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 Fuck me, this game is a thinker.  It's so beautiful and sad.  I love the ouroboros on the title screen and in the UI.  It made me think about the fact that if I was given a choice to dip out of life and live another life somewhere else, I would have done that a million times by now.  But if I did that, I never would have seen myself get better, find friends, find love, find peace.  Damn, man.  I'm crying right now, this game really touched me.

EDIT: I'm not done!!!  The ending, man, the discontentment with contentment, the realization that even when their dream is fulfilled, the main character is still not satisfied.  They hunger for more, but they don't know what that "more" is.  Very relatable.

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!!! let me pop out the candles and cake and champagne, thank you so much for your comment (and being the first)! you could maybe say i was very heavy handed with the snake imagery, but i’m so happy you caught the ouroboros especially on the title screen! even though i never explicitly refer to it, i wanted it to clearly call back to the main character’s pessimistic, cyclical cycle of never quite having enough and having what they want. and you’re so right! i’m also guilty of always imagining going to other worlds and having infinitely many more exciting experiences – but i have so much here that i don’t consider too. i think this was my clumsy attempt at trying to narrate that your happiness is so much more than what other people think should be your happiness (happiness is in the eye of the beholder amiright?) so i’m glad that even if a little, it could touch you!

and exactly! wanting more, but not knowing what the more is – they’re lost because they never thought about what they wanted, only what other people said they should want. but anyways, thank you so much for playing my humble game! even if no one else plays i’ll be happy that you enjoyed :D

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I didn't think the snake imagery was heavy handed; I thought it was handled just right. & yeah, happiness is definitely in the eye of a beholder!  Often, it's a goalpost that constantly moves.

For sure!  When you're defined by others and don't know who you are, finding meaning in life can seem impossible.  The ending is melancholic in that way.

This is definitely my favorite game in the jam, I hope you place high in the rankings.  You did a fabulous job!