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reading this as a "chronically online british 20-something transmasc" who just barely escaped living through the insanity of discord servers like that one... this hits. the friends you hate. the intangible barrier between yourself and "the real world". the impossibility of finding a place for yourself. the goddamn bottle of lucozade.

realising. after all that. that you have a place. you just have to find it. make it. 

+ the absolute Horror Story energy of me screaming at my screen to block gerstirn as they continue to Chat Absolute Shit. god.

++L's fatphobia (and whiteness?) showing thru as the acts progress is SO TASTY. that's the part where I diverge from him in terms of "identity" and it really made me want to shake him around very hard. shoutout to Val for not letting him off the hook for almost letting the eugenics talk slide LMAO

i could go on but just . what a brilliant story. thank you for sharing this.

messages to the discord: TF141 I fuck with u no one else could find those videos. thistle please learn ur not the problem because u have the ability to be the best kinda person if u let urself have a backbone. all the rest of u remake ur tumblrs follow no more than 50 people use the block button like pepper spray and make queer friends IRL. life can be a dream.

Ahh thank you so much!! It makes me smile that my writing got a laugh -- I've never thought funny writing is my strong suit! I'm really glad you enjoyed this :) 

Sooooo endearing, and what a lovely artstyle! I love the world you've conjured up here.

I would have LOVED to do extra dialogue for each object, and more interaction between them too, but yes, that word count!! I'm happy you liked!! 

Oh I love that conceptualisation of the character -- it feels very real to me especially because I had that one Spongebob episode in my head when I was making this. You know the one.

This one. Somewhere between this and Bo Burnham's Inside (which I totally forgot was the name of the special until right now LOL). 

I also love hearing how your conceptualisation changed talking to each item. Because I had no reason to control what you click when, I like to imagine everyone's getting a unique "route" in that respect, and I'm excited to see how that changes people's reactions to the game.

Funnily enough, the windows were my first and last items to write! I started with the Scratched-Up Window on the left, and ended with the Blurry Window on the right. I did slightly anticipate that people might go to the Blurry Window last, just on account of it being "hidden" by the text box, but you've proven me wrong in that respect! How interesting...

Thank you for playing, thank you for commenting, thank you for encouraging me to make something!

WAOW thank you so much for the thoughtful and insightful comment! Voice acting this would be really fun -- I wonder if it would be better with one voice as everything (a la Disco Elysium's internal monologue), or a group of voices...! 

I'm really glad the "log" did its job in pushing that bloody awful feeling of sitting in your room begging yourself to go outside.

Thanks again for taking the time to play and comment!

Ooooh, I'm intrigued! I want to know more about this mysterious train stranger and her Totally Normal and Not Dangerous Red Object 👀

oh no i'm gonna be here the rest of my life

this game was STUNNING. played it in VC with my friends and all of us stopped and stared at several points throughout. gorgeous use of the VN format, beautiful prose, fantastic art

YIPPEEE!!! youre welcome :) 

Delightful self-contained VN that amounts to putting two freaks in a box and shaking them to see what comes out. The added value from repeated playthroughs makes it super interesting to come back to time and time again.

the way this comment made me giggle and show all my friends .... you get it friend. thank you

oh this was infuriating in the best way. absolutely brilliant use of the inane chatbot loops you can run into to express such anger and frustration 👏👏👏

new gender unlocked: "truly an experience" - skyetoss, June 2024

Thanks for a great shopping experience! I'm sure I'll be back. This is the only clothing store in the bog, after all, and I think I've decided to stay. The Frog Queen offered me a position as flycharmer when I told her about my experience becoming a bogbound soul. It pays pretty well, and the on-site living situation is pretty cozy. Have you ever fallen asleep in bog mud? The songs it sings to lull you to sleep are beautiful.

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Wrote up my experience through the game here, thanks for a great time!

so that's where I left that pair!

this is exactly scratching the itch of wanting to birdwatch but being too dumb to remember the different calls. i love this. thank you.

The beta test for my 2-player Warlock/Patron TTRPG is up! You can find it here!

52SYS was designed to explore ideas of toxic relationships and codependence through the frame of warlocks as we often see them portrayed. D&D has a great, super underutilised framework for relationships between warlocks and patrons. I decided to take those vibes and put my own spin on them -- alongside a system that's pretty easy to learn.

All you need to play is a d8, a stack of playing cards, and a handful of tokens. Sit down with a trusted partner and draw cards to tell the story of a fraught relationship between a desperate warlock and a power-hungry patron.

This beta test version is essentially the full game, but with the huge caveat that it's all still subject to change as more people play it and tell me what does/doesn't work!

I'm really excited to share this with everyone. I'd be delighted if you'd let me know what you think! Again, you can find the game here!

so cozy so cute oh to be a carefree kitty..

For basic accessibility purposes, there should be an option for creators to add alt text to every image that will be on their page. Screenshots and images are often essential to publicising games, and for there to be no way to convey the information shared in them to low-vision and blind people restricts both sides of the exchange. A simple text box to create alt text would open doors for creators and players alike.

yEAAA join the club 🤝

🥰 every day i learn new things about twine and use them for my sick (totally normal) needs

i keep the ticket to use as a bookmark. something to do with the permanency of material things, reminding us of the memories that can slip away so easily... like a train that you reach 30 seconds too late...

Thank you !! It really means a lot you'd leave a comment -- so glad you liked this little machine :)

well i hit 1M bricks.... what do i do with my life now? <3

you're a star <3 computer ANGY

Thank you so much!

The answer depends on which poem you want to look at -- some give the user a lot more say in how the poem is formed than others. The Gatsby love poem is pre-written, but others (later in the game) are broken down into smaller chunks to be generated based on the user input.

Really glad you liked this!

Playing this for class, and... Whoa. Thanks for the most bizarre and clearest representation of how it feels to be up at 2am in front of your computer, even if your bed's inches away.

Thank you so much; I'm happy you liked this!! The red kite was indeed intentional, but I'll leave it up to you to think what that means ;p <3