Can’t play it as the text stays in a certain way forever.

I have this error when I launch the game: A fatal error has occurred. Aborting.
I'm sorry, and it seems like your game is touching :/ .

This is really wonderful and poignant. It gave me Oyasumi Punpun vibes, if you're familiar with that manga. Loved the meta approach.

Not exactly my cup of tea, but definitely a creative idea.
Well done.

...so yeah Twine 2 is actually obnoxious AF...

Nah, but for real, I feel ya. This smacks a lot of the stuff going through my head when I was a teenager. Art's hard, dude. Communication's hard. Vulnerability is scary.

You know, Mark Gonzalez (the skater & artist) said in an interview once that he grew up skating & art'ing as a sort of way to communicate with a thing that's not alive but still his friend, in a sense. He apparently struggled with communication a lot, as a kid.

This reminds me of that. Like communicating with a thing instead of the scary kind of communication with other humans. Then maybe those other humans tease apart whatever comes out as a result & grow to understand you a bit more as a result. Or at least some idea or feeling hanging on your head at the time.

I appreciate your communication with this thing. I won't say it's the best thing ever but I hear you. Maybe that's the important bit.

Now this "game"(?) probably won't have a universal appeal. But I've got to say, this is something that really appeals to me. It is hard to judge and criticise, because I'm not even sure I have a position to give feedback on here. We're on a project that feels truly personal. The creator sharing thoughts, from a human to another through an interactive medium.
I think the video game as an art medium is often seen as lesser, given that it is usually first and for all a product that needs to be sold, that it needs to be engaging and fulfil some kind of entertainment to the player. And that's why I love the approach taken here.

Now what if the point was to have such experience sold to a larger public? Then the feedback I would give would be to keep it simple like here, but the addition of small things, like some music and a bit of sound design could highten a lot the experience. And I think the sharing of thoughts could go even further. What a great feeling it is to read some lines from a random human, that maybe lives on another continent, that I probably will never meet, with whom I might actually have very different beliefs and interests, and yet, somehow, we still share some train of thoughts. That even in this huge world with so many beings, we can still find something to relate to each other, in the simplest to the grander aspects of who we are.

Anyways, a big comment for a game with lots of text. I'll just finish by saying I enjoyed the art, and that key art for the game is especially striking, which is funny when you see how simple it is. The colors are just so efficient, and I can't help but think of Goodnight Punpun when I see the character, which is even more fitting here for the people familiar with that series of books.

Didn't expect a game using Comic Sans to get so philosophical.

I usually like to search for this kind of experiences on itch, but didn’t expect anything like this on a GMTK jam. Thought-provoking and hypnotic take on the theme.