If not a doll, why so dressable?
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Your sleep paralysis demon is hoping to make some friends in the waking world. Can you help this creature look presentable for the humans, with an outfit it can be its most authentic self in?
This is the first game I've actually finished in ages, so it's definitely not very polished. But I did it, completely by myself, because I wanted to learn real coding and become capable of making a whole game self-reliantly. The story and theme are kind of experimental here, as the main focus was just getting the mechanics to work and I didn't have much time to make the rest of it make any sense.
Figuring out how to export this was an adventure, but in the end it turned out that I was making it unnecessarily hard for myself and that HTML5 exporting from Game Maker doesn't need a Mac developer license. So I can confidently say that I'll be hopefully updating this in the future to include more clothing options, proper animations, and maybe even medals!
Music tracks used were made by @vater-roboter, @Eldritchsaxes, @Aalasteir, and @MusicBySpektral!
Made for Costume Jam 2024
Prompt: "More Like Me"
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-Theta
UPDATE 12/14/2024 - FIRST PATCHES!
- Fixed text bug
- Resized entire game size! No longer huge!
- Tweaked some volume levels
This game is making me feel a certain way. Reminds me of how people thought I was ugly in high school because I preferred to wear hand-me downs or anything comfortable. I preferred to present more masculine or at least androgynous. I accidentally found the outfit the entity liked on my first play through. Idk what that does or doesn't say about me.
I enjoyed how you made the entity's personal taste matter. From what I can gather this is about beauty expectations put on women or really any feminine-looking person, and that no matter what the feedback is, it never seems to take the creature's personal comfort or taste into mind.
Thanks for posting this.
Thetageist responds:
Thank you :D
I admit that I wish I had done better with communicating the themes and Maron's personality, but hopefully I can fix that up as soon as I have enough time to finish an update I've been working on.
There isn't a good ending from what I can find. :( Like it tho
Thetageist responds:
One of the endings is canon. Whether or not it turns out good in the end remains to be seen.
(If I ever get time to work on the rest of the series or this story as a whole, god dammit)
so, there is no good ending, huh... poor lady
Thetageist responds:
One of these is canon, and will lead to a good ending... eventually.
as a woman, this is such an important allegory. well done
Thetageist responds:
Thank you! I'm glad it resonated with someone.
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