Thanks a lot!! Happy you liked it so much and you saw yourself in it! Always happy to see my game could help people understand themselves better
(WB uses they/them prounous, remember!)
(also, 'familial attraction' im guessing this comment means the game discusses being afamilial, as in, not feeling familial love or wanting familial bonds, NOT inc*st. Sorry i just worry about weird people believing this game includes inc*st or something -it does NOT- because unfortunetely i have seen people misinterpret what being afamilial means before. Weird people go away.)
Oh, yeah, I agree about the long hallways hahah. This was a test game after all, so I really did not understand that a room looks smaller when I'm making it than when I play it hahah. This is a mistake I hope to have fixed in my future games, the rooms are defintely smaller in the ones I'm currently making. And yeah, direction is confusing sometimes. Criticism is welcomed so thanks for sharing!
(Spoiler talk) Oh, no, the corruption has nothing to do with the aspec identity! FP was aplatonic before being corrupted, corruption has more to do with bad mental health, that's the metaphor. Corruption is not really a bad thing at all either, it just gets demonized. FP changing colors is about their mental health improving, but having bad mental health is okay, Knife is corrupted too (and xe is also not aplatonic for example) and xe remains corrupted even post game. FP wasn't "made wrong", they were just borned this way, like if a human was aplatonic, the old organisms are the ones that FRAME it as "being built wrong". This is an insecurity FP has throughout the whole journey, that maybe this is just something built wrong that someone could fix, that they were not "built for this world", but of course that's not the truth. It's not something you can "fix" or "reboot", it's just who they are. It's robot metaphors meant to reflect real human experiences, some that I have personally gone through. Sorry if this wasn't made super clear! I trusted the story made it clear enough but of course it can be possible to misinterpret it, so, sorry about that! This was never the intention of the story at all. Either way, no worries, thanks for sharing your worries about the themes, I'm glad to clear it up in case anyone else ends up misinterpreting this part
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it and good luck with your own projects!