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A jam submission

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a plotless, vibes-driven game poem about visiting imagined places
Submitted by treatyofparis
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Enjoyment#44.2494.750
Audio#131.3421.500
Visuals#132.0122.250
Overall#132.5342.833

Ranked from 4 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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i'm done with writing
no more poetry ever
sorry about that

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Submitted

This made me feel like I was going through a dream, the way you are moving but the setting is so disjointed and constantly shifts, and you don't understand how you got from one place to another yet it logically makes sense in the dream. It was really cool to just embrace the surreality. I also found this particular line really good:
"Our plagues are for the ones who build towers, and it's just unfortunate that they are the last ones to die."
I thought about it and it is quite tragic - I see it as the locusts meaning only to punish the greediest and most selfish, I see them as the shortsighted politicians and unsustainable CEOs and vengeful warmongers of the world and it reflects how if you behave in socially destructive and evil ways in real life, eventually evil undoes itself and you will naturally be punished for your behavior by your own behavior, and there are some religious undertones of the prideful and most ambitious being struck down too. But despite all this, by the time these people get their comeuppance, it is too late, because they have exploited and hurt too many innocent people and stepped on them to reach these heights in the process. Even if the innocent do not do anything to warrant divine punishment, they will be punished in earthly ways.
I'm not sure if I articulated this properly, it definitely means something to me but in the short amount of sleepy time I have to write this I don't know if it came through, but just know I definitely got something profound out of that line.

Submitted(+1)

This is such a beautiful story, I was engrossed in every moment of it. Every time I thought the story had to be over soon somehow it kept going. I've only done one go-through of it so far and I'm not quite sure if I should do another one or if I should leave the story as I experienced it the first time. Genuinely I loved your writing and I look forward to seeing whatever you make in the future.

Submitted(+1)

Great job! This was really interesting. Since it's a text-based game, I can't say much about the visuals and audio, other than the black background and white text and font you chose were fitting to the content, and the lack of audio did not seem out of place. The story presented is surreal and complex; I love it!