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I'm Not a Doll

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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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CURRENT BUGS:

  • Title screen music does not play upon first entering the title screen.
  • Intro dialogue is the wrong font on replay after good ending.


I'll work on fixing these! Thanks for playing!


-Theta

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Wow, this was quite the experience! Certainly an interesting twist on the classic dress-up game and a very personal and powerful exploration of sexuality, gender roles, societal expectations, the list goes on!

It's technically a rather simple game, and a short one at that, but I was surprised at how much I got sucked into it! Tried my best to think of what clothes might fit best and really got into my own head on whether I'm being too forceful in trying to make them fit my style or societal norms when that might not be their style, and so on. Eventually we settled on something, only to get the inevitable bad ending where we just can't please the public no matter what we do. That "thanks, anyway" at the end was so tragic!

It's there that I made the mistake of experimenting with other outfits, curious as to whether we could change the ending by pleasing at least some of the nay-sayers in the crowd by focusing on attributes they were hinting at. What a fool I was! Didn't I start this off by thinking that I should pick what they themselves like, not what society likes! Why should we pander to those slack-jawed dimwits!? As you might guess, this led to me trying on the sexy outfit, and boy did I regret that! Very much an Undertale moment: just because you can explore every option, doesn't mean you have to!

So yeah, quite the showing for a first game: very experimental, emotional, and surprisingly powerful!

In terms of feedback, there's a weird bug where the font will no longer be stylized on replay for some reason, and the screen is way too big and should be shrunk down to a more manageable size.

Thetageist responds:

Aware of the bugs, I’ll be fixing those asap when I have the time.

Thank you so much for trying out the game and for this thoughtful review! I’m glad the game was effective!

Great game with a great message. Thanks for using my music, too; that track fits perfectly with the theme of this :]

Thetageist responds:

Eyy, thank you! I’m so happy you enjoyed it!

@Creeperforce24 recommended me your stuff while I was trying to find music for the game, so shoutout to him too.

This game's message is compelling. Nothing else to say. Keep up the excellent work!

Thetageist responds:

Thank you! There will be more where this came from!

I liked it actually.
Got 3 endings! Add medals :)

Thetageist responds:

I want to! I don’t know how yet, but I will eventually!

i love this so much!! the art is so cute and even if it's a short game it still has a super cool story!❤️

Thetageist responds:

Thank you!

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Votes
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Score
4.01 / 5.00

Uploaded
Nov 30, 2024
11:37 AM EST
Software
  • GameMaker Studio
  • Procreate