💜 Insatiable Hearts [v0.24.0] - A monsterfucker+Weight gain Twine Game

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Ah ok thanks for that

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Oof, sorry for the lack of communication, its been a heck of a time lately battling illness, loss of a family member, lots of life stuff and then you know, the whole existential election garbage induced anxiety lol

Anyways, away from all that.
I’ve just updated the supporter version of the game and so I’m also updating the public version to the previous build ~

As usual you can find the changelog below and if you want the latest version and see the newest stuff ahead of time, consider supporting the game on my patreon: https://www.patreon.com/owlkaline

changelog for the current public version ~

Public Build: V0.21.4

Version 0.21.0 - (09/23/24)

Additions

  • Added new item, Astral Pearl. A rare food item found in the astral sea that can increase players lucidity, resonance and dream spall. Can be sold for a high price. These can be found in a rare event while swimming in the astral sea
  • Added a new encounter to the astral sea with the Cloudfish, a new creature that can ensare the player. For players with higher levels of lucidity there is also some additional dialog options with her and another bad end
  • Lexi has a couple new pieces of dialog when asked about Evangeline, the anchor or her name after the cloudfish encounter.
  • Added a toggle for drugs and intoxicants, currently this only really affects the scaly moss
  • The feast queens curse can now be resisted at the start, this will count players lucidity levels against their gluttony. Successful resistance allows a milder version of the curse and lets the player continue uninterrupted. Failing to resist will result in one of three “punishments” from the feast queen. Submitting will lead to the original curse effect scene.
  • Having high enough lucidity will unlock “whispers” when items are examined allowing for extra details and observations the player normally wouldn’t know.
  • Added two new TF sets, cat and fox liminals
  • Added a new item; Fox-fire flower, a vulpine TF item
  • Fox-fire flowers can now be found when exploring the meadow at night in a new scene. Standing in the swirling flowers too long will unlock an encounter with a kitsune woman and her night ritual
  • Added a new item; Cattail pods, a feline TF item
  • Cattail pods can now be found at the milk river encounter in the Meadow
  • Added some new art assets for the Feast-Queen and the start of the Foxfire scene
  • Improved species detection system and added several combination and intermidate species names for the various TFs
    ~ the introduction and lexi’s description page now include new art assets, improved lexi’s description as well
    ~ Added new art assets for the items: foxfire flower, strange dumpling, mystery meat, astral pearl and the autosklava canteen

Changes
~ Updated credits page to include top supporters
~ rewrote the roadmap page
~ Renamed the Red Abbess, Amelie to The Red Abbess, Acacia because we already have Amelie Roux, oops lol
~ The mutagen list page now displays an asterisk next to TFs that are implemented in the game to make it more clear what’s current and future content. Additionally added a few more future mutations to the list
~ More items can be purchased from the Oojinn junk merchant
~ Some of the hub locations make mention of the time of day more directly
~ Increased the affects of the breast expansion status effect as well as added addition effects to the galactogue status
~ Adjusted lexi’s description scene
~ Added missing claw and paw descriptions
~ Changed version number tracking to a more standard format as suggested by Cuddlefiend
~ Most bad ends now have more effects on player’s vice levels

Fixed
x Fixed a missing flag when traveling from the rainy town to the caldera that did not trigger it’s shortcut option in Lexi’s grotto
x Fixed several typos throughout the game as found by FireSoul, Jackie, Slime Doll and a few others
x Fixed a bugged dialog option with Renard the hunter
x Fixed an error in bethanies sex scene that caused players without cocks to have one during the orgasm scene
x Fixed an input error triggered when drinking from the astral sea
x Fixed dog tf accidentally assigning rat fur type
x Fixed some endings not raising the endings counter
x Fixed blair’s ending not affecting the player’s stats

Version 0.21.1 - (09/23/24)

Fixes
x Fixed cat and fox TFs generating random outcomes
x Fixed being unable to enter the caldera ruins on occasion

Version 0.21.2 - (09/24/24)

Fixes
x Fixed an error in the character panel tracking the depravity stat
x Fixed not being able to increase tail count
x Fixed a stray arrow sign that was popping up because of the species name check
x Fixed the missing cat and fox ear and fur TFs
x Fixed being unable to talk with Evangeline due to a missing options array

Version 0.21.3 - (09/24/24)

Additions

  • Added an option to toggle off images for those that desire it

Fixes
x Fixed cat nose being assigned from the fox nose tf
x Fixed an incorrect trigger that was causing the cat and fox leg tfs to not show up
x Fixed the cat nose type not being described in the player description
x removed the unused background swirl option from the settings menu
x Fixed a dialog formating issue with Evangeline

Version 0.21.4 - (09/25/24)

Additions

  • Added two new background assets for the standard menus, dreamweaving, thoughts, intro sequence and other unthemed areas

Fixes
x Fixed some item description issues
x Fixed some issues with Kips dialog in the shore walking scene
x Fixed players with cocks being unable to select teh option to use it during Kips egglaying scenes
x Removed unused back buttons from the relationships panel

The supporter version has added a new doll tf bad end, some frisky harpies, new art assets, some fixes and changes and the ability to consume multiple items at once. Oh, you can also hug kip now haha.

Supporter Version V0.22.0

Version 0.22.0 - (11/04/24)

Additions

  • Added a new art asset for the black ambrosia item
  • Added two new thoughts to the thoughts system, shrinking and getting taller. Each can have a minor passive affect on the player’s height over time
  • Added another thought, breast growth, this will have very minor effects on breast growth
  • Added a short encounter in the harbor where the player can occasionally hear gaurds bantering about the player. This will account for the player’s weight and species
  • Added a new encounter to the shore that leads into a new region that’ll be flesh out later. For now there is an encounter with two harpies guarding a castletown gate. The harpies can be talked to and if offered will enjoy the player’s body as a blood offering
  • Added a new encounter to the grotto where the player can find a mysterious doll. Interacting with the doll can cause a bad end, otherwise the doll can be taken and sold
  • Added art assets for royal jelly, wilderberries and broodbeast oocytes
  • Most items can now be consumed in multiples at once. Expect there to be some inconsistencies here for now
  • Kip can now be hugged which changes according to her weight. She will on occasion also request hugs from the player spontaneously
  • Lexi and Maeve can now be asked about strixen after the north coast encounter
  • Added a few new backgrounds. There is now a default back ground, a dreamweaving background and a bad end background
  • Added a new art asset for Blair’s encounter

Changes
~ Species now have an overtype for simplification on some checks, human, neph, liminal or kindred
~ Updated the harbor’s background image
~ The autosklava canteen can now be fully emptied if the player’s stomach capacity is greater than the canteen’s content

Fixed
x Fixed missing metric conversions for the tooltips
x Fixed feline and fox liminal not being listed as implemented in the mutagen menu
x Fixed the player’s escape from the meat-monger’s bunker not accounting for fitness as intended
x Fixed an error that could cause vitality to become corrupted when escaping the grand cauldron
x Fixed fitness occasionally becoming corrupted by drinking from the astral sea
x Fixed a script error when examining Amelie’s curse
x Fixed time not being calculated in one of the meatmonger scenes
x Fixed a missing continue button after successfully escaping Blair through the strength option
x Numerous grammatical and spelling mistakes fixed thanks to the help of HailBreaker & Firesoul
x Fixed being unable to leave when interacting with Fyrfli

Anyways, as always, so glad folk enjoy my work. I’ll try to be more communicative this time around lol. I’m most active over on my Discord or my socials, you know how it goes :sweat_smile:

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Hi: I’ve been thinking if its possible to add some sound effects based on stats/effects/event? smth like what elysium did?

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Nice! New stuff. Do most of the regions even have a day night cycle? I feel like a large fraction of them don’t even see the sky

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I might be stupid, but since the game has vore as a tag, can the player vore creatures?

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also, can the player join the other Melapoids once they’ve gotten roughly 95% Melapoid through mutagen?

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Not right now iirc but I do know you can get vored by npcs

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So I am having some issues with version V0.21.4, in which I’ve encountered a bug that sets my character’s vitality to “NaN”, which messes with a few game mechanics like dreamweaving. I’m not quite sure how to replicate it however since the only thing of note I can remember is that it occurred after changing my character’s clothing. I had to dig through the code a bit in order to actually find a command that could reset character vitality which is “<<set $player.vitality.current = 100>>” in case you are having the same issue I was.

Other than that this is a very well made and a genuinely interesting game from writing and world building perspective. I applaud the effort and creativity that has been poured in to the project and I can’t wait for new updates!

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I encountered the same problem, but I was able to fix it at the med-station in the swamp. For some reason your solution didn’t work for me. I think it happened around the time I put on the Melmatrian Robes, but I’m not sure.

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I did notice a bug with the most recent patreon version, and I assume it exists in the current public one as well-giving in to the queen of feasts gives food and calories proportional to your max fullness in an uncapped formula-I ended up with a weight of e86 before I decided I was getting a bit silly. The other options of resisting or pretending to resist, win or lose, does not give this result.

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Did you include the angled brackets “<<>>”? Commands won’t work without them because I retried what I had commented and it worked for me.

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god i want more blair content

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I did. I also tried including the quote marks on a later attempt.

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Well the only thing that might be that your max health isn’t equal to 100, so you can do <<set $player.vitality.max = 100>> and then <<set $player.vitality.current = 100>>

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My maximum vitality was 150.25. That must have been the problem. Thanks.

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What are the options for transformations currently? How many are there?

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12, or 13 if you count the ‘default’ Human that you start as.

You can see it if you click the ‘Mutagens’ link in your stats, it opens a new window that has completed TFs marked with an ‘*’, though there are ‘hidden’ ones like the Moojin you can get for having a combination of mutagens.

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Hello again! Still really enjoying the game, especially with the new free update that added in a few transformation items.

I had some comments and feedback I wanted to give, a few questions, and some suggestions.

From your perspective as the dev, how are the lucidity/tether mechanics supposed to function? Lucidity superficially seems to almost be a direct copy of Insight from Bloodborne, in that it’s an oddball stat you struggle to level up, that improves how you can interact and see with the world around you. It has multiple glass ceilings (such as meditation cutting you off), and will presumably have event-related ways to break past those barriers and get more.

The best current example of this being, I think, in the monastery, where you don’t even notice or see the giant pillbug trilobites wandering around until your Lucidity is at a certain threshold. That’s a really cool feature, and I hope to see more of it in the future. I think it would be very interesting if a high enough lucidity added multiple new encounters to old areas, essentially “refreshing” the zones and giving players a reason to go back and explore again.

Anyway, I presume that is the purpose of Lucidity, but with the more recent update, you’ve added a way to farm for a rare item that increases Lucidity when used. So I was curious as to where exactly you were going with Lucidity, and if the introduction of items like the pearl means you intend for Lucidity to potentially go beyond 100% eventually.

Likewise, even after all this time, I’m still a bit confused by the tether mechanic. It’s description in the tutorial makes it sound like the bar is legitimately a long-form timer to a hard game-over, and getting transformations seems to dramatically speed up the decay. That’s a very counter-intuitive mechanic for a game centered around transforming (among other things).

I must confess, I’ve never played enough on any one save to get it all the way down, and I’m not even sure if it can. I was curious as to what your intentions were with it. Is there actually supposed to be a hard timer to how long you can play one save file? Is it really punishing interacting with transformations, or is there something else going on? Are there any plans for consequences or interactions with low or high tether, and will there be a way to increase it?

As far as transformations go, last year you said this:

Most of the TFs aren’t implemented yet

The current sets are Nepharsi, Geckling, Melapoid, Cow liminal, Dog liminal, Rat liminal, Pig liminal, Grease Kindred and Oojinn and the combinations there in

Gourmander will be among the Insatia TFs coming down the line, as in the demon TFs that change depending on players Vice levels, this one being gluttony based

Sorry all the other TFs on the list are just teases for now haha
I have two suggestions I’d like to make here, and both of them center around the (very) few things Fenoxo got right with Corruption of Champions.

One of the things that kept CoC so fun, in spite of how very unfun Fenoxo kept making the game, was that even from the start, there were a lot of transformation items, and each item had a lot of different things it could do to you.

There were cosmetic changes for people to chase, both minor and major. Exotic ears and tails, sharper teeth, a variety of different claws, different eyes, ect. And there were things that were simply direct buffs with no real downside: many items had a decent chance to just raise some of your stats that were thematically associated with the creature in question, like boosting strength or dexterity by 3-5, or just making you a rolls-dice amount of centimeters taller. If you were a man, many, many things gave you a bigger dick and balls (as far as I can tell, nothing in Insatiable Hearts currently does), and women PCs likewise had a similar reaction, with about half the items in the game capable of giving you bigger breasts or a curvier figure, if you had them.

(Obviously, you were intended to go full herm and rape everything back in an orgy of sadomascistic violence, because that was Fenoxo’s fetish, but we won’t dwell on that.)

For me, at least, this was about 90% of the good content in CoC, and 100% of the reason to keep playing it. And I’m not even a transformation fetishist, I just thought it was neat to play with. When I got tired of doing the things Fenoxo wanted me to do, I’d spend hours collecting items and then using them on myself, trying to turn into some highly specific chimera with all the ‘cool’ traits, like shark’s teeth, dragon horns, lion’s mane hair, 9 fox tails, and still possessing a vanilla human face.

A much harder combo than you’d think, the shark transformations could do about three different things that destroyed fox tails, and you had to get the tails first because you’d get fox canines by the time you got all 9, there was no way around it. You had to be basically a full fox-morph to become a 9-tailed fox, but you were allowed to keep the tail bouquet if you went full fox and then took OTHER items to turn you into something else. Just as long as you save scummed to avoid getting another tail that would override it (with sharks, the shark tail AND the shark fin on your back transformations BOTH removed the fox tails).

In CoC, playing with transformations was where most of the fun was, and a big part of that was because most of the transformation items were RELATIVELY safe, in the sense that you’d have to go very far down one particular road to start getting into the really weird things (it took a lot of hits from the horse table to become a centaur, that transformation was very rare, and rightfully so). It also didn’t feel very permanent, or like it was degrading your character.

In CoC, I’d often go very far down one transformation line, pursuing a specific cool trait or feature, then once I had it, take other transformations to counteract and remove things I didn’t like, or start chasing some other cool feature from another transformation.

That’s the sort of thing I’d find myself doing in CoC, and it’s also something I don’t really find myself doing in Insatiable Hearts, because most of the transformations in IH are rather severe in nature (at least compared to what CoC had), and the tables they use don’t seem to have many ‘innocent’ transformations, like small stat bumps or very minor cosmetic shifts.

CoC transformations were a lot of small building blocks you could go hunting for, with the occasional lit stick of dynamite mixed into the bag. Meanwhile, many transformations in Insatiable Hearts are radical alterations, like immediately turning all of your skin to slime with greasekin, or jumping any minor changes and going straight to full blueberry.

This isn’t nearly the problem it could be, because you can just backspace in IS. There’s also a “return me to vanilla human” option, which is a very good feature. But overall, the transformations do feel a bit lackluster.

You also have the percentage mechanic, which I’m really not a huge fan of, because gaining any amount of it seems to permanently put options from those tables onto any mutation event you undergo.

I know you’re progressing at your own pace, and I appreciate that. But if you’re open to feedback on short-term development, I do think that the game should have more transformative items, and that each item should have more things it can do to the player, including low-impact things like:

“You gain a bit of mass as both your muscles and magic swell; the fading vision of a smirking demon blowing you a kiss crosses your mind.”

“You get a bit fatter, and your stomach capacity increases. A faint scent of grease/berries wafts from your mouth.”

And so forth, and so on.

Also, it’s a bit weird to ask, but would it be possible to add a toggle in the settings so that people continue to refer to you as human, no matter what? I get why some people might like your dynamic system, but one of the other few things I liked about CoC was how everyone almost always recognized you as human, because even if you were heavily mutated and mismatched, you still obviously weren’t from that world.

I figure the toggle could simply be added to “Pronouns” as a “Species Pronoun: Always Human” option.

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Hey folks, been forever! I’ve been dealing with a lot of things in my life as of late, long story (job insecurity, money trouble, getting ready to move states, changing legal documents, enjoying some nice dates with a bunch of lovely people lol, lots of things). But finally updated!

The supporter version is now version 0.23.0 and includes: a new date (gracie the deer milf), 2 new bad ends (droneification and unbirth), 2 new tf sets (plant and doll), new items, a couple new areas, new art assets and more ~

Supporter Version Changelog:

Supporter Version Changelog:
Version 0.23.0 - (03/31/25)

Additions
+ Added a short encounter to the astral sea, a mutagenic rain cloud
+ Added an upstairs area to the bar, the player can check some of the guest rooms and occasionally steal money from unattended rooms
+ Added several new backgrounds and art assets for areas of the bar and the temple of melmatria
+ Added a new encounter to the grotto with the Queen of Blackhearts that leads to a drone TF bad end. Escaping the queen will leave you marked for later
+ Being marked by the Queen of Blackhearts will cause a small handful of flavor scene to occur in the bar and other areas, this currently has no other effect
+ Added a new encounter to the swamp, a patch of carnivorous plants with fruit. The fruit can be collected or the central mass can be interacted with to taste its nectar and experience a new bad end
+ Added a new item Droserad fruit which causes a new plant based tf
+ Added a new species transformation set; Droserad, including new changes to skin, head, limbs, photosynthesis and more
+ Added a new species transformation set: Doll; including new skin, hair, limb and other effects
+ Added a new encounter to the bar, Gracie Hart the deer woman with a missing friend. This is setup to the beginning of Blair's quest.
+ Added a new item, "old photo", a quest item given by Gracie
+ Added art assets for milkbloom petals, droserad fruit and the old photo
+ Like the heart meter for some characters, there is now a weight meter that shows how close they are the current maximum for that character. Currently this is only for Kip, Amelie and Gracie
+ Gracie can be courted and have dinner ordered for her
+ Gracie has 5 stages of weight gain with respective art that shows on her examination page

Changes
~ Increased maximum photosynthesis level to 10, up from 5
~ The dubious doll now has an interaction scene when used from the inventory as well as causing an increase in lucidity and sloth
~ Status effects that stack without specified timers will now add 10 minutes per level to the base effects timer
~ The player can now consult self and milk self while in the melmatrian temple

Fixes
x Time now passes while exploring the grotto as its supposed to
x Breast weight described in the max breast size now will properly show in kilograms when in metric mode
x Fixed some errors with Laurent effect player's capacity
x Several typo fixes as reported by community members hailbreaker, slime doll and firesoul
x Fixed Delphi's quest not being removed after it's completed

As for the public version, 0.22.1 you’ll find some new art assets, a new doll tf bad end, some frisky harpies on the coast and a couple of other goodies like being able to consume multiple items at once or give Kip a hug, lol

Public Version Changelog

Version 0.22.0 - (11/04/24)

Additions

  • Added a new art asset for the black ambrosia item
  • Added two new thoughts to the thoughts system, shrinking and getting taller. Each can have a minor passive affect on the player’s height over time
  • Added another thought, breast growth, this will have very minor effects on breast growth
  • Added a short encounter in the harbor where the player can occasionally hear gaurds bantering about the player. This will account for the player’s weight and species
  • Added a new encounter to the shore that leads into a new region that’ll be flesh out later. For now there is an encounter with two harpies guarding a castletown gate. The harpies can be talked to and if offered will enjoy the player’s body as a blood offering
  • Added a new encounter to the grotto where the player can find a mysterious doll. Interacting with the doll can cause a bad end, otherwise the doll can be taken and sold
  • Added art assets for royal jelly, wilderberries and broodbeast oocytes
  • Most items can now be consumed in multiples at once. Expect there to be some inconsistencies here for now
  • Kip can now be hugged which changes according to her weight. She will on occasion also request hugs from the player spontaneously
  • Lexi and Maeve can now be asked about strixen after the north coast encounter
  • Added a few new backgrounds. There is now a default back ground, a dreamweaving background and a bad end background
  • Added a new art asset for Blair’s encounter

Changes
~ Species now have an overtype for simplification on some checks, human, neph, liminal or kindred
~ Updated the harbor’s background image
~ The autosklava canteen can now be fully emptied if the player’s stomach capacity is greater than the canteen’s content

Fixed
x Fixed missing metric conversions for the tooltips
x Fixed feline and fox liminal not being listed as implemented in the mutagen menu
x Fixed the player’s escape from the meat-monger’s bunker not accounting for fitness as intended
x Fixed an error that could cause vitality to become corrupted when escaping the grand cauldron
x Fixed fitness occasionally becoming corrupted by drinking from the astral sea
x Fixed a script error when examining Amelie’s curse
x Fixed time not being calculated in one of the meatmonger scenes
x Fixed a missing continue button after successfully escaping Blair through the strength option
x Numerous grammatical and spelling mistakes fixed thanks to the help of HailBreaker & Firesoul
x Fixed being unable to leave when interacting with Fyrfli

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New update is awesome but quick bug report, the new deer character in supporter build whenever talked to repeats the same first entry dialogue. When given the quest item it shows up as an error and I am unable to get any progress with the character/

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