Oh, this is excellent. 🐟 Very relaxing, very cute, good mix of text and arcade segments. The arcade levels in particular are just engaging enough to let you build towards a sort of flow state, without becoming overwhelming or dragging on too long. And of course the writing is excellent.
Don't think I've ever seen PICO-8 used for something quite like this. Good job!
Hey, thank you! Yeah, one of my friends on Mastodon a while back noted that hypnosis games are impractical to pull off in Pico-8 because it’s very difficult to get reasonable, legible text out of it, and I concluded she was right. then Pico-8 added custom fonts!
Pico-8 is still a challenging tool to use for this primarily because of the compressed code size limit; there’s only so much prose you can fit into an exportable .p8 cart, even with minification, because it just doesn’t compress the way code does, it has substantially more entropy than repeated keywords, repeated variable names, etc.
