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This feels like one of those feelings of trying to ground yourself with comfort media when you want reassurance that you're getting a good grade at "human" and "friends". 

And also that you are one of the many little stars within a night sky constellation, all twinkling together :O

I'm really happy my little toddler memories were able to reach you <3

I think there's something vaguely comforting in wondering if you did ever at some point encounter a ghost. I'm not especially fond of the idea that dead people linger around as fully autonomous versions of themselves in the afterlife, but there is a comfort in wondering if the memory of our existence held by people, places, and moments gets suspended in some sort of "fuzz" that we just happen to interact with sometimes. This makes me want to get a ghost box and test it out in old apartments lol!

I still remember when my favourite hideouts were boxes. I can no longer fit in them, but the smell and just how confiningly cozy they were still feel comforting to look back on. We all yearn for the small hideaways

I used to live right next to my school, and this made me me miss walking back home all sweaty every day. And all the little cats and bugs and plants I'd take photos of for iNaturalist on my way back <3

This felt like hugging my plushies <3

What a charming art style <3

Long car rides home were always my favourite. So many fun little brain adventures and dreams to be had

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AWHH! Kid me loved dinosaurs too, he would've been stoked >:3 Very cute dinos too!

Q^Q wahhh, thank you <33

Thank you <3

This made me make so many excited happy bug noises <333

This is like, this is like autism heaven for me. This is amazing. I feel like I'm in heaven!!!!

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Waaaghhh ;---; this is such a sweet comment!! We're so happy to hear that you liked them, and honestly even though it took 5ever (which we didn't realize at the start) we're really happy we stuck through till the end lol ^^; <333

This was really sweet and felt really rewarding to work out the puzzles with. Felt like giving my teddy bear a big hug after it. Also, I really loved the song that played after the second bit. The game felt like a magical little box of old memorabilia. 

I got sentenced to door prison T----T but this is so cool!!!

Thank you so much <33

Of course, thank you all for making it :"P <3 <3 <3

This was so soft and cute. It's funny just how many different people I love came to mind as I was reading this :")

Adorable!! Made both me and my partner smile a bunch :"P

My partner and I got to play this together, it was really nice and bittersweet. :”P Kind of feels like personally sitting through the learned helplessness experiment. And being painfully socially isolated as a kid no matter what you did to try and make things work this time. A voluntary stasis to prevent every following action from rendering the situation so much worse than before, forever wanting to regain that once unblemished slate, a figurine in glass casing, the untarnished ideas of past. 

That stasis being a choice, but still a form of entrapment that makes paralysis feel safer than any misstep, even as it renders you sitting ducks at the end of a maze with the beast drawing ever near. 

Very fun game, but that cabinet instills evil urges in me.

Congratulations!! I remember coming across Off Day so many years ago. It immediately became such a special and sentimental game for me, so it's incredible being able to see it thrive <33

tag yourself i'm HORS ES!! T<>T

This was really heartfelt, thank you for putting so much love into this <3

This was such a delight and had me beaming with every surprise <33

Hi, this was really sweet and heartwarming on top of being so beautifully illustrated. Thank you for making this <33

I really liked the one of the bulbul, a bird from my childhood that i'd regularly get to see outside my house, the bird I was nicknamed after <33

Awhh, it's short, but I'm really interested to see the dynamics at play with your characters. I've only known them for a bit, but they all seem so loveable :"> <333

Ohhhh, this was such a sweet comic ;---; I still remember how heartbroken I was when I first found out that I'd need to prune and deadhead my first set of snapdragons, and I neglected to do that, so they grew long, limp, and spindlier with time. I think messing up was probably the only thing that could've gotten me to realize how necessary it was for them. I think you use it as a theme so beautifully in a way that provides so much comfort and catharsis. <33

Oh, wait- I think that actually is the end lmao. Honestly, understandable, they should be compensated fairly!!!! Overall, a really fun and interactive experience and I thought it was beautifully illustrated too :")

I'm loving it so far!!! The pop-up book elements create such a beautifully immersive effect whilst reading, but I can't seem to progress past the page that comes after letting the "red rooster roar" :( I'm not sure what to tap or drag to move onto the next page.

This game was so sweet and it genuinely made me tear up a bunch. It was so relaxing to play too, and I found myself growing really, really attached to Thaw, Tea, and Tooth the more we got learn about them. It had such a nice animal crossing sort of charm to it too!!! I think my favourite part was seeing how different their vibes and preferences all were, in spite of them all sharing one body!! I think it was really interesting seeing each of them processing grief and trying to accomodate for all of their different needs - how each of them had different preferences in treats, the types of activities they found fun, how some of them took on more protective roles whilst others were more delicate, and whether they were more outgoing or more introverted - and I'm really happy that I was able to get the ending where all three of them were happy. Their bark was the cutest and it left me really soft and teary eyed. I'm glad we were able to help our three-headed lizard friends grieve <33 Q^Q

I ended up accidentally clicking enter and posting this before actually finishing my comment, so I had to go back and edit it T--T

HEY, I JUST GOT BACK FROM FINISHING UP ALL OF THE ENDINGS!!!! I've been kind of busy these past few days, but I finally got the time to replay it and gaaaaaahhhh ;--; I already loved the first chapter a bunch, and I'm amazed at how much I loved this version of it even more! I also loved seeing Chris grow increasingly attached to James over the course of the story (I did too and got very sad over the trajectory of one of the routes because I missed him too much lol) and I really loved seeing the change in Chris' attitiude - initially being very goal-driven and emotionally withdrawn from everyone, to making that decision to stand by James, even when he's emotionally deteriorating with stress Q^Q I really loved seeing that, and I really hope that James is able to get what he's searching for <33 Also, I made sure to try out all of the options to see that I was on the  right track and I got the ending with the [ To Be Continued ] screen on my first try >:3 mwehehehehe!!!

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!! HI, I'M SO HAPPY THAT PART 2'S FINALLY OUT!!!! I REMEMBER COMING ACROSS THIS SERIES AND THE CHARACTERS AND PLOT BEING SO GOOD!!! I CAN'T WAIT TO PLAY IT AGAIN!!!

CRYING AAAAGHHHHH

I'd gotten into this game a year after the demo first released and it'd been one of my most cherished experiences with media ever, and I'm super duper emotional right now as I'm about to play the prologue. You guys have worked so hard on this over the years and every second spent playing these games just reverberates all of the love imbued within them <33

This was agonizing and it hits really close to home. There will be times when I'll go above and beyond "to be of use" to other people, and I think I'll be doing something good because technically, I am still helping out and benefitting other people. But upon dissecting why I do stuff like that, a lot of it more geared towards "fulfilling a role". After being chatsised, scrutinized, berated, and battered down a lot in childhood, you feel obligated to render yourself palatable to others, and so you do that. And you exhaust yourself helping others because "someone has to. who else will?" In gearing so much of your energy towards others all the time, there's a part of you that wishes you had been loved and cared for in the very same way. That someone were to pick up on the pattern and recognize it in you. It feels like wanting to be there for others, less because you actually want to help them, but because you wish that someone - anyone - could have been there to comfort you the same way. The line between gestures done out of love versus those stemming from a sense of pattern and duty "because it needs to be done" blur after a while. I've been doing a bunch better in terms of that mentality, but it just reminded me of that a lot. I don't know where I'm going with the rest of this, but it was really, really good, and I cried a bunch, and the way the events of the story pan out is so interesting. I loved all of the sounds and music too!!

OH, POFFIN SWEETHEART TvT <333 This game is so cute!!!!

THIS USED TO BE ONE OF MY FAVOURITE CHILDHOOD GAMES, OH MY GOSH <333 Can't wait to play it!!!