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It means so much to recieve a comment like this out of nowhere from a writer I really look up to in the space 🥺 thank you for your thoughts ❤️

You're very kind!! I have loved visual novels so so much since I was young, and I am very good at understanding exactly what I like about things and why, so I think it helped me a lot when it came to outlining and directing this game (and ofcoure doing the art)!

As for the music, it is all free to use premade stuff by Musmus channel! Anyone can use any of it in their games!

Due to my lack of experience compiling games from renpy, you can actually find all the Cgs and sprites and music files VERY easily if you just dig a little into the fimds for the game, so you can just do that. Make sure to not repost any of it without credit ofcourse :3

Thank you again for your kindness, its an honour!! I'm making art for a couple of games at the moment that are being directed by others, so keep an eye out!

Bnuuy... So cute and surprisingly challenging... I might relearn touch typing to see if theres an end to this when I am more awake... waow

This is fucking sick(awesum)

What a perfect song for it, I teared up watching, Lovely animation <3

Lydia would be proud

Oh thats lovely to hear!!! I've felt that feeling  with other games, so I am so happy that someone played my game and felt it too!!! I don't know when I will release something else, but I have many VN ideas for the future :3

If anyone made a fan patch I would promote it! Otherwise there are no plans to support any languages other than English! We only talk English and Danish. Thanks for your interest nontheless!!

First of all, such a long and thoughtful comment means the world to me ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ I am so happy to see that you enjoyed our entry so much. Hearing about your explorations of similar topics makes me absolutely want to try out your games!!! Especially the Lilac one, what an insane coincidence!!!! I met a friend through this jam, and after they played motherboard, they sent me a screenshot of all their listed concepts that they considered using for their own jam entry, and one of their notes was so similar to the plot of motherboard as well. We all apparently yearn to explore the creator x creation sci fi yuris.

The reason Lilac is an option in our game (and I probably mentioned in the afterword but I think its so cool that I'll say it again) is because purple is a colour that is dulled by green light, which Lydia's workshop is baked in, and signifies Lydias suffocating affect on Vi. Lilac is also a name I go by sometimes, and have named many of my Ocs temporarily, before changing my mind in the past. It was actually a last minute impulsive change of mine, originally the options were: Violet, Dot and Eve. However I really wanted to drive the purple vibes of Vi!

Thank you for your lovely comment ❤️  I appreciate you didn't jump to thinking we plagerized your work, I don't know how I would feel in your position, genuinely 😹 but rest assured your work is entirely new to me, and that when I feel up to reading, it's in my backlog!!! o7

Thank you flufffables!!!! our angry elf boys will live in my head forever

Thank you for such a thoughtful comment T.T It's nice that you found a connection between the main story and the  ending message, I didn't think of it, but it's really really nice.. Thank you for playing!!!

Thank you!!! me neither!! If yu want to try yourself, look up 3D stage in ren'py :3

I lied, I fixed it already, and lowered the volume of the music so that people don't get blasted anymore.

THANK YOU, WILL FIX TOMORROW

Holy moly, this is so fantastic, saving it for later

IF YOU PLAY ANY O2A2 ENTRY MAKE SURE TO PLAY THIS ONE TOO!!! AUGH. Incredible.

You present your ideas with such finesse, god. The atmosphere gave me goosebumps, and the ending has my mind totally racing. you did absolutely incredible with this, I love it so much. I feel so inspired. Thank you for the food.

I LOVE HIM!!!! Anemone is delightfully charming!!!

What a whimsical little romance, and a refreshing atmosphere to match

MIKU TOLD ME TO GET REAL HOLY MOLY

THIS FISH CAN'T BE THIS CUTE AH
Extremely charming variety of expressions, lovely

A silly but thoughtful extremely meta entry, how lovely

This had me cackling honestly, fantastic

Very welcome levity after the darker entries I just played. So cute!!! Moff!!!!

MOFF!!! I LOVE THIS!!!! So delightful, I really need more games about petting fantasy creatures. And Rylan is so CUTE!!!!! pouty widdle guy...

Incredibly vivid, I am in tears from the atmosphere and story you tell. 

Made me so emotional I almost forgot to scream about the unique immersive main menu and use of kinetic text!!!! When the buttons moved and dodged my very gaze it shot deeply into my heart.. This is so vivid, thank you for sharing something so personal!!!

It's a really unique spin on using Ren'py to make a game with a low word count!!

This game highlights how quickly I make horrible decisions with cute men, thank you, epic

I love a spiral, and this one hits deep. I have seen a lot of men in my life go down this path, or express these exact feelings, but I struggle to relate. It's heart-wretching to be put in the position of experiencing it, and I think that I have a better understanding now than I did before.

This game is so emotionally open and intimate that I worry to use regular game language to refer to its part, but here we go:
Spoilers - After playing the first part, I actually went to press the "new game" button again, so that I could read it a second time more in depth, savour it more, only to be surprised by a second section. I think that this moment was so wonderful, because I wanted to revisit that time from before, but of course, to my discomfort, it was long gone. By the end, after finishing the game, I clicked continue 5 or so times, just to make sure there was no chance I could miss anything more, and it really settled into my mind just how tragic this cycle had been, that the protagonist, in fear of becoming the burden that his older self was, isolates himself entirely from the player.

I desperately want to go back and read it all again, and feel like that is exactly how I should feel now that it is over....

Thats me :3 thanks u and thank you for playing ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ 

So cute T.T!!! I love it, and the video was so inspiring!!! I wish that you could toggle working to be hold down instead of tap

My exact order was blurry window, clean window, rug, door and THEN the gunk under the rug, because I didn't realise you could click it until there was nothing else to click. I made the assumption that maybe it was intentional that the character was ignoring it to such a degree that it wasn't clickable. I also clicked the objects multiple times just in case there was some extra dialogues but I don't think I found any (which makes sense bc word count lol) :) I liked it lots 

"Thank you for plugging me in", Girl, idk if you know how that sounds after the day I just had

What in the fuck, you are unfathomable.

This feels like a childrens show host got fired and didn't leave their house for 5 years, I love it. The amount of thought the protagonist put into how each element of their room would think and act around them and amongst themselves is so interesting. The dirtiness of the outside of one window made me wonder if the outside was a hellscape, but the other window quickly corrected me. Just by talking about each element I realise that I start to feel closer to the protagonist of your game!!

Thank you so much, it means so much to us when people fully understand like you do!! Thank you for your kind words xx

It means a lot to us that you feel so strongly about our game, thank you so much for sharing xxxx

This was such a delight, what a unique idea, and such lovely art to match. I really love the DS inspired overlay, it really captures the nostalgia

Came back to relish in the feelings of this once more, I really hope that you are able to figure out your relationship with art and the rest of the world x

This is just fantastic