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Joining the long line of other comments saying 'thank you.' At points in my life where I feel awful I've had a story, picture, or other source of media pop up suddenly that was exactly like what I needed in a deep moment of despair. Your work is one of those things for me, now. Thank you for putting it out there for other people like me that will run into it during a dark time.

Hello! I'm really excited for this jam!

What do you want to make?

• I want to make a narrative game! To try and stay within a small scope, it's going to be multiple short scenes that explore different aspects of the same theme before they reach a common conclusion.

What text (i.e. any media, fiction or not) that you want to draw from?

• My two media inspirations for this game are AGUJERO by Nightframes and Adventures with Anxiety! by Nicky Case. The reason both of these games inspire me is because they use every element to create one unified feeling. AGUJERO's art style and UI gives the entire game an alive, pulsing, discomforting feeling that matches its cryptic storyline. It made me scared to keep playing, but I was hooked on the artistry of it. Meanwhile, Adventures with Anxiety! uses the game play to illustrate what anxiety feels like in a way that recontextualizes the illness. That's what I'm trying to draw on for the game play of my entry.
• Outside of that, I'm drawing from my own experience with BPD.

Why are you scared of participating?

• I'm scared I won't be able to finish! At this point, while making a bad art piece is still something that scares me, my biggest worry is I'll have joined this jam and drawn 2 assets for it and completely fall apart once I get to coding. I've given up on so, so many projects before when coding something from scratch and I really don't want it to happen for this project too. My worst fear for this project is a slow death by attrition, especially when my fall college classes kick in next month.

Who is an artist/group of artists (any medium) you like? How do they influence you?

• The German expressionist movement and Fauvism inspired me a lot! Leo Fox and all his comics have also been a huge inspiration. Also, every single artist that makes shitty, shoddily-drawn and overly-personal projects that they finished and released into the world. Forever and always my biggest inspiration.

I really, really loved this story. The character designs each had such charm, especially the protagonist. Before this game, I'd never seen a Ren'py game with this kind of presentation and it really blew me away. It felt like I was getting taken along a journey, I had a great time!

Incredible game and I cannot wait for the full release! I thought I didn't like deck builders until playing this so I'm super excited for more :)

wow!!! i could rave about the sound design and polish in this for ages! this game was so incredibly atmospheric, and i loved all the UI clicks and dings for checks and dialog. i was very enraptured in the story, especially in the way the background of the protagonist melds and merges with their present. i regretted taking off the hat when prompted to lol

Thank you! I hope you'll enjoy the full release :D

Yeah, the video feature came out at a perfect time! It really helped me give that extra punch to the main scene of the demo. Thank you for all the work you've done on the engine :)

Thank you! It makes me excited to hear you'll give it another run :'D I hope you enjoy the rest of the choices in the game!

Thank you so much! :'D It warms my heart to see that the artistic side of the protagonist spoke to someone, even if it was a call out haha. I hope you'll like the full version!

Thank you so much! I hope to see you there at the eventual full release :')

:D Thanks for sharing the game! I'm really glad the actual web export handles images well, as I was getting little bugs with the wrong images loading in or not loading at all when I was testing the game. That's why I didn't make it playable online at first, so I'm glad it works fine!

Thank you very much! :D

Incredible, powerful experience. The text felt so raw and the cut-up descriptions, forcing you to press continue again and again after each sentence really adds to the tone. It really felt like I was in the protagonist's thoughts with the way it was paced.

i loved the visuals! very intriguing story too. i was very engaged through it all, it was fun :)

oh that's incredibly sweet! :') i'm glad you enjoyed the game!

Played this with a close friend and had a grand ol' time. It's an absolutely wonderful game.