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This was really really lovely! In a way it was very calming to play and ended up being a mental balm for me. The writing has that classic sense of intimacy and authenticity that shines through all of your work and I found the stream of consciousness very organic and relatable. As a child of divorce some of the stuff you describe is almost exactly what I went through so it’s nice to be seen in a way. I love the hair and cloth physics! The overall visual presentation here is just off the charts, especially the UI, menus and fonts!!

I’m excited to play the rest of the chapters! ^^

This was really nice to read and I enjoyed the consistent theme behind all of the screenshots. I don’t believe there is a right or wrong way to experience a piece of art and that certainly applies to the rate at which one experiences it too.

This was really beautiful! I really liked that the spin took its time. It gave me an opportunity to really get attached to the character. The final animation is absolutely charming too. It’s all so refreshing!

Just fyi, I tried throwing a few dollars your way via paypal but for some reason it would not accept it. This could just be a problem on my side but I’ve seen this happen before and sometimes there is an issue on the creator’s side, so I figured I’d mention it.

NIICE! I love it! I had resigned myself to no one realizing that “perv.” was moveable so thank you! <33

I had the urge to say something like “I don’t really deserve to be among the incredible creators you were mentioning”, but instead I will say thank you, I’m really touched <333 >.<

This hit me deeply. I really resonated with how you described your feelings when it comes to other artworks in this space, the amount inspiration I personally feel from experiencing art here is like nothing else. My guess as to why that’s the case is probably because the works in this space feel absurdly authentic, which is so rare in the world today. I feel that same level of authenticity in this manifesto, hearing your voice speak through these emotions and thoughts was electric and felt like I was (in a sense) witnessing your heart a little bit.

Ahh this was so wonderful. This made me want to bear my heart more too. T^T

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This is so beautifully put, thank you for playing and for this analysis! <33 (sorry for the late reply)

AHH! Thank you so much for playing, you are so sweet!! <333

This is such a cool and creative concept, the idea of harnessing a web-scraper to generate these world leaves me with a strange feeling but that only adds to the uncanny vibe of this whole game.

The intro was really cute and I felt very invested in finding lemoncat.

I wish I was better at the “echo-location” mechanic because after multiple runs I still could not manage to locate them.

The worlds themselves are truly nightmare / dream-like, floating geometry, stretched textures, a hazy fog and nothing sits right or feels natural. Sometimes the game generated these skin-crawling ambient sounds that were just horrifying and it made traversing these spaces really engaging for me.

I wanted to explore further and spend more time in them and THEN I got jumpscared SO BADLY!! I think I can normally handle jumpscares but asking me to really listen for very subtle audio differences left me wide open to them lol I flinched hard much my headphones flew off!

Seriously impressive work, it does stuff that I’ve never seen before.

HFHSBDS OMG that’s funny, I didn’t even realize I wrote it like that!! >.<

Utterly captivating. The surreal painful feelings in this are honed to a knife’s edge. I am not plural but a part of me always felt like a bonus to being plural is that you would never really feel “alone”, that notion has been destroyed by this story. Absolutely heartbreaking. The music is really well made and helped communicate this incredibly nuanced vibe. The art is so so good, like holy shit, the way the game will occasionally have these moments where it keeps overlaying these beautiful bespoke sprites to create these utterly mesmerizing collages; It feels like we are watching a memory being formed with details lost and the exact flow of events getting obfuscated. This will be sticking in my mind for a long time.

This is freaking incredible. Feels like I went through the entire spectrum of emotions. I adore the altars so much. Amazing work on all fronts.

Yay! thank you!! <3

Thank you so much for playing! <333

I played it again and I beat it! In the hunt for the third ending I actually beat the game again without picking up the bell (to which I was very chuffed about) but alas it didn’t trigger a different ending as far as I could tell. Awesome game!

Beautifully made from the visuals to the writing. I liked how the little details would sometimes sort of undercut the person’s argument (the camera in the counselors room or the barcode on the back of the hymns book).

swaying <3

Yay! I’m so glad to hear that!!

Eyelette was considering putting some dialogue beyond the bars in rat place (just in case) and is now regretting not doing it XDD

Thank you so much for your kind words <3

HAA! This is so amazing XD

AAHH!! You are so sweet!! We’re so touched! T^T

We were a little worried that no one would see the ending lol so thank you and I’m glad that it landed!

HA! It’s very humbling to be compared to those things!

Omg thank you for playing! I’m really glad that you enjoyed it! Your music is so beautiful and I really appreciated that you allow people to make things with it! 💕 I really like your theory about the music and Angel too!

Thank you Henni for all of your thoughts! I have you to thank for introducing me to Sky’s music! I am also very glad that I did your font justice! ^^ 💕

I’m glad that you enjoyed it! ^^

Thank youu!! 💕

I liked the story, it had a lot of weight for so few words. The reveal was cool and gave a whole new context to the vibrant noisy visuals that were saturating the dungeon. The visuals were really lovely, I really enjoyed how the colors morphed through the space and lent the whole trek a mesmerizing / uncanny feeling.

This seriously fucks. The whole presentation of it is so cool and flavorful! The combat is fast, fluid and extremely brutal. I especially love the pilot-side cam, and how it’s shakes and tilts when the mech does.

It took me like 50 tries to finally beat the opponent though, so to me it’s really difficult but I just may be bad at it.

The amount of different attacks and animations across the two fighters is really impressive, and I think kept the whole thing very dynamic.

Seriously awesome work!

This was beautiful. While I do not have a first-hand experience growing up in a religious institution, I think you did an amazing job of communicating what it must have felt like. It’s wild how children will take what was written in the bible as a factual truth and have the correct emotional reactions to what’s being described, while so many adults act nonchalant about the horrors they believe to be true heading their way.

Some of the surreal visuals were haunting as well, and did a great job of illustrating the mind of a child.

I Love how this game looks, the colors and effects rock! The way sound waves reveal objects is such an interesting mechanic and a really fun way to interpret the theme of noise. The architectural flourishes using those repeating shapes is also really pretty to look at and the giant eyeball in the sky took me back to Majora’s Mask ^^

I had trouble getting the actual keys though, maybe I was missing something but it seemed like the timings were never enough for my slow ass to reach the next platform. I still had a lot of fun with the game though.

P.S I managed to climb over the combination lock and over the locked gate, doing that you can get up the stairs but no ending is triggered.

This is so awesome! The noisy presentation is really effective and the whole game is just dripping with horror and style. It reminds me a lot of Fear & Hunger as well as Vermis, and it absolutely delivers on the horror elements really well. The fight with Palindrome in the large building was especially horrifying!! T^T

The music and sounds were really well made and had their own flavor of horror and distress.

I couldn’t finish it the few times I tried, but that just may be my lack of strategic thinking lol, regardless the game was really engaging, exploring felt really fun, examining all of the different types of items ignited my imagination and seeing all of the different monster designs was exciting.

It’s also wild how much of this seems to be using Dialogic, Is the combat system using it as well? Really cool to see!

This was fun! I really enjoyed how it felt and looked, very stylish and polished. Chaining together multiple attacks while the sword was in the air is super satisfying!

No promotion of hateful content. No racism. No nazis. No cops. No transphobes. No bigots. (You can include them if you bash their heads in.)

so yeah as long as you’re killing them it’s not against the rules.

This was really captivating. I really loved getting to see more of Adelaide and Eva’s relationship in the bonus story of WIILTT so this story was immediately exciting just for that alone. The visual presentation is stunning and the choice to lean into the raw sounds of the world rather than music did a nice job of representing Adelaide’s mental state throughout the store (especially the cicada sounds). I also squealed with the Aiyana (and partial Emma) cameos!

This is so special. Saturated with sincerity and vulnerability which is what makes it so relatable! The way the words fill the space is both beautiful and suffocating and does an excellent job of visualizing that building anxiety that can come from social media. For such a short experience it is really effective and is yet another example of how games can use typography to help tell their stories.

The video segments were really fun to watch and the music is so delicious!!

AHH this is AWESOME! I love your choices!!

This was a fun and insightful read! Thank you!!

It’s always wild for me to read technical musical insights like this, it feels like a sorceress describing how she cast her spells. I will nod along and smile but I lack the knowledge to fully comprehend all of it. Regardless it’s still so interesting to see how you approached some of the problems and get insight into your goals for the tracks. The OST is so cool to listen to and very distinct from the rest of your work but that makes it even more impressive imo. Also if it’s any consolation, I never once minded that a track repeated, and I am a very slow reader lol

I REALLY enjoyed the visuals and overall vibe of this game, it’s really inspiring!

It took me quite a while to realize that I had to jerk the mouse to the left and right to swim forward though. I also was able to maximize the window and some of the game didn’t seem to scale properly. I’m also only now realizing that one of the screenshots is showing the controls (and it took me an additional second to realize that ><> means like a fish! XD I can be a dum dum sometimes) All of that being said, I think the controls are so cool and feel like a great way to interpret a sort of noise into the game design.

I also got to chat with a creature and the dialogue was also awesome and felt very surreal and dreamlike.

This was really fun! I enjoyed the various rabbit holes of “what even is music or noise?” and the considerations for the truly alien perspective. It’s so fun to try and break down our base human assumptions for what alien life could be. I know it’s not really academic but some of this reminded me of Project Hail Mary (but I won’t go into why for spoiler reasons).

Here is my instrument, I hope to never hear it played lol

Zyrulavo

Listening to the slightly loud, bassy, very abrasive but airy texture often makes the listener feel quite homesick for a time.

To many humans it resembles a porcelain digeridoo and it sounds like a beaver being infected by a vampiric squid.

Fun fact: The Qylo-ians play this instrument to help with thermoregulation (specifically keeping warm during the planet’s century-long “deep eclipses”. There was a period of time when all performances of this instrument were heavily censored and while we thankfully don’t live in those difficult times anymore, many still perform the Zyrulavo in a much mellower fashion nowadays.