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mothfable.bsky.social
@mothfable.bsky.social
Game developer, certified adult(mid gen z), YouTuber and all around goober (moth)man. Stop by and say hello, but be prepared for blabbing.
Holy shit is that uncle Lenny in the back?
November 21, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Now the force is truly with us all!
November 18, 2024 at 5:05 AM
-personally, and let me know if I can help). Glad to have a place where I can really get this stuff out, I will likely do this kinda thing more in the future(though it will be as yappy if not more then it is here, that I don’t think I can help lol)
Till next time,
a drawing of a moth with the words thank-you written on it
ALT: a drawing of a moth with the words thank-you written on it
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November 18, 2024 at 4:59 AM
-and completing this step of its life cycle.

I’m not sure how much this game counts as a mascot horror, but this is an idea I’ve had in my head vaguely for a while that I really refined here. Feel free to yoink it or parts of it if you see fit (though if so do keep me updated on progress-
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 AM
-get a boss fight, and it ends with you hurting this being enough that it retreats to its shell, to continue sleeping and gestating. You stay behind in the building to guard it and ensure that it can gestate in full and is able to awaken as it should, returning to its home world-
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 AM
-state of the hatchery, to ensure all is right and fix what isn’t. At 1-25% it turns your hard augmented parts against you, using your pain and agony as a sacrifice to communicate with its parents. In 5 years time they will enter this world, and they will make what is wrong right. At 0% you-
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 AM
-using your old body as a shell that allows it to sneak past the seals keeping it locked within, to begin its plan of bringing the parents through into this world. At 75-100% magrea consumes your physical form, opening a portal to its home plane that its parents might come and inspect the-
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 AM
-it’s soul. Magrea enters the pieces, fusing with them to return this strange being to reality. Now comes the three endings, with the cutoff being the amount of hard augments you have. At 25-75% hard augments magrea instead enters your body, fusing the pieces of its old body to you,-
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 AM
-companion, magrea. Backing up real quick (since I’m literally writing this as I go), magrea finds you early in the game and guides you, posing as an artificial intelligence left in the building to help run things. In reality magrea is the last, immaterial part of this creature,-
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 AM
-and guide you through strange places to reach deeper areas of the facility. Eventually at the bottom, the site of its entry, you place its pieces on the platform once used to harness the eggs power in order to stop the lockdown, but this is revealed to have been a trick, perpetrated by your-
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 AM
-and diggo(a boss found at the bottom of the complex, fused with the egg shells and twisted nearly beyond any form of recognition) its potential and its growth, interrupted forever and untouched in eternity. As you kill these pieces one by one they enable you to use their special abilities-
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 AM
Maggie(a boss who sits within an area it has shaped to look like a poor copy of its home world, and who’s orders you must obey to get a chance to kill it and fancies itself a destined ruler) it’s homesickness and longing for the fate it deserves-
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 AM
Throughout the game you have been fighting and dealing with the four animatronics, each representing a different part of the creatures being. Buckly is its unending hate, Crawdice(a boss you must hunt down and trap before killing it as it constantly runs) its fear-
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 AM
-lashed out, causing a massive disaster. The machines tore through the facility, and where they went damage in reality followed. The researchers that escaped detonated charges to block off the lower facility and find time to bind the building in sigils keeping the machines from leaving.
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 AM
-they broke the golden goose and brought out the still gestating young within. They cut it into pieces, and as a sort of cruel joke placed these pieces inside the shells of each animatronic mascot as tests for the power sources. Unfortunately, the youth in its rage and confusion and fear-
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 AM
Eventually you discover that the being within the egg is not what was contained within Buckly as you were led to believe, but a piece of it. The researchers had an egg of unknowable power that could be harnessed, but readings showed that within the egg lay more untapped power. And so in their greed-
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 AM
-speak of an entity within a shell, an immense power source and a machine to contain this being. They speak of dark deeds of violence, wicked acts of torment, and a slowly creeping doom which seeped over the team and the lab.
SPOILER TYPE SHIT NEXT POST!!
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 AM
-our plane intrude. You find notes scattered around, logs from scientists concerning their research into technology concerning these things beyond our world. Powers to harness it, technologies to wield it, and the strange abilites of hard augments begin to make sense. These logs however begin to-
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 AM
Now some important lil kinda extraneous details: as you go further down the facility the environments become less factory and more.. warped. As if reality itself is bending, twisting, cracking. Between the cracks and creases and edges and grooves in reality strange things from beyond-
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 AM
On the other hand the more augments you have the more it plays like a traditional Metroidvania. Running around, parkouring, blasting enemies in tense combat, you know it and you love it.
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 AM
If your playstyle has you take no hard augments then you will be playing sneaky. You will be stealthing past F.R.I.E.N.D.S, sneak attacking them, hacking them to help you, using the environment against them, etc. with this playstyle it’s more like a survival horror game or thief.
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 AM
-the more hard augments you have. Berkly himself is an unkillable yet fluffy menace who can only be temporarily stopped and escaped, but never truly killed. Now you might be asking: “detection? On the basic enemies? What kind of Metroid esc game is this?”. Simple, it’s a more stealth oriented one.
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 AM
For burkly specifically, he wanders through areas you have opened to you, and will occasionally send out pings. The more hard augments you have the larger the radius, shorter the ping intervals and longer you are marked for him. For F.R.I.E.N.D.S they have more aggressive and reliable detection-
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 AM
How is it more dangerous you ask? Shrimple, the F.R.I.E.N.D.S(Automated Security, Kindness and Defense, and I know the acronym doesn’t match, it’s intentional) and Burkly(the main mascot threat) can detect your position better the more augments you have.
November 18, 2024 at 4:59 AM