Beautifully made and touchingly intimate. You really captured such a delicate feeling with this work. The fallibility of technology against the march of time can eerily match how our own minds falter. Seeing these images felt like witnessing half-rendered memories and makes me wish we could run a recovery program for our own silly heads. T^T
That was so poetically put. Thank you!
Suffering from the millenial curse of always covering up sincerity with irony my impulse reply was: I was just writing something that I hoped would sound interesting and funny—it wasn’t meant to be that deep. And your comment made me re-evaluate what goes on when writing. I think I underestimate the sincerity of my own experience. Just because that crash happend long ago, and the pain over the loss is long gone doesn’t mean it wasn’t real. Maybe having the distance made it easier to write about it. Anyway, I might have taken your comment completly wrong >.< But I felt called out to take myself serious. Not sure if I can explain my thought well.
Those moments when something/-one stirs up a half memory, but you can’t visualize it completly and instead of the contents of that memory you only feel loss. This kind of memory loss is scary, because it is able to call myself into question. “Did that really happen? I thought I was different …”
I’m really honored that my little game was able to conjour these thoughts and emotions for you. And thank you again for conjouring thoughts and emotions in me with your comment ^_^
Oh you are so sweet! I completely understand where you’re coming from, I am also susceptible to this curse at times. XD
I can only speak for myself, but this game definitely made me feel a type of existential anxiety about memory itself. I can “recall” many times I’ve found myself in a moment so perfect that I endeavored to commit every detail I could to memory and while this will sometimes partially work, most times I can only frustratingly recall that I tried to remember… something. I don’t know if this is a common affliction so maybe my takeaway is unique to me but this game is one of the closest to capturing the feeling of wrestling with those thoughts.
I didn’t mean for my comment to be a call out but I am glad if it helped you! Though, maybe I should say, from what I’ve played of your games so far, your games are wonderful and if it’s the result of you not taking yourself seriously then maybe seriousness isn’t needed? I don’t know lol, art is art, everyone’s process is different, I’m just excited see more of your work!