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Samtoinette1 year ago (2 edits) (+1)(-1)

Playing this for the first time (the rough draft), and LOVE it.

SPOILERS:

I'm not done, but I swear Max is autistic too. Just finished the coffee shop discussion to the point he leaves and comes back. He has a lot of the signs, but it may just be more subtle. I wasn't diagnosed until I was 22, myself. High functioning is apparently difficult to detect.

EDIT: Just finished it.

Honestly kinda wish the epilogue skipped a few years and showed like Mikhail and Ash together in the future with Ash's bro chilling out on the couch playing games with them or something, but in contrast I think it gives you an opportunity to make more games focusing on different characters and their journeys if you wanted. I'd love to see Zack meeting Braden's family and them slowly being accepted. Zack finally getting the family he always deserved. I imagine Braden's mom doting on Zack once she gets used to their relationship.

Before the epilogue, I thought Braden was gonna bail and Mikhail would step in an wind up being Zack's true romantic soulmate, but I'm definitely not mad about how it ended.

Maybe I'm just spoiled; I blame YAGS, cause its epilogue is more like "2 years later".

Still an amazing game, what a journey.

Aaryn1 year ago(+2)(-1)

heya. glad you liked it although you may wanna edit your post and include some spoiler warnings so you dont ruin the story for someone scrolling down here to check out the comments.

so the ending was written for several very specific reasons. some of which are meta and others are vague and allow the reader to fill in what they want. the discord has come up with some fun interpretations that i was happy to see people playing around with because all of them are possibilities so it kinda allows the reader to determine what's canon and what's not. I specifically didn't want to fast forward and give 100% closure because after getting thousands of letters from people over the years, i came to the conclusion that it was more important to each individual person to get the ending they wanted rather than have me write it. so many people were invested in this story and so many people wanted different things to fit their own narrative so i went a more generic route for the reader. I think that's more fun that having everything resolved just by the writer, that's only one POV. so that was the design. you get to check your own boxes but there's enough there to satisfy most people i think

Samtoinette1 year ago(-1)

Fair enough. I do that with everything anyway, even if there's a canon ending. If I don't like it, I change it in my head. As I said, I'm probably spoiled. I completely understand giving an ambiguous ending so people can fill in the blanks themselves.

Aaryn1 year ago(-1)

sure thing. that's perfectly acceptable. get what you need from the project. that doesn't bother me a bit :)

i tried to include plenty of subtle cues for different perspectives on the end so there's hopefully something for everyone. i do appreciate the interest, though, and i'm glad you enjoyed it

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