You have noooo idea how happy I am to see this was updated. Such a unique concept and I'm really glad you didn't drop it altogether (: This update was very good and seeing it on my feed made my day just wanted you to know that!
An MC with a NIQAB!! Finally!! and an Arabic named brother/sister!! And i can call mom MAMA and dad BABA! it's how i actually call my real mom and dad🥺 as an Arabic, Muslim and niqabi girl myself i never saw an interactive fiction who have a niqab as part of their customizations, i can't describe how ecstatic i was when i saw that! having an mc with a niqab was something i always wanted but i always thought it's not possible especially since their wasn't a lot of people with the same culture and religious background as me who love interactive fictions like i do, I don't know if it was just because of the mc not wanting to be recognized and have nothing to do with culture or religion but i was very happy nonetheless🥹💕!! Thank you HeartForge❤️❤️❤️
AHHH I'm really glad it works for you !! Let me know if anything ever reads weird about it, I've been running on very little feedback for all the "normally covered" Zed content 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
What a great update! It's so fun that we're able to see the messenger scene from everyones different perspective.
Usually I stick to one RO on a playthrough, but I love the idea of heading out with a Trigger who doesn't know about the plant powers because Mantis was too busy shooting people to tell anyone~
That's me making sure me down the line doesn't forget that somebody's falling in love with Zed and had somehow missed theyre a salad coversationalist cjsjhcjsj !!!
Enjoyed the update, had a couple of times after choices that it seemed like a page was skipped. Also met the dogs, then had Crave ask me to meet them again later on as of we had not done that. And finally the dog was with us when we came upon the body, but then she was somehow back in the kennel later on and I understand she could have been brought there by someone else but it seemed like she was sticking close to Crave's side right before the body with no mention of her leaving
Probably meased up continuity—a lot of this was written while I was working, so there was a lot of getting up midsentence to talk to customers and then sitting back down 😅😅
I've emptied cache/cookies & refreshed everything but on Trigger's route rn & it feels like things are skipping or something? I had Zed ask why they shouldn't say oral fixation for example & it went to a random but about Zed smiling & Trigger talking about how fast we're walking, asked for one of his caramels & it jumped ahead there too & he called them tough out of nowhere. P sure the error was happening earlier as well but not recalling the specifics, just that the scenes after most of my selections so far have felt kinda stilted & disconnected so I think it's skipping ahead maybe?
Cleared cache again & replayed- most of the issues seem to be fixed so thank you but I think I'm still getting one skipped scene?
After I select the option to ask Trigger for one of his caramels it still skips ahead to the following scene:
" "If you say so," he says with a tone.
"What's that supposed to mean?" you ask, folding your arms over your chest.
"Just that you're playing pretty tough for someone who's playing this dumb." He grins and...is he needling you on purpose?!""
& It feels like a scene is being skipped here since poor Zed asking for caramels isn't even acknowledged lol, no sweet treat for them 😔
I'm on Trigger's route & playing a Serene Zed- though weirdly the save I made before picking this dialogue says it's for an energetic Zed in that one spot? Unsure if that's part of the bug or I just said something beforehand that made Zed tip over to energetic briefly. Let me know if you need any other info, this is the only scene I'm having the issue with now, all the others seem to be fixed :)
OH EXCELLENT CATCH I forgot to double check that specific choice: INCREDIBLY, you're getting the same answer based on the LAST choice you picked, because the asking him for candy (and the other two) choice just....doesn't have choice code dfkjlh it's just a link to the next page. WILD. anyway should be fixed in a jiffy, thanks for keeping an eye out !!
Glad to help! I think I also found another bug- well before locking into a route, when Zed first meets Marsh & gets to respond to her apologizing for them having wandered too close & getting shot, the answers seems to be pathing incorrectly, answering "good to meet you" seems to take you to the reaction page for having said "if you'd known you would have avoided it" & saying "I didn't mean to" seems to go to the reaction page for saying "good to meet you". Just noticed it for sure when starting a replay for Crave's route rn
& noticed another bug on my replay for Mantis' route, firstly the bit after meeting Marsh def has the responses pathing wrong- I picked the "if I'd known I'd have avoided it" option this time & it seems to go the response for the "I didn't mean to" option. Secondly for the new bug I just noticed I picked a brother this time & set his name as Raheem but when I agreed to have Mantis help carry Zed to the camp the sequence of their brother talking about them having to keep their face covered changed his name to Rana, his name stayed as Rana for the rest of the playthrough as well, not just that one scene. Sorry to keep bothering you I'm just playing the dif routes at work rn & pointing out things as I notice them 😅
while playing trigger’s route, after the messenger comes up to him i’m just sent back to when he wakes the player up even tho i’ve reset cookies and all that. i’ll do crave’s in the meantime lol!
I don't specifically keep track of whether or not you've seen the dogs !! I thought I was keeping it vague but maybe not: can you give me a specific example?
I just got this too. If you go with him and meet the dogs, you're specifically introduced to Fern. Then if Crave comes and gets you the next morning, you ask him "Who's Fern?" and he explains she is his dog... and he goes on to ask if you've never seen a dog, even though he showed you them all the previous day.
Oh I see what I did. I try to check if you were with Crave the night before but evidently it's not reading something right. That's gunna go in the pile for the next bulk bug fix update, thanks! Until then please imagine that you are merely giving Crave the opportunity to introduce you to his dog again, his favourite hobby.
ok! so now that the glitches are fixed i must say i loved this update and definitely cant wait for more! ^^ (Though obviously no rush in anything)
near the end there is a small pronoun issue with our parent when we talk about them having\writing journals(?), i made my parent our father and it says "she" instead of "he", but thats just a small thing that really doesn't matter(In my opinion)
Yaaay someone's finally read the update 😂😂😂😂 thank-you for reporting bugs !! I'll look into the guardian pronouns, they were behaving weird during testing too but I'm so trusting I don't check pages that already work after updates so I'll see what's broken there later (maybe after a few smaller bugs/typos have been reported so I'm not pushing a new version every ten minutes 😅😅😅)
I'm glad you like it !! I can't replicate this which means that your browser might have cached an older version of the game (meaning it was a reported issue, but I'm pretty sure it's been fixed now: it breaks along the same lines as the other reported errors that I fixed earlier this morning)? Try a refresh, try restarting the game, or clear cookies (mind you, this deletes Twine saves).
Pile driving the save system I DIDN'T EVEN TOUCH IT I'll have a look at it 💀💀💀 thank-you for letting me know
EDIT: The chapter transition system was being cute, I'm pretty sure this is fixed now! WRT to your save causing everything to jump around, I THINK that would be incidentally saved through virtue of the transition system being fixed: let me know!
That's...very odd. Like that shouldn't be. possible. as in 222c where you click that link, it is linked directly to the end demo slide (so at least rest assured, that's all the content you could have seen anyway besides my end demo slide: you read the full update!). I think itch is doing something weird maybe in an hour it'll all be okay (< coping dsjfhgs)
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You have noooo idea how happy I am to see this was updated. Such a unique concept and I'm really glad you didn't drop it altogether (: This update was very good and seeing it on my feed made my day just wanted you to know that!
💚💚💚💚💚💚 I'm glad you liked it !!!!!
An MC with a NIQAB!! Finally!! and an Arabic named brother/sister!! And i can call mom MAMA and dad BABA! it's how i actually call my real mom and dad🥺 as an Arabic, Muslim and niqabi girl myself i never saw an interactive fiction who have a niqab as part of their customizations, i can't describe how ecstatic i was when i saw that! having an mc with a niqab was something i always wanted but i always thought it's not possible especially since their wasn't a lot of people with the same culture and religious background as me who love interactive fictions like i do, I don't know if it was just because of the mc not wanting to be recognized and have nothing to do with culture or religion but i was very happy nonetheless🥹💕!! Thank you HeartForge❤️❤️❤️
AHHH I'm really glad it works for you !! Let me know if anything ever reads weird about it, I've been running on very little feedback for all the "normally covered" Zed content 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
I'm obsessed with this btw
Yaaaay I'm glad you like it 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
I think a name or a pronoun is missing, like the one for zed's gaurdian? Idk if its only happening on my end tho
PS Trigger has me swooning 🙏
Pronoun missing, ty for letting me know !!! 💚💚💚
What a great update! It's so fun that we're able to see the messenger scene from everyones different perspective.
Usually I stick to one RO on a playthrough, but I love the idea of heading out with a Trigger who doesn't know about the plant powers because Mantis was too busy shooting people to tell anyone~
Wait! Just played that route and I love how casually Zed drops that bomb. Yeah, I talk to plants and??
That's me making sure me down the line doesn't forget that somebody's falling in love with Zed and had somehow missed theyre a salad coversationalist cjsjhcjsj !!!
for your end note - i did notice that "mum" was not an option for guardian. its an australian/uk thing
Noted, thanks!
What are the romance options? I didnt see any in the description
They're the three characters you choose between in game 😅😅
Wait! How old is MC? Thought we were a young teenager or something.
No, Zed is an adult. Young adult maybe, but while I leave a lot up to HC including a SPECIFIC age for them to be, Zed is absolutely an adult.
Enjoyed the update, had a couple of times after choices that it seemed like a page was skipped. Also met the dogs, then had Crave ask me to meet them again later on as of we had not done that. And finally the dog was with us when we came upon the body, but then she was somehow back in the kennel later on and I understand she could have been brought there by someone else but it seemed like she was sticking close to Crave's side right before the body with no mention of her leaving
Probably meased up continuity—a lot of this was written while I was working, so there was a lot of getting up midsentence to talk to customers and then sitting back down 😅😅
This should be fixed now !! Thanks for keeping an eye out !! <3
I've emptied cache/cookies & refreshed everything but on Trigger's route rn & it feels like things are skipping or something? I had Zed ask why they shouldn't say oral fixation for example & it went to a random but about Zed smiling & Trigger talking about how fast we're walking, asked for one of his caramels & it jumped ahead there too & he called them tough out of nowhere. P sure the error was happening earlier as well but not recalling the specifics, just that the scenes after most of my selections so far have felt kinda stilted & disconnected so I think it's skipping ahead maybe?
Try playing again, this issue was fixed earlier today. If it continues I might need more specific information.
Cleared cache again & replayed- most of the issues seem to be fixed so thank you but I think I'm still getting one skipped scene?
After I select the option to ask Trigger for one of his caramels it still skips ahead to the following scene:
" "If you say so," he says with a tone.
"What's that supposed to mean?" you ask, folding your arms over your chest.
"Just that you're playing pretty tough for someone who's playing this dumb." He grins and...is he needling you on purpose?!""
& It feels like a scene is being skipped here since poor Zed asking for caramels isn't even acknowledged lol, no sweet treat for them 😔
I'm on Trigger's route & playing a Serene Zed- though weirdly the save I made before picking this dialogue says it's for an energetic Zed in that one spot? Unsure if that's part of the bug or I just said something beforehand that made Zed tip over to energetic briefly. Let me know if you need any other info, this is the only scene I'm having the issue with now, all the others seem to be fixed :)
OH EXCELLENT CATCH I forgot to double check that specific choice: INCREDIBLY, you're getting the same answer based on the LAST choice you picked, because the asking him for candy (and the other two) choice just....doesn't have choice code dfkjlh it's just a link to the next page. WILD. anyway should be fixed in a jiffy, thanks for keeping an eye out !!
Glad to help! I think I also found another bug- well before locking into a route, when Zed first meets Marsh & gets to respond to her apologizing for them having wandered too close & getting shot, the answers seems to be pathing incorrectly, answering "good to meet you" seems to take you to the reaction page for having said "if you'd known you would have avoided it" & saying "I didn't mean to" seems to go to the reaction page for saying "good to meet you". Just noticed it for sure when starting a replay for Crave's route rn
Next build should fix the mix up in responses for the prologue !!
& noticed another bug on my replay for Mantis' route, firstly the bit after meeting Marsh def has the responses pathing wrong- I picked the "if I'd known I'd have avoided it" option this time & it seems to go the response for the "I didn't mean to" option. Secondly for the new bug I just noticed I picked a brother this time & set his name as Raheem but when I agreed to have Mantis help carry Zed to the camp the sequence of their brother talking about them having to keep their face covered changed his name to Rana, his name stayed as Rana for the rest of the playthrough as well, not just that one scene. Sorry to keep bothering you I'm just playing the dif routes at work rn & pointing out things as I notice them 😅
No problem these are EXCELLENT bug reports !! I will say though I can't recreate the Raheem bug. Does it happen every time you try it?
There appear to be missing names or something. Not just in this spot either but earlier too. First time reading so I'm not sure what it's meant to be.
I'll have a look !! It's supposed to be your guardian's name.
while playing trigger’s route, after the messenger comes up to him i’m just sent back to when he wakes the player up even tho i’ve reset cookies and all that. i’ll do crave’s in the meantime lol!
I really dont know what's happening I'm gunna do a reupload because everything is working fine from the launcher on my end.
Alright, best of luck!
AFTER FOUR YEARS WE’RE SO BACK
OMD AN UPDATE
I can't get pass this part 😭
that was fixed in the last patch so you either need a refresh, start the game over, or clear cookies (which will delete Twine saves) !!
I had a bug where I went with Crave to the kennels to see the dogs, but every scene after treated it like I hadn't seen them.
I don't specifically keep track of whether or not you've seen the dogs !! I thought I was keeping it vague but maybe not: can you give me a specific example?
I just got this too. If you go with him and meet the dogs, you're specifically introduced to Fern. Then if Crave comes and gets you the next morning, you ask him "Who's Fern?" and he explains she is his dog... and he goes on to ask if you've never seen a dog, even though he showed you them all the previous day.
Oh I see what I did. I try to check if you were with Crave the night before but evidently it's not reading something right. That's gunna go in the pile for the next bulk bug fix update, thanks! Until then please imagine that you are merely giving Crave the opportunity to introduce you to his dog again, his favourite hobby.
ok! so now that the glitches are fixed i must say i loved this update and definitely cant wait for more! ^^ (Though obviously no rush in anything)
near the end there is a small pronoun issue with our parent when we talk about them having\writing journals(?), i made my parent our father and it says "she" instead of "he", but thats just a small thing that really doesn't matter(In my opinion)
Yaaay someone's finally read the update 😂😂😂😂 thank-you for reporting bugs !! I'll look into the guardian pronouns, they were behaving weird during testing too but I'm so trusting I don't check pages that already work after updates so I'll see what's broken there later (maybe after a few smaller bugs/typos have been reported so I'm not pushing a new version every ten minutes 😅😅😅)
i understand lmao
idk what you did but the game did NOT like the update at all
The chapter transitions are still broken for me. Anyone have a fix for this?
are you playing on an old save? that broke the game(After the first glitch fix) for me, But if not thats weird as it works fine for me
If it's still broken you might have to restart the game, refresh the page, or delete cookies (which will delete any Twine saves) !!
All the three choices give errors, if you choose Mantis, in the scene where you can answer:
"Your drawings are great too."
"You're so talented!"
"You clearly have a lot of love for your work."
Btw, I love the story :3
I'm glad you like it !! I can't replicate this which means that your browser might have cached an older version of the game (meaning it was a reported issue, but I'm pretty sure it's been fixed now: it breaks along the same lines as the other reported errors that I fixed earlier this morning)? Try a refresh, try restarting the game, or clear cookies (mind you, this deletes Twine saves).
Works fine now! Thank you!
AS SOON AS I GET HOME FROM SCHOOL IM PLAYING THIS UPDATE OMGGG
JFJDJF love the enthusiasm hopefully I have it fixed by then 😅😅😅
EDIT: It should be fixed now, so now I just appreciate your enthusiasm !! lmfao
Random question where did you get the music/audio for the radio?
freesounds.org !! If you check the credits I have links that should work dfjkhds
Yeah I got the same issue with the black screen
EDIT: This issue should be fixed now.
Pile driving the save system I DIDN'T EVEN TOUCH IT I'll have a look at it 💀💀💀 thank-you for letting me know
EDIT: The chapter transition system was being cute, I'm pretty sure this is fixed now! WRT to your save causing everything to jump around, I THINK that would be incidentally saved through virtue of the transition system being fixed: let me know!
That's...very odd. Like that shouldn't be. possible. as in 222c where you click that link, it is linked directly to the end demo slide (so at least rest assured, that's all the content you could have seen anyway besides my end demo slide: you read the full update!). I think itch is doing something weird maybe in an hour it'll all be okay (< coping dsjfhgs)