Hi bropostol!
I did a playthrough of your game, so here's some feedback:
- I really like the presentation! The chat interface really helped bring the illusion to life
- The message received sound effect got a bit grating after a while. Maybe it's just too long?
- The writing was consistently really good. It really felt like a Discord server, and I legitimately laughed at quite a few lines
- It might be nice to control when the messages appear (at a click, maybe?). It would take away from the illusion a little, but sometimes I was just like, "Man, I wish these people typed a bit faster..."
- Interpreting locked as 'shut-in' (and of course the protagonist's username) is quite a clever interpretation of the theme, I think
Overall, I had a good time with this one! I think it has a lot of promise for a full game, though I will admit that I didn't get much of an impression of the overarching plot. Something to do with the friends the protagonist was talking to, maybe with andyartpop getting in trouble again? Or is it even supposed to have an overarching plot to begin with? If not, I think that's totally fine—I was plenty absorbed when it was just random chatter.