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Thanks! I know the feeling: it's easy to just pass things by without commenting, especially for bigger games, items on Amazon etc where you think "Is anyone actually going to read this?" But that's the great thing about games this size: they're big enough to be viable as more than a hobby, but still small enough that people will in fact bother to read what your write. Including me!

Hypnosis stuff is awesome, I really started to get into it a few years back, which is one of the reasons CS ended up happening. Very under-served IMHO. I think it's something people like to winge about because it's a fantasy with a little bite to it, but it also suffers because so few people seem capable of doing it justice. Really fun if you can actually get across why it's great though, that feeling of powerlessness, of reality becoming plastic, of pillars you depend on just being re-arranged in your head.

Which is all to say, glad it's hitting for you. I always say my strategy for these games is pretty simple: I just try to make something I would enjoy playing. And so far it seems like a lot of others were looking for the same thing and didn't realize it. This isn't a quick little goof for me, a casual side-experiment or hobby. I'm careful not to take it TOO seriously, but there's a lot of me in these games, the writing, the characters. I can't deliver amazing visuals, cutting edge gameplay or tech marvels, but the one thing I can do is give a shit about what I'm doing. That's why the characters aren't generic (or sparkledogs): I can't stand crappy characters. That's why there aren't annoying insincere jokes every five seconds: I can't stand that crap (though there ARE plenty of dad jokes here and there). I do my best, in my humble way, to try to take these games seriously, and to take the players seriously. Why on earth should they give me their time or money if I don't?

There's so, so, SO much slop out there these days, it drags me down a little almost every day thinking about it. Slop on Steam, slop in the movie theater, slop on streaming services, slop on Youtube. And I know at the end of the day this is just a silly little porn game. But I hope in some small way these games can be a respite in that sea of garbage. I hope some people can stop, take a bite, and go "Whoa, this was actually made by a PERSON! With FEELINGS and BELIEFS and EXPERIENCES that color everything in subtle ways. Who actually cared!" That's what art is: humans communicating with humans in a way words (direct words anyway) can't. And this can ooze out almost anywhere if you let it: in a car, a circuit board, a table.

Or even a dumb porn game.

Also, if you're on FA, toss me a note (Bitshift). May be able to help you out.