Thank you so much for the kind words! I feel honored that you enjoyed the game enough to do your report on it, and it was really fun to read 💛 Sounds like my intent came across, glad you were able to pick up on the themes I was going for 😁
I’m a programmer by day and the ways software can degrade and fail are deeply interesting to me… We put computers through a lot. If you’re ever curious, one of the main artifacts I was inspired by is called “floating point precision error,” which is a degradation you see in graphics engines when doing math with Very Large Numbers. It causes the visuals to “bubble” or “jitter” as their point positions are rounded to the closest number that the engine can actually hold in memory. Lots of the glitch effects you see ingame were done by inducing that effect artificially.