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WAIT OMG HI?? I LOVED UR GAME OMFG. I'm just catching up to my notifs and I'm really happy you got to play my game 🥺🥺😭😭

I don't even know what to say about the compliments!!! AAAAAAAAAHHH I'm really glad you liked them!!! For the bgs/cg, I was researching various ways on how to make/create backgrounds, and it was actually the first time I learned the dithering technique! and as soon as I saw it I immediately wanted to use it xD and thank you for noticing the color matrices, that was so eye opening for me HAHA (initially i rendered all my sprites in dark overlay and realized that there should prob be a better way to handle this)! as for the narrative, I actually wasn't considering to use that much NVL but while writing the story and the characters, I realized that the NVL format would work very well so I just went for it! I was a bit worried that I might have TOO much NVL but I'm happy that you found it to be blending together quite well! :))) (ALSO I agree with Deja Vu Sans LOL I really didn't want that font to be the default for my game because I didn't like how it looked so I spent some time trying to find a font to replace it😭)

For the narrative, I'm really happy you enjoyed the writing and found Jackston relatable!!! I also do have lots of personal experiences (pressure, friends, anxiety) that is very much portrayed throughout the game through Jackston, and I've also had friends telling me the same thing, but right now reading your comments and other comments for my game across the globe I really do realize once again that it is a universal feeling that many of us go through once in our lives :') I think because these issues (anxiety, jealousy) are very common growing up, it wasn't too difficult to write a narrative like this.. 

I also found the character writings very fun for this project xD Especially with Jed, who always seems like the best among everything - I enjoyed writing his character so that it would mirror Jackston in a way that Jackston himself doesn't see it, so it's revealed at the end towards the viewer AND to Jackston himself :D As for the platonic relationship, yes it shows as a more platonic vibe throughout the game, I only added a very few handful scenes that (kinda) implies romantic vibes xD I actually kept it extremely subtle/implicit throughout the game haha, so that the readers can just interpret the relationship however they would like :) 

For the choices in the father scene, thanks for pointing that out!!! I actually thought that that specific part was a bit awkward HAHA (and I secretly hoped no one would notice it LOL - I didn't know what to do with it lololll) but YES thank you for explaining the mechanics!!! I didn't know you could do that!! Wow I am really learning new things every day... I'll definitely try to keep an eye out for the next update - though I think I will probably be busy from now on, I'll try to handle the issue when I can :))

Thanks for taking your time to analyze and comment about my work, really means a LOT a LOT. Glad you enjoyed it!! Also thank you for the follow too??😭😭 I too am looking forward to your other games!! I went through your itchio page and you have lots fun projects listed :)) Thanks so much again for ur time, you really made my day!!!<33