Joseph Earnwile in the Caves of Sorrow.
Welcome to the world of Joseph Earnwile.
From here on a lot of stuff will be on the 18+ side of things. Proceed at your own risk.
The plot:
Joseph is a man on a mission. Having left his wife, child and most things he holds dear at home, Joseph and his trusted backpack arrives in a small Japanese village close to the bottom of Mt. Fuji. There an old scroll sends him on a journey to find the hidden caves behind a beautiful waterfall. As our intrepid adventurer starts searching for this cave, a stroke of bad luck ends up trapping him within the darkness, and now he will need to find a way out. Who knows what lurks in the dark, or how one goes about getting through massive stone and back to the surface!
Ideas:
Yokai
Japanese folklore
A queen of the underground, ready to please - Kuchisake-onna
Set in Japan - Fujinomiya.
Amazonian tribe, only one man left in the village. Kept aside for... reasons...
Death by SnuSnu?
Fetishes catered for (Mostly optional to partake in):
- Weight gain (non negotiable)
- Feederism (non negotiable)
- Pregnancy
- Death feederism
- Slob
- Vore
- (Very) Mild gas
Just so it is out of the way:
This is a text-adventure game that uses AI art and soundeffects to spice things up just that little bit. I have tried to get the UI down to a level where most people with a more modern sensibility would still enjoy it. I feel like the simplicity of this game genre is supremely well-suited to the exploration and storytelling experiences I want to share with my audience. Making you want to see, interact with and touch everything just to see what may happen is one of the things I take pride in with my work. The genre also lets me tell the stories I want to tell without having the raw machinepower to do 3D renders and polygonal three dimensional worlds. I hope you guys will give it a try, and if you decide this game may not be for you, then maybe I'll see you again at a later time when I get to another project up and running.
A thank you:
I am able to develop games thanks to your contributions, no matter how small. If you have a dollar to spare you can either buy the game here on itch, donate on my Ko-Fi or become a patron. Links at the bottom of the game's page.
All my links, including my discord can be found here:
https://linktr.ee/weirdobeardo89
-WeirdoBeardo89 out!
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $1 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Development log
- Caves of Sorrow 1.3.1Jul 13, 2024
- Caves of Sorrow 1.2Jul 07, 2024
- Quickfix 1.0Jul 06, 2024
- Caves of Sorrow 1.0Jul 06, 2024
- Caves of Sorrow 0.9Jun 30, 2024
- Caves of Sorrow 0.8Jun 28, 2024
- Caves of Sorrow 0.7.3Jun 26, 2024
- Caves of Sorrow 0.6.2Jun 25, 2024
Comments
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I may be stupid but I CANNOT find the play for the first Obariyon.
The play? D0 you mean what to do?
Blah, I meant place. The place to go for the first small creature.
Across the gap. You'll need a pole and some solid rope.
just a heads up but some of the descriptions for the small creature at the beginning still say WIP
Ah, must have happened while fixing an issue with a missing room earlier. I will get that fixed today :)
Descriptions are back, 1.2 uploaded!
Check on the pale lady one last time :)
The empress may be gone, but have you made her truly disappear?
Have you found the Kowai? The game is at a stand-still until you've finished at least four yokai.
Go north instead of northwest where you rid yourself of the monkey on your back. Look at the altar if you haven't done so yet, then head back towards town. You may find something no-one else but the Kowai would want laying around on your way back.
Have no money? Try buying things from the shop a few times, even if pennyless. The shopkeeper may take pity on you :-)
Bug Report:
Entering the northwest side of the sumo dojo (or from southwest if you head north instead of northwest.) proceeds to launch 25 (counted) errors.
Wil look into this right away.
Does it hinder further gameplay? Does it repeat?
it did hinder further gameplay yes. I see that you've further checked it. I also found an issue when occasionally giving the empress her tribute that it'll spout out a hand full of errors.
It doesn't hinder gameplay, and occasionally repeats with no issue as far as I can tell.
This in 1.1?
restarting from 1.1 I'm still in the main village, will post on whether or not the error exists in 1.1.
Sidenote: is there supposed to be more pictures of the fat woman by wakutama pond when you feed her? I only get the one where she takes off her clothes when you give her enough food/drink.
Only the one, she should then disappear.
I may be a bit of a messy developer, but I try my best to get things fixed :-)
Seems when the missing room became a problem yesterday, it also deleted some exits I didn't notice. I will get them back into the code
Issue has been found, resolved, and tested to work. Uploading new file as we speak :-)
Finally decided to toss money your way when the 1.0 came out but whenever I do anything at all it says
Error running script: Error compiling expression 'Erika.size = 1': Unknown object or variable 'Erika'
Error running script: Error compiling expression 'Kanako.size = 1': Unknown object or variable 'Kanako'
Error running script: Error compiling expression 'RedBook.pushed = 1': Unknown object or variable 'RedBook'
To clarify, it still does whatever I've told it to do, it just also pops up with this message in the text which is very annoying.
Will look into this at once :-) Thank you for noticing
Should be fixes now. Please redownload the game, and sorry for the inconvenience :-)
All good and thank you!
Hey, I love your game! But I am struggling to find the other missing half of the plate fragment. And I dont know where is the last stone dice. And also how do I light the lamps up.
The other plate part you will be handed at a certain point in the game. The lamps light each time you help a Yokai reach their end. And the stone dice are laying around here and there. Have you found the one in the Hall of Scrolls?
Is it inside the hidden small door?
It is. Look around the monastery for a key
where do i find the sacred food item
Do you mean the Empress's tribute?
no for mama quset sprit food
You can use anything fresh. Check with the farmer, and in the stable behind the tea room
I can't find all 4 dice. I have the skull, the line, and the oblong circle. :(
You are missing the crooked cross. You left someone at a rock. Go back and check. there :-)
I have the skull from the rock in the damp cave. The other ones i have are from the scroll room and the throne. Is there another one I missed that has to do with rocks? Thank you for your reply! Feeling dumb, lol
You should have left a little someone in a cave with an altar. I would go back and check there
This must be my problem. I haven't found any altars outside of the one in the shrine before the boulder stopped me, and that little someone is crushing me to death constantly. So i suppose I am failing to find out where to drop her.
You will need to turn a seashell into a cloth rope somehow, and grab yourself a bamboo pole. Then get to the crack and light things up a bit. Use what you find there, and you should find plenty of altars
what is the code to open the caves hot springs i have been trying for 2 hours and can't figger it out
Short summary of the scroll you needed from the Hall of scrolls: From positive to negative, death to circle of life. Warning: Spoiler.
First slot - cross. Second slot - line. Third slot - skull. Fourth slot - circle.
thanks
Also: have you read the guide? It gives you some hints if you get stuck. It is not complete yet, but it is getting there.
alright i hit a wall im not good and pizzels The duck with its green bill often dives four times in a row to find fish. When it finds one that is to its liking it will spin once on the spot i looked around i can't figger this one out
dive goes down: so push, spin turns: so turn, jumps go up: so pull. Now you have yourself a code.
i can't figger out what book i use first i use the painting colurs so blue red and green right
Those are the colors yes. There is no first and last, just doing the right things with the right books. If you get stuck you can reset by using the purple book
I came to check on updates and got jump-scared by the latest photo haha, looking forward to this one Weirdo!!
Can't say that wasn't on purpose :) Hope the game lives up to expectations!
Love to see it, can't wait to see more!
Also the fetishes catered for is practically perfect, awesome stuff!
Thank you. Hoping to have the 0.1 up after the weekend :)
Why have you decided to put prices on the games?
Because I need to justify all the time I put into them somehow, and to be honest: if a dollar is too much, then people don't really want to play it.
Hope that is understandable :)
Welcome back, once again!
Thank you, good to be back in the saddle :-)
Well, glad to see your not dead.
Not dead, but down and out for a while.
Well, that's a shame. I hope things get better for you, I truly enjoy your story writing.
Thank you. All ideas and files are safe. What I need is time, money and energy.
How do I download it?
Nothing to download at this time. Game is a work in progress, and part of a larger series. For now all development is on hiatus while I get some everyday issues solved.
Sorry.
-WeirdoBeardo89
Can now be downloaded, or at least a part of it can :-)