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A very bizarre but fun game. I love the natural snowball effect that the game has, and everything flowed into itself very well. The art was charming and I had a fun time with it.

But I have concerns that don't involve the game. Firstly, upon downloading it from the itch app, it created a shortcut on my desktop without my consent. Odd, but nothing unusual, lots of programs do that. What gave me a scare was that the game is looking for my location, and I was given an error message from windows due to having location tracking turned off. I shut my computer off and came back to it later, and on boot up once again that error spawned. I've done my best to uninstall everything and now the messages are gone. I'm probably just being hysterical, but why was Namto of all things trying to get my location? Some weird quirk of the engine or something? Or was there an online feature that got scrapped along the way?

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Thanks for letting me know! I have no idea what that could be about; the engine I use is quite weird, but I had never heard of something like that happening or can imagine any reason for it to be a feature of the engine (I for sure would have no idea how to even begin to implement any sort of online feature or location tracking, so I assume that has to be it? maybe I did something weird though, the engine was a bit buggy while I developed this game and had error codes for stuff that didn't seem to even be in the game. I hope it isn't the engine doing shady stuff though... I wouldn't want to have to take down my games for something the company did)

 Anyways; sorry you had to go through that! :(

Did you then play it on browser I assume? if you did download it again, did the location tracking message appear again?

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Ah, good to know no malice on your part. It seems like this is only happening with the windows version you have available on itch. Browser and the other version have no issues. A small window pops up on the windows version that says it is installing the game. No location warning upon reinstalling that version though, so I'd probably say you're in the clear if it only happened with the first download? Could also just be my computer being weird. Me and my friend call it "The Cursed One" for a reason. I can hit up a friend who'd know more about this later, but I'd say you're good. My computer isn't seeing any trackers from the game, so it might just be a freak out on my PC's part. 

BTW, good job on the game. It was silly and weird and I did enjoy it.

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I'm glad that my games are (probably) not doing crimes without my consent! I would only want them to do crime within my explicit permission and full control! >:D (just kidding) 

And I'm happy you liked it! Weird is the word I was looking for :)