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tyy!!!

i usually order my print copies online from mixam! if you're thinking of ordering them to bring with, mixam is a really good choice with many binding and page type options, I get all my stuff from them that I don't print at home and bind myself

good luck!!! 

thank uuuu ;w;

you're really really welcome

I'm thinking about making a visual novel about smth like a war machine that just wants to play piano (inspired by naoki urasawa's pluto). she visits a time traveling nekomata's (2-tailed cat) bakery where the trans catgirl baker is a human weapon that just wants to make cookies. she does this for years and years in the memory of "her master" she met in another timeline. her master's only wish after the fantasy palace imperial asian war was over was to perfect the cookie recipes that reminded him of his childhood. the pianist is an older / alternate universe version of her master. whether they fall in love or not is ambiguous, but the door is open. 

wuv u

this was a really fascinating and vivid and visceral and fond and brutal, intricate, and tender examination of a love like the most efficient flaying and dissecting of small fish for taste and consumption but "not for eating" (sustenance like humans need to live) I Felt smth and would love to talk with you more about this kind of art if you ever want to dm on discord @ swanchime. 

I loved the messy, meaningful, and gestural sketchy line strokes that were more for feeling than "realism / material accuracy" and felt that it just. was full of love and emotion in a violent stripping the flesh from bone like stripping wire. 

I liked it a lot. it made me feel. 

THANK UU

ohhh, thanks for explaining!

hi, sorry if my memory is fuzzy and I just didn't submit, but I submitted this game 

https://swanchime.itch.io/wintermelon-demo 

and it's totally okay if it's disqualified, but I was wondering why my game about love with two asian main characters written by a vietnamese person (myself) was removed? 

revisiting this and thinking about the way that nearly everyone who's spoken common english has used these scripts like a premanufactured statement to dismiss someone's humanity

the volume of that line is also louder, and in japanese there's a tailing suggestion that means "(or) so they say/(or) so it's said" 

I liked the tenderness a lot, it was really sweet and I loved the use of the word "wonder," it was really magical

oh, haha yeah it's confusing. 

but it goes roughly:

gen 1:

- ochitsubaki 

- amadeus

- liar lioness 

gen 2:

- yuzu/haru

- inviolet/sacrosanct

- feverfew

gen 3:

- yuui/hotaru 

- suzu/haruie 

- yue xianming/qian zhouyu

gen 4:

- cynosure/cormorant 

and that should be the main order for the most important games going chronologically! good luck haha!! I think it's cool you're trying to play all of them, feel free to dm me on discord @ swanchime if u have any thoughts or questions 🍈

BARKBARKBAKRBAKRK I LOVE U

this is a really funny game that expresses the stress of being randomly spoken to while out and about with fight music playing during intimidating random encounters with slightly scary people speaking to you suddenly in a friendly manner

just. moved immensely by this little game. the simplicity and awkwardness and "crudeness" in terms of complexity and artistry only add to the wholesomeness of its message and the bare truth, which means more to me on a dark night than any hot air people are bottling up like fancy perfumes and pretending it didn't come out of their assholes.

this game makes me feel like having something to say is worth more than any amount of "executive quality" or "artistry," and i also think...personally, having something to say and saying it with earnestness and sincerity is worth more than making games that politely and artfully obfuscate how much you want to brutalize others and justifying this desire.

in this game, if you bring your weapons and your defenses and your potions, you kill the boss and he CRIES. and you, the hero, are consumed with guilt.

this world? this understanding? where you brutalize "an evil person" and they cry and you are wracked with guilt for hurting his feelings. instead of full of indignant righteousness and justifcation that you've ridded the world of another "vermin/evil/demon/devil..." but just someone who you don't understand but still has emotions.

this is the world that makes me believe there is a world still worth living in.

IT'S GREAT!!!!

THIS WAS GREAT I LOVE THIS

I LOVE THIS SO SO MUCH ONE OF THE BEST GAMES EVER

you probably reached the end! 

I do have print versions available for sale!! ;) tyyy

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

hi, I just felt initially that it wasn't really pretending? because you "are" effectively BEING a sketch artist and not "pretending to be one"? Like, in your game that is indeed your role in the role-playing game?? and a sketch artist is someone anyone can be at any time?? just by drawing smth?? you sketch, therefore you're a sketch artist?? also then any ttrpg zine would count bc ttrpgs are inherently pretend? (role-play)?? sorry I didn't see your vision before, I can't figure out how to requalify from my end, but you can re-submit it if you want? I just didn't exactly see how thematically it was "pretend" (ie "acting," "believing in the imaginary,") beyond the genre, but I didn't say the genre didn't count! 

thanks!! I'm glad you played that one as well and still remember it! 

THIS WAS THE BEST SUBMISSION TO QUEER GAMES BUNDLE THANK YOU SO MUCH , te amo manchitas (mi amiga 🐈)! 

😭

thanks!!!!!! 

I'll be hosting everything new in the future at swanchime.com!! (once I figure it out) thanks for asking! 

yes! but I'm not sure where yet... I'll probably start publishing these on a personal site, you can look at lordofnothing.com for updates once I figure out where to migrate everything. 

THANKS EVERYONE!!! 

tyyy!!! 

thanks!!!! 

I will be doing Sexy Lacrosse With Swords. there will be lesbian dick action. a sport where you hit an orb with a sword and also attack your enemies sweatily. I'm gonna use videotome:heartbreak, the stat raiser one. 

what will you make? 

thanks!! 

TYTYTYYY

I'm excited!! 

let me know if you want to late submit!! that's perfectly fine!! 

I might make a discord!! :0 not sure yet... good luck w ur project though haha!! fits the theme!!!