every chick thus far has huge boobs, which I'm not into and find a turn-off as well). I suggest either removing the night time scenic view scenario from triggering when you need to find her, as well as making the journal more real-time and on point since it just says to 'go back to her' even though that task has been done. Anyway, best of luck with this, I'm just not feeling it.

I can tell by the thumbnails that a certain dev is also a ZZZ player who probably mains Miyabi like me lol That one thumbnail sold me and made me DL this game. 

Quick question... why do I need a google log-in to play the H-game I installed onto my PC via itch? I play a LOT of games on my itch app and not one has ever asked me to log in with my google account, so legitimately asking.

I'm mostly a console gamer, so I am not sure if you'd find them on steam or where, but the other two games I play are Hidden Through Time (though the first one is better than the second because the second one they added crappy trophy / achievements to that made the online community clutter the custom-made maps with just a single object on the screen for easy milking), and the Hidden Cats In series, with Tokyo being my favorite for the amount of content in it.

Super excited and thrilled to see this isn't a dead development! I can't wait! I play a LOT of hidden object / person games (middle-aged man who grew up collecting and still collects Where's Waldo books) and this was by far one of the top three I have played! Can't wait to see the final product up for purchase!

Nothing works for me as far as upgrade stations. Waste the time unlocking them, but once I enter them, nothing happens. I am able to rotate the camera, but no stat increases, as another user said, if anything, it makes it all slower. For example, the healing station, if I sit inside it between waves, I can go from maybe 24 to 43 HP. Walking around cutting wood or simply standing still I heal to 100. Game is just unfun in its current build. trying to cut down trees and dodge crap is a nightmare of a chore, I may add. Made worse by upgrades that simply do not work or take so damned long for any increase it is a 'why bother'. 

For those who want to know about actual gameplay: You run around as a chick who the game says 'is always naked' but is not naked at all. You have an insanely slow-spinning axe rotating around you to chop trees. Meaning you are trying to use WASD or arrow keys to drunkenly move around trees that take three hits each to get 1 wood. For the purpose of unlocking upgrade stations that are SUPPOSED TO improve stats and progress, but in truth are so slow to increase stats they are useless, or they slow things down rather than improving them. Meanwhile, you get bombarded with waves of enemies, further slowing down the dreadfully slow farming of lumber process as you run in circles drunkenly more, this time to kill the giant spiders that appear to be the sole inhabitants of this forest you are in. I use the term 'forest' because the game calls it that. In truth, it is not dense enough in trees to be one as trees are so spread out that you'll seldom hit more than 2 at a time in your circle of range.

Everything about this game is a lie or horribly set up. Not nude. Not really an upgrade. No reason to progress, if there IS progression. Descriptions from what the dev say here and what are in game are different (for example, the bench says it increases healing, making it sound as if sitting in it makes you heal faster, not that it increases your HOT (Healing over Time) rate when NOT in the bench.

This is like one of those games you'd find on Switch rated M but aren't more than T for teen outside of a couple AI generated art images.

Likewise. Same issue here. Cannot do ANYTHING on the Itch app because of the Cloudflare verification that may very well be a fake phishing malware from what I am reading online. It didn't even attempt to verify anything on my Windows browser. Never even saw the page.

Grats to you. Meanwhile, I tried to re-install just now twice, and both times the unity logo screen gets to 90% then stops and has this message:  "Unable to parse Build/LH3DWEBGame.framework.js.gz! This can happen if build compression was enabled but web server hosting the content was misconfigured to not serve the file with HTTP Response Header "Content-Encoding: gzip" present. Check browser Console and Devtools Network tab to debug." So, less likely anything to do with my laptop, and most likely incorrectly configured upload by the dev.

Edit: Never mind. I got it. the "download" bar on the top of the page wasn't popping up on Itch's end. After a couple times going back to the page it showed up.

It's making me purchase the game a second time. It is clearly in my library under games I own/ have paid for, yet it is saying I have to pay $8. Is each chapter going to be a separate purchase going forward?

Legit the only anomaly game I ever actually enjoyed, and I have played a lot on both PC and Xbox. This was my first one, and the others always seem to lack something this one has for me.

You're doing awesome as is. And technically, we all are your beta testers. I mean, a beta is when a game is in development process and getting tweaked. So, we literally are your beta testers.  We'll be here to support and help as best we can!

Ah, thank you. Funny thing is... I checked there. I was looking for a small link at the top like most devs have for social media stuff, so I completely bypassed the large one when I scrolled down to see if it was near the downloads. lol I feel both blind and stupid now. lol

Is there a Discord channel for the game to also follow updates easier off of Itch?

Wish I could play this. My Windows 11 laptop won't even open it. I am guessing due insufficient graphical capabilities (business laptop, so not a good gaming ability). Gets to the Warning 18+ screen then locks up about 1/3rd loading the unity assets.

Trying to update the game via Itch app for the windows version by clicking "update" makes the update start then immediately fail. Opening "manage" and choosing "Install" for the second file option brings up this error:It seems the old folder was named "mall-creeps" and the new one is "MallCreeps". Not sure if that makes a difference though, considering I couldn't do a fresh install via the app. I was able to download it from the website, however. But, regardless, due to the folder name change, the Itch app is stuck in an eternal loop of wanting to update as it doesn't recognize the new folder name.

Is there a discord or something to contact you at, Tiny? I mean to talk one-on-one, not just follow progress updates. Something I realized I want to discuss in private. If not, it is no biggy.

I can also add, it returned me to the start of day 2 with the money I had at the end of the night, so there may also be an exploit where you can close the app out (without returning to the menu and choosing exit) and then re-open it to restart the day with the money you had when you closed, effectively giving you infinite time to make the money for rent in one day without buying upgrades at all.

Made it to night of day 2 before having to force close. I entered my apartment building just after the street lights turned on and having taken a photo. The E key no longer functioned, so I couldn't leave, enter my room, examine any other rooms, or check vending machines. Playing on Windows 11.

All honesty, my favorite part of this announcement was seeing you say you were adding a scene for your own amusement. Not enough devs cling to the 'this is my game' mentality. Don't lose that! Seen too many games on here I gave up playing somewhere through the dev process because the devs began listening too much to fans for the story and scenes and it began changing their writing noticeably. It is your vision first, and when you love what you do it will often make for a better ending product. Looking forward to the release of the update!

The dev has openly said they were originally AI generated. But I believe the new ones are hand edited by an Itch user named stalnoyhui who had posted some edits similar to this a few days ago on the main page's comments board if you go look. He had offered to edit the photos saying "I can hand edit these for you to look like this."

I said the detail of the clothes looks better. I even started with that, what the hell are you even debating there? You're arguing with yourself on that point. I wasn't debating that. The girl dropped from twenty-something to looking like jail bait in the face, first of all. Her hair and face went from mature silent type to Shinobu of Love Hina kind of timid mousy. It changed the female into an entirely different one. There is a difference between 'upgrading detail' and 'changing a character completely'. As for me saying I think the left one looks better, I didn't say that. Nowhere did I even imply it. All I said is I prefer the more mature characteristics to the childish bashful ones. They both have ups and downs, I just detailed both. Clothing and shading is better on right. Mature look is better on left, including the inability to see the eye well as if you ever used a camera you'd know that focusing on the foreground blurs the background slightly, even on nearby objects and even with extremely high-end cameras.

Awesome! Looking forward to it, man! I know there is not really any reason for me to say that, but I'm hoping it makes you feel a little good about the work you are putting into this, especially with the current weight of all these censorship restrictions. This game is one of my faves and I eagerly await the next update!

Okay, my reasons for giving up this game:

1) Not a fan of the adventurers all looking alike. It makes me feel like I am making no real progress. the background and enemies all are the same.

2) Like the other person said, the cutscenes need a skip. Even doing the CTRL speed-up still slows the gameplay down by a lot. 

3) Added to my second complaint, and the real reason I am deleting this game... the stupid 'choose your own adventure' aspect keeps pissing me off. I don't want to play a luck-based memory game where I have a 50% chance of starting over after beating a boss. I BEAT. THE. BOSS. Don't punish me, reward me for doing so. If I forget the correct response and choose the wrong one, or I have never reached that point before and choose the wrong one, I have to restart all my progress? That is a serious deal breaker for me, and I am sure many others will agree. It isn't fun. It feels like I'm being trolled by a dev at that point. Remove that feature.

I'll also add the artwork definitely needs work. Why does it look like you cut faces off of pre-existing art and shoved others on there? The heads don't have the shading of the bodies and it looks suspiciously as though you edited someone else's art to make it your own.

I assumed it was them as well. The one someone said "let him cook" to.

I feel this. The shading on the legs and details on the clothing on the right image is much better, but the face and eyes, and even the shape and style of the hair on the left image are more appealing to me. She went from the classic 'strong silent' trope look to a more 'shy bashful' trope look. 

Also, she appears to have had a career change lol. Left image you can see an apron of sorts behind the bottom of the skirt and see the classic top of it on her backside. Neither are there in the right image, so she became a schoolgirl suddenly?

They have been doing this since the 80's. It is why the game Custer's Last Stand for the Atari 2600  and other things got targeted. The company that I used to frequent stores of, Sears, made the Discover card as a non-biased means for such adult entertainment transactions because of Visa doing this back then. And ever since, Mastercard and Visa both have been waging wars against adult entertainment and sex work if you look into it, even going as far as trying to get OF and PH shut down at one point.

Edit: Oh, and I forgot to mention how one conservative dude who owns most of Roblox's stocks also oversees both the two card companies. That recently has been brought to light as of a day or two ago.

Edit: Placing my update here first. I restarted the laptop and it appears to work fine now. I think it was an issue with my anti-malware app updating and popping up over the fullscreen mode just as I had started the game. But, I'll leave the original infor posted here in case having a pop-up during fullscreen does recreate these issues, so you can look out for them. However, I DID find one bug. After the scene finished with Mai and company in their photo shoot, I got the screen showing grades and academy both went up one point. The screen after that showed Suzu on her knees and my task for cum on chest completed. But after clicking 'okay' I could not get off that screen unless I reloaded my previous save, which made the events of the grades become negative and a different student event happen. So, TLDR: completing the cum on chest event locks up the game as you cannot leave the screen.

With latest update here are issues I have found within a few seconds on Windows:

1) "LAUNCH" button on Itch app does nothing. Hovering over it no longer changes my mouse into a hand icon to click it, acting as if there is no button there. I CAN, however, launch the game from the left side "play" icon because it was played previously. 

2) Once the game is opened, the student folder / journal is no longer clickable. I cannot access any information on any students or teachers or any other menus and options done through it. It just sits on my desk in the upper corner as if a background object behaving like the Itch app's 'LAUNCH" button where it does not register as an object or button at all.

2.5) Same with the arrow in the panties display case; I can close the first page but not click on the arrow to enter page 2.

3) Some things that DO work requires two clicks. For example, clicking the silhouette of the bust that is a button to choose a student to summon at the end of the day, Kiyomi, or the laptop on your desk makes the entire screen flicker black but does not do anything. After this effect happens, clicking the same object again will open the screen it is supposed to, but clicking a different one makes it just flicker the screen black once again.

I am running the game through the Itch app on Windows 11 and left off on March 2nd in the story, at the last save area before the latest major update (the last save spot for 0.08.1a). I hope that helps.

I am not going to check out this new chapter until I can actually utilize my features, so I don't know if there are other bugs as I don't want to move forward without being able to change punishment styles and check the stats and such.

I downloaded it from the web link as well. It was a 3.whatever rar. Unpackaged, the folder is 5.7 Gigs. I think Itch uses extra space for unpacking and storing into its UI for ease of use (like how we click 'update' to do updates through it rather than downloading an entirely new version if not through the app) or something, which is weird because that is like 2 gigs extra space!

I just discovered a huge bug by the way. If you have any HP %, when you load a manual save, it keeps that percent. For example, losing a match in the arena brings you to 0%. Load a manual save. You start with your stats and money from that save but HP at 0%. Load an autosave that had your HP at 57%, then load that same aforementioned manual save? Your HP is at 57% in that manual save. I have tested it with losing in the arena, and loading 4 different auto saves with varying HP% and it has happened 100% of the time.

And to answer your question, no. The thing I was suggesting was much easier. Some devs, for example those who have their files on Mega, have the app locked from bringing up the download button. If you click 'Install' in the app, it brings up the download screen (where you choose windows, linux or mac) but it doesn't have a drop down bar, instead saying "no compatible download file detected." and a second message "Developer is hosting download from a third party source" or something like that, I forget the actual wording used. In which case I can click that second message and it opens my browser to the Itch page where I can download it from this very page we are chatting on now. Sorry if I explained that poorly. I tried to be descriptive.

I think he means via the Itch app. I just posted a long post detailing the issue. Hope this helps. :)

Just so you know, the Itch app is currently your enemy lol It keeps installing to 100% then doing a secondary install, then it craps out and none of the installation progress is saved, effectively making it impossible to try your game. I suggest, if you can, making it auto-redirect to mega upload or whatever you are using and barring it from being able to be attempted to be downloaded in the app, like other devs do (where it asks to click a link and redirects to a web page instead). 

For the record, I searched the page online to install it that way, out of the app, but to save others time and stress, as I said, I'd strongly suggest placing a block-out on the app even attempting to install the file as it doesn't work, at least on windows.

Hmm... I am typing this while installing the rar file via the web page, and I noticed the file sizes do not match up. The windows DL on the web page is downloading a 3.6 GB file, but the Itch App is trying to download a file that is over 8 gigs. I assume the first install I see via app is the rar file, and that would make the second installation I see it do be the unpacking process. I'd wager it is having issues uncompressing / unpacking the rar file, which would have been what makes it over 8 gigs. Not sure if any of this info helps.

Also, your image of the brunette chick on this page, the last bust shot on the left at the bottom, looks exactly like a main character from another dev I used to follow lol It is uncanny. I am guessing you both use the same core program for character models. Not a complaint, just something I got a chortle over. :)

I can't follow you any harder than the follow button allows me lol

New title card thumbnail definitely catches the eye. Looking forward to the next update!

I am attempting to run it through the official Itch app, like all previous versions, where I click "update" and then it changes to "launch" and it opens that way. (Edit: that looks like it came out rude. I was trying to be descriptive, not angry-sounding. My apologies if it came across stern or rude, not my intent.)

Update: The 0.9 version isn't even existing on my Itch app's files apparently. V086 is the only version that shows up when I click "manage" via the itch app and it shows "install" beside the V907, and "update" on this page. So, apparently, it is erroring because it is trying to update and failing to do so, hence refreshing making the 'launch' button revert to 'update'. The folder IS existing in the game's files on my PC. And neither are zipped. I'll grab screenshots.