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really touching, this one’s gonna stick with me for a while :]

I thought that getting lost and then rushing back to the guidance of your grandmother is an emotional gameplay metaphor for the lesson our protagonist is learning: that the independence they are seeking doesn’t mean total self-sufficiency. this is emphasised by the contrast of how lonely it feels to walk the path alone, in the Winter of their adulthood.

(this was from a little critical writeup i did for class, just thought it’d be worth sharing :D)

really gorgeous pixel art, i love the blurry-edged colour choices and janky lines.

this is fuuun! my highest was 153, on the pink paint background. might come back to try beat it later but was just pokin around ur itch in a break from work :p I like how quickly fighting them becomes totally unviable, plus with it changing the background tiling and the “pacifist run!” message it feels like it’s strongly discouraging you from even trying to fight. have you seen the avoiders/treaters games? https://itch.io/jam/jacks-avoidance-jam/entries i feel like this is an avoider with a very particular kiting-creatures kinda flavour that i enjoy a lot.

hey this was really charming, thank you! your love and hard work shines through. i was able to pick it up and finish it well over a month after first starting, because the visual communication is so strong. beat it in 2 hours, 4 minutes, and 4329 clicks :]

o,, can u walk far enough around the fence that you get in?

heehee thank u Reece for always leaving nice comments :]

heyhey, i forgot i wanted to submit to this. here's our zine: https://orf.itch.io/metameta hope to see u guys tomorrow for some silliness :]

ohoho... i was hoping it would be a bit of a viral cognitohazard, love to hear it.

hey thank u Reece :] did u play it in zine-form?

hey nice model :] i got here from your sketchfab collection of unused Silent Hill models, and wanted to ask if you could possibly set them all to be able to be downloaded? some of them r not.

I've had this one haunting my filesystem for years, I'd never seen anything like it before, and it had a big impact on me on thinking about games as curses/cognitohazards. This was a big point of reference for my most recent zine game -- not trying to self-promo, just wanted to share thanks :]

appreciate how loud this is hehe. the only part that rubbed me wrong was games journalism not having a "real-world use". what is this real world you're talking about and why do people there care about usefulness?

really touching :]

banger :]

keep thinkin about this really neat little moveset you figured out,, so much potential for cool puzzles! there's a juicy overlap to explore here, somewhere between geometry dash, hollow knight spike-hopping, and source engine skating maps.

hey :] upon trying to download this I got a warning that this has been quarantined: "Our system has flagged this page for additional review due to potential suspicious behavior from the page owner." I'm able to download if I bypass this, but don't wanna risk it even though this looks great :p

woa this is gameplay

heya, would you consider making more community copies available for this?

felt very seen by this :]

*Hell yeah*

hey thx p.j. ! :]

woo! yea! these r such beautiful colours. i wanna eat these opalescent bubbles all day. 

this is a really great core mechanic, could do a lot with this :] 

the ultra butterfly told me love always wins

i got 38.5

really great atmosphere, i love the audio details. navigating the wheelhouse with WASD is pretty jank and took me a while to figure out - feels like a game better suited to a mouse, and i was wishing that S was just a quick exit button. i feel like i'm missing some context from not having playing a lot of this fnaf-like genre of horror games - even when i feel like i'm learning how it works i'll still get randomly killed and not know what i learnt. i played with one of your friends sitting next to me it to me but still didn't finish :p  but this did genuinely get me into a stressful kinda flow for a few games of it. nice work :]

hey, nice experiment. I've been interested in Flickgame and can see a limitation here in trying to do minimal animations. I found and played this version first before the HTML5 version and I must say - even as someone who's pretty literate in this kind of art (vaguely interactable interactable pixel experiences in a browser) - I felt I didn't understand what had happened, if I had had any choice. This doesn't have nearly the emotional impact that the original does. It's really interesting what gets lost in translation.

this got me, crying early in the morning <3

this rocks! really nice on a trackpad :] my highscore so far is 3593200 

that's it :]

hey really nice work, i almost filled a page breaking down the different mechanic interactions in class. the 'break through the pipe' level had us really stuck for like 10 mins and gave up, we couldn't solve it the intended way and thought it might be a red herring and something to do with screenwrap.

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hey, i really connected with this one. i've had a similar relationship with bitsy, really wanting to make more small imperfect things (like upatree) but not because i often look back on them with more fondness than the more planned and polished project. that ending is really touching. i'll be thinking about this for a while i'm sure. thank you for making it. 

so delightful

the scrappy sprites and guitar  remind me of early animation YouTube I was into when i was a teenager :] 
this little experince conveys to me a kinda surveillance anxiety around your personal rituals and struggling to feel like you have permission and the means to chill out. at first i thought it was bugged that you couldn't light the joint, but maybe it's because you're hesitant even when you should feel safe to do so? it would've been real satisfying for that to work when you're in the clear. 
nice work!

hey, great work, particularly the visual art  :]

if not for the itch caption, it would've been super surprising for it to get suddenly horrifying. 

my interpretation of this is that you're feeling stuck in routine/rituals, and getting dissassociative or having intrusive thoughts while trying to conduct ceremonies which are meant to be comforting and grounding in culture.

this is fantastic :]

hell yea

hey, super nice spritework! this scene was a delight to click around for the first few minutes or so. i started to feel like i'd clicked everything on the scene at least thrice and i got the impression that it was just a waiting game. i found three meerkats and then while waiting for the fourth to show up i went to make a coffee, came back and still no sign of 'em. maybe it's bugged, but waiting that long felt counterintuitive to how clickable the scene is and i'm sad i didn't find the last two, they r so squishy :[

hey nice work! i love the attention to detail with the chickens, they r so fun to pick up. it wasn't clear to me whether there's anything to do with the stick or the cat, but i enjoyed the short experience of tending to the chickens. the audio is great.