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Oooo if you have any recommendations of other game poems that you like I’d love to hear them!

Poetry in games has been rattling around my mind a surprising amount lately. Gameplay loops and poetry both share this trait of rewarding repetition and study, I’d love to explore that at some point.

For sure! It's honestly great timing to get into the form -- the first Game Poems literary magazine came out just a couple months ago, which includes a good range of that kind of work: https://gamepoems.itch.io/game-poems-issue-1-first-moves. One of the editorial leads, Jordan Magnuson, also put out a book a few years ago on the topic, which is a great starting place too: https://www.gamepoemsbook.com/

Honestly it's still a very fluid genre and there's a lot of folks on Itch putting stuff out in the process of figuring out it's constraints -- the "game-poems" tag on here is a great sampler too: https://itch.io/games/tag-game-poem.