Impy

You can exit out of a puzzle map at any time by pressing "k". Some puzzle maps are quite hard. There are multiple solutions available, but I can offer some hints for good opening moves:

Sneaky bats: Try opening with a sleep spell aimed at the top group and changing the directions of the two bottom bats.

Armored Spiral: Swap with Ebrem, send the bat and slime that are approaching Fei to the top, walk outwards along the spiral to regroup.

Tower Defense: Send Kobu along the path down, then Fei into a counterclockwise loop. Clearing the first group of 4 mice is very important, keep Kobu on the rightmost edge to hit multiple ones.

Island Hopping: Swap with the mouse mage using a sleep spell. Follow grey mouse until it's lined up with the snail and swap using reflection spell. Shoot the snail with a direction swap spell to bounce it at Ebrem to rescue him. Remove shield from grey mouse using healing spell and rotate it around on your next turn. Heal Fei and make her face top to swap with the mouse mage. Rotate slime sentinel to help Ebrem defeat it. Help Fei defeat the grey mouse at the top. Bring Ebrem to the central island to defeat the mice there (Fei has a tough time because of her spell). Clean up using Fei.

Medical Crisis: Send Kobu down, move down and support her with a strong healing spell. Move right and turn the bat left to save Fei. Turn Ebrem to move to the top. Send Fei to sustain Sophie until you can send Kobu down to shoot the slime.

Waiting for Kobu: Turn the snail around when it comes close to keep it out of the way. Turn Sophie right, and support her as you make your way right. Make Kobu go back as soon as she's in range. Use your extra spells to get Sophie out of any bad situations that arise and try to clear some of the enemies (with good timing and planning, only the mouse mage and snail will remain by the time Kobu comes).

Surrounded: Turn Fei left. Put a ward on Kobu. Charm the top slime. Turn the snail around. Turn the charmed slime right. Make your way towards Sophie, turn Kobu and Sophie away from the enemies they're fighting. Cleanup shouldn't be too hard after this opener.

Around the Loop: Turn Sophie towards you, follow Kobu. Swap with Kobu and turn the slime sentinel around. Move to the top-left corner of the lake, let Sophie fight until a 2 tile gap forms between you and Kobu. Swap with Kobu. Support Sophie with healing, turn Kobu to fight the bat, turn Sophie around after the bat bishop is defeated and regroup. Keep Kobu from running away on her own, and you should be in good shape for an easy cleanup.

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Plight of the Priestess comments · Replied to joelzhunter in Plight of the Priestess comments

Impy16 days ago

I'm really hoping that the Godot engine fixes this soon. I will update the game to 4.4 when it comes out in hopes that the issue is resolved. It's an internal problem of some sort related to hardware, and I can't even attempt to find a workaround for the bug because I can't see it.

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Monster Monsoon comments · Replied to mariolo2342 in Monster Monsoon comments

Impy16 days ago

I've briefly tried adding android support for some of my games, but I don't think it's possible because of how many different resolutions mobile devices can have. Pixel art graphics look best if they are scaled up evenly. There are also a variety of other difficulties involved.

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Familiar Finders comments · Replied to googoobootybuttblast in Familiar Finders comments

Impy18 days ago

Thank you! I've got lots more planned for 2025!

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Girlfriend Saves the City comments · Replied to Sparta52 in Girlfriend Saves the City comments

Impy20 days ago

Finish the game at least once. To do this you will need to clear every "key incident" encounter around the city.

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Girlfriend Saves the City comments · Replied to Pintogrosso1221 in Girlfriend Saves the City comments

Impy38 days ago

Yes, one of the characters is a futa, and another can become one in one of the endings.

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Secrets of the Bastion comments · Replied to Nothingspecial007 in Secrets of the Bastion comments

Impy40 days ago

I really appreciated hearing your thoughts, I'm glad that you found the time to share them! I like to offer suggestions in my own comments when I review games too, and I can certainly understand wanting to see a game that you liked get polished to perfection. I hope that the sequel can offer a bit of something that the first game missed out on!

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Secrets of the Bastion comments · Replied to Nothingspecial007 in Secrets of the Bastion comments

Impy40 days ago

Thank you for your kind words and suggestions! When making my games I aim to get them done in a reasonable time frame and make sure that each update has meaningful additions in as many areas of the game as possible. Because of this, I usually can't devote much more than a single update towards just the endings. Closing projects before I become dispassionate about my work is very important to me, so I try to wrap things up before I run out of stuff that I'm enthusiastic to add. While I agree with a lot of your ideas, I can only add a bit of the stuff that's "cool to have" before development time runs out. Generally I try to add some sort of reward for avoiding the NTR scenarios, but I don't think I can make a bunch of full big routes out of the concept with the time that I have.

A sequel is planned for next year, and I think it may expand some of the areas you're proposing. I'm making no early promises about the new game before I actually start making it, but keeping and improving upon most of the gameplay is a major goal.

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Familiar Finders comments · Replied to Zakko in Familiar Finders comments

Impy48 days ago

I'm glad I could help, and thank you for understanding my reasoning regarding climax animations. It's just something that's quite a bit easier to make in still illustrations than animations, so I feel that I would end up sacrificing too much time from other events to add them.

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Familiar Finders comments · Replied to Zakko in Familiar Finders comments

Impy48 days ago

Hello, thank you for playing, and for all of the feedback!

I don't know if there's a good way to promote more experimentation with spells, but I have been thinking of making the familiars start you with two types of magic instead of one to help set up some synergistic combinations. I can probably find a way to add a bit more clarity regarding spells to the gallery.

The best way to guarantee stage 3 carrot patches is to take Fluf as your goddess, but you're right, the appearance of obstacles in stage 3 areas have not been fully balanced as of yet. Due to the way things have been coded, it's difficult for me to provide full info about the stages from the map menu. Back in Summer Sweepers I manually counted everything in each map to give the hints that way, but it's a lot of work and requires constant upkeep as things get changed.

Fruit picking is something I want to explain in the upcoming tutorial. I've managed to get the basics of custom map support working last week, so I should be able to make a playable tutorial map that teaches all of the more obscure mechanics.

Climax animations would be an amazing addition, but unfortunately they are also difficult to make. Over the past two years I've been easing into animating everything, and there's barely enough time each month just to get a basic set of new events done. I am getting better at this, and I have a talented animator helping me, unfortunately I think that climax animations are unlikely to be added to Familiar Finders. I want to finish the game before the end of Spring in 2025, and I will need most of my available time for getting all of the scouting and spell animations done alongside the final batch of gameplay additions and other specialized events.

I hope that my responses are not disappointing, I hope to address the issues as well as I can in the time that I have.

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Plight of the Priestess comments · Replied to Rayji in Plight of the Priestess comments

Impy48 days ago

It was mostly intended as a small project to learn the Godot engine, but it's received enough support to get a couple of updates.

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Checkmate Charmers comments · Replied to Sanjimaniaxx in Checkmate Charmers comments

Impy49 days ago

Sorry for the confusion, this game will be completed in the next update. I honestly forgot that Itch had a project status option, I should probably make better use of it, especially since I like to set the version numbers as sequential releases rather than zero-point-something.

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Familiar Finders comments · Replied to GethLivesMatter in Familiar Finders comments

Impy50 days ago

Thank you, I'm happy to hear that you liked it! I think this game's got around 3 updates left to go. Before it's done I would like to add a few challenging final map areas, a puzzle solving mode, and lots of additional animations!

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Familiar Finders comments · Replied to JLuix in Familiar Finders comments

Impy69 days ago

I love making games, thank you for playing them!

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Familiar Finders comments · Replied to GreenNight9 in Familiar Finders comments

Impy79 days ago

I have seen bug for issues that seem to be computer hardware related, but I don't think full crashes at the start have been reported. If you are running the game on Windows, try the win32 version, but this is most likely some sort of issue related to the Godot engine rather than something I can fix on my end.

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TF Card Battle comments · Replied to Apollo Seven in TF Card Battle comments

Impy80 days ago

The story mode is really great and I've had a very fun time unlocking everything, but it's nice to play with the multiple transformations for more than a single round and to see how far a character can be taken. Endless mode gives something new and aspirational to do after the main story is complete.

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TF Card Battle comments · Replied to Apollo Seven in TF Card Battle comments

Impy81 days ago

I'm surprised and glad to hear that you played Summer Sweepers! Do you think that TF Card Battle may still get updated in the future? I would be very happy to see a small expansion that make endless mode more repeatable!

One suggestion that I forgot to mention is that the "take an extra turn" cards should get discarded on use. They're the main thing that allows infinite combos in endless.

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TF Card Battle comments · Posted in TF Card Battle comments

Impy81 days ago

I thought I'd try this game out for 10 minutes, and after tens of hours and many fun evenings I am still discovering new strategies. The gameplay is dangerously addictive! The "pictures from around the net" style feels a bit nostalgic to me, I like it. Even if some of the central sexual themes are not fully my thing, there are lots of choices and variety.

I know that I'm a bit late to the party, but I really hope that you still have plans to release updates! I would love to see an anime variant for the last few cards that don't have it (mostly for Magical Boi, my favorite dual transformation). The endless mode could use a +1 TF damage per level scaling for the bosses and maybe an extra power for the regular opponents every four levels or so (I went infinite with a few combinations). A list of highscores for endless mode would also be a welcome addition. The only major thing I recommend for card balance is to give a 2xTF effect to an expensive late-game card in the default collection to open up more options for players to take different sets (2xTF is absolutely necessary for any strategy in endless mode and is great in story mode too). A final bit of polish and some small bug fixes, and I think this can become one of the games I'll keep coming back to for many years!

Thank you for all of the fun, this is a truly excellent game!

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Familiar Finders comments · Replied to WhiteWhiskey in Familiar Finders comments

Impy85 days ago

Items from your inventory are used only if they are selected (blue gem above), and if they have any power on the target encounter (amount of red gems above). Selection defaults back to hand if you attempt scouting with an unusable item. Some encounters will give you a different reward if you finish scouting with a specific item (animals give you coins for food and trees give you fruit when using sticks or rocks).

I'd like to add a tutorial that explains everything in a playable level, I just need to figure out some code stuff for getting custom maps working right.

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Summer Sweepers comments · Replied to toadusbattlus in Summer Sweepers comments

Impy87 days ago

I always appreciate constructive criticism, especially when it's clear that the player was actively engaged. I'm happy to see your response! My games are quite niche in terms of how they are played, and the stories they tell, so they can't (and weren't meant to) reach absolutely everyone, but I do try to get a few more players on board when I see an opportunity. Difficulty is something that I can offer more options for on my end to allow more players to have fun, so it's certainly a very reasonable concern!

Try some of my other games if you have the time, perhaps one of them can offer a more fulfilling experience!

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Summer Sweepers comments · Replied to toadusbattlus in Summer Sweepers comments

Impy88 days ago

Thanks for playing! It's unfortunate that the difficulty was off-putting and led to a bad experience, the various mechanics of my games can be obtuse for players at times. This was my first major project and I think I've gotten a bit better at making things more accessible since. The hidden text was probably not the best decision, I haven't brought it back in any of my other works.

If you want to try the game with a bit of a power boost, you can modify your save file to get more stars, it's located in C:\Users\*USERNAME*\AppData\LocalLow\Impy\Sweeper. Set all map awards to "true" in the awards.sav file to get more starting options. It's always disheartening to hear from players who are enjoying the premise of one of my projects but find some aspects of the gameplay troublesome, I'm sorry about that.

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⭐V3 Announced! comments · Replied to Nekolag in ⭐V3 Announced! comments

Impy115 days ago

It's probably nearing the end of development, but I think that the game has a fair bit to offer now. The amount of events has doubled after this update, Kate gets to peep, and there are a few scenes with 3 characters in them too now. I want to focus heavily on events in v4 again and hopefully give at least one to each possible pairing.

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⭐V3 Released! comments · Replied to Nekolag in ⭐V3 Released! comments

Impy115 days ago

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it! Hopefully the new save system will stay compatible with future updates to help returning players get back into the action quicker.

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Baths Beats and Futas comments · Posted in Baths Beats and Futas comments

Impy118 days ago

Really cute characters, I love them! Since you make your own game music, a rhythm game is a really good choice. It reminds me of Tropical Space, but focusing on a single type of mini-game rather than multiple ones feels like a better choice for a short game jam.

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Checkmate Charmers comments · Replied to Flair in Checkmate Charmers comments

Impy125 days ago

Yes, it's the total number of captured pieces needed for reaching the ending. The ending event does not have to be clicked right away after it appears, you can play as much as you like!

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Light, Gather, and Seek comments · Posted in Light, Gather, and Seek comments

Impy130 days ago

Nice game idea with a lovingly pixelated art style! The toggle for the window view of the mansion is a fun touch, maybe it could show character silhouettes for the searchers and a hint for what Sara's doing after she's been found? Since the game is all about who finds her first, it may benefit from some way to control your opponent's actions. Maybe there could be some bonus items to find or room interactions that change the map in some way to alter what the others are doing?

Thank you for making this game, it's a fun little adventure!

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⭐V3 Announced! comments · Replied to desfore in ⭐V3 Announced! comments

Impy135 days ago

You'll receive a familiar egg and there will be a little dialogue event the first time it happens.

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Monster Monsoon comments · Replied to WhiteWhiskey in Monster Monsoon comments

Impy136 days ago

Hiding impossible item combinations is a good suggestion. If I make another patch, that's certainly something I can look into.

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Monster Monsoon comments · Replied to WhiteWhiskey in Monster Monsoon comments

Impy136 days ago

Thank you! You can track who makes what using the phone, but I guess that I never really added hint text for item names after they are purchased.

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Girlfriend Saves the City comments · Replied to WhiteWhiskey in Girlfriend Saves the City comments

Impy136 days ago

I generally agree. The combat system was hastily reworked during the game jam after the original physics-based concept didn't work as well as I had hoped. I think I've done enough to rescue the game, but it's still somewhat flawed in the way everything fits together. You can find sketches and prototype screenshots of the original idea in the "Past Work and Future Plans" devlog.

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Checkmate Charmers comments · Replied to SCALIVER in Checkmate Charmers comments

Impy149 days ago

Quite soon! I'm using a new engine, so things weren't well configured for gallery setups, but I'll add them over the next couple of updates. Every game will get a gallery before it's done.

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Plight of the Priestess comments · Replied to bucicarnoase in Plight of the Priestess comments

Impy152 days ago

Unfortunately none that I know of. Custom screen sizes were not working right in the browser version, and I had to disable them. I hope that someday the menu breaking bug either gets fixed by the Godot team, or that I can find a workaround. It's a tricky issue to fix because I can't see if the solution I'm trying does anything because the bug isn't there on any computer that I have access to.

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⭐V2 Released! comments · Replied to Syndair in ⭐V2 Released! comments

Impy155 days ago

Thank you! I can guarantee at least one more update this year. I have a lot of ideas for stuff that I want to add, but not all of them have enough time make their way into my smaller games.

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⭐V2 Released! comments · Replied to joelzhunter in ⭐V2 Released! comments

Impy159 days ago

Darn. That's really disappointing news. Godot just got updated too, but I guess that the cause of this issue remains. I still don't have a good clue as to why this can even happen, the interface elements that get moved are not set up in any special way. If this doesn't happen in Familiar Finders, it could have something to do with the fact that menus get hidden rather than deleted in Plight of the Priestess and Checkmate Charmers. Maybe it gets initially loaded in some wrong way on some computers, so only the elements that are immediately visible are effected?

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Monster Monsoon comments · Replied to Berux_x in Monster Monsoon comments

Impy165 days ago

Probably not, it's proven to be too difficult in my experiments with the concept. The map is too small and unreliable and there are issues related to resolutions and scaling that are not easy to resolve. This is probably an easier game to fit into mobile devices than my newer pixelated games, but it's still a lot of work and I'm not sure if I'll ever find the time.

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Secrets of the Bastion comments · Replied to DesertCorn in Secrets of the Bastion comments

Impy175 days ago

I'm glad that you have enjoyed it! A sequel is actually planned, I'm hoping to start developing it in late Autumn of this year. It will probably be less of a direct sequel and more of an alternative story. I'm not too good with localizing games, but most of them can be hooked to a translation tool of some sort.

Steam releases for some of my games are planned, but they will still be completely free. If you want to support my work financially, the best way to do so is through SubscribeStar, but it's completely optional, my games become available to everyone after a month of early access. Secrets of the Bastion and the planned sequel sadly won't appear on Steam because the sexual content goes against their policy in some parts.

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Maya's Mission v0.3.1 comments · Posted in Maya's Mission v0.3.1 comments

Impy181 days ago

The writing style and gameplay are wonderfully matched to the Ace Attorney series, they've definitely got me feeling a bit nostalgic! The tracking camera is a very fun mechanic and adds quite a surprising variety of little bonus events for players to discover. I really enjoyed the first two chapters, and I'm looking to completing my card collection as the game is expanded. Thank you for making this game, you've done a great job!

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Familiar Finders comments · Replied to skcid in Familiar Finders comments

Impy182 days ago

Scouting the rival splits the party in the next map. Companions get taken if adjacent to the rival, otherwise Piper gets taken and you play as the companion. Scouting with 1 open tile around the target will guarantee that Piper is chosen, while scouting with 2-4 guarantees that his companion is chosen. Only your final scouting action counts and as of v2 spells can also trigger this interaction.

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Tropical Trader comments · Replied to Uskprod in Tropical Trader comments

Impy183 days ago

No, I think I had 3 scales. Getting 2 or 3 is probably the average point that players will reach without further motivation since that's about how long it takes to scout the map, interact with all the traders a few times, and explore the game mechanics. I can definitely understand the limitations for games made on a time budget, this is a lot of 9 days of work!

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Tropical Trader comments · Posted in Tropical Trader comments

Impy184 days ago

The idea is very neat and you've built good controls to support it! The overall game is probably a bit long for what you do in it, but there's definitely enough going on to get players to collect at least a couple of scales. Something extra like mobile obstacles, random events and different poses for the traders could extend player engagement for a longer play session.

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