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YES! WE DESERVE BETTER!!

To be honest I think a large amount of people posting in game dev spaces about how they hate making games are just trying to vent temporary frustration with the process with ironic jokes rather than actually despising the craft. Everything you said about the underlying expectation of “industry products” is some real fucking shit though. “You will always be the exception” hits so good

Thank you!!

Thank you! Just be sure to give our magazine credit when you win The Game Awards

This is really nice! The peekaboo card is the closest someone’s gotten to accurately portraying what the inside of my brain looks like

Really, I just want to see some kind of game or something called that, I don’t care what it is. Thank you for reading!

Wow. Illumination, are you listening? Thanks for taking the time to read it!

Thank you! And good to know some people have thought of the same thing lol.

Your zine was so good that I effectively stole the idea for it to make my zine, sorry lol. I like your attitude towards projects for giving you stuff to do without necessarily having to be “completed,” I should try and be more like that. And your artstyle is amazing! Myrtle is my favorite.

Your artstyle looks so nice! My favorite is the Mermaid. Silly freaking creature

Some of these poem forms I’d never heard of but Doubling dactyls seems Pretty dang fun

I’m always doing stuff like this (things)

Honestly it sounds weird to say/write outside my brain but I keep forgetting that I’m not as restricted as I think I am when it comes to what I can/can’t do, so thank you for this. It helps, seriously

Had an AWESOME time playing this game before work. Now it’s time for me to go to work. I love you!

Thank you!

I’m nowhere near good enough at Pokemon to do what this game wants from me, even with easy mode on. I like how you incorporated the song into the writing though!

This is what Cppla thought Megalopolis would do. I like the blog structure and how the story factored the economics of the kingdoms around the reception!

I’ve been having nosebleeds in real life a lot over the past few months and halfway through playing this I was half convinced that it was going to start again. Thank you, very immersive game. I’m a fan of Alice.

Story of my life. I love this, I love how much concentration there is in each story and how the pacing keeps the number of choices from being too over/underwhelming. As someone who thinks about this kind of thing a lot it felt nice reading this.

It’s crazy how the feeling of the same picture can change by recontextualizing the personalities in it. One of the few Twine works (I think it’s Twine?) where I was equally interested in every ending. The footnotes are a really smart way to represent back-alley thoughts, that connection just makes sense in my head somehow. And the translation of the death’s dynamic shroud song to a visual is brilliant too. I loved this game.

I enjoyed this game! This did something with perspective that I haven’t seen in a text game besides maybe Terminal Interface for Models RCM301-303 (and even that was something completely different). I don’t know if there were multiple endings or not but I felt like maybe I missed something? (That’s not a critique to be clear. What I played works as a standalone statement, but I wanted to be a completionist.) Also, I know it’s drawing from the Kate Bush song but I couldn’t help but think of the comic strip characters when I saw the names lol.

Now I get why gamers DoorDash so much. Great game! Love the art and how the choices end up dictating the mood.

WOW this is incredible. All the art, the way you use the volume of the ambience for pacing, and that whole last third is incredible. Maybe the best use of modded Videotome I’ve seen. This is up there with some of my favorite Domino Club games

Nice game! I love the descriptions of the stairwell, I kept leaving and coming back to see all of them. And the change in format and presentation at the end is great too.

Had a great time with this one! I like that every song is part of a puzzle, I didn’t even think of that but that’s such an obvious and clever thing to do. Taking the time to associate certain songs with different endings is also really gracious of you. It is embarrassing how long I spent on the crossword but that’s on me for not thinking of that word. Great job!!

Nice game! I like the use of implying your character’s personality with choices and how that affects the reasoning for their actual decisions. I think more games should try that kind of thing.

It’s true. That’s what Larkin meant to write but his hand slipped

Thanks for reading! That’s a relief to hear, I felt bad picking another song. Glad it was the one you wanted.

Thank you for playing it! Try looking in the bathroom.

Ty!

Thank you!! “Nightmare” means a lot coming from you

Really incredible games!!! I love your work.

Another banger. Love the clay

good october game. thank you,

I don’t have much to say but I really enjoyed this. I watched it on my desktop with my browser tabs flickering in and out. Thank you for making it.

Can we submit multiple entries? I’m not looking to compete as much as I think this could be a good chance for me to try making multiple things in 1 month.

Thank you! Don’t worry, we’ve all been there lol

I joined Unpolished Jam because I felt like you did for months. Before that it was years. I don’t think making/doing things is a “habit” for me as of now (I still find myself slipping back into that inaction -> self-loathing -> inaction cycle) but I do know that I joined this jam and finished a project last week mainly because my positive feelings about making something overrode my negative feelings about me being “lazy”/“incompetent”/“whatever.” This game is beautiful, thank you for making it.

Sorry, I just saw after posting the comment that you were submitting to Unpolished Jam. I made the game thinking of the jams I submitted to specifically so I think it fits the criteria. I also wanted to use the Unpolished Jam to make something unstable-looking and feeling.

Sorry you didn’t like it. You’re supposed to find the white text and follow its instructions as fast as you can and against the clock. The game’s meant to be mentally overwhelming with all the visuals and audio, but yeah it is also glitchy. Which theme are you thinking of?

Really loved this game! The writing and art are especially on point. The game over screen lol