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I learned about the incident at in my early 20s when a visual novel brought this subject matter up and it was just a strange experience for me. I felt embarrassed that I didn’t know this much earlier, so I guess this was a way to write a game revisiting these locked-off memories for me.

Thank you for reading this too.

Haha, thanks. I wanted to make that scene as authentic as possible.

I would like to opt out of receiving funds for this itch account from the Queer Games Bundle.

I understand that this means I will not receive funds for my game.

I recommend Dungeons and Distractions.

This interview was a delightful surprise as someone who got into modern IF through Porpentine’s works. Thanks for making it!

Had a lot of thoughts thinking about this game: https://cohost.org/highimpactsex/post/5640953-some-thoughts-on-i-w

A comforting game that stays committed to the premise. Also, I like the monochrome(?) color direction with the game.

The pizza scene is quite … real.

Really dig the aesthetics.

This was awesome.

This is the Pentiment of video games.

Delightfully funny game.

Incredible.

That was a wild read. Thanks.

That was very good! Loved the interactions and resource management mechanics.

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Finished the game. Excellent stuff. https://cohost.org/highimpactsex/post/5198851-sylvie-rpg-is-pretty

Finished this game. This was fantastic, even if frustrating at times. I really enjoyed the honest afterword. Thanks for making the game!

Horny and depressing. The good stuff.

Yeah, it’s set in Singapore.

This game was fun. Thanks for recommending it.

Thank you, it’s a work I still think about :-)

This game is so beautifully styled. I adore the subtly shifting gradients and the audio cues work really well. And I enjoy the ending a fair bit.

I know very little about addiction besides fiction and several medical details, so my thoughts will always be half-baked. Nevertheless, I found this portrayal empathetic and the allegory of knight-monster-king drives the message home for me.

I’m also fond of how the text flickers like a burning lightbulb. Almost like, addiction is a boogeyman regardless of where you stand: for the narrator, it’s the monster that tempts them; for the king and anyone else, it’s the monster that scares people away. It feels like the only way to actually defeat the monster is to understand it, to shine an actual permanent light on it and give support to the knight besides the king (who would have other obligations to do).

I thought this title was really good and I hope more people play it.

This was a wonderful and precious title that captures the awkwardness of encounters that feel like they should mean a whole lot. And yet, they are reminders of how the wrong time and wrong place make the absences and voids much stronger.

Great job, you two!

Thank you for revisiting the jam and playing this game :-)

Got through the Myka end in eight loops. The worldbuilding is really neat and I quite enjoyed the mechanics.

I found this a difficult yet pleasing title to read in both English and Japanese. Both are different in interesting ways. This linguistic experiment is thought-provoking at the very least.

At the very end of the work, I thought the story was hard to follow but intentionally so. It reflects the fragmentation of identity, of language, and of life itself. I guess if broken memories are stitched together, one form it could’ve taken is this visual novel. Translating trauma is not an enviable task, but I think this captures a bit of what it’s like to live with one.

Anyone interested in stories exploring trauma should take a look at this game. You don’t have to love the game or the story in order to appreciate what this title is doing. There’s something lovely about figuring out what makes Ochitsubaki tick, even if everything doesn’t pan out for me. Trauma is always worth investigating and it’s likely the subject matter that requires the most experimental design anyway.

Thanks for making this game. It’s awesome.

This was wonderful.

What a beautiful, enigmatic game. This captures something beautiful about how we remember and grieve without belittling or romanticizing it. I really love this.

Wonderful title.

Really interesting parser game. It’s got a lot of personality and man, I feel bad for Kira if she feels this bad lol.

Goodbye soda…

Didn’t expect you to post a comment on this game :-)

That took me a while to write and edit because I got pretty nauseous. I think what I ended up works really well for what it is without sensationalizing what happened.

Definitely one of my proudest moments figuring this out, so thanks for playing the game :-)

Woops, I got distracted on Discord. I was going to cross-post the postmortem, haha.

Oh my god, this rules. The ending is sooooo perfect: it’s what I really want to see in a story about relationships during coronavirus pandemic – no romanticism but a longing already complicated by previous events.

I’m so glad you got this game out!

A neat modern retelling of a famous myth. The way the lines fade in and give droplets of information is really nice.

This was a fun game to test. The puzzles are pretty interesting since they ask you to explore the details of the room through restarts. Definitely looking forward to your next titles :-)

This is one of the more specific titles I’ve ever found on this site and it’s lovely. Thank you for making it!

What a sweet game.