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You're fine :)

It does store some things locally, you'll have to google to find what directory RenPy saves data to that matches your machine.

Having a look at it, I can't see what the problem would be.

1. This is an area that hasn't had anything change, pretty much since update one. With the exception of the JOI stuff. Looking at the code, those two dialogue options take you to the next segment, cleanly.

2. Tried it on my local build and couldn't reproduce it.

3. A soft lock one minute into the game would mean every single person who played the latest build would've encountered it, and you wouldn't be the first comment 18 days since the update.

So I'm not sure how to help you on this one without some more information, or a video or something. You might have to try a fresh install.

Doesn't mean I enjoy it any less!

getting clapped only

I have stripe set up so you should just be able to use cards on itch

Unfortunately not up to me, that's on itch

Buying it just the once gives you access to all the updates :)

After the Witch and Jane unshrink you, choose to go back with the witch, and undergo the ritual

Yeah it's honestly my preference tbh Sleeve Shock would've worked really well having an extended they/them phase, but unfortunately they/them isn't something super common and understood by people, for it not to be confusing in a narrative where you don't always get easy context to know who's being referred to. You'll notice I use the character's name a SHITLOAD for this exact reason.

The original idea was to have the mc gradually drift from he to they to she through the journey, but people complained about they/them being in the game as being confusing, and so now it just jumps to she/her after the ritual.

According to Steam tracked stats average time played is 1 hour 50 minutes, and it's currently sitting at 42,000 words

Black contract hasn't gotten a steam version yet unfortunately.

And we've run out of steam keys to giveaway for the minute, we've been mostly doing free months of patreon

You should play every update on a fresh save, that will solve this problem. Text you've already read can be set up to be quickly skipped through to get back to where you were up to.

Unfortunately most of these are big enough to be a whole different game. 

We had a more gamified approach to Cufflinks and Cages, with the daily cycle, and content being awarded through completing the work tasks, and people for the most part did not like that game.

This was our first game, and we picked a tempo and kinda stuck to it. Sleeve Shock is now getting more of a minigame treatment, and then our newest project the Creature of Castorfield is  all non-linear, and you're exploring to try and uncover the plot. Unfortunately as our skills have grown, Shackles hasn't been able to keep up, but we've been focusing on keeping the story going because I really like how it all plays together.

I am curious though, if we were to add minigames or something to this, what kind of thing would you be wanting?

Happy to report the fish minigame has been fixed

That's the plan!

Happy to report that the fish minigame has been completely replaced to be way more simple.

We actually have members of the community that complain if the pecking order is disrupted even slightly, especially if the MC isn't at the bottom

It should run like any other RenPy game, you might be able to find troubleshooting on their website about running RenPy games.

Yeah and I can imagine it's a nightmare for mobile users too, it's on my to-do list to fix it

Nope! This is a malesub fantasy game c:

Happy to hear it!

We're working really hard lately to try and keep it going, because all of our games are delisted, so the support means a lot to us!

There is plans to update this one in the future, we want to explore more end-stage story for the two characters. The plan was to do it once we got a little in front with our two new games: the Grand Butt-sex hotel and the Creature of Castorfield, but because of the itch delistings, and mastercard situation our budget has been slashed, and until we can recover and get our sales up or patreon numbers up this is unfortunately only a wishlist item

I have no idea, Cubze has really pulled away from working on art projects since working with us, so we don't know if something is happening behind the scenes or not.

Cubze is the original comic artist, and Cubze is not part of THM Studios, just simply worked on projects with us when we started out

Yeah, if there's no more comic chapters released, we won't be able to adapt them

yep!
I find it handy to have the saves backed up somewhere, but usually for Shackles saves aren't that important imo

You have to download the game again each time, and I recommend using a fresh save each time. Once you've played through the game once, you'll get access to the scene skipper which will let you access whichever path has new content or that you are missing

Oh she's going to be the main villain for a while, and there'll definitely be a route where you can focus on her, but I didn't want to rush to that just yet ;)

It's difficult for us to add the time for each update to have an APK and exe version, so it's something that we've looked at doing a big conversion for at the end of the development cycle, as all the images need to be resized which takes time.

We're going to likely do a steam and itch simultaneous release, and the reason why we're held back from releasing on steam is that people play it on launch, and then leave a negative review that it's too short that stays up unchanged for years. So this time we're waiting until there's likely an hours worth of gameplay, which might be some months.

For the first couple of months of updates it's going to be patreon exclusive, but we'll put out devlogs on here so you can see how it's progressing!

You gotta play on a fresh save! :)

Mouse over the fish, and the ones that change colour are to be clicked, ones that don't change colour have a chance of removing all the ones that you can click.

Yes! but not exclusively, there'll be female and futa characters that tangle with the main character

I get an error that says failed to initialise graphics, can you include a downloadable version?

<3

can you post the crash log in the discord, or a screenshot?