Thank you, really. At the end of the day I'm just banging rocks together here; this is an RPGMaker game, not some amazing multi-million dollar title or even one of those really slick indie games. Much like my life, everything in the Cruel Serenade games is JUST GOOD ENOUGH to work, to achieve the effect it sets out to. But as I've said, the metric for this stuff has always been myself. As best as I can within my limitations, I try to make something I enjoy playing, something that's fun, and hot, and has some interesting twists and turns to it. The production process for these games is basically me making an amusement park ride, riding it, and going "no, that turn needs to be sharper, the water spray needs to be faster, the ghosts need to go higher when the jump out of the old treasure chest..." And then I get out my ratchet, tweak it all, and ride it again, over and over until it actually works. In writing, or art, or game design, it's not so much about the specifics as the "ride" overall, and I do my best to make sure that works. I'm glad it did for you. 

I'm especially pumped to read that "all week" bit, because that's exactly how I'd get with some of the games that led to this over many years. You get into this flow state of unlocking obscenity after obscenity and you just CAN'T STOP, you gotta keep it rolling. People talk about edging, but you don't know what edging is until you've played a game like this for four fucking hours straight. You play these games right, you're absolutely obliterated at the end, and if I've managed to recreate even a bit of that successfully, I've done my job. 

And glad you liked the strip club minigame! It's simple, and I wish it was smoother and less laggy, but it's RPGMaker, limitations and all that. I'm glad it clicked for most people though, and that it didn't overstay its welcome. 

Thank you for your support, and I look forward to making another game that hits that perfect spot.

Ha! To be fair, I did try to hint at that with the bartender's comments. I went back and forth on how far I wanted to "tutorialize" the controls, but ultimately decided to keep it really minimal and see if anyone complained or was confused. Not a single one in the early release group did, so I took that as a sign it was probably fine. By all means though, don't miss out, those gagging sounds are a big part of the fun of that game.

And fair enough on the porn store. I do think that's a more in-depth option with more characterization, but I wanted to experiment with something a little more on the interaction side rather than just narration for this one. "Dynamically build your OWN experience" and all that.

I can't speak specifically to where the Itch...store/program thing might put the game folder if you're using that, but once you've found the game folder, the gallery file is in www\Gallery Unlock. Gallery.js. Move that to www\js\plugins and agree to overwrite when prompted.

Excellent. I was kinda half-and-half on this last one, which is why de-prioritized it till the end, partially because I wasn't sure if it could be pulled off, and partially, once I had, because I wished I could do more/make it perform better. So it's been good to see people are enjoying it.

I did consider doing it the other way around, a "fuckable wall" setup, the problem is there's no room for interactivity there if the player is playing Mezz, and it would be weird to suddenly switch them to a customer POV.

"I was hoping for a bad ending, or like a loss of controll each time you fail like, like when you loose in the combat ally." I mean yes, but you're already TWO LAYERS DEEP in bad ends: alley loss, leading to frozen pose scene, and then a plaza job requirement (leading to the glory hole). I do have to stop at SOME point so we can get on to the third chapter :D. 

Nope, mirror end was the first content pack where I finished up all the main story stuff. Glad you finally found it. Be sure to check out OpenFireplace's handy guideif you haven't already if you want to make sure you've got everything (though now the gallery helps with that too if you're playing start to finish).

Ha, and glad you like the outfits. No more for this one, but there are definitely more planned for 3.

Thanks! Probably won't do anything with currency, because that's one more thing to manage and try to balance, and there's not really a need for that kind of depth: the games, even now that they're longer, are still pretty "short and sweet" by RPG standards (GT is maybe 8 hours to see everything, if you count some organic combat? That said, I certainly don't rule it out entirely; as with most things, it's largely what the story ends up dictating.

Dazzle is a highly acidic, battery-acid-with-citrus flavored energy drink, loaded with caffeine and any other number of stimulants and questionable ingredients. So yeah, more Redbull, or one of the hundreds of others out there.