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As always, love everything you do. Thank you.

Short answer: Why not?

Long Answer: I actually laughed out loud at the "whyyyy?" I did a short talk about it here when I started making this game at a Dames Making Games in 2017. I'm still working and polishing this project. 

I was a patient expert for the Heavy Menstrual Bleeding(HMB) standard of care for Health Quality Ontario (HQO)in Canada. (I made this project on my own, and they have nothing to do with it) The reason why HQO made a standard on HMB is because Canada has one of the highest rates of  unnecessary hysterectomy (removal of the uterus) in the world.  HMB is a poorly treated illness, and most illness around periods are often dismissed.  Even basic things like anemia which is a risk of periods, are barely studied. A lot patients spend a lot of time being ignored because "it's just your period" and apparently because it's a natural thing it means that doctors and other people think it's a non-issue.  People generally think that all periods are the same, when in fact, they are all wildly different.  The risks of HMB are  anemia which can result in things like exhaustion, and even worse things like mini strokes and mini heart attacks. I had both at 29.   Other causes of heavy loss of blood can be things like bleeding disorders or fibroids which are tumours that grow in the uterus.  I had all the above.  I almost died because I was constantly rejected, humiliated, and gaslighted from receiving healthcare. This is unfortunately not uncommon.   I use to loose about a liter of blood over the period of a month, which is literally hemorrhaging and was told I was just over reacting and it was impossible.  

A lot of patients are told their periods are normal when they aren't. The goal of this game was to give people an idea of how much planning and worrying goes into having a period.  Periods can be painful, time consuming, surprising,  expensive and hilarious. I wanted to poke fun at and criticize a system that doesn't believe patients about their experience.  Maybe if we talked about periods more, less patients would go through the horrors I went through to get good healthcare. 

Great concept! I love the idea that everything this slowly destroyed by you revisiting it. 

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it.

I'm working on my Devlog, and I'll go over the dialog choices. I find that when I'm in a bad situation, if I am by myself I tend to be more pessimistic, if I'm with someone else, I tend to humourous, because I feel a strange need to make the other person feel like things are gonna be okay. 

Well it was made in 2 days, so there's only so much I can do. I'll look at the collisions. 

Woo hooo!

Great! If you want a hint I seem to be half decent as checking this page.  lol

Thank you for playing! It was for a game jam, and I ended up realizing  in the last hours I couldn't do what I needed to and ran out of time.   So there are a few things that could be improved upon. The upper room, kinda works like the climbing the pillars one, but you have to fly up to it from the previous room and jump over Vala. 
The environment isn't designed well enough to indicate where, there is a star in the sky that's close to the path. 
There's 4 endings. There are two options in one room. 
I'll think about your comments for the next one. It was fun to make a little fanfiction.