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I just wanted to stop by and tell you how much I love this. The worldbuilding on display is KILLER. This zine totally hooked me with its unique world and revolutionary edge. 

I can already tell this is going to inspire a project I’m working on (the first flicker of which can be seen in the game on my itch page, GUN//DOGS). 

I know it’s been a while since you worked on this, and I understand if you want to move on entirely, but know that if you ever do want to return to this world, I will eagerly await more SLUDGE DOGS!

This book is absolutely captivating. I wasn’t planning to read it all in one session, but pretty soon I couldn’t put it down. The descriptions of Lilancholy are both beautiful and terrifying, a sort of haunting beauty. The emotions feel so real and true. It’s enough to make you believe, even if only for a moment. And it is real, in the way that fiction so often is real. Thank you for writing this, and for sharing it with us. 

Heck yeah, you're back at it again!

Thank you for making it! This game really helped me understand what appeals to me about lyric/literary games. 

This was heartbreakingly beautiful. The layouts are striking in their use of negative space and color and texture. But more than that, the words are haunting. The mechanics work perfectly to tell the story, whether you play the game or just read it. Thank you so much for sharing this. 

Thanks for the enthusiastic feedback! I’m so happy to see people enjoying my game. Could you maybe say more about what doesn’t work about the mechanics?

Bro, I'm out of college and you've still done quite a bit more than me! Give yourself some grace. You don't need to be in a constant state of producing to make art. 

Of course! Thank you for making it!

This is really lovely. It's inspiring in its simplicity. It manages to ring so true with such minimal pieces. Thank you for making this!

Love how you wrung such a dramatic tone from such a silly game. Excellent work!

Thank you so much! I hope you enjoy it! It means the world to me to hear that some one checked it out.

This game was inspiring to read. It really creates a sense of physicality to the game space and manages to tell a compelling story without tradition game mechanics. I hope that one day I will be able to find a forest and some friends to play it with. 

I noticed the same thing! I thought it was interesting as well.

This is so good it nearly gave me chills. The fact that the only choice is at the end is brilliant. It says so much with so little. Fantastic work!

This is really sweet.

IT'S FINALLY HERE WHOOOO

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I'm so glad you enjoyed this! I hope it inspires you to make something, maybe with a community, maybe on your own! Art really is a fundamental part of humanity. We should tell the stories we want to see in the world rather than waiting for some corporation to give us a sanitized version of them. 

Thank you so much for reading! Comments like this mean the world to me. 

space wizards!

Hey, I couldn't download this. the download link took me to google drive, but when I hit download, it says too many people have tried to download this file recently.

Oh hell yeah, can't wait!

Yo, this comic is sick! The art is so expressive and captures a real laidback punk energy! Love it. Can’t wait to see what comes next!

“I identify as a hot mess” MOOD

I know nothing about Pretty Little Liars, but this was good.

This is sick! I love how sketchy and abrasive this is! So cool.

Thank you for making this. I can relate to feeling confused. 

I spent years in my youth agonizing over my sexuality. Was I gay, was I straight, what was I? I did settle into the gender identity of nonbinary pretty comfortably, it does feel like it fits, but what about my sexuality? I’m 22 and I still don’t know. Am I a lesbian? Using that word for myself feels uncomfortable as a trans masculine person because it associates me with being a woman, But I’ve always related to lesbian romances more than straight ones. And lesbians can be butch, even trans masculine, like Feinberg, right? Still it doesn’t quite feel comfortable. Is that because it isn’t right for me or because I have internalized shame? And I don’t even know if I am romantically attracted to people. Do I like th idea of a relationship more than a real one? Could I be aromantic? I feel like I should know by now, but I don’t. It’s… frustrating.

That’s a long way to say I relate to what you are feeling.

We shall see what the future holds!

Thank you! I’m excited to write more about it at some point. And I really appreciate hearing what you have to say! Getting such thoughtful comments on my work really means the world to me!

Thanks for the feedback! I completely agree that a major reason why people don’t make the things they want to is because the idea is too big, I’ve certainly been there. Having smaller, less “important” projects to work on is a crucial part of growing as an artist. I am aware that Goncharov is not the first or only work like this. I wanted to focus on Goncharov because of the smaller scope of this zine, but I said in the description that I wanted to elaborate on that concept, and part of that elaboration will definitely be talking about stuff like SCP Foundation and even an earlier “fandom for a work that doesn’t exist”, Ships of the Northern Fleet. Now that you’ve mentioned it, I definitely want to talk about how collaborative, low-stakes works like these allow people to start making art without the daunting task of building something from scratch, with credit to you of course! Thank you so much for commenting. I hope you got something out of reading my little zine!

Nevermind, it was the ALT text that was causing the problem! Shame I can't use the ALT text now, but at least it works.

hey, I really appreciate you making this! but I can't get it to work. whenever I try to load it, it just says "loading pages" indefinitely. can I get some help? here's a link to it if seeing it helps at all: https://23-dogs-in-a-trenchcoat.itch.io/goncharov-is-the-future

You’re welcome!

This is really cool. The games feel ethereal, like they could be real but are just out of reach.

This stuff is creepy as hell. Great work!

I get that feeling of needing to scream. Maybe we can scream together.

This was freaking adorable!

I don’t even listen to his music, but now I want to.

These look so sick!

Dang. These glitchy looking collages are so fricking cool!

Well, boy howdy, you succeeded!