Ok I'm back after playing, I was outside but I couldn't wait to play so I plugged this into joiplay totally not expecting it to work but-- it worked! Off to play I go.
Since it's basically and emulator I couldn't figure how to save but that's fine, I'm nothing if dedicated so I played through the whole game without saving once LMAO,I got the romance ending.
I must say, as someone who is entirely self-taught and the only programming-ish I have ever done is html, this was surprisingly fun?? Like I sometimes wish I could learn other programming stuff but I have never in my life touched sQL (???) but did hear of it I was like??? Heard of it before but never tried it, guess I can do it tho?? And oh boy did I go to town lol. This reminded me why I loved learning coding stuff back in my days, having no clue how something works and then cracking the code (lol, right?) so to speak, see it work you do feel a rush of accomplishment! I did struggle with the join table stuff but that was because I wasn't thinking LMAO I forgot to look at what data was relevant for what I needed to pull but once I figured it out it was easy peasy! Anyways I had a lot of fun with this game, I'm only slightly sad about the other characters, I grew up to like those little gremlins a bit to much :'))
Thank you to all the team who worked on this game, it's amazing, I can feel the love and the fun you all had, and I could also partake in this fun too, feeling validated as someone who actually is going through this long isolation issue but has mostly just got used to it?? It did put some things into perspective lol