Such a beautifully sad and haunting little experience. Very believably written from the perspective of a machine coming to learn and understand itself, and tocuhes on thought-provoking themes relating to the unpredictability and ethics of generalised artificial intelligence, and the power of just being given the opportunity to live, even where being alive can sometimes be bleak. The way it constructs such a rich, arresting world and atmosphere from such simple building blocks - spare prose, distorted analogue images, soundscapes - is very artful and impressive. Clearly lovingly crafted as well - are the scenes that we see in background images and videos made from real-life handmade models?
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Thank you for taking the time to write all of this, I appreciate it and I'm glad that it really resonated with you. About the backgrounds/characters, yes, most of them are physical models made out of clay, spare model kit parts, etc. Once the game jam is fully over I'll probably make a little "behind the scenes" post showing them in a bit more detail. (but not too much. gotta leave some mystery...)