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beautiful writing and a beautiful game!

I found this jam in a newsletter I follow and decided to join even though I have barely read or have written any poetry and I had a great time making my game. I spent most of it at poets.org reading poems and I feel so glad to have a new art medium to discover and express myself with.

Thank you!

Yay for a new kitten!

I'm glad cat owners connect with this game. Thanks for playing!
 

Thanks! And thanks for checking out my game. I hope you have fun.

Love this. I'm making a poetry building game too for the 'poetry inspired ttrpg jam' . This forces you to be creative every line.

my poem. Im still a noob so its not that good.

I used a d10. I choose 2 words to start my poem and the poem I was inspired by was  Shuttle by Noah Warren
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dreaming wilderness

The wolf sings softly

birds howl

the trees run, the mountains run

There's a man who wants nothing and is well

Thanks for playing! And I'm glad you connected with it :)

Lovely game! It reminds me of my time with my game boy color which was my first handheld. Great first game!

Thanks! Check out the 'bitsy' tag on itch to see more games like this if you're interested.

Yes. I sometimes I feel really lucky to have him around after I think he won't be here forever. Thanks for playing :)

Here's my picture. Loved the idea of the game and gives me ideas for my own short games.

journey

Great job on your first game! Loved the art for the trees!

Thanks for reminding to not forget my dream! Happy new year!

Love the art of the game! The light rays are cool. I wish there a simple way to create 3D art like this to use for godot or in other engines.

I relate to the post about self compassion. I just read a book on it and I can't believe how I was before. I had to be prefect or I was a failure. I treat myself better now days. Love these types of decks!

Cool. I'm still working on my art. Might post later.

Yes I'm using shadow cljs https://github.com/thheller/shadow-cljs

You run the release command and it builds a production build. Then you zip your public directory and upload it to itch. I just tested it and you need to use relative paths to get your assets to load when running on itch.

When developing with shadow it starts a web server for you and it automatically builds when you save a file.

You can use other build tools too like figwheel but I think shadow is more maintained.

Yeah its fun doing it from scratch. 

Cool. Looks like an interesting game. Found a videos of it here for anyone interested.

https://www.moddb.com/games/f0rest

Thanks. Yes I made them myself. The art is made with watercolors traditionally (not with a paint program). I was thinking of not using them since it's hard to make animations this way but I think I will try. Best of luck to you too.

Just wanted to show what I made before the jam.

The features implemented before the jam are: basic player movement, image loading and drawing, audio loading and playing, canvas resizing.

https://github.com/chipset1/autumn-lisp-jam-2024/tree/starting-point

I want to make something like this instead of a normal blog now. Lots of cool stuff decker can do.

Thanks for making this! It reminded me that I want to not forget my Nepali ( the language of Nepal). I learnt it as a kid and I forgot it as an adult and had to relearn it. That was a few years ago and I'm inspired to practice again.

Thanks for the advice! I'll do the writing exercise with my favorite narrative games as well. The Ctrl+paint video library looks great and I'll go through that. I'll check out all the other speed paints and channels you linked too.

Thanks again!

Thanks for the write up. About marketing I've had some success with reddit a while ago. I posted on /r/Webgames and got 3000 views but only 1 comment (which wasn't related to the game) and no ratings . Maybe there's a visual novel subreddit that allows self promotion that you could post to.

Also I saw on twitter say that they get more sales on steam than itch and its an order of magnitude more (i think he said 300 times more but that seems like too much). However I don't know if it applies to free games and it's harder to put your game on steam.

Do you have any resources on making art like you do or writing a story? I'm a noob at both and I want to make more story rich games.

Slice of life point and clicks are my favorite! Got to make something with decker one of these days.

Love the art and story! The sentence generator is cool and gave me some ideas. 

I really like games like this. I related to parts of the game strongly.  Glad I found this!

The art in this made an impression on me. I loved the music too. I like reading your postmortems and dev logs as a game dev myself also. I liked the game!

The art is beautiful! Can't wait to play.

I love the colors. The heart being 2D gives it an interesting style.

This made me think about why I want to be a game dev. Beautiful game!

Thanks!

Yeah I didn't really apply the theme to the game.  Even though its small I'm hoping the source code can be helpful to people. Thanks for playing!

Does that mean you can't use procedural graphics, like a 2D rectangle drawing function, all of the graphics must be from your 128x128 texture?

hey, sorry for not seeing this sooner. I don't go on itch much.

You can get "Feeling Good" the book I was talking about here:

https://archive.org/details/FeelingGood-TheNewMoodTherapy/mode/2up

I don't know what advice to give that can help another than the book really helped me and I would still recommend reading it.

It sucks to feel that way. Have you tried learning something or getting a new Hobby? Programming has helped me when I was down.

lol. you can google "feeling good pdf" and can find it.  I did this and brought it after reading it. You could also find it at a 2nd hand book store for like a dollar.

I ended up procrastinating on reading it for a year which I regret. So just skip to chapter 3 if you're bored. That's where the book really starts . Read pages 13-15 if you want to see evidence that the methods in the book work as well as anti-depressants. 

Read it! Don't wait on reading it! Good luck!

> also i don't see the difference between Firefox on Linux and Firefox on Win ?

that's good to hear! Some one else was having an issue on linux and it also runs slow in my linux vm. 

> i just genuinely hate my life

This book, Feeling Good, has helped me deal with those kinds of thoughts and feelings.  Also here's a podcast with the author.  

? I'm assuming this is because this doesn't run well on linux in firefox?  I updated the game to be more playable at a lower frame rate. Sadly there isn't much I can do beyond redoing the art. What I'm using runs much slower on firefox 

You're basically asking for a way to resize the iframe itch.io puts on your game page. That's quite different from resizing your canvas to fit the iframe. 

Not really, I'm asking to get the windows real width not the iframes width so I can resize the canvas my self.  That would work though if I made my canvas the size of the iframe. That might actually be a better solution than get access to the real window width from your game.

But for now, your code is actually working just fine, I suspect. It just can't do what you expect of it.

yeah running at max res is alright. It would be working fine if worked like it did locally. Hoping this is addressed by the dev team in the future.

It looks like (by the lack of replies) that not many people know about this or are unaffected by it. So thanks for your suggestions!