You my friend are psychic lol. We are actually really close now, just waiting on the Cafeteria section to be all written up and our new programmer to whip everything up into shape. After that's all done, Chapter 1 will then be about 75% complete. Although, we're releasing it to Patreon backers first and when Chapter 1 is 100% complete, it goes public for free.
If all goes well, I'd say expect an updated game build on Patreon between now and three months at latest. Next public update not super long afterwards!
If I find a good way to implement it into Chapter 2, definitely! I'd love to have a playable Donk route, but it will be difficult to add. I guess we'll just have to wait and see if it's something viable in future ^^
The most likely way, and probably the way I will be implementing it, is having full or near-full Donkey-Brained players have the option to try and infect other Humans, with choices that fight the desire to do so becoming less available the higher DB level you are. Nine times out of ten, this would probably lead to a specific ending associated with the location and character, but ideally (and unlikely to be put into the game) this could lead to a branching story path where Amanda leads a herd of Donks throughout the facility, reigning havoc on any Humans in her way. Furthermore, an ideal version of that is being able to freely travel across the facility in gameplay, hunting down Humans in control of Amanda, a semi-failure of this could very well be a unique ending where Amanda could lack the Infection levels to be recognised by the other Donks and be dulled into the masses.
If it's obvious by my brainstorming, nothing is concrete for the story (and never has been :p) I just write in the moment and see where it leads, then go back to it later. So, TL;DR: I could very much add a sequence of events where Amanda goes Donko-mode and infects others, but we'll have to wait and see ^^"
Absolutely, there's now additional writers helping me speed up development! Updates are all being made over on my Discord ^^ New itch.io Chapter 1 update will be coming out soon-ish, with a Patreon demo near enough ready to be released in a few weeks time hopefully!
That's good to hear. While i understand updating discord is easier, I'd advise at least dropping a comment or two each month here with upcoming updates or ETAs, to avoid leaving the Itch page dead for over 90 days. It helps keep interest up and shows progress is being made. That being said, I'm looking forward to what's coming next!
Thanks for the concerns and I really appreciate the support! I'll take that into account over the next month or so and try to keep the page somewhat active, tbh I don't use itch.io enough to remind myself to do it ~w~
I don't want to sound disrespectful, but does this game have any content? At all? I keep getting the same ending and can't find anything that progresses the story.
Sorry if things weren't clear enough, the version currently released, which you're playing, is only a small tech demo to just show how the game will look and play. This version, as you said, has pretty much no content at all, because the project's still a work in progress with tons of unfinished content planned and underway work. When this game's version number updates from (V0.0.3), that's when there's a new update.
If you'd like to keep up-to-date with the semi-regular announcements I make, be sure to visit this channel on my Discord server, which you can find here: https://discord.gg/JVgBBDVxwv
TL;DR: This is a work-in-progress still and will have plenty of new content additions when they're finished, such as more endings, locations, and characters.
Yep. They're only teased there because that's all the artworks Usedusername has done so far. They're in the files waiting for development to reach the gameplay areas tied to them, where they can be accessed and achieved.
If you'd like to see the artwork for the endings though, they can be found in #game-announcements on my server, which you can access here: https://discord.gg/JVgBBDVxwv
i can live without images more than a bit of the time, i've played more than a couple of html games with little to sparse images in them. i was more so interested in seeing where it leads. like after being turned into a donkey, will it be game over? or will you be able to continue, despite your changes?
It would make a really fun scenario where post-ending you'd be able to play as a feral Donk, scouring the facility for anymore survivors to transform, but with the scope of the game in its current form, it'd just be waaay too much to implement sadly. Though do note that you can be both 10 Infection and 10 Donkey-Brain and still progress through the game, battling your Donk-thoughts and desires in vein attempt at remaining Human mentally, whereas your body is already turned past the point of return.
However, maybe in the next game (or DLC) it'll be more Donk-focused ;3
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I feal like the next version is really close
You my friend are psychic lol. We are actually really close now, just waiting on the Cafeteria section to be all written up and our new programmer to whip everything up into shape. After that's all done, Chapter 1 will then be about 75% complete. Although, we're releasing it to Patreon backers first and when Chapter 1 is 100% complete, it goes public for free.
If all goes well, I'd say expect an updated game build on Patreon between now and three months at latest. Next public update not super long afterwards!
Question, but will there be any infected donkey route that will be playable
If I find a good way to implement it into Chapter 2, definitely! I'd love to have a playable Donk route, but it will be difficult to add. I guess we'll just have to wait and see if it's something viable in future ^^
So if that happens, what would be the donk route be like
The most likely way, and probably the way I will be implementing it, is having full or near-full Donkey-Brained players have the option to try and infect other Humans, with choices that fight the desire to do so becoming less available the higher DB level you are. Nine times out of ten, this would probably lead to a specific ending associated with the location and character, but ideally (and unlikely to be put into the game) this could lead to a branching story path where Amanda leads a herd of Donks throughout the facility, reigning havoc on any Humans in her way. Furthermore, an ideal version of that is being able to freely travel across the facility in gameplay, hunting down Humans in control of Amanda, a semi-failure of this could very well be a unique ending where Amanda could lack the Infection levels to be recognised by the other Donks and be dulled into the masses.
If it's obvious by my brainstorming, nothing is concrete for the story (and never has been :p) I just write in the moment and see where it leads, then go back to it later. So, TL;DR: I could very much add a sequence of events where Amanda goes Donko-mode and infects others, but we'll have to wait and see ^^"
Is this still being worked on?
Absolutely, there's now additional writers helping me speed up development! Updates are all being made over on my Discord ^^
New itch.io Chapter 1 update will be coming out soon-ish, with a Patreon demo near enough ready to be released in a few weeks time hopefully!
Feel free to join us over on Discord using this link: https://discord.gg/jHsb6JXBhS
That's good to hear. While i understand updating discord is easier, I'd advise at least dropping a comment or two each month here with upcoming updates or ETAs, to avoid leaving the Itch page dead for over 90 days. It helps keep interest up and shows progress is being made. That being said, I'm looking forward to what's coming next!
Thanks for the concerns and I really appreciate the support! I'll take that into account over the next month or so and try to keep the page somewhat active, tbh I don't use itch.io enough to remind myself to do it ~w~
I don't want to sound disrespectful, but does this game have any content? At all? I keep getting the same ending and can't find anything that progresses the story.
Sorry if things weren't clear enough, the version currently released, which you're playing, is only a small tech demo to just show how the game will look and play. This version, as you said, has pretty much no content at all, because the project's still a work in progress with tons of unfinished content planned and underway work. When this game's version number updates from (V0.0.3), that's when there's a new update.
If you'd like to keep up-to-date with the semi-regular announcements I make, be sure to visit this channel on my Discord server, which you can find here: https://discord.gg/JVgBBDVxwv
TL;DR: This is a work-in-progress still and will have plenty of new content additions when they're finished, such as more endings, locations, and characters.
Hope this cleared things up ^^
ok so the only available ending at the moment is ending 0 yeah? despite there being a couple other endings listed in the endings tab?
Yep. They're only teased there because that's all the artworks Usedusername has done so far. They're in the files waiting for development to reach the gameplay areas tied to them, where they can be accessed and achieved.
If you'd like to see the artwork for the endings though, they can be found in #game-announcements on my server, which you can access here: https://discord.gg/JVgBBDVxwv
i can live without images more than a bit of the time, i've played more than a couple of html games with little to sparse images in them. i was more so interested in seeing where it leads. like after being turned into a donkey, will it be game over? or will you be able to continue, despite your changes?
It would make a really fun scenario where post-ending you'd be able to play as a feral Donk, scouring the facility for anymore survivors to transform, but with the scope of the game in its current form, it'd just be waaay too much to implement sadly. Though do note that you can be both 10 Infection and 10 Donkey-Brain and still progress through the game, battling your Donk-thoughts and desires in vein attempt at remaining Human mentally, whereas your body is already turned past the point of return.
However, maybe in the next game (or DLC) it'll be more Donk-focused ;3
sweet, looking forward to what comes next.
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Solid pacing and atmosphere so far! Really love art style and word usage.
Thanks! I'll be sure to try and keep it going at this pace then ^^
Art is all blunkinator, Usedusername & IJN_Kako though, links to be found in the credits on the main menu if you'd like to see more
Thanks so much bud! ^_^