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Hello, treasured consumer. I took three tabs of acid this morning and find myself walking on a platform two inches off the ground at all times, and I think the magnetic potential energy that's now being stored between my feet and the floor is what has powered the manifestation of the Actually Playable Edition of this game, which is out now! It'll work in-browser or via download. I have every intention to meet with John Brown personally and carry his spirit with me in a whale oil lantern until either the Fifth Great Awakening arrives or my feet return to the floor. It is nice not tracking dust all over the place, though : ) 

Hello, treasured consumer. After a fraught battle with HR I successfully managed to keep my position on the development team long enough to release the Actually Playable Edition of this game, which is out now! It should work in-browser or via download. I am legally obligated to say I am no longer affiliated with LunaMakaio Games.

Hello, treasured consumer. I recently stalked Peter Molyneux down the streets of Guildford and blackmailed him with some seriously salacious photos of him playing the free-to-play digital collectible card game Fable Fortune and trying to grind out matches so he didn't have to pay out of pocket for any of the game's copious upgrades that would honestly streamline the experience for a fraction of the cost of a standard pay-to-win piece of slop like Marvel Rivals. Anyway we brought Peter onboard to spearhead the release of the Actually Playable Edition of this game, which is out now! It should work in-browser and via download. Do not reach out to Peter Molyneux for comment.

Hello, treasured consumer. We have successfully taken out $12,000 in loans in order to fund the development of the newly released Actually Playable Edition of this game. It should now work in-browser or via download. They refuse to lift the lien on my home so I have sent my children to an olde-timey industrial coal mine to pick slate and earn what little scrip our studio now subsists on. 

Hello, treasured consumer. We have stretched the psychological limits of our unpaid QA interns from the digital college across the street in order to produce for you, specifically, the Actually Playable Edition of this game. It should now work in-browser or via download.

thank you mr james i have many thankful

i believe you have found the heart of darkness

🥺 you are too kind ❤️

oh forgive me, i did not mean to leave this hanging so long --

Pieces like But You Are, that are so incisive, are a great locus around which I can dwell on my feelings. The relationship I have with my parents. My particular relationship is a lil wonky and mixed up, so it is nice to know that other folks orbit around the same fundamental feelings and anxieties. 

large jam teams feel like a community of loved ones when they're at their best.
large jam teams feel like this at their worst : )

thank you for the kind words <3 i'm very proud of our team

If my contribution to the world is a net rise in blood pressure, I would consider that a victory :  ) everyone on the team popped off and i am constantly amazed. thank your for the kind words!! love ya to the moon <3

As a recovered nightmarechica I must hope that we are all capable of love and change :  )  this jam all gave us chatsim fever so i expect it will not be our last foray! thank you for the kind words, please stay still while the collective absorbs your essence >: )

Your game has singlehandedly convinced me to pick up a new VN engine, and for that I am grateful <3  it took me just this last jam to learn to value my physical health amid a jam, I'm glad it is a sentiment that is shared and felt.

Yes the crash at the end was totally diegetic and meant to promote immersion >: ) /j

Maria's UI was fantastic and brought so much energy to the game and to the jam itself, and then CD-RR0M’s soundtrack just absolutely blew us away. I am so grateful to be able to work with these folks!  Thank you for the kind words <3

I have some Geoff-MC interrogations for the post-jam window, so your anxiety is well-informed >: ) thank you for the kind words <3

omg "peak villain" is so kind <3 CD-RR0M’s soundtrack absolutely shredded, we were all blown away! 

My jam mates can confirm I am unparalleled when it comes to stressing people out : ) thank you for the kind words <3

I have arrived : ) 

The sheer radiance of this piece's powerful, singular vision has burnt clean through my body and evaporated me into dust. I am constantly dwelling on this and turning the lil monster around over and over in my head. I am so grateful you made this. 

Your dialogue and prose is so rich with the mood of the scene, and I have never seen such sharp banter contrasted so mightily with sudden dread. It feels like a hammer is striking my soul. In like a fun way, though!

The fact that you managed a to put together an animated GIF for your itch thumb after all the work normally involved in a 36-hour jam is a clear indication that y'all absolutely had this shit on lock, absolutely fabulous work. I would love to know how making this felt. 

Oh my goodness I love everything about how this game looks. The transitions, the text, the way it iterates. WOW. idk WOW, you are taking such great advantage of this particular engine to stage things in such clever ways and it makes me want to give it a serious go.

My god that man is spooky. I LOVED the framing of the mirror scene, the frame for each part of the turn, everything about that particular moment was teed up so well. Really, really effective horror! 

I literally YEEHAW'd  when I saw the cursor lmao that was so much fun. Really clever staging, really rich atmosphere, and excellent execution (pun not intended) on the minigame-choice. 

The Hunter, the Poet, and the Pheasant has my favorite narrative design of the jam: the structure and presentation of all the choices, the permutations of endings, and the extent to which the presence of that reactivity is conveyed in the script. I am envious of this particular execution.

The raw hope this piece exudes overwhelms me to a certain extent. And omg dress up!!! That was so much fun, ending the story by asking the player to engage in a spontaneous act of creativity was such a fun parallel! 

in loving, oblivion is so extremely well-directed. Just an absolute procession of brilliant choices from the art direction to the narrative structure to the written prose. So well-considered through and through.

My god we cannot keep letting you get away with all these bangers, I am sick of losing the narrative category to you my god. I love the way you give a voice to your protagonists, every time you set up such a frame it absolutely locks me in for the whole damn thing. I have every intention to commission you for these kinds of portraits, also we should discuss Disco Elysium sometime : ) 

Let's meet tomorrow nails its pacing and presentation. The quality of the art and interface are would be impressive for a monthlong jam, let alone a 36-hour jam. The expressions are so dynamic and readable!! I loved looking for any foreshadowing during replays, it makes this experience feel so full. The twist was able to hit like a ton of bricks because the hypothetical relationship does feel deep and textured -- I was not expecting to be undermined, even while the theme was blaring in my head. 

go piano go god that's fantastic

But You Are takes advantage of this specific sprint-like jam format to laser focus on one particular piece of the soul and impress its deepest, most disquieting feelings with great specificity and potency. I think about it often.

did you even beat the game bro 😂

one of us one of us 😌

Yeah that sounds like a OS+browser+build cocktail that would produce some janky results, not much we can do on that front -- I recommend you download it instead and let us know if the issue persists!

agreed on both counts 😌 thank you so much for playing!

thank you so much, we're very proud of it <3

I'm glad we could get your gears turning about this kind of thing 😌

I'm so glad you enjoyed it! <3 thank you for the kind words