just finished playing. i'm usually pretty clueless about these types of games but this one was pretty cool and the message didn't get lost in being all artsy, something i really love.
i first thought that it would be about maternity and motherhood (with the little glowies) but when i got to the end of the 2nd 'spider', i got thinking and decided that it was probably about trust issues.
(spoilers ahead?)
like, you start out as a really pretty spider with your glowies on show, and you make friends with a human and some birds, but one human freaks out and steps on you.
so you come back as a less pretty spider with only one or two glowies, the birds don't acknowledge you and your human friend from before doesn't want anything to do with you. the other human then freaks and steps on you, again.
then the last spider is an ugly hunk of junk with no glowies and sharp edges. floating glowies run away from you, birds shoo you away and you start lashing out.
maybe i'm just thinking it into it way too much but i can't help but take this as a sort of metaphor for trust issues and building up 'walls' that ultimately just screw you over and make people hate you.