shouldn't the zine be, you know, read and liked by white people? it's about writing black characters... i think it's important for folks who aren't black to go and read it and then do better in their creative endeavors. that is to say: it's weird that people are going "i'm white but" because uhhh it's IMPORTANT for white folks to read this. it's not weird that people are liking it (of any ethnicity).
anyway i continue to enjoy your work. i find a lot of it relatable and i like that it's so different and unique. it touches on topics a lot of media - even other independent media - shies away from and that i appreciate.
This was really cute, but the sort of vibrating-moving backgrounds triggered some photosensitivity for me; hurt my eyes. Loved the story though and it was mild enough I powered through, but I would recommend maybe having an option to disable the moving backgrounds!
I do wish there was another option to get really close to both Cerris and Terrig, for endings. But it was all good!
full disclosure: i am Autistic and trying to be empathetic, not override your story with my own, just. yknow.
i'm fully nonbinary, right, i'm not a man or a woman i am a Something Else. it's bristling to be compared to my birth gender and gods. gods. everything is "women and nonbinary". "non-men". it's miserable. like. i'm not woman-lite. yes i like a lot of feminine things but that's society's judgment not what gender is. and then i see people going and wishing violence on ALL men, not just the men who take advantage of things.
i'm polyamorous & my currently only partner is a cishet man. "het" in quotes, because he likes me, but i'm mostly an exception to his rule. i like to joke that he's the one decent cishet men and now he's being passed around and has acquired a harem of trans women, as anyone who doesn't mistreat trans people tends to do. i hate the "make men eunuchs" and etc language because that's him, too, and he's kind and in the 5 years i've been with him he's changed for the better, when he was still an incredible person who listened & who cared.
and how does it feel. how does it feel for a trans man to see that. and know either they're included or they're not included because they happen to be trans and then it's like they're not seen as a man, and one of my roommates is a trans man and he deals with that and everyone still calls him "she" because it took him 40+ years to finally stop being terrified of giving him womanhood/girlhood.
it's complicated & frustrating and.
we need more games like this. you've done something amazing with this game, just by having it, just by writing this. and i hope that more people write games like this and address the complicated feelings of -
i'm not a woman but i lost something when i acknowledged that, when i saw that, when it became something i did. i lost the "girls can be just as good as boys" and people see me as a traitor and sometimes i see myself as a traitor. and i'm not even a man! just not a woman.
but none of that is betrayal & none of that is running away. it is running to yourself, running to one's self, and it's okay if it's complicated. if you have to step back. if you have to run and hide. and it's also okay to jump back into things and reinvent yourself and throw off those weights and be shiningly yourself.
idk man your game touched my heart and this post-mortem is giving me so many thoughts and just...
you've done something important. even if it's niche. people will see it. it's the beginning of everything.
This was great! I had a lot of fun playing it, and it was absolutely beautiful. I LOVE nonograms/picross and having a little bit of a story with it was so much fun. I loved doing the different parties hehehe :) The puzzles - nonogram and otherwise - weren't easy but they weren't super challenging, either; all of them had an easy solution and often when I picked up an item I'd realize where it was supposed to go, if I had previously encountered and gotten frustrated with things.
Thank you so much for the game, I had a ton of fun!
As a mentally ill enben with lots of mentally ill and neurodivergent queer friends, I could relate to a lot that happened in the story. I emphasized and related to pretty much every character in one way or another, and I LOVED the side story.
Aiyana is such a sweetheart, absolutely adore her. My heart broke for her, knowing how hard it is to Do Things and... everything. Yeah. Very relatable, glad she has a caregiver.
I'm not quite in as bad as shape as Aiyana, but I can't live alone either and need a caregiver myself. A robot aid would be SO useful.
The characterization was brilliant and I mean - well, okay. I've played enough of your games by now that I know it's lesbians and mental illness and people struggling and it's just going to be pretty and aesthetic and a little bit sad and a little bit happy. I always get excited when you come out with a new game.
I also noticed that the mental illnesses were discussed but never named. While I was able to pretty much conclude what neurodivergence/mental illness was what because I deal with some/have friends with them, it was nice to see... I mean, saying you have this disorder or that disorder, it doesn't really help. It leaves people assuming things and people are so much more than their diagnoses. But saying what people ACTUALLY dealt with... the things they ACTUALLY needed...
Idk it was just nice and I was fond of that fact.
Also you're fantastic at writing nonhumans with nonhuman experiences.
this is INCREDIBLE i have so many FONTS i never have to worry about fonts or licensing AGAIN :D!! I got it when it was on a SUPER SALE, for $20, it was SO worth it.
As a disabled solo dev who has trouble finishing things (-sweeping all my WIPs under the rug-), this has saved me so much stress, effort, time, and MONEY.
Patreon is so strict anymore, I'm so sorry this happened :( Cutting Edge was a fun li'l BDSM romp I sincerely enjoyed, so it sucks that Patreon took issue with it.
This was such a delight to play! Very cute and Ioved coming up with new drinks :) Only thing I noticed was a discrepancy in the words - in the customer's order, the value was labelled "sweet/sour" but on the ingredients it was labelled "salty". The latter makes more sense, since 'sweet' is already a value.
Oh! I'm so happy there's an update, I can't wait to see all the guests running around! hiddenone is an exceptionally talented sprite artist, so I'm really looking forward to admiring all the sprites :3
You ran into the issue that I often see when representation DOES happen. There's like, two possible reactions:
"THERE'S REP THERE'S REP BEST GAME EVER!!!!" from one crowd and "jfc the (insert minority group here) are taking over" from another. It's frustrating.
We shouldn't have to be satisfied with 5 minutes of a side character who is queer, a POC, whatever. It shouldn't BE the big deal that it is. And it shouldn't be so dang hard to find a character that isn't a Generic White Everyman but characters with variety and personality and feeling behind them.
This post is very well-written. Bonus points for mentioning Deltarune, because I absolutely love it (and Undertale).
this is relatable. i - i'm still in the "getting diagnosis" stage and i have fully given up. my mate keeps pushing me to try but like... lmao, doctors don't care and don't listen.
You do such great work that it's completely understandable why you're putting a price tag on some packs. It's exciting when there are free packs, but your stuff is 100% worth paying for.
Made it to 183 sacks :) This was very fun, and a really great nostalgia trip - I remember playing different Club Penguin games for HOURS! My favorite was the fishing one, which is ironic because I hate most fishing minigames xD
Ahh, this was amazing!!! I really enjoyed Mayor on the Run and the Lost Art of Innkeeping, so I know I'm going to make this a priority to buy when it comes out in full! :)
I didn't run into any issues. I am SO excited for the full game!
This was awesome! I got three endings on my own, but needed help to find the other two. Thank you for the walkthrough, it saved me lol.
I really enjoyed this game, I actually love body horror and narratives of change and changing. I loved the like - references to changing as a human, beyond the supernatural change into Something Else. The way it's a supernatural narrative of something so realistic and close to home - and, tbh, a lot of stuff that is... very relatable.
Parents really struggle when kids grow up, huh?
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The only thing I wish is that we could have killed our parents but still spared Maisie - she was decent, y'know? That's the only flaw with the game, not having variants on ending 3 :P
