Your manifesto is very sweet and heartfelt 💖 I’m happy that I inspired you to make it ✨
About A game is a gift, yeah it is very much a personal experience ^^ I’ve been making games for over 20 years and slowly realised that I made them in part to connect with other people. I think seeing the secret santa jams (jams where you make a game for someone litteraly) made me realise that this was an option and I started thinking about games as a gift a bit more! Then when my current project, Contenir (https://naejdoree.itch.io/contenir) started meeting it’s audience I realised once again that this game wasn’t only about self reflection but was also a gift to my community. I realised that by seeing how people played it, talked about it and supported me through this adventure 💖 And I want it to be a gift even more to return the love I received from it even more :3