Chapter Three Live


Chapter Three of the Night Market is available for everyone now!  Each route is completely different from the other (aside from you needing some new clothes).  Spend some time with your favorite RO and go on an outing with them to discover more about their past. :)  Hope you all enjoy!

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Jun 30, 2022

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Hi, just wanted to let you know that I'm really loving this game so far! I'm following the Gabriel route with my female MC and really loving the dynamic (love the guy already, especially that aphrodisiac scene!). Hopefully there will be more chances to be disobedient and shake him up, cos that's always hella fun! :D

That being said, I had an observation and idea I thought I'd share. While reading there was one detail that felt a little odd to me (but maybe I'm just misunderstanding), and two instances of it.
The first (well, technically second but it's what got me to thinking) is when you go out to dinner with Gabriel and he asks you whether you want Italian or Greek, I found that a little odd seeing as I thought there'd be more of a focus on cuisines from some of the weird and wonderful dimensions out there, considering the 'otherworldly' setting and the plethora of choice you get in markets? I figured maybe Gabriel would offer some otherworldly choices to MC that are perfectly normal to him by now, see MC's puzzled stare, and then realize that of course MC's never tried these things, and store it away as something he could be the one to introduce her to (maybe when they actually get to have that dinner!). Is there any celestial cuisine in the Night Market (may be a great thing for them to bond over - his memories and MC's enjoyment of a food he loves/loved from home)? Or maybe some foods that can have a weird effect on the human system (good or bad) that could make for a fun/funny/scary scene? In that vein maybe MC can discover they have an allergy to some otherworldly food (to inject some serious drama, including the fear and guilt that RO may feel in having introduced them to the food that endangered their life - even if it was done unknowingly).
The other instance was during chapter 1, when Milo and MC eat Chinese (iirc?) at that noodle stand. Actually, when I first read that I thought there'd be something otherworldly about the noodles that further pushed the idea that nothing is as it seems in this place MC finds themselves. Like making MC feel even more displaced. 
Or am I misunderstanding and human/earth visitors are common enough that earth cuisines is a well-known or even prevalent thing there?
In any case, I figured it wouldn't hurt to mention this, since I think fictional foods are just one way, but a great way, to make a game set in an alien setting feel that much more bizarre/fascinating/interesting while bringing people together in the experience.

Oh! Also, just as an additional note, I noticed a number of spelling mistakes along the way that you may have missed because they may not have been flagged due to being correct words in their own right. Two from the latest chapter that I recall are, 'tress' instead of 'trees' when MC first enters the market to buy clothes, and 'staging' instead of 'staying' when Gabriel is talking about where he came from and why he's no longer there.

Anyway, I can't wait for the next update! I'm really loving all four main characters so far, especially Hazel (who's lovely and still bff material) and Gabriel (best boy)! :)

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Hi, thank you for reading and thank you so much for your input. The food situation is going to be addressed.  Right now, you are in a very human environment. Things in this area are going to be more familiar, more in line of what we know here in our world, as opposed to something high fantasy. However, that will change as you branch out of your little area that you are in.  I did think about introducing new food right away and I may in the future do that when I edit the story as a whole, but for the time being, I wanted to keep things like that simple for a few reasons.  Mainly, I was afraid people were not going to connect with their MC. LOL!  But, I like that you have mentioned this and I do plan to implement this more going forward.


As for the spelling errors, my beta's are awesome. But I am asking them to edit a lot all at once and there are just some things that are slipping through. I correct them when I catch them or someone can show me where they are. I am planning, once this is done, to go back and re edit everything, and add new arcs and chapters to bulk up the game.  Hopefully then a the ones that have slipped through will be caught.


Thank you so much for reading and writing out such a cool response. I love hearing what everyone is thinking per chapter.

I think there is a bug in chapter one, right before chapter two. if you pick the option "It is. But thank you for coming to my rescue", there isn't a link to continue to chapter two. I checked the other options and they work fine

Oh! Thank you so much! I'll get on that and re code that route. Something must have been entered wrong.

FIXED! Thank you for the catch!

I just played it and absolutely loved it <3. Hazel is my favourite😍 

I'm not sure how to access it? I still get stuck with going down for breakfast.

Are you in Chapter Two still? Could you maybe post the passage so I can find it and look at it. I haven't heard of anyone else having this problem yet.

For all 3 options, there's no button after it.

So I am really confused about what is happening to your playthrough. I went back and checked and all the links are fine and no one else has reported the issue.  Can you tell me if who you ended up following in Chapter one and if, at Hazel's, when you first walked in, there were brooms amuck or wisps? Basically, your route is not triggering a code and I can't locate where the broken portion may be.

In Chapter One I ended up running away from everyone on my own and locked Milo in a cage, and I don't think I saw anything like brooms or wisps. Milo was there playing cards though.

I actually encountered the same issue just now! Went solo, left Milo for dead, ended up at Hazel's but there's no other options at the very end when Hazel says she was filling out orders

Thank you so much <3

You are very welcome!