HOUND is a game that I have sunk an unreasonable amount of my time into. It has completly consumed my life, and I have an overwhelming need to revisit it every so often to get the worms out of my brain.
Originally, this webpage has read that this game was "dead." However, in May 2023, I found the game soul_interface. I was overjoyed to find that this game was still being worked on. This new version had most of the missing features from HOUND, alongside a beautiful new interface and brand new mechanics. It genuinely feels like this game has became its own little world.
However, the game is still a ways from being released. The game is missing a proper system for self-learning creatures to develop quickly, it is missing recombination systems to generate new creatures, and it is missing most of the Network exploration teased a few years ago. I have a feeling this website will be outdated, eventually, but there exists no community for this game until then.
It's a shame, since I feel that this game genuinely deserves a community and systems to help let people design digital fish-tanks that change and grow over time, but we're far, far from that, for the time being. Until then, this page will serve to archive all of the demos that have been released for this game, and to allow for anybody to experience what I have.
But... a lot has changed since May 2023. I've been a voice actor for the game, it actually saw release again as Soul Interface. It's playable and it's genuinely fun sending creatures to other users and see how they handle it. It kinda made me cry hearing the music for the new game for the first time after working on it as a VA for quite a while. I'm a little too lazy to get rid of the earlier rant, but I want folk to know what I felt before all of this, before opening this page back up.
If anybody has the brainworm for this game, please feel free to skim through everything that has been archived here. It's worth it.