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this was really beautiful. the color design was so nice, just with the art so lovely to look at. and the um, imagery in the writing was also done really well. and the story, oh, my heart 

liked this! the pixellated font and backgrounds felt comfy. the story was cool. took me a while to start to realize where it was going! but then i got to look back and think... (spoilers) was purple planning this all along? did it engineer what happened with pink to take advantage of blue's response to it? well i'll never know.

would love to see this finished someday, or something else from you.

this was great! the ending surprised me a lot :)

lilith is so cute. i liked the visual effects too, really cool

this was fuckin sweet, thanks for making it

More! More!

damn. DAMN omg i was not expecting this to go *there*. well done, also,  owwww. fuck.

this was really cool

What a delightful fairy tale! we really enjoyed reading.

regret missing out on this one, please let me know if it's still available anywhere. thanks!

beautiful work, loved this!

rly enjoyed this, thanks for sharing!

wow!! this was so good, incrdibl <333

hehehe this was fun

cool!! love a good dream story. really liked the part where they *spoiler don't look* stab each other

this was cool! i liked the alliteration hehe

AWOOO

really enjoyed the demo! would love to see more of the game :)

this was very fun and sweet, well done too! <3

this game has so many fun little touches and the dolls themselves are gorgeous. beautiful work <3

Ah! thank you for reading, and thank you for asking these questions! It's great to have insight into how readers interpret what we wrote and what we ended up leaving out.

There are answers to your questions in my head that I guess did not come through in the text... most notably the details about Garbage Doll's becoming. I really regretted not having the space to do more than hint at the backstory and the origins of Garbage and Neon's relationship, and maybe a prequel would be in order. But  might never make one, so if you're curious about what I was trying to put in the subtext [spoilers ahead]:

Garbage and Neon were involved for a while, when both of them were more human. They were girlfriends who did hypnokink stuff. Neon, who wanted a doll, had talked to Garbage (when lucid) about turning her into one, and Garbage, who was having like a rough family life, trouble with school etc, transitioning, found the idea attractive but had not officially decided. Then Garbage attempted suicide, and Neon decided to save her by making her a doll. It's not right to hypnotize women into dollhood, and Neon could get in trouble with the other witches. However, I think she didn't actually hypnotize Garbage at that moment and instead took advantage of the fact that Garbage was vulnerable and already conditioned to go along with whatever Neon wanted. Garbage doesn't actually have a clear memory of what happened.  

This sort of reflects other Empty Spaces stuff we've read. Many witches are benevolent and seem to live to provide their dolls with whatever they need to feel fulfilled as dolls. Some are flat out evil and abuse their dolls (and some dolls seem to want that).  I wanted something in between for Neon Cat... she's kind of self centered, she thinks she knows best, she does what she wants, her dolls are there for her to use. She does care about them, but once she feels like she's failed them she shuts down and avoids thinking about it. 

(I think in other ES stories the witches often also use real magic. It's not really codified and it's often not the focus of the stories.)

But yeah, I couldn't figure out how to get all of that in at the time since it only really came up during the climax and I didn't want to slow things down too much. Oh well!

Oh, and about the scissors: Garbage Doll needed specifically a witch's scissors to cut the magical stitches on its mouth which is why it didn't buy a cheap pair from the store. The scissors in the medicine cabinet are, after all, the ones Neon used to repair Garbage Doll when they were living together.  (Also, you can't order a hat and wand online, or perhaps you can? But Neon Cat went to a local magic supply shop to get replacements.)

But yeah! Thanks again for reading! Glad you liked the art :)

this had a gripping story and really lovely cgs! adorable characters, beautiful fantasy forest setting, coming of age stuff, tender emotions. oh, my heart. i did not really know what i was in for when i started but im really glad i read it.  

hey this was really cool! enjoyed it

i've heard a lot of good things about this game, but i'm not able to play it because my eyes are not good enough. i found the text impossible to read even with glasses. :c

thank you so much!

thank you 💜 glad you enjoyed

glad i finally read this! one of my favorites from the jam.

nice! i really liked the corrupted photos.

when i've lost data it's usually been writing. apart from when it happened to a major project i was still working on, it's usually felt freeing. a fresh start.

if anything really important is lost, i just have to try to remake it.

tears are indeed the cum of the heart <3

thanks! this was delightful.

beautifully put together. love the feel of this, wanted to stay in it longer. 

so good!!

really great visuals. beautiful presentation. a lot of nice backgrounds, colors, dithering. story really nice! short and sweet. i love vera!! best snail girl so good!! 

she... she drewww... she drew them togetherrrrrr *sob*

music seemed nice too! i will have to play again because the first time i played i had accidentally loaded the game twice so the menu music in the background was actually drowning out whatever music was playing in game. once i realized this i played through again real quick without a second instance of the game in the background (and chose a few different choices.)

10/10 recommend

the art is really hot

great mech poem! i read it thinking about the pilot in bug grinder (noise jam game i worked on) and their similarities and differences.

wow, really interesting! cool narrative, lots of nice little touches. i liked how glitched out the text got.

great story. loved the side by side narration. glorious music. angels! *shakes fist*

horrifying. thank you.

these are great! i wish i would have added them to noise girl but maybe i will put some of them in an update :)

thank you for screaming at me

i loved it

great work on this one. i love the soundtrack with the owowows. hope to see more from you!