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I was drawn to the bag version because when I was brainstorming for this jam, my first thought was to do something involving origami. I ended up being pulled away by a completely different idea, but I wanted to see this!

The bag idea is so good. And the design looks great when folded. I think there's room to have folding instructions on the front, to have the game work entirely offline without referring to the video, especially if you also changed the fold lines to be the traditional origami notation for mountain and valley folds. But the video worked for me. Did you design the folding pattern, or is this a traditional one?

Playing with real tiny objects was fun, though I think the way the game is set up with the questions and random prompts makes there be a bit of a disconnect when playing the bag version. Having it be an empty bag full of imaginary gifts might work better with the questions you have, or else modifying the journaling part to be relevant to real objects. As it is, it seems a little bit caught between two good ideas.

But playing it was a sweet experience! I'll share photos on your game page.

I also appreciate that you made multiple versions for accessibility, and that you made free copies available for the jam.

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Thank you so much for the thoughtful feedback! I saw a video of the bag being folded a few months ago and thought it would be fun to use that with a 1-page RPG somehow. My initial designs had the traditional mountain/valley folds marked but for some reason every time I printed the PDF they turned into solid lines. I gave up on trying to fix that and went with the other marks instead, which opened up a bit of space for me in the layout that I had been avoiding to keep the fold markings easily visible. I like the idea of adding the folding instructions to the front; there's definitely space there to use!

I went back and forth several times on how to present and divide the content depending on whether the person playing was using the physical version or the digital, and what it might mean if they actually were first introduced to the physical version already in bag form. I'll definitely look into taking the extra step to further split the versions with different questions.

Thanks for playing!