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lemme ask my wife how to troubleshoot!! o7

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RIGHT!! @ more people: get haunted by g. jack

THANKS SO MUCH!!! I feel truly honored you caught the danmei influence and called out the imperialist assimilation setting

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TYSMMM!!!!!

HAHA no I got a great laugh out of it, tysm again and the cd stuff is a great idea!!

this game has stunning visual design that's peachy, fleshy, and vulnerable with like pastel tenderness and a fierce, stubborn attempt to understand the root of misunderstanding, miscommunication, frustration, and self-loathing that leads to rootless envy of others and mutual upset. the mirroring of the two people and how similar yet slightly different but fundamentally the same rhetoric of frustrated, sabotaged desire and the inability to vent it really worked so well in the diptych format with really strong color cohesion, expression, and gesture in the limited, minimalist, and effective line art. i think it communicates an experience of dysphoria that many trans people will understand and resonate with

THE IMPACT IS IMPRESSIVE!! but I'm also thinking about trying to release the web build zip? I... think you can just extract n open the index file??? but I'm not sure it'll make a difference in terms of storage size. or self-hosting the web build? I have no idea...my files too fucken fat. 

if it helps (?) I'm trying to do some remaining optimization edits and upload a playthrough video you could keep in a browser bookmark or archive since it's kinetic anyway. 

(I definitely feel the same way of wanting to save your fave games on an ancient grandpa laptop... however this one too fucken fat!!) 

anyway, thanks much!! 🙏 

ty!! I hope you enjoy!!

everything you said is so true!! I couldn't put it all together before but you're right that japanese media has an underlying implication of an imperialism that is very palatable to the west especially compared to chinese media...(not very familiar with korean media!) like, way more white people are willing and comfortable to engage with anime than ever read a danmei novel, and the ones that do read danmei often have kind of... I can't put my finger on it, but Weird Attitudes... 

it's the kind of Weird Attitude that's like, the assumption chinese takeout 🥡 places serve Authentic Chinese Cuisine™️ as if the fortune cookie isn't a california invention 🥠 (also how much of a monolith do they think china is!! there's so much regional cuisine...)

I read a ton of (translated) chinese danmei webnovels and it's just an incredibly vivid and irreplicable landscape even within the singular genre of "danmei" that can't be captured just by what's been cunningly licensed by the english publishing industry to appeal to (white) americans because there's definitely a phenomenon where white americans can self-insert into anime protagonists in a way they can't fudge the default with chinese characters who are in every way shape and form "unforgettably and unerringly chinese." 

something something the game honor of kings (which mainly features characters from the romance of the three kingdoms, ex. kongming and zhou yu and other chinese lore like daji) dominates the moba landscape across every country in the world Except for usa, where there's silently a vague discomfort about it being "too chinese to forget" unlike the dominant moba, league of legends and related games

I think one of the roots of sinophobia in usa is the racial discomfort of threatening your position as an american of being "the center of the world" ie the ultimate colonizer. it's related to the decentralization when english monolingual americans become extremely defensive and uncomfortable when you delocate them from the assumption "to speak at all is to of course speak english" by the description of "english speakers" because of english language imperialism preferring to imply english is the most superior (and most human) language and naturally is the tongue all humans should speak, and it's pitiful and disgusting when non-white immigrants open their filthy mouths to speak "bad english" as if bad english makes you a bad person, not even to mention the vast majority of native english speakers remain monolingual their entire lives.

in my toxic yuri game prince swallow contains a lot of the chinese idioms I've picked up over time and the (summarized) statement that "over 1000 years the intrinsic nature of empire hasn't changed, they've just changed the names" ie. they're have always been kings.

it's really great to hear your insights 

oh!! my game for this jam (prince swallow) is also about being a queer asian, though in a capsule of an asian fantasy palace politics setting

I really loved this and as a viet-american who has spent a lot of time in queer/trans centric communities (after being obviously cast out by visually and socially conservative asian communities, since I "wasn't the right kind of expensive and proper looking heterosexual cisgender asian,") I ostensibly ended up searching in queer/trans grounds that I didn't immediately notice were all-white exclusionary with an implication no one speaks that "white is right" but that everyone silently knows to be true can be suffocating in a way you can't see when you're in it.

and, an issue that's really degrading and grating is that so much of queer/trans communities that are white-dominated also have a weird orientalist air that's hard to pin down but can be explained by bizarre and fetishistic notions about japanese media where the notion of japanese people's humanity is some kind of spectacle, fascination, or used as "evidence of elite education and being cultured." this also extends to attitudes about all asians, since to whites there's not much difference between japanese people and chinese people and korean people, and also no distinguishing or discernment between the difference from east to southeast asia.

I think you did an incredible succinct and poignant job capturing some of the frustrations of orientalism and anti-asian racism. really good work

HAHA thank you so much and yeah the file size is insane, this was after converting all the gifs so webp because previously I couldn't even upload to itch bc 1GB file limit but the kicker is that the biggest problem is just the final act's 2 wibbling water animations that previously were 1GB combined. 

the issue is that water animations in anything are astoundingly enormous! I'm not sure of the technical details but the engine I used (Tuesday js) has rare animated image support, and the animated bg has to be a image file and not a movie file because the text boxes can't be superimposed upon a movie file like they can upon an image file. 

tl;dr the 2 animated bgs of heartbreak and wibbling at the end singlehandedly bloated the file because I wanted to make them wet meow and wet ouppy

I'm also planning to build an APK for android after some troubleshooting! 

it might be an issue with packaging, and because I'm a solo indie dev and not a recognized licensed industry publisher on like any safe-approved corporate lists, but it could be another issue with the way it was built, I'll talk to my wife about it! 

alternatively, it's a kinetic novel and I'm planning to upload a playthrough somehow if I can figure out a host, like vimeo

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hey! introduce yourself or your project if you'd like! there will be no discord server for this jam, but feel free to keep the threads lively

because the world hasn't changed or become different since when I was small. like amadeus says, "there are those that came before me, and those that will come after. none the same, but the same." 

you should play the seaworthy game bc it has fireflies on screen

it was gojo that said love is the most 歪んでる which means twisted, warped, perverse, wrong, curse of all

this one specifically was sometimes not visible bc there was something too ugly and unrefined about it, obaby thought, but playing it now I see what you mean

I think this makes sense... you are domesticated and clueless in a way I am not. but things are better now in our world inside the world. the rules of life and love in my domain are different. 

thanks!!! ur right that would have been a good touch!!

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I think the connections of thread between hearts can be knit and held secure, or knotted so tight you gave to rob the string of its fibers, ripping it apart, to part the string, and even that doesn't undo the knot, just leaves it torn to one side (me or you when one of us dies). but sometimes string is tied so loosely it can be pulled apart by the wind or any passing vibration in the sand. 

I think you have cared more deeply than anyone else about living or their own lives and they have shamed you for it or thought of you as insane, for fighting so hard for A Dog's life, when even your wife (a dog) has accepted without question this is just what a dog's life is. whenever your wife sees a dog fighting its leash or even standing defiantly against its owner its tied to, your wife thinks he is "a (one of these)" more than any human master pet-owner and understands that part of being a pet is that your life is dictated by your handler and you either obey or get beaten to death, and if this woman froze her dead dog in the wind bc her coffee took too long, she would call animal control to dispose of the garbage and no one would look twice. 

your wife only narrowly escaped this fate of someone owning his life or death and dying unnoticed except as corpse garbage by becoming a dog that became the master of yuui's menagerie. 

but even though your wife is a little bewildered that you don't understand even this much about (animal) ownership (CAN YOU "REALLY" CALL IT SLAVERY?) I think you see in your heart what happened to me in that dog. and that's why you fought so hard. and refused to accept no one could do anything. 

but the enemy is the sand... 

I love you. happy every day together forever. til death do us part. 

I think the page with Malice's intestines hooked up to the IV of Zumi's arm is really visceral and striking and deeply feeling, and the limited color palette invokes a pierrot type parody aesthetic which feels a step away from dollhood. 

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! DELETED POST SENT EARLY BUT I APPRECIATE YOUR THOUGHTFUL RESPONSE 

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tyy!!!