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Main rule on the jam is:

“you may interpret or bend these points however you wish. submitting pdfs or zines or other things-that-might-not-be-games is fine. the only hard rule is that your submission should not use generative ai in any form.”

I think it’s a wonderful game that would be 100% welcome in the jam.

I think you forgot to submit this to smile jam?

https://itch.io/jam/smilejam

Forgive me if I’m wrong?

(Also this was cute.)

This was a really good way to end the Cookie Cutter Jam.

For people who are stuck press the esc key on your keyboard and go into the menu. From there you can find a recovery spell under skills.

That’ll get you to town. You can figure things out from there.

Thank you!

I’d like to submit to this with my Bonus Pack which released in 2023. It includes a steam key if you manually build the bundle.

My question is, would it be possible to get an exception to submit my older game “He Fucked The Girl Out of Me” with it as well as it is meant to be an artbook for that game?

I honestly usually let people post whatever so I don’t have any good examples but basically like:

This user registered a new account and then immediately made 12 different posts on different threads that were old and designed to start arguments with the people in those threads.

At that point it’s spam and just mucking up the comments section.

I guess in short, it’s stuff like spam mostly.

Anyways I’m going to stop replying here now.

Part of taking a hands-off approach is just not replying unless it’s support related (game is broken) or urgent.

I usually take a hands off approach to the comments section here.

My view is that part of making a game like HFTGOOM is being able to handle the response including negative responses.

That being said, this comments section isn’t a playground for you to just harass people for fun.

It’s fine to think I suck as a person or a game developer, it’s another thing to just continually return here to start shit for fun.

God, I wish hormones were more accessible and available and also syringes. I know “animal grade” stuff is easily accessible but it would be nice if human grade stuff were just commonly available and that 100% safe syringe access was held to a higher standard.

Getting medical care is so hard in any form here in America. The added horror of trans healthcare is the worst and the thing I hate about “Saving You From Yourself” is the fact that the horrors it was inspired by just keep going.

Also hi!!! (I’m really sleepy so forgive me if my post is off)

Also sorry if my reply is wonky, I’m writing while super sleepy.

Hi Acecatt, omg thank you so much for playing one of my really obscure games.

God, I’m glad you enjoyed it. I had been thinking if people would end up playing it or liking it or if it was just sort of doomed to slowly fade away.

It makes me happy to see someone out there still cares. Housing should be a human right. People should own where they live, not someone else who isn’t actually in the structure all the time.

I’m glad you got a lot out of this game.

I do think that 99% of the time people are caught up in their own world and problems. When I realized that it helped me a lot with my anxiety.

Thank you for playing my game. :)

I think one of the tougher parts of being trans is that we still have to exist in a society with other people.

Every minute of the day subconsciously we perceive others and in a split second take short cuts of assigning them categories so we can get through the day.

When suddenly someone’s split second perception assigns you in the wrong category it can really really hurt. I get why your friend would get upset since I’ve been in that place.

At the end of the day I agree with you that what matters most is living on your own terms and having the community you’re a part of be cool with your gender.

Also hi!

Awww thank you so much for playing my game.

It makes me happy to know that it can still resonate with people even today.

Hi Celery,

Right now, I don’t have access to my computer as I recently moved.

I’ve been using a steamdeck as a pc so please understand if my response is a little slow or wonky.

If you email me at:

steammccue@gmail.com

I should be able to get you everything you need to translate the game.

Warmly,

Taylor

As for my reason:

The cover has been there for three years.

Itch has a gif system and it’s mouseover.

It’s a tiny image which is safer.

Meanwhile I’ve had to deal with years of censorship with everything to small organizations and newspapers demanding I change my title to getting deplatformed.

At this point I am so sick of being pressured to make changes and I’m done.

I’m not going to compromise anything about this game ever again unless I am absolutely forced to by a platform holder.

No.

Also please excuse my message if it was awkward or weird.

I’m writing while extremely tired and sleep deprived. x_x

OMG HI NIOMI!!!!!

I remember seeing you “liking” my posts on social media and stuff for a long time.

It’s great to see that you grabbed the bonus pack. I hope you find something neat in it.

I don’t mean to nerd out but it’s actually really interesting to me that you specifically used the term “timeless”.

When I was working on the game one of the books that super motivated how I designed it as a developer was called “Sculpting in Time”.

I think sometimes if you are making something about the past, using an older medium like the gameboy kinda lends itself to telling that story.

Anyways I am ranting but it’s really nice to hear from you and I’m happy you grabbed the bonus pack. ^_^

Thank you again!

I’m glad that HFTGOOM was able to be something that was good for you.

Thank you for picking up the bonus pack, I really needed the support right now.

It’s a small pack but I hope you find something neat in there too.

Also this is off topic but if you liked HFTGOOM you should consider trying alienmelon’s EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OKAY which is the game I consider to be the greatest game about trauma.

The keys seem to be working fine.

Feel free to poke me on various social media, comment here, or email me at “steammccue@gmail.com” if you are having any issues with your steam key and I’ll do my best to help out.

Thank you, I manually transferred all of the keys from HFTGOOM to this page.

Doing that by hand I was worried I had made some kind of error but so far three people activated their keys without issue.

I’m sorry about the weirdness with adding the base game. Ideally, I would provide free steam keys to the base game as well but right now on itch I can only distribute one set of steam keys at a time.

Hi!

Omg thank you so much for buying the bonus pack.

The .gb roms are always free. You can get them in the game’s folder on steam, download them on itch, or get them off my personal website located here:

https://taylormccue.neocities.org/

You can buy the bonus pack on this itch page or on steam directly here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2447770/HFTGOOM__BONUS_PACK/

(I think reading this you already own it on itch. Let me know if you need help figuring out how to redeem the steam key.)

If you bought this Bonus Pack I would be really grateful if you let me know if the steam key distribution part is working right.

Thank you!

I managed to create a custom page for the bonus pack and added a link to it on the bottom of this games page.

I’m now going to run away from the comments section.

I read every comment, it’s just replying to everything here can get intense.

For my mental health I prefer to take a hands off approach on the comments here.

I’m glad, thank you for playing my game!

I’ve been in a slump for a while.

Unfortunately releasing game translations ended up eating a ton of time but I’m going to try to make a new game.

I originally had plans to include darker thoughts.

I cut them since the topic of passing can be really painful and there aren’t enough games that are like “people are fundamentally good” so I softened up the dialog.

Someday I’d like to make another game exploring the concept.

Why not try the game and find out for yourself. ^_^

Rather than a binary answer of “yes” or “no” it might just depend on the person.

Hi everyone,

Just a warning.

To get re-indexed by itch I’m required to disable all payments on this game.

Previous this game included a steam key and download for the paid “HFTGOOM Bonus Pack” so that I could retroactively offer the pack to anyone who donated.

Unfortunately I will be ending the distribution of keys and downloads so that the game and be re-indexed. Afterward keys will be distributed through a new itch page that will be linked.

I’m sorry about the trouble, the mastercard situation has caused a lot of unintended chaos.

I’m going to pass out now but the game is now self hosted on my website here:

https://taylormccue.neocities.org/

I’ll be doing more updates to get everything safe and hosted.

Hi Treysh!

I went ahead and got up a totally functional web version. It lacks instructions and a “grrrr don’t load this if you’re under 18” page.

I’ll be building those and setting it up on the main page of my site but for now there is a self-hosted web version that you can play here:

https://taylormccue.neocities.org/HFTGOOM_ENG1.1/web/

Feel free to share that link as it’ll stay there.

As far as .exe file that you could download and load on windows there is one available on steam here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2293660/He_Fucked_The_Girl_Out_of_Me/

It requires you be logged into steam and is banned in several countries but is the last storefront option that I trust right now.

The .exe there should work without steam.

Let me know what you need and I’ll try my best to get you an option like it since someone else probably needs it too.

Thank you, I appreciate it. :)

OMG 41 days passed without me replying to this! I’m so sorry AAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Thank you so much for taking the time to write this comment and playing my game.

I thought this game would be irrelevant, and while some parts havent aged as well as I would like, the core that therapists and medical professionals gatekeep and hold power over people hasn’t changed.

The world might be getting worse right now and I think there is still time for us to live and find meaning.

I am glad this game could help improve your life and mean something to you.

Thank you so much and I am sorry for the delay in replying.

P.S. if anything in this message seems awkward please forgive me as I am trying to catch up and reply to as many people as I can. I appreciate your patience and idk, your message really helped get me through some dark times the first time I saw it 41 days ago.

Okay I am going to run away now, bye!

Oh god, 47 days has passed since this comment was made.

I’m sorry for the delay but I’ve been really socially avoidant lately.

Anyway there are 3 normal endings in the game that most people will find.

You can get them through getting gendered 100% as a (assumed) cisgender girl, getting misgendered at least once, and never getting gendered at all.

There are a few secrets, mainly a ghost that should’ve been removed through debugging and a fairy who gives you a handful of glitter.

One player once described the hunt for the glitter fairy as “one of the worst experiences in my life” so please do not search for the fairy. It has a lower chance of appearing than a shiny pokemon.

Anyways I’m ranting a little too much… I will just say that I am glad you got retro gameboy vibes from the game as I tried my best to get that/an old web at 4 am feel.

If you do/did play the game I hope you have fun.

Once again I am sorry about my delay at replying, I sometimes get socially overwhelmed and stop replying beyond the minimum once a week post on social media to show I’m still alive.

Hi, thank you for your feedback and playing my game.

In future games I’ll have to think about how to give more agency.

It’s tough giving a sense of agency without also scoping things up and making life harder for myself.

I’m not sure I can find the right words to convey what I want to say but I really hope you’re doing okay.

I hope that you are doing okay now after playing.

The main character of the game was trying to figure out if she was trans. She wanted to see if she “passed” as cisgender.

That’s why when she finds that people can tell she is trans she ends up with the not passing ending.

It makes me really happy that you had fun with the game.

Lately I’ve been feeling like maybe all my games are good at doing is making people sad so it’s nice to see proof I can make people happy too.

I am just really happy to see that you had fun.

Wait, you saw glitter on your first try?????