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Thanks!

Dropping by to say how much I love this game. It is so evocative; well written and beautifully illustrated.

I was wondering if there were any actual plays online? I feel I’d be able to run it better if I had seen it played.

The whole page gets refreshed when you run a command, so I’m not sure about retaining scroll state.

Maybe someone should write a JS interpreter :D

That’s a good point. There’s no output mode for prepending anything sadly.

At least, not yet

Heartthrob doesn’t have an ‘e’ on the end :)

Yeah, it would be nice if the input box also scrolled to the bottom wouldn’t it!

Using step is only good if you want to see the code running, I agree 100% that to actually play, live is the way to go.

I think it’s best if you use “step” to step through the execution. You can also click a cell to jump directly to it.

We are always the harshest critics of our own work. Luckily there are other people to come and tell us we did something good, and you did

I had the same question

I’m just blown away by this. The sound choices, the images, the quality of the animation … it is sublime. It took me way longer than 40 minutes to play because I kept getting stuck staring at the screens.

And I didn’t even find the second ending O_o

Beautiful! Also haunting, sweet, heartbreaking, and touching. Not to mention the technical quality, which is huge, as always.

A few small typos I noticed along the way:

• “wrapper[ed] in white linen”

• “at last we have reached the plateau[x]” (unless it’s meant to be plural)

• “countless spec[k]s of light”

Oh my lord! They were already so good, and now they are even better!

Thank you! The moving train animation is an ease-in-out CSS animation that slides a big stripy block to the left :D

Should it be “with a grand flourish” instead of “with a grand florist”?

Oh that makes a lot of sense …

I have loads of reels of American tourist attractions, some still there (Mount Rushmore for example) and some long gone (Futuristic gas stations, Tomorrowland) as well as short versions of popular movies and the like.

Also reels of educational subjects, like the landscape of the alps, or the lives of pearl fishermen.

This is just down-right beautiful. I love viewmasters, and have had them since i was small, and this felt so much like opening up the random packets of reels my Mum always seemed to have

You try and behave in public. You try to be a good netizen. And then this …

Thank you! Blackadder quotes make everything better, for sure.

I followed “And see it all…” and get “Woods”, but it just takes me back to the Born/And see it all screen again.

I got very confused with this. Text keeps appearing, but then I just got stuck on a page that said “Woods” and went back in a circle.

I feel like I was missing something.

Why must I have Fae Flu! Whyyyyyyyy

Ahh, I didn’t see that. That’s sad. I was hoping to go back to check the FAQ. Is it listed anywhere else? Also, now I can’t message you on Discord :(

The Discord link no-longer works. Has the Discord closed? I was a member before and now I’m not, but I don’t know if that was me, or the server.

A very mysterious and evocative game. I love the writing, and the animated background (when it works).

I’m a little less keen on the sections that require you to click but have no visible links. On mobile, I thought the game was broken, or waited a long time in case there was timed text. I think there should always be some indication that an interaction is needed.

That would be very cunning if I was that cunning. But seriously, I just thought it was a lovely work of poetry.

Also, to add to my previous review, this is a bad Bad IF entry, because it is good

I LOVE it!

Love love love it

Simple enjoyable game, and some very evocative descriptions :)

Two quick technical comments.

I think the game would be a lot easier to play if you had it open in a full window by default. It’s pretty crowded in the little Itch window. I opened it in a new tab, but not everyone will know how to do that.

Second, you have a nice starry background, but you attached it to body, and the body is pretty much invisible in a Sugarcube story. If you put the background on html instead, then you can actually see it.

Well done! You can almost always find the ghost by chance, even on the first go, but sometimes there’s no chance at all :D

The Harlowe link goes directly to the (restart:) macro, might want to change that :)

I also got “taking a break”.

By the way, the game says it isn’t mobile friendly, but it’s fine. I think you need to check the mobile box on the game info

My respect for finishing it. I couldn’t get close

I admire the idea, it’s cool, but as a non parser player I just couldn’t get through it. Press a button, then follow the same sequence of touch, smell, taste, examine, repeat until you get it wrong. I think it is a horror, despite what you said on NeoInteractives, because it sent me mad in the attempt.

It would be nice if, when you get it wrong and miss a change, it gave you a hint what change you’d missed.

Is there any chance of a Mac version? I’d love to try it, but I don’t have a windows PC

Warm is best

There are three, all from Google Fonts:

• Arima Madurai
• Modern Antiqua
• Princess Sofia

Having spent some few hours (O_o) on this game I think you should tell even more people :D

OMG the Isopods :D

Thank you! The stacking of the cards/floors was what made the game come together for me. I’d played around with a more 3D block perspective sort of thing, but it was too realistic, too far from the IF part of the game. Making the cards into floors, but still cards, crystallised a lot.

Also made me go back and give significant names to the levels, hence the tarot references.