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Is it allowed to upload minor updates during the voting period?

Thank you so much!

Really glad you followed the narrative. That was exactly our line of thought.

There are probably more immersive ways to portray a traumatized child’s POV and the feeling of encroaching dread without expensive animations and stuff. Interactions with frightening objects followed by jumpscares — that was the decision at the time. Judging by the feedback, it didn’t land quite as intended, which is fair.

Yeah, we’re well aware of “The Bed Trap”. It’s already fixed, but we have to wait til the end of the voting period to upload the update.

Not just a house centipede — a GIANT house centipede! ;)

Amazing feedback, thanks. Much love!

There is indeed a reason for that. Some toys out there are not like the others.

Thanks for noticing! We’ve put a lot of love into those little bits.

To be clear: is there a chance that download-only games will make it into the stream at all? Our time zones are pretty far apart, so we’re trying to plan accordingly.

Thank you, that’s a good point.

We’re considering removing jumpscares altogether, but there’s a trade-off. We’d have to put more effort into polishing the transitions between horror phases. Every proper way to do it is just a tad too expensive for us time-wise right now. But maybe straight-up removing the 2D jumpscares will do the trick.

Decisions, decisions...

Appreciate the feedback! Love this community.

Spoiler: nope, that’s the ending — the game closes itself on purpose.

Yep, we’re still in the review queue. A recently created page and a first published project — apparently that’s one of the most common reasons for manual moderation.

https://itch.io/docs/creators/getting-indexed

We can’t even post in the community hub right now. Sorry for the inconvenience — unfortunately, there’s not much we can do about it at the moment.

Well, thank you — really glad to hear that!

There’s definitely a lot of wiggle room for SFX, like sneaky localized sounds and stuff. It was actually pretty high on our nice-to-have list. And yeah, there’s a thin line between eeriness and emptiness. Sound really is 90% of horror.

Thanks for the feedback!

Thanks a ton! Pretty valuable feedback, really appreciate it.

Glad to hear the “on the table” part hit the spot — we were worried about that one.

Yeah, we’re aware of the “bed trap” issue and are currently working on a fix, along with some general polishing here and there. Sorry to hear it hurt your experience.

As for the jumpscares — fair point. There’s more than one way to skin a cat. In hindsight, the feeling of encroaching horror from the past could have been introduced in a much subtler way. Oh well — a decision was made, and it’s water under the bridge now.

Thanks again! Lots of kind words and useful pointers in there.