TobiObito4ever

Hey! Free food! lolz

(kidding-they're not that great anyway)

Hehe, awww... Something about the idea of the little critter showing up unexpectedly like that... Is it just me or is it kinda cute?

Hmmm... Maybe someone has an older version with it if you want it. I know I have a pretty old version...

I tend to make a new backup every time I make any kind of change to my game actually, so I have a billion different old version of my game laying around.

Managed to decrypt the files from Kamikakushi version 1.0 and get the doll puzzle back. That's one less hurdle for me~

Yay!

You couldn't undo it? That's a bummer. :(

The crisis has been averted. They contacted me back... Thank goodness... =w=

Now to actually motivate my butt to crank out that update.

YAY! :3

Huh, was that movie actually good? I admit all I really knew about it was that it was some cgi live action thing, and those are usually bad. The trailers do look cutr then I expected though.

It was one of the better (if not the best) video game movie I've seen. The plot is geared more towards kids, but that didn't stop me from enjoying it. (I'm a kid at heart).

I personally enjoyed all the minute details, such as the cameo of Red and Candela and the Dialga, Palkia and Arceus statue in one character's office.

The bar isn't set that high when it comes to video game movies, so you aren't saying much. XD Still it sounds like it might be fun... I am not a big fan of movies in general so I don't know if I will ever get around to seeing it myself, but it does look like something that might be worth seeing sometime.

Well I thought it was pretty neat! Besides you just know that no matter what you do there is bound to be at least one person who dosn't like it for whatever reason, often times not even because the work is bad but just because it's not to their taste. And a lot of people can't tell the difference between those two things unfortunately.

And anyway, a lot of gods or other such supernatural beings can sort of come across as a bit chuunibyou-like, especially the more villainous ones. It's just something that kinda comes with the territory. After all, when a being is near the top of the cosmic power curve throughout their whole existence, they have little incentive to actually 'grow as a person'. Sure, there are gods with great wisdom and/or compassion, but a great number of they are basically stuck in the mentality of spoiled middle schooler brats. Like Zeus for example. Or even worse that prick Yaltabaoth ('Child of the Void') / Saklas ('Fool') / Samael ('Blind God'). You know, that one god who tells everyone he is the only one. No that's not what he calls himself, but those names are faaaar more fitting.

So anyway, yeah, don't feel too bad that some might say your overpowered evil god-like being acts a bit like a self-important middle schooler. That's just how overpowered evil god-like beings tend to act.

Here's the kicker: Hisame's actually the *GOOD* guy. He lost his eye in a scuffle against the main villain of the story.

Oh I thought you were talking about the bad guy that chases you. Regardless my point still stands! Overpowered good god-like beings act that way all the time too! Really all god-like beings can, good or evil, overpowered or kinda weak. I mean even some of the cool ones tend to. Hehe, That reminds me of Maui in the movie Moana  which I saw for the first time not to long ago (on the plane to Singapore in fact). Maui basically acted like kind of a brat most of the time. He just has enough raw charisma and cheeky moxie to make it kind of endearing. That's kind of a thing with tricksters, even when they do bad things and act smug they are still such lovable goofballs!

... Okay as a fairy, I maaaay be a little biased on that point. But who cares! Tricksters are the bestest!

Anyway, not saying the criticism was valid mind, I honestly would need to replay the game first before I could make any judgement about it since I kinda played through quickly last time. I am just saying the only difference between chuunibyou and some gods is that gods usually actually have powers, so I can see how characters could be thought of that way. It's actually rather tricky to write a god-like character who doesn't come across that way.

Personally I would probobly have actually leaned into that interpretation more, made it sort of a plot point even. Cause yeah, on some level these powerful god-like beings might seem like they are acting in a completely ridiculous way. But on another level, they aren't human. Perhaps were never human. To them most humans act in completely ridiculous ways too. Really, I find everyone and everything is completely ridiculous on some level anyway. Which might be why I am not a huge horror fan outside of maybe surreal horror (where things being completely ridiculous is what makes them scary).

According to homeless kids living in Miami around 1997, god disappeared, demons were invading, a demon named 'Bloody Mary' who had bleeding empty eye sockets and was feared even by Satan was stalking children, and their biggest ally was an angel called 'The Blue Lady', but the demons cursed her to be unable to help unless a kid happens to know her true name.

Kids day the darnest things huh?

The article reads like an episode of Supernatural.

Hehe, in any case Tobi, be careful. Those that delve too deep in the dark of Dwimmer can find many strange and terrific things, and sometimes those things will follow you when you leave. :3

Anytime, love.

May the Divines guide you...

Yay for yuri I say! And yuri games too!

Arms are very difficult. Legs, even more so. I'm trying to convert an MV character into an SMBX sprite sheet, and that's really hard, especially since I'm making a 'costume' for Megaman...

(those sprite sheets are 1,000 x 1,000 pixels each)

Looks cute~!

Aren't you the requester? Wouldn't the other person be the requestee? :3

Downed Mack Sprites?

I mean, I'm not exactly an expert at this sort of thing, but once things around here like, calm wayyyyyyyyy the f*ck down, I can see about trying my hand at it....

A what? (Go, Go, Google!)

Oh, I see, lol

That reminds me of an embarrassing typo I made not too long ago (PS was teasing me about it). Did I ever fix that? Hmmm... Yes it looks like I did, but made the same mistake somewhere else. Oopise... good thing I noticed!

Also added a bit of developer's foresight. If you backtrack AFTER EVADING THE SERIAL MURDERING FOX DEMON ON YOUR TAIL, you INSTANTLY get the Bad End.

Honestly when I first complained about that puzzle I think I just missed the thing with the clues on it. That being said, I generally dislike this kind of puzzle for exactly that reason. Really most puzzles in games have the same problem. That if you miss something and can't figure it out you can easily get stuck and can't really do anything else. It's not really even a matter of the puzzle being 'too hard' half the time, just that it's really easy to overlook stuff. I mean, there are tons of LP videos where people completely overlook something right in their face just because they are looking for something else or not paying attention.

And the thing is? That wouldn't be so bad if it didn't make the game grind to a halt whenever it happened. Miss a cool secret or optional thing? That's too bad, but the game goes on and you can always find or learn about it later. Can't move on with the game till you have solved the soup cans? The player is likely to just look up the answer or get frustrated and quit. But if they solve it too easily, well, it's not much of a puzzle is it? I personally rather have puzzles be secret/optional things. Make them as hard as you want, but don't make the whole game revolve around them. I mean, granted, in horror/adventure games you don't really often have a lot of gameplay that isn't related to puzzles in some form or another, but most players play them for the story anyway so... I donno, just saying my thoughts on the matter.

The question is... what would the reward for an optional puzzle be? More backstory in the omake room? Bonus art?

Maybe I should have went with the idea of the doll being a key? "I want to see my daughter again..."

If only it were on Itch.io, I could give it a proper review...

@PhoenixSoul Our studio actually DOES have an itch.io. So far, it's just for one of our major projects.

Oooooh, neat. Looking forward to reviewing it. Hopefully soon.

Yay! Though sometimes it seems like the last 10% of game development takes up 90% of the time, so don't worry if you spend a lot more time polishing then you expected. :3

Only one thing to say.

YEEP!

lolz

That experiment speaks of aetherial energy as a physical object, more or less, not dissimilar to negative matter, which is not very far off, but is not the same thing at all.

Aetherial energy isn't an object, it is something that exists outside of the five standard senses but empowers those same senses plus the three extraneous senses.

Only three extraneous senses? And nowadays people count at least 7 and up to 21 standard senses depending on how you count, but most of them could be thought of as a part of the traditional five sense categories I suppose. :3

... Oh... we have gotten really off topic huh?

We indeed have, not that it matters.

I once tried to event in a severe storm animation, but I never could get it quite right...

Okay, yeah. At least one of these looks like it was inspired by that oddity of a game called U.F.O. (PSX-Japan), and that's some nostalgia on its' own. Neat.

Can fairies join in? I wanna play with humans too! *giggles*

Play play play!

Oooooh, that's SO BRUTAL! I love it, lolz

Isn't that like the movie memento? Hehe, never saw it myself so I am not sure. My favorite game that deals with memory loss is Planescape: Torment. But then I am a sucker for the Planescape setting.

I can't say I ever heard of that Memento movie either. Maybe the author was inspired by it, who knows?