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I'm stuck in a couple of places in difficult mode. I'm trying to lure the poachers to the camera. I have made the fake fox tail, but the game tells me it isn't "convincing enough".

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I used the adhesive on the twig, added the fall leaves and white paint from the teacup full of adhesive dipped in the pond.

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I needed this hint from you to get this far. To make it convincing:

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Use your own tail on the fake tail to fine-tune the fake.

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I'm stuck in a couple of places in difficult mode.

I have found the hidden house and descended to the maze, read the poem, but I'm clueless. Moving the stones seems to have no effect and all the food items are inedible. As all the rooms are colour coded, does this relate to the previous colour puzzles and the colour wheel giving a clue as to which order the rooms should be visited? I have

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exchanged the rusty knife for the pick

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, but I have no idea where or when or who uses it. Please help.

You have to solve the poem and move accordingly.
First line:

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Keep going right until you reach a black room (darkest)

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Second line:

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When you are in the black room, pick the direction where the light rock is.

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Third line:

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Go in the direction of the heavy rock.

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Fourth line:

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Go left. New riddle/poem.

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I solved the game in easy mode, so I know what to do with the pick there, at least, but it may have other uses in difficult mode that I haven't discovered yet.

Two pointing up, four pointing down,
two showing the way to town,
and one dragging behind.

This is indeed the correct answer. About how long did it take you? Or was it immediate?

30 seconds...I first wondered if there was somehow a pun involving "recycle". But on another day I probably would have been stumped.

This was fun. And while visiting your Itch page, I also tried out your efforts to try it out in a game, too. Cool and fun game mechanics!

I even noticed the statue from your background blitz entry, so I guess I now either know whose building that was, or where he stole it from.   

(Snipping long suggestion)
Feel free to do it 

Alas, my chops aren't up to the task, I'm afraid. I'm a lover, not a coder.

I was walking down a very dark and narrow lane one night. A light approached from behind me. I was worried it might be a car. Then I looked back and saw it was just a bicycle. At which point I stopped being merely worried and became scared.

Why?

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Because "just a bicycle" must be ridden by an invisible ghost?

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And I am stuck again. 

Phil wants to play tug of war, and I guess I have to beat him. I have two leads, but none have helped me so far.
Training:

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The Fox thinks about swimming, and there is indeed a message about getting stronger after "swimming" a bit. As this wasn't helping, I went back to a saved game and tried not training until after losing a tug of war, but nope.

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Slipping:

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Phil mentions that I can challenge him again to make him slip up. Perhaps I can use the mud for this? I have made it runny, but not been able to pick it up.

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In addition, when I went back to replay, I noticed something being said about treasure being buried and a special technique to see the xs. Is this possible to do at the stage I am now? And is it necessary, or just a bonus thing?

Hi Heltonjon!

To answer your question, you will need the slingshot. You can get this by

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using your teeth. I take it that you have obtained the cup from the locked box and used it with water to clean the mirror, thus giving you teeth and tail in inventory.

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Thanks for answering! Unfortunately, I have tried doing that, but got the message "You have a feeling that you will need to use the slingshot exactly as it is." Ouch! I guess I've got to try going back to a saved game and try doing things in a different order.

I like both entries, but vote for Creamy.

NewwaveBurrito's entry was incredibly well interpreted by Creamy, so I don't have much to add there. It could well turn up as another strange location the portals send your characters into. I can see it as some eccentric's building. (I can't unsee that the statue is about to swat a fly, but that's probably just me.)

I like the contrasts in Creamy's picture. The apartment is filled with art, books and old items giving it atmosphere. The older woman/mother is clearly at home and thrives here, while the daughter looking out may give us the impression that she is the one longing to go out into the world, finding adventure.

Perhaps this could end up by the mother telling about her exploits as a young woman, explaining along the way how she came into possession of the items found in the apartment. You could even make this room a sort of entryway to different game areas by clicking on an item and having the mother go "Oh, the violin? Did I ever tell you how I got the violin?". Then the player could swap back and forth from the apartment and various situations from the mother's past.

Is it really possible to get the 800 points or the bonus disc?

Yes, it is possible. Ask yourself first, do you really want to win?

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Press CTRL+W (The joke is that you press CTRL+Q to quit, and change to W to win.)

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I am stuck in Sorrow of a Furry Father.

I am trying to find items for the kids to play pirates. So far I have found

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fool's gold, a hook, and an eye patch.

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What else do I need?

The slingshot is stuck in the mud. How can I get it? The Fox is already strong.

There are two icons to click on after selecting download. One is download, and the other is to report a broken link. This sounds like someone has clicked the wrong one by accident. Earlier, I believe this flagged a game's download link as broken immediately, but due to a lot of false reports, @AGA changed it. I guess it now needs to be verified by an admin before flagging.

I also tested it with no problems. It is not marked as a broken download in the database, either. You may ask the player if he can download other files from itch.io in case his account or supervisor has blocked it for some reason. What kind of error message he received may also be helpful.

It was also a close decision for me. In fact, I let my daughter play the games to have a second opinion, and she was undecided, too! In the end, I think what may tilt it slightly Durinde's way is that his story is clearly finished and wouldn't work in another format than the short game, while Cassiebsg and Blondbraid have made a game that could easily pass as the first chapter in a full length story about this unfortunate vampire. (Which I would definitely play.)

Two fine games.

It's also not present in the game database in this site. 

Noone wants to talk about it. 

Now I want that board game.

I finally played the demo, and it was just as great as I had expected.  Hilarious writing and antics, stunning art and animation, and music that serves as a tribute to the other franchises alluded to. Good work, nay, great work all around!

I did manage to crash the demo. I didn't manage to replicate it a second time, though. What happened, was

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that I entered the circuit minigame at once, in the chamber with the automat, and even if I solved it, it simply went back to the start. I got a congratulatory message only once. So I got stuck in a loop with no way to back out of the minigame.

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Congratulations on your release! Please also add the game to the game page/database (just link to the itch page where it says download link), and you may get some extra attention from the forum users.