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thank you.

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i dearly appreciate you noticing the assimilation aspect, in all its aspects i wanted to explore the micro to macro meanings through the locker rooms and out into the articles. i am seriously happy it comes through.

transformation in physicality, emotions, thoughts, and even ambitions is sometimes a gradual, slow, unconscious process. things get mixed up, told out of order, reworded to fit goals better, faster, stronger. it's never made out of shape or unrecognizable until it's too late- but swimming is just one sport where each millisecond counts.

i really appreciate your thoughts, it feels good to be understood.

i'm so grateful and glad to know the entire team's feelings come through.

ahhh swimming in winter... memories of running through vancouver powder with the team in just swimsuits... cant say that was fun either LOL. but ice swimming still is popular... amazing stuff

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thank you for mentioning the swimdex!!! im truly glad it was clear to read despite not being "your world"; if i can even introduce one new idea that sticks with others then i'm completely happy. i'm doubly happy to see someone can recognize any of the names, thank you. yes, as long as there's water, the will to swim doesn't go away.

appreciate the help much :') thanks again!

robin, run, run, run, but i imagine amoeba make for bad pitchers since there is a certain rhythm and boredom to baseball that's captured here, waiting, waiting, prickling tears and sweating as memories are mixed between yearning and mourning the ritual or hating and admiring the mere concept of sport, such strong sweet sweat in the summer sun and the racist stadium and the dirt caked in clothes and skin.

but that's nothing for robin. combat, combat, combat.

masterclass. i might cry if i think about robin at the beach again. my new killjill fav.

k-kawaii...

a game for children | those horrible times | Henry Chadwick | family law

no descriptor can really capture the appreciation and awe and respect i have for things like how an actual baseball got used for the assets. how conversations into interjections into recital feels completely seamless. how impressively clever this was created from the ground up- (do i spot you putting the NVL length -wait, you're counting out the dang entries MANUALLY? i should have thought of that...)

ys is tough to love.. yamos is lovely but tough...... explode.

like many others, this is a new personal fav especially from the kailot pair, but this truly feels like a real showcase, culmination, and celebration of everything you've both done in the last year- i was right to be scared of those danmaku subs. its all baseball

so abalidoth we're in for a long ride huh

AWESOME. sometimes getting into a game and being good at it is like that. loved hearing how SKULL slowly gets more and more driven in the mission to win. me locking IN on heaven game now, everyone should get an angel <3

will forever think of daizy when i see red flowers on my walks

stunned to silence multiple times. thank you for this.

hey this lady walked into my library and asked for a meeting room what should i do

#yup

wouldn't it be crazy if there was another jam playing with the artistic intent of genAI

may we set our bones down instead of picking them in the future with our friends

thanks for the blank lines. happy you are creative again.

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

on cloud wine

make pour decisions

sip sip hooray

it's wine o'clock

be kind, re-wine

wine down with me

hakuna moscato

every day, i watch tv and write nothing.

every day, i want to rave and feel nothing.

every day, i am an eccentric human being!

i want to try making soursop juice. I GUESS

aku kacang lupa sama kulitnya, terima kasih

could really use some cola now

awesome

Hey again, this should be reinstated by now.

The original host apparently deleted their own entire online profile, and the jam was in limbo. I took up the URL, but don't know anything else :')

Thanks for responding; games will be reinstated soon. Your reply is very comprehensive and suggestions for wording of the jam page description is also much appreciated for clarification. Apologies for the misjudgment.

The nature of games made in the general VN Freaks community are projects specifically made with one or two jams in mind. I apologize for my personal mistake in overlooking your pages for more detail due to this probable bias, but also this is unranked. Lame of me. Seriously, my bad. Thanks again for resubmitting, hope to play soon.

This game appears to be spam/submitted to multiple jams and have been disqualified. Feel free to reply to get in contact.

i like the ducks

when you see the future, you are watching the waves of an endless sea of futures looping within itself, unknowing mysteries outwardly turned into so many possibilities: haunting despair, listless monotony, endless rage, consuming grief... what is there to do? what will you choose? can you choose?

such a soul-stopping power - to be able to be aware of not only the past that built you up, but to be present and able to act in an instant, to understand what's in your future if you so choose to follow the path - do you truly still know what is the best path? what is a 'good path' in the first place?

i have not made it known to be fan of 'war/fighting' media - this work perfectly captures this complicated feeling, along with leaving both me and all readers with the meager but resonate reminder the choice to love is a power you can choose to harness on its own.

i really appreciate it. thank you.

gail is based. to me

the diary entry is far too cute :') rin surprise!

didn't expect to feel so emotional. loved this!

6 all da way

worm

brutal. cutting. thrilling right 'till the demo's teasing end. will be excitedly awaiting each update with bated breath.

absolutely enamored by the setting, given shape and even a little edge through these bloodsports we find our determined, mysteriously both sadist/maso-motivated mc in. of COURSE this is what the people want - some REAL excitement! what is the point if it doesn't hurt. what's the point indeed!!! each character has their little quips, even that asshole in the sparring room. tch.

highly admire the care given to presentation. obsessed with manager's laugh. loved the training system, fit so very well with this story. in fact, reading devposts then coming to see the system in action - so pleasing!! i will be keeping close eye on this and heartily hope others play soon too.

thank you bro. even through to the end.

powerful work, stark but pulsing, like the heartbeat of the club.

you got my sound-editing ass

which version of windows are you on? does a "log.txt" or "errors.txt" appear in the folder after you attempt to open it?

i won't be able to upload a possible fix until after the jam results are posted regardless, but i'm still sorry this is happening :(

WOWOW. i'm just floored. what a beautiful, mysterious, fascinating story that truly lulls you in and hurts where i rly didn't expect. this will haunt me, especially those instances of frightening, almost supernatural intimacy. i find myself realizing alongside tels how my harrowing curiousities bring me in deeper and deeper into the layers of puzzles this story presents, and i just ate this up.

oh tels. oh, oh kit.

everyone shined in this, from the mystical music and dynamic UI to the hypnotic and grounded writing, not to mention such cohesive visuals and pretty scenes. absolutely glowing.

SO GOOD. oh doctor :')

a beautiful work that only gets better with time and clear care!! the showing of how powerful storytelling holds to others and the hope it instills, and love that it can manifest in ways we don't know we need. one of the more sincere works of servitude as well, budding dedication and relearning why it feels fulfilling to protect. ah, what a suckered listener am i.

this one makes me cry. truly a touching tale!!

awesome game, really lovely execution, and seriously charming!! ended up super engrossed in the layout of the NDS-like interface and the room itself. LOVE the details it oozes, will be thinking about this a while.

a masterclass in narrative. passion taken shape. it's such a treat to hear each voice and tale so well realized. oh susy....

after this, i think the highest praise i could give is the dressup game makes me cry if i think too hard about it. thousands of outfits, yes yes!!!

go to hell lennahd!

the voting period continues to be my highlight. was very charmed by the takes on the theme.... because golly i really... really didn't like this one. i mean - it's a full sentence, c'mon!!!! i was really scratching my head on this one on how diverse the entries would be, but was really surprised and pleased to see how many different ways the entries took it, from theme, art, to even game engine. playing all the entries is really just a treat, i hope that others had a chance to check out everyone's work and learn a thing or two to utilize the same way i always seem to (tooltip language indicators? overlaid crowd dialogue?? fake loading screens??? mood indicative voice blips???? collage portraits????? i'm consistently floored how effective these small but powerful decisions are)

i def had a few personal faves. as i grow as a developer i'm appreciating seeing passion and throwing shame out the window. my personal picks include: inc-20XX-01-04-containment-failure, Trouble in the Oost, and Voidseekers.

ultimately i do think every entry had a much better approach to the theme, to let myself be vulnerable. i was pretty worried that ours would come off as trite or a tiresome topic, but i'm both surprised and humbled how people have responded. i'm accepting that despair and dread are my go-to moods, so it ended up working out quite well with our premise.

speaking about our entry: woah... i had no idea what leading a team would be like. i'm SO impressed a lot of entries are from solodevs, i know that life and its hard! i made a team specifically to avoid that but WOW. i think a weakness we all share is a lack of planning or the feeling we aren't making the 'full work' of our vision. to some degree, i feel the same way, but that's also a part of why we challenge ourselves, no?

i won't get into our team's work too much, since instead i wrote quite a bit actually about the logistics of how my teambuilding and progression went on my personal site, which i hope is either insightful or useful to others. regardless of my doubts, i'm truly proud of the peers on my team that gave it their all. they put their trust in me and i am humbled by their hard work! it's incredible to get to work with peers and make something fascinating :D

i ADORE the velox series, though it's probably no secret i'm a little biased. regardless, from its form to its community to the lessons i can take away from participating, i truly think devs can get so much from giving it a try. this year i was very lucky to get to know other gamedevs and this time around i really wanted to drag them in bring in a few new faces to velox, and very successfully did so with the team i gathered, alongside seeing the pool of submissions with a lot of new names! it's really invigorating to see how other entries and their participants tackle the challenge. i hope many more come along and wow us all!

AUGH what is there to say!  full of life...!! u can truly tell you not only care for these characters in their own right but that there's a whole world for them that we may or may not be privy to :0 absolutely LOVED how the panels comparing their bodies turned out :D the bones!?!?! incredibly clever and beautiful use of colors - rly shows the care put into this!! hoping we see more of this pair (and classmate !?) in the future >:3

"HOPE you like"? after taking DIRECT action??? to my heart?????? i am so honored and humbled to see it inspires you to draw this 😭 THANK YOU, OF COURSE I DO!! AND MORE!!!! this absolutely WOW'd the team too, it means a lot to hear your kind words :'D thank you again!

a window i hope no one has to open for themselves... thank you so much for playing :D !!

YESSSS glad it was intriguing enough to try it out again - hope that some of the changes could tickle the brain >:3 thank you tons for playing!