Monstra City Bakery!! (DEMO)
A downloadable demo
It’s rough moving into a new city, and it’s even rougher being the only human in town–but taking over your aunt’s bakery in the middle of the city could be the solution to all your financial woes… if you can keep the place above water! But how hard could it be to run a bakery? If only you had a partner or something to help you out…
Monstra City Bakery is a dating game that includes:
- three bachelorettes, three bachelors, and three nonbinary bachelorennes for you to get to know and romance as you make your home in Monstra City
- accessibility for players with low/no vision
- choosable name and pronouns for the player character: yes, you can be nonbinary
- all characters dateable by all player genders (of course you can be gay)
- no gender-locked routes--no need to be called the wrong pronouns just to date the monster of your dreams
- a dateable giant spider
- so, so many baked goods. Just, like, so many
In this demo, the game's entire intro and three first dates are playable--Callaneiro, the gorgon; Andy, the werewolf-vampire hybrid; and Malketh, the literal giant spider!
Please email me at monstracitybakery@gmail.com if you have any issues!
- Clicking, hitting enter, or hitting space will all advance text forward.
- Press V to enable the built-in screen reader and additional audio description.
- Hit H or the middle mouse button to hide the text box so you can look deeply and soulfully into the eyes of your monster of choice with no distractions.
- If you've got audio description on, you can use the arrow keys to and the enter key to navigate and click.
- Use the scroll wheel to rewind if you miss something!
The final game is going to have more stuff, including but not limited to:
- Character creator--make your bakersona!
- Partial voice acting!
- More music--the score isn't finished!
- Achievements!
- Minigames?!
Download
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Development log
- Bug Fix 3: Tokyo DriftMay 06, 2022
- Bug Fix 2: Electric BugalooSep 07, 2020
- Bug Fix!Sep 02, 2020
Comments
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It's so good. Andy captured my heart pretty quickly which was not expected, but definitely welcome.
Finally! A game where I can date a giant spider!
Love the writing :3
omg so cute I love the yeti and the loner bird and most of all the spider SHE SO CUTE XD!!
hi! I''m loving this game. Any chance of any new updates or a full release?
the game is totally still being worked on! life keeps getting in the way and I'm a one-person dev team, but it's definitely still in the works! glad you're enjoying it :)
Oh my gosh, I was COMPLETELY charmed by this game. I got to romance a huge fuzzy spider! the only thing I wasn't sure about was if I was able to romance all the characters or only one. I didn't want a character to get jealous or mad at me. (I romanced two people anyway though because there are just so many amazing cuties.)
Nope, no jealousy mechanic at all. :) I hope you enjoy the full version when it comes out!
Oh, YAY! That makes me so happy.
I'm excited to play it!
Hi there!
I am creating a collection of fully blind accessible games, and your game is listed under the "blind support tag". The word "blind" means different things to different people, and within that wide spectrum their are various levels of expertise with visual UI's. but as a fully blind gamer, I am wondering what features this game provides for those who can not see the screen at all. Do you have "screen reader" or "text to speech" support? Is your game fully playable with a keyboard or controller, rather than having to point the mouse at buttons on the interface? If the answer to those questions is no, it would still be great to know what options are provided for those with less severe visual impairments, so that I might make them aware of your game's usability for them. Thank you for any information you can provide, it's very much appreciated! :)
Hi! The game offers full self-voicing. If you press the V key, the game will read aloud all of the game's text, including menus, UI assets, et cetera. The game should be navigable with arrow keys , the enter key, and the spacebar. The game also has alt text that is only read if self-voicing is on, which describes background images, characters, and the expressions they are making. I am only one person, and I am trying to make the game as accessible as possible. Please let me know if I've missed something, or if something can be better.
beautiful beautiful and adorable game, I had so much fun to meet all the characters and interact with them :D I hope you will make more in the future because it would be shame to not finish it <3
Is there a known release date?
What was actually updated? There's no devlog...
just a bug fix!
on the first choice between Callaneiro, Andy, and Doomwing I get this error page that I have to close the game and restart it. I have redownloaded the newest version to make sure it wasn't a bug previously fixed.
oh dear. Things are falling apart left and right, huh? Something must have broken with the latest update. I fixed one thing and another thing broke! Fortunately, this one is an easy fix. I'll have it fixed momentarily and I'll let you know when the new version is up. Thank you for letting me know!
Thank you I can't wait to stream it again <3
Fixed! Thank you for your patience.
Hm, when going to the College I get the following error:
```
I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
While running game code:
File "game/script.rpy", line 1501, in <module>
NameError: name 'Been' is not defined
-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------
Full traceback:
File "script.rpyc", line 1501, in script
File "E:\Just stay out\Games\monstra-city-bakery\MonstraCityBakery-v1.2.4-pc\renpy\ast.py", line 1832, in execute
if renpy.python.py_eval(condition):
File "E:\Just stay out\Games\monstra-city-bakery\MonstraCityBakery-v1.2.4-pc\renpy\python.py", line 2059, in py_eval
return py_eval_bytecode(code, globals, locals)
File "E:\Just stay out\Games\monstra-city-bakery\MonstraCityBakery-v1.2.4-pc\renpy\python.py", line 2052, in py_eval_bytecode
return eval(bytecode, globals, locals)
File "game/script.rpy", line 1501, in <module>
NameError: name 'Been' is not defined
Windows-8-6.2.9200
Ren'Py 7.3.5.606
Monstra City Bakery! v1.2.4
Sun Apr 17 19:24:10 2022
```
that's very interesting! Thank you for the trace back. I'll look into it. I haven't seen this error before, so im not sure what happened!
Did you go anywhere before you went to the college?
Nope. Though it seems to happen whenever I go to the college for the introductions. Haven't tried extensively if if happens with going to every area before going to College though.
that's very strange indeed. I'm going to look into it tomorrow morning and update the game with a fix if I can track down what's going wrong. I'll let you know--thank you for the bug report!
In the meantime try visiting somewhere else before you go to the college.
Also, this probably doesn't have anything to do with it, but just in case: what is your baker's name?
Martin Visser, and uses he/him pronouns.
sorry it's been a while, Martin. Some stuff in my life exploded and I haven't been able to get to it until now. Hang tight, I'm digging in to try and see what the issue is now.
Okay. Download the new version now and see if it works.
Same here! I went to other places first, and got this error when I tried to go to the College. My baker’s name is Eden Najera, they/them.
alright, this is really weird. Would you mind posting the error log?
I’m sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
While running game code: File “game/script.rpy”, line 1501, in <module> NameError: name ‘Been’ is not defined
– Full Traceback ————————————————————
Full traceback: File “script.rpyc”, line 1501, in script File “C:\Users\Lita\ItchGames\MonstraCityBakery-v1.2.4-pc\renpy\ast.py”, line 1832, in execute if renpy.python.py_eval(condition): File “C:\Users\Lita\ItchGames\MonstraCityBakery-v1.2.4-pc\renpy\python.py”, line 2059, in py_eval return py_eval_bytecode(code, globals, locals) File “C:\Users\Lita\ItchGames\MonstraCityBakery-v1.2.4-pc\renpy\python.py”, line 2052, in py_eval_bytecode return eval(bytecode, globals, locals) File “game/script.rpy”, line 1501, in <module> NameError: name ‘Been’ is not defined
Windows-8-6.2.9200 Ren’Py 7.3.5.606 Monstra City Bakery! v1.2.4 Thu May 05 19:11:13 2022
Okay! Please try to download the new version and see if it works now.
I made it to the college! ty <3
I love this so much. AMAZING.
Pty gud
adorable in every way!! is this game gonna be nsfw btw? ( absolutely fine if not im completely happy with that ) i love malkreth alot and andy is like my soulmate! his adorable puns and the finger guns are soo good! no other words then just mwah. perfect. will be waiting for the full game!
The game is amazing! I had a lot of fun while playing, the art is very beautiful and all the characters are adorable, I will definitely look forward to the full game<33
I loved playing the Demo! I love the whole story and the characters are very likeable, my favorite is Andy and hopefully there will be a full game where I can continue his story but I'm also interested in seeing more of the other characters. I hope someday there's a full game so I can get my dance with the Yeti! ;D
i want you to know that meeting malkreth almost made me CRY. shes just so kind and such a sweetheart, i want to hug her so much!! oh man, i just. 🥺 im excited to get to know the rest, great job on this game!
I love this game so much, all the characters have their own charm and the bakery idea is so cute <3 I've always wanted to see an otome/visual novel with a bakery theme and then with monsters too?? Perfection.
o. m. g! i'm in love with all these chars! they all have distinct personalities without feeling like copies or blending into each other. it's honestly hard to pick a favorite! malketh is a sweetheart. she reminds me of my grandma. :)
when is the next update?
The demo is super fun! Got me super curious about the characters and what's happening with them. Loved Andy so much!
Loved the Demo, the characters were sweet cute, and relatable I would like the non-romance options to be a little kinder. For example with the snakes I wanted to say, "I am not looking to start a romance with you but your snakes are not an issue and I do want to be friends if that doesn't make you too uncomfortable." but it was only yes, we'll see, or no snakes are too offputting.
PUT IT ON STEAM
I AINT JOKING WHEN IM SAYING I LOVE THE DEMO AND CANT WAIT FOR THE FULL GAME , i am willing to play over and over again the game because i fell in love with everyone
OH MY GOOODD! I love this sooo much! How did the game know that I was in a committed relationship with SESSHOMARU?! I feel so called out but that made me smile SO wide! I love it. I love this game so much. SO MUCH!
Aaah this game is so cute! All of the characters are so charming and I love the personality of the baker. I enjoyed the demo very much.
I love this game so much, I can't wait for an update! :)
Andy is so precious, I can't handle it.
im so in love with this game. me and my buddies played it in my discord server and all loved it
is the full game gonna be free
I love this game so much already! The characters are so wonderful and I love the backgrounds! :D I'm so happy that I've found this,
*clutches chest* My heart! I can't handle it!
How do you expect me to choose just one!?!?
I'm totally in love! like... Ahhhh, I'm in love.
That hugeass jumping spider is SO CUTE. I didn't think that would have been one of the romances ahah
Don't ever romance girl characters, but damn she is cute I might do her route.
Also, art is nice. Cool monsters.
Just finished playing through the demo, and Callaneiro is the most adorable thing ever!
God save our bog queen.
Long live our bog queen
God save our queen!
pls more of it
Hang tight--the full game is in development! The denizens of Monstra City can't wait to spend some more time with you!
ok i can wait ...and one more thing the spider really give me a first shock of my life it was so big my heart just stopped for a few seconds i really hate spiders but i know it's just a game but i like it
It is SUPER CUTE!!!! And I can't believe that I'm falling in love with a spider!