Hello Mobians!

This is an FAQ & Information zone for Twisted Mobius.

About AI and derived assets

Twisted Mobius features procedural generation of some content, but does not use LLM or any modern AI to do so. It uses old standard formulae like linear congruent generators, with manually finagled parameters, manually made cells or set pieces, etc. None of the text in the game is or was generated by ChatGPT or any other AI model. I never needed AI before and I don't need it now.

Certain characters such as Nicole or SAGE are, in Sonic lore, advanced AI entities. Consequently, some of their scenes may be written in a parody of AI. That speech is still hand-written and is not AI-generated - but the better of a job I do parodying it, the more indistinguishable it will be from an AI generation.

As Twisted Mobius is a Sonic fangame, it is inherently derivative of a copyright, and there may be non-licensed use of particularly iconic graphic or sound assets from existing Sonic media. The majority of visual assets are custom made either in vector or pixel art. Most music tracks featured ingame are original arrangements or remixes of official Sonic compositions produced in OpenMPT. All original SFX, and the instrumentation of the music, use samples acquired via Freesound.org, on which they were listed as CC0.

Modern v. "Classic"

Twisted Mobius was originally developed in Quest, which is designed for text adventures or interactive fiction.

However, Quest is not designed for a game on the scale of Twisted Mobius and has numerous limitations such as a lack of true, save-in-one-version-load-in-another, save files. In addition, while tame Quest games can be played in a browser, NSFW Quest games must be downloaded and are only available on Windows.

Therefore, Twisted Mobius is being remade more or less from scratch in Godot 4. While this requires manually constructing a text adventure engine, it ultimately solves the save issue, facilitates the large scale, allows more freedom in the interface, and can hypothetically be ported to any platform and support a wide variety of inputs.

As some players have already donated money, the Godot version of Twisted Mobius will be uploaded to the same existing page for ethical concerns. Therefore, the previous version is titled Twisted Mobius Classic.

Game concept

(This section applies to the upcoming Godot version of Twisted Mobius. Most of these features were never fully added to Classic!)

Twisted Mobius is a NSFW text adventure or interactive fiction with inspiration taken from various text-based games ranging from Corruption of Champions to MUDs.

• Create your own character! You can even save and share your custom character profiles.
• Erogenous Zones: The game world is divided into a series of Zones - but thanks to the Prurience, these have all been perverted into Erogenous Zones. Except for Fuchsia Hill, each Zone is themed on a particular sexual theme or kink. These are not strictly segregated, as "unlocking" a new kink generally makes it available everywhere in some form, though it will remain most accessible in its respective Zone.
• Adventure system: The player must first wander each Zone through Adventure, causing random things to happen ranging from finding some berries, to stumbling into a mini-dungeon, to nearly being sat on by a bakery of a dragon.
• Locations: Upon discovering a landmark location such as a city or a dungeon, the player can enter it at any time, and move around in it in a manner more akin to a typical text adventure, interacting with locals and solving puzzles. Adventuring may also lead players to procedurally-generated mini-dungeons which disappear after leaving!
• Relationship Values: The player may bump into a wide variety of Sonic characters and develop particular relationships with them - enemies, lovers, frenemies, maybe foeyay. Some characters may even agree to join your Team! (Twisted Mobius is currently planned as a single-player game only.)
• Game Paks: Certain content that is inappropriate to include in the base game may be available in a series of free Game Paks.

Twisted Mobius is a text adventure so please be ready to read things! (And let me know if I forgot to write the thing you were meant to read. That can happen.)

A preliminary flowchart of progress through the game is available here. (This was written for Classic but is still applicable to the modern version.)

How to run the game

It is strongly advised to play this game thru the Itch app. Whenever Twisted Mobius updates, users will only need to download the difference, not the entire friggin' game all over again.

• Modern: It should be as easy as downloading it and running the damn thing.
• Classic: Install Quest first; this is one of the options when launching the game thru Itch. 

Game Paks

(This feature's name might change in the future.)

Twisted Mobius will support "Game Paks" that add new content not implemented in the base game.

The purpose of Game Paks is to avoid endangering our players with Hot Coffee scenarios in the event that certain content is illegal in their jurisdiction. This content has absolutely zero presence in the base game's code; see below for details.

Planned Game Paks include but are not limited to:

• Forbidden Fruit Pack I: In the base game, certain potentially objectionable characters such as Tails and Cream have no sexual data and cannot be added to the player's Team or included in any sex scenes. This Pak adds this data to those characters, allows several of them to be added to the Team, and enables their presence in sex scenes. This pack does not actively identify the affected characters as children.
• Forbidden Fruit Pack II: The base game does not permit characters to engage in sex with family members. This Pack removes this restriction.
• Rumble Ring Pack: Adds a new bonus Zone, Rumble Ring, themed on eroticized violence such as groin attacks. While enabled, all combatants that have sex organs can be defeated with dirty fighting, and certain characters like Amy or Tangle are given appropriate new abilities. Progress in Rumble Ring is the primary means by which the player can develop skill in this style of combat

In the distant future, the "Game Pak" system may also facilitate player-made mods for Twisted Mobius.

Supporter vs. Public

At this time, there is no Supporter build; the below information will apply after the Godot version of Twisted is properly up and running.

Seers on SubscribeStar ($10/mo) can play the Supporter editions. These are identical to the regular editions, except that each game version is released for Supporters earlier, and a password is needed to play them. Active Seers are given the new password whenever a new version comes out.

I expect myself to occasionally screw up managing this system.