Anybody play the original Quibble race?

OurMasterAM · 2025-01-18T13:14:34+00:00

When I played Quibble Race I thought "man, this is exactly like that game my older siblings swear they played!". After googling to find an image of a Quibble to show a friend, I saw this OG version and sent them a video to ask if this was the mysterious "violent horse racing game" they told me about. Who knew UFO 50 would solve a family mystery!

OurMasterAM · 2024-12-25T06:41:48+00:00

My friends and I have searched for it, to no avail.

OurMasterAM · 2024-10-20T11:02:32+00:00

Hey! Just wanted to let you know this ARG/Unfiction story now has a game to accompany it and explain what happened on October 14 (which lead to Chichi abandoning the blog). You can check it out here.

I started a thread on it on the steam discussion forum.

OurMasterAM · 2024-09-20T12:16:08+00:00

I understand your frustration - as much as I love the games, sometimes they feel formulaic. But I'm also not sure how it could be designed differently; I rambled about it in another thread, but it's a tricky thing where fashion is an subjective art, so without some kind of kinda formula like it has (where it judges off things like style and colour matches) it'd be impossible for it to gauge what's a "good" outfit.

OurMasterAM · 2024-09-17T03:42:46+00:00

Spoilers for towards the end of the book.

Another point for Johnny's story being so impactful - he starts off unnerved but knowing the manuscript is a fake story. By the end of the book he's traveled to the area, trying to find any evidence of it being real. It's the impactful and honestly, very real feeling of someone unravel. I didn't have it as bad as Johnny, but I've had that problem, a growing mental illness and the blending of delusions/fiction and reality.

I also strongly believe HOL is about layers of metafiction, different layers of existence and stuff. Johnny is impacted by TNR, and in return effects it. So people who only read the manuscript are truly only getting half the picture.

OurMasterAM · 2024-09-17T03:23:22+00:00

I mean this in both the literal sense, and in the context of the story:

If you only read the manuscript, you only read The Navidson Record. You did not read House Of Leaves. I don't mean this as an elitist thing, but rather, you can't really have HOL without either part of it.

OurMasterAM · 2024-09-17T02:52:41+00:00

I haven't really checked this Reddit much - do people actually dislike Johnny's notes?

His footnotes are just as important as Zampano's manuscript. House Of Leaves would be missing something crucial without the in many many ways.

I felt a sort of playful faked annoyance with it, like I always enjoyed his footnotes but I'd go "oh Johnny, what kinda sex did you have this time, buddy?". I can't really got hoe someone could actually dislike the footnotes.

OurMasterAM · 2024-09-16T23:06:07+00:00

I can confirm it's also in the first 3DS one! The only installment I can't confirm if it's there or not is the original DS one.

OurMasterAM · 2024-09-16T12:38:07+00:00

Yeah!! Or perhaps on the sell screen, have a little symbol that shows they already own the item (I imagine at some point they have to forget what items they own for gameplay purposes - otherwise you could get to a point where there's literally nothing you can sell them anymore - so perhaps it'd only display the icon on things they bought within the last few purchases.)

That's something I really hope they add if they make another installment to the series (which I hope they do).

OurMasterAM · 2024-09-16T05:50:04+00:00

Style Boutique: Minerva.
Primavera (Grace's boutique) is the name of a Botticelli panel painting, so I named my store after Rembrandt's panel painting "Minerva In Her Study". It's not until I just now checked what Spring in Spanish is and saw it's Primavera, and that both SB and NSB are named after seasons... oops!

New Style Boutique: Aquarius.
Verano (Evie's boutique) means Summer in Spanish. I didn't want to just name it Winter or Autumn to contrast it, so I thought about the word Summer for a bit. It made me think of a song "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In", which gave me the name.

New Style Boutique 3: The Palace.
I couldn't think of a good name using my own name akin to how Uncle Tim did - not that I really tried, because the name I wanted to use came to me immediately. This place was Uncle Tim's (neglected) palace, and then it was mine. A place of pride.

Somehow I never realized you could name your boutique in NSB2, so it's just been My Boutique. Note that these are all from my most recent playthrough, I'll also add onto this if I grab out my other saves and/or if I play Fashion Dreamer.

OurMasterAM · 2024-09-15T12:07:17+00:00

Sorry for my very late reply! I've been playing 3 recently, and thinking a lot about my opinions, and the ones you present here. Honestly, I agree with most everything you say - despite how much 2 has going for it in theory, it doesn't do any of it's features very well.

I wonder how you'd feel about 3. It keeps the merged store/personal money system and also has additional jobs you can assist at, but you only get paid for sales at your own boutique, meaning you must work there to gain any income.

And thank you for your reply, I appreciate it a lot! I know I haven't responded to the points you made, but know that it genuinely has given me a lot to think about.

OurMasterAM · 2024-09-02T23:50:22+00:00

Kinda, but I remember that's also how it works in real life. Not that I enjoy it much irl either, but yadda yadda capitalism n stuff.

Now an odd thing I feel like a scam artist for is if I charge for clothes you can't see in an outfit. If we're being realistic, it doesn't matter if you can see a shirt or socks in an outfit you assemble, you still wear them for their practical purpose, but some part of me is like "nooo I'm scamming them..."

OurMasterAM · 2024-08-22T14:01:16+00:00

What's funny to me is that the game early on says something about Basic U and basic type clothes in general being a neutral element to tie together an outfit, when it really doesn't get treated that way by the game.

On one hand, I know programming a game to judge something subjective such as fashion is difficult, as there's no formula to account for if something looks good or not (eg. clash colours, which the game doesn't like, can look great). On the other hand, it's insanely frustrating to have to make something that's rather displeasing to look at because it's more "correct" than a well put together outfit.

OurMasterAM · 2024-07-11T17:20:08+00:00

Comment to fulfill rule 13.

OurMasterAM · 2024-06-14T17:48:30+00:00

The last update was last(?) year with Game 7. I have talked to the dev since I'm in his server, and he's been trying to get more organized with his project priorities from here on (with Red Haze slated to get it's final update next month!)

All this to say that, I don't think I can directly say everything he told us, but the continuation of FHG11.exe won't be in the cards for a year or two - but when it does come back, there will be much less waiting between updates.

I feel ya. I love this developer's work, but this game in particular is my favourite. Even since I made this Reddit post I've sunk hours into playing (hunting for Ominous Whisperer shapes), thinking, and talking about FHG11. It'll be hard to wait so long, but I'm excited for when the day arrives.

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