Hi! I finished the game two days ago and today I uploaded a video about the deaths on my YouTube channel. I really liked the game and the story! Also, Pinocchios obsession towards his sister is messed up, which made it more creepy when he was chasing me! Nice work! And... nice physics lol.
Thank you so much! : D After watching your video, I regret not including more death animations haha Regarding the physics: I'm a certified jiggle physics engineer, and I'm very proud of my work!
More death animations would've been awesome, but don't worry too much about it, the game is very good as it is! I really enjoyed playing it without skipping the puzzles. Looking forward for more if there's a sequel, which I'm pretty sure you mentioned something about it in here! Thank you for your work once again!
Thank you! : D Yeah, I'm still undecided on the sequel, but I think some of these characters deserve a comeback, and vampire Mia could be a fun concept if done right
I liked the multiple endings. Graphics were good. Story was ok. A lot of tropes coming full circle in them, which isn't a bad thing. I liked the puzzles but had to skip the painting one - I just couldn't figure it out. I would have liked to know which pieces were wrong. Maybe we submit via a button and it locks correct pieces into place. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkyNTXPUk6w
Hello! Thank you so much for playing and for your feedback! This game definitely needed more work, specially in terms of characters, story and some of the puzzles, since I spent most of the time on level design and Pinocchio's AI (which caused me a lot of headeaches). I actually updated the game and modified that picture puzzle so that now it's not so tedious . I'll definitely try to make a proper picture puzzle for my next project
I can see how his AI would cause a ton of headaches and take a lot of work - getting the random spawns to feel random and not too much must have taken a lot of work! I look forward to your next game!
Man, I played the whole game in the middle of the night with my girlfriend, we did all the endings, it was freaking cool. You should make a sequel. Awesome work!
Amazing game "تحفة فنية" Mia is a precious little gem , but she can be dumb sometimes I have a confession to make I tried writing "Mr bob" at the typewriter section , why I am obsessed with bob XD
What's the best ending lol 😂 I watched on some videos on YouTube I love big booba main character I'm not see big booba main characters on the games it's good 👍😊
The canon ending is the cursed ending. And it's not just her descendants: Mia has become a vampire too. I might make a sequel to this (and Pinocchio and Gepetto MUST come back)
This was so unbelievably frustrating but like, in a good way lol. Reminded me a lot of The Witch's House and Ao Oni. Made the horrible horrible mistake of playing in hard mode haha. I managed to complete it, but man I had to sit through that death animation soooo many times. The puzzles were fun and engaging (although I had to look up a walk-through for that painting puzzle because I would have never gotten it otherwise lol) I'd say my only criticism is that the death cutscenes are a bit too long and get annoying really quick, I wanted to punch my screen during that corridor chase scene lol. But otherwise, I had such a good time playing, I absolutely love horror RPGs and this game was no exception <3
Thank you! : D I love those games you mentioned and they were big inspirations for this one! I pretty much wanted to make something with early rpg maker horror vibes (with a bit of CT mixed there too) while at the same time evoking the feel of 80's giallo movies Kudos for completing the game on hard hahaha. The spawn rate for easy and normal is 1/10 and 1/7, while in hard mode it's 1/3 (I actually shouldn't have included hard mode at all)
A nice interpretation of a classic story filled with what makes your games great, gotta say this one feels more gamejamy than the other ones and a bit more time would have done it good, but I still had a lot of fun.
The 3 main characters of the game are very well developed, I can't express how much I hate Geppetto, he is an amazing character with motivations and emotions but is such a terrible Father god, The MC rivals the thickness of Alesa but her sprite in game is amazing, with the clothe animated and that sweet Idle animation 10/10. Pinocchio reminds me of the classic Clock Tower enemy ScissorMan, very cool concept. And that transformation, gonna live in my mind rent free for a while.
The game mostly features nice and creative puzzles but I gotta say the jigsaw picture puzzle was a pain, first time I had to skip one, and not because it was hard to solve, it was just plain tedious to do it, thankfully there is the option to skip. The other thing that bugged me a bit was the enemy AI felt more tedious than spooky after a while, maybe random spawning is not the way to go with such little time to work on the game, still, it was not terrible, just not engaging.
I see the Dossowverse lore expanding and I am all for it, there is quite a lot of references in this game as well as what I think are hints to future games, I found this really creative and a cool addition; As usual I love ALL the endings.
Hey Hikiyami! Thank you so much for playing and for your reviews! Your feedback is always really helpful! The jigsaw puzzle was a complete mistake, there were many ways it could have been done better and I went for the worst one. No wonder I had to add an "skip puzzle" option! Regarding the AI of Pinocchio, it was even messier hahaha. The thing is, in hard mode he has a 1/3 chance of appearing, while on easy and normal the odds are 1/10 and 1/7, which make the experience waaay less frustrating (actually, congratulations on beating the game on hard mode, I think you're the first person to do it) I made this while taking a break from A House for Alesa 3 and other projects, so it really shows that the end was a bit rushed, although I regret not adding happier endings (I think becoming a vampire is a good thing though!) Anyway, thank you so much again as always! : D Also, funny that you mention the "Dossowverse" hahahah, because I want to make some of my older characters come back (Alex from the Sakabashira game, Marion from 'Anderghast Mine, the killer frog from The Grotesque and Pixelesque, etc)
Hello, I come once again. I saw your game here and I can say it sure was interesting.
She went into more detail and gave some feedback and some ideas of how she would have done it.
Personally, I am wondering if this game was in works for a while and you managed to finish it now or was it something you pulled up quickly as a fun project between the Alesa series? I see that while everything was on par with what got used to expect, the writing felt a bit lacking. That's just my opinion.
Hello! This game was made for a jam and I made it in just a few days while taking a momentary break from A House for Alesa 3's development. I reckon the writing needed some more work. My main focus was the atmosphere, the graphics and making Pinocchio scary. Perhaps some day I'll make a sequel and try to come up with a more polished story
yoo i watch jay from the kubz scouts play this and it was SICK!, mind if you send the image folder BUT in png format, cause when i downloaded the game, and checked the images folder, they all seemed to be in ".png_" formats, searching that up gives me no results, idk if its for the game to recognize it or if its for compression, if it is, could you please put all the ingame images in one zip (mias in the pause screen looks cute, thats why i want it!!)
That format is because they are encrypted. I'm afraid I can't share the unencrypted image folder because that would be against the TOS and respective licences of the base assets
got to the painting puzzle and omg its impossible, why does it have so many options and so smalllll, still a pretty good game, next time i'll take the skip lol
I love how you have found such a specific aesthetics for your games, they're all so surreal with fun designs and colors! This game rules as usual and can you tell Gepetto that I want his juicy [MESSAGE CENSORED FOR PUBLIC DECENCY] and also Mia's equally juicy [MESSAGE CENSORED FOR PUBLIC DECENCY]?
Good game,although the events of the story could've been foreshadowed a bit more since some revelations made me think "uhhh what..ok"but it is def not an bad game if it had change just a bit on how the story progressed it could've been better but it was fun👍
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Hey Axel, I am glad that you have been doing great despite suffering from horrible health conditions in the past and that you are still creating horror games in the horror games community.
The artstyle in this game is definitely different from the ones that I played before which are "The Toy Factory Across the Street", "Bzpkszp" and "60 Days till the World Ends". The storyline for this game is definitely very interesting and is the main factor that pushes the player to complete the game. I do like the continuous use of puzzles in the game and how the creator has decided to offer an option to skip puzzles that are deemed as possibly too difficult for the player to complete. For me, I skipped the puzzle about the image of the tree which was really hard for me to visualise as the pictures are spreaded apart. It would be better if they were side by side. XD
I liked that the game made good use of lighting and chasing to create a tense and horrifying mood and atmosphere to keep the player at their toes while travelling around the manor. For me, Pinocchio is pretty overpowered in easy mode already where he can instant kill the player if the player is facing him directly so it makes me wonder how hard normal mode and hard mode would be.
The story is quite grim and some of the 5 endings are definitely not what most players would expect. SPOILERS ALERT, Sister Complex incoming. Other than that, I felt that more foreshadowing could have been done throughout the game about the main character's true identity and more story telling can be incorporated in between the puzzles.
Thank you for reading my comment and I hope that you will always be strong and healthy to enjoy your life.
Thank you so much Dragon! : D I really appreciate the feedback and the gameplay! My latest medical exams have been good so far and I've been feeling good! I still have a catheter in my chest in case I need chemo again, but I'm always positive and optimistic, and I have a lot of new games planned!
Wow, this was a dream come true! Thank you Dossow, for letting me be part of this super creepy, moody horror rpg! I had a blast playing it :) it's made my entire month
Were you playing the first version I uploaded? That one had an insane spawn rate! I fixed that in the most recent version and I also upgraded Pinocchio's AI thanks to Beregeon!
The loading times seem to be related to the light events. I don't really notice it in the downloadable version, but it's quite evident in the browser version. That would be hard to fix though, because there are like 200 light events and I would have to check one by one (and I'm feeling lazy)
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it despite Pinocchio's spawn rate and the loading times! : D
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Hi! I finished the game two days ago and today I uploaded a video about the deaths on my YouTube channel. I really liked the game and the story! Also, Pinocchios obsession towards his sister is messed up, which made it more creepy when he was chasing me! Nice work! And... nice physics lol.
https://youtu.be/ILqwGfssa_c
Thank you so much! : D After watching your video, I regret not including more death animations haha
Regarding the physics: I'm a certified jiggle physics engineer, and I'm very proud of my work!
More death animations would've been awesome, but don't worry too much about it, the game is very good as it is! I really enjoyed playing it without skipping the puzzles. Looking forward for more if there's a sequel, which I'm pretty sure you mentioned something about it in here! Thank you for your work once again!
Thank you! : D
Yeah, I'm still undecided on the sequel, but I think some of these characters deserve a comeback, and vampire Mia could be a fun concept if done right
I liked the multiple endings. Graphics were good. Story was ok. A lot of tropes coming full circle in them, which isn't a bad thing. I liked the puzzles but had to skip the painting one - I just couldn't figure it out. I would have liked to know which pieces were wrong. Maybe we submit via a button and it locks correct pieces into place. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkyNTXPUk6w
Hello! Thank you so much for playing and for your feedback!
This game definitely needed more work, specially in terms of characters, story and some of the puzzles, since I spent most of the time on level design and Pinocchio's AI (which caused me a lot of headeaches). I actually updated the game and modified that picture puzzle so that now it's not so tedious . I'll definitely try to make a proper picture puzzle for my next project
I can see how his AI would cause a ton of headaches and take a lot of work - getting the random spawns to feel random and not too much must have taken a lot of work! I look forward to your next game!
Man, I played the whole game in the middle of the night with my girlfriend, we did all the endings, it was freaking cool. You should make a sequel. Awesome work!
Thank you so much! : D
I actually have an idea for a potential sequel, so I might actually make it
Amazing game "تحفة فنية"
Mia is a precious little gem , but she can be dumb sometimes
I have a confession to make I tried writing "Mr bob" at the typewriter section , why I am obsessed with bob XD
Thank you so much Alef! : D
Hahahaha, It's okay! Everybody loves Mr. Bob!
Mama soap
What's the best ending lol 😂 I watched on some videos on YouTube I love big booba main character I'm not see big booba main characters on the games it's good 👍😊
The canon ending is the cursed ending. And it's not just her descendants: Mia has become a vampire too. I might make a sequel to this (and Pinocchio and Gepetto MUST come back)
They must lol. I try the game with joiplay emulator on mobile its working I love Mia jiggle physics 😂 and gepetto dump truck
hahahaaha
This was so unbelievably frustrating but like, in a good way lol. Reminded me a lot of The Witch's House and Ao Oni. Made the horrible horrible mistake of playing in hard mode haha. I managed to complete it, but man I had to sit through that death animation soooo many times. The puzzles were fun and engaging (although I had to look up a walk-through for that painting puzzle because I would have never gotten it otherwise lol) I'd say my only criticism is that the death cutscenes are a bit too long and get annoying really quick, I wanted to punch my screen during that corridor chase scene lol. But otherwise, I had such a good time playing, I absolutely love horror RPGs and this game was no exception <3
Thank you! : D I love those games you mentioned and they were big inspirations for this one! I pretty much wanted to make something with early rpg maker horror vibes (with a bit of CT mixed there too) while at the same time evoking the feel of 80's giallo movies
Kudos for completing the game on hard hahaha. The spawn rate for easy and normal is 1/10 and 1/7, while in hard mode it's 1/3 (I actually shouldn't have included hard mode at all)
Did a almost half hour gameplay video of it. :)
Thank you so much for playing! : D
No problem 😃
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hey think you can give me download for alloy-soldier-xenia
Sure! I had disabled the game because it was too hard and nobody played it, but here's the link
https://avdossow.itch.io/alloy-soldier-xenia
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thank you i love this game you made so much
Thanks to you for playing! : D
Life is short; enjoy the jiggles.
The 3 main characters of the game are very well developed, I can't express how much I hate Geppetto, he is an amazing character with motivations and emotions but is such a terrible Father god, The MC rivals the thickness of Alesa but her sprite in game is amazing, with the clothe animated and that sweet Idle animation 10/10. Pinocchio reminds me of the classic Clock Tower enemy ScissorMan, very cool concept. And that transformation, gonna live in my mind rent free for a while.
The game mostly features nice and creative puzzles but I gotta say the jigsaw picture puzzle was a pain, first time I had to skip one, and not because it was hard to solve, it was just plain tedious to do it, thankfully there is the option to skip. The other thing that bugged me a bit was the enemy AI felt more tedious than spooky after a while, maybe random spawning is not the way to go with such little time to work on the game, still, it was not terrible, just not engaging.
I see the Dossowverse lore expanding and I am all for it, there is quite a lot of references in this game as well as what I think are hints to future games, I found this really creative and a cool addition; As usual I love ALL the endings.
Keep up the good work!
Hey Hikiyami!
Thank you so much for playing and for your reviews! Your feedback is always really helpful!
The jigsaw puzzle was a complete mistake, there were many ways it could have been done better and I went for the worst one. No wonder I had to add an "skip puzzle" option! Regarding the AI of Pinocchio, it was even messier hahaha. The thing is, in hard mode he has a 1/3 chance of appearing, while on easy and normal the odds are 1/10 and 1/7, which make the experience waaay less frustrating (actually, congratulations on beating the game on hard mode, I think you're the first person to do it)
I made this while taking a break from A House for Alesa 3 and other projects, so it really shows that the end was a bit rushed, although I regret not adding happier endings (I think becoming a vampire is a good thing though!)
Anyway, thank you so much again as always! : D Also, funny that you mention the "Dossowverse" hahahah, because I want to make some of my older characters come back (Alex from the Sakabashira game, Marion from 'Anderghast Mine, the killer frog from The Grotesque and Pixelesque, etc)
Hello, I come once again. I saw your game here and I can say it sure was interesting.
She went into more detail and gave some feedback and some ideas of how she would have done it.Personally, I am wondering if this game was in works for a while and you managed to finish it now or was it something you pulled up quickly as a fun project between the Alesa series? I see that while everything was on par with what got used to expect, the writing felt a bit lacking. That's just my opinion.
Hello! This game was made for a jam and I made it in just a few days while taking a momentary break from A House for Alesa 3's development. I reckon the writing needed some more work. My main focus was the atmosphere, the graphics and making Pinocchio scary. Perhaps some day I'll make a sequel and try to come up with a more polished story
I would like to hug Pinocchio, very much so
I don't think that would be a good idea hahaha, he can't control his strength!
absolutely worth it
yoo i watch jay from the kubz scouts play this and it was SICK!, mind if you send the image folder BUT in png format, cause when i downloaded the game, and checked the images folder, they all seemed to be in ".png_" formats, searching that up gives me no results, idk if its for the game to recognize it or if its for compression, if it is, could you please put all the ingame images in one zip (mias in the pause screen looks cute, thats why i want it!!)
That format is because they are encrypted. I'm afraid I can't share the unencrypted image folder because that would be against the TOS and respective licences of the base assets
oki! thanks for telling me
good game but i want gepeto twerk cutscene. we need to see the bakery in action!!
hahahaha, I'm afraid there wasn't enough budget!
Cool game but why were bonkers huge
Genetics!
bru
i love this guy
unforgettable journey
got to the painting puzzle and omg its impossible, why does it have so many options and so smalllll, still a pretty good game, next time i'll take the skip lol
Agreed, that puzzle is awful hahahaha
I love how you have found such a specific aesthetics for your games, they're all so surreal with fun designs and colors! This game rules as usual and can you tell Gepetto that I want his juicy [MESSAGE CENSORED FOR PUBLIC DECENCY] and also Mia's equally juicy [MESSAGE CENSORED FOR PUBLIC DECENCY]?
Thank you! : D
Hhahahahah
Gepetto's cake is otherworldy
seems fun!!!
Will there be an Android version?
It can be played on Android from the browser!
Thanks for the info because I already saw the game on YouTube and it made me think I might like it.
Unused Gepetto sprite (people wouldn't have been able to stand this excess of cake)
GODDAMN there's no way he would be able to reach the cave from the mountains, that thing would pull him right down!
and big boobed protagonists forever!!
Good game,although the events of the story could've been foreshadowed a bit more since some revelations made me think "uhhh what..ok"but it is def not an bad game if it had change just a bit on how the story progressed it could've been better but it was fun👍
Thank you! : D The story definitely needed some more work and I admit some of the dialogs are too cheesy hahaha, but I had a lot of fun making it!
Hey Axel, I am glad that you have been doing great despite suffering from horrible health conditions in the past and that you are still creating horror games in the horror games community.
The artstyle in this game is definitely different from the ones that I played before which are "The Toy Factory Across the Street", "Bzpkszp" and "60 Days till the World Ends". The storyline for this game is definitely very interesting and is the main factor that pushes the player to complete the game. I do like the continuous use of puzzles in the game and how the creator has decided to offer an option to skip puzzles that are deemed as possibly too difficult for the player to complete. For me, I skipped the puzzle about the image of the tree which was really hard for me to visualise as the pictures are spreaded apart. It would be better if they were side by side. XD
I liked that the game made good use of lighting and chasing to create a tense and horrifying mood and atmosphere to keep the player at their toes while travelling around the manor. For me, Pinocchio is pretty overpowered in easy mode already where he can instant kill the player if the player is facing him directly so it makes me wonder how hard normal mode and hard mode would be.
The story is quite grim and some of the 5 endings are definitely not what most players would expect. SPOILERS ALERT, Sister Complex incoming. Other than that, I felt that more foreshadowing could have been done throughout the game about the main character's true identity and more story telling can be incorporated in between the puzzles.
Thank you for reading my comment and I hope that you will always be strong and healthy to enjoy your life.
Thank you so much Dragon! : D I really appreciate the feedback and the gameplay!
My latest medical exams have been good so far and I've been feeling good! I still have a catheter in my chest in case I need chemo again, but I'm always positive and optimistic, and I have a lot of new games planned!
Another great game.
Thank you so much! : D Great job on finding the secret mole!
Does anyone know the colour order when we are the dad at the start? i have spent over 15 minutes trying to figure it out and im stuck
Giant in the sky = sun = yellow
War and slaughter = blood = red
Sadness = blue
thank you so much
How did Marissa died during delivery and how did Pinocchio died?
Marissia: hemorrhage
Pinocchio: strangled by the umbilical cord
This is not a typo. Gepetto literally carried the entire house on his back
explains a lot... something like that would drive anyone crazy...
with an ass as large as Gepettos, i have no choice but to take this statement as canon
hahahahaha
His cake definitely helped him with that
That explains the glutes he’s packing too
Great game you already know I had to check check this out
Thank you for playing! : D Yeah, I remember you said you were going to complete one of my games, so great job!
no problem! and thank you!
this is my second account
Cool game. I think i got one of the bad endings xD
Thank you so much! : D Actually, that's one of the happiest endings hahahaha, at least she got to live a very long time!
Yeah, but what about her granddaughter xD
Very good game enjoyed playing it
Great gameplay Blaze! Thanks for playing! : D
Thank You
damn gorepinocchio
hahahah he's only trying to make friends!
Thanks for playing queenfaith! : D
nooooooo.... HE WANT MY ASS AHHAHAHAH ,.,gg
Wow, this was a dream come true! Thank you Dossow, for letting me be part of this super creepy, moody horror rpg! I had a blast playing it :) it's made my entire month
Thanks to you for making such amazing music! : D
im downloading now! i love your games and am excited to play this one :]
Thank you! : )
I pressed the button in the garden in the now-existent Map037, and... it seems like nothing really happened?
Check the previous garden area, to the right
I found a bug when I went to the first area to the north of the garden...
I'm currently updating the game, so it might be because of that
New update coming in a few minutes
If you're playing the browser version, try again now. Also, now Pinocchio is supposed to appear less often in normal mode (1/7 chance)
Pinocchio's bizarre tendency to appear at the WORST times possible is ruining my enjoyment with this game. And I'm only playing on Normal difficulty!
The current odds are:
easy 1/8
normal 1/5
hard 1/3
I'll update the game soon and increase the odds
i think it's about where he appears. Always at the door I need to enter:((
Also why pauses between rooms are sooooo loooong? it's super annoying in a game where you need to walk around the same areas a lot TvT
other than that the game is amazing as always<3
especially the metaphore about Mia being a marionette herself:>
Were you playing the first version I uploaded? That one had an insane spawn rate! I fixed that in the most recent version and I also upgraded Pinocchio's AI thanks to Beregeon!
The loading times seem to be related to the light events. I don't really notice it in the downloadable version, but it's quite evident in the browser version. That would be hard to fix though, because there are like 200 light events and I would have to check one by one (and I'm feeling lazy)
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it despite Pinocchio's spawn rate and the loading times! : D
as i said it's not about rate, it's about places where he appears. Is it really random?..
oh, so long downloading wasnt on purpose... sorry then
I played the last version, downloaded
who's beregeon?
I see a scissor wielding maniac and I immediately download.
clock tower!
It's beautiful, but what do you have with busty women?