This gave me a lot of emotional responses. I felt desperate to figure out what could have changed, guilty for potentially harming a friend, and responsible for mitigating harm. The little choices really highlighted that any small thing we do can impact people, so the weight of the choices felt huge, even if it was just sending a different text. The match up between the weight of the choices and the impact of them (little impact, always resulting in the same incoming text) added to the feelings of desperation. Great work!
It would be awesome, in an ideal world (one with infinite time and resources ;-) to have this shown as a text convo instead of the default visuals. Just dreaming!