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Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts! I'm not sure yet whether there will be a second draft, but either way, this is really useful feedback. And you're not the first one to mention Annihilation—I haven't read it, but maybe I should!

Played this tonight and had a flashback to reading spooky CYOA books as a kid. Great game!

I did! I wrote down some of my favorite endings:

"Then I hear a voice saying: 'Save me...' To my astonishment, the words came from my own mouth." (Room 113)

"You woke from your sleep, high up on a shelf, with porcelain skin and a missing leg." (Room 444)

"You were looking around too much... Your eyes fell out." (Room 666)

And of course... "You knew from the very beginning there was something wrong with this hotel." (Room 555)

Ah, this one will stick with me. It's so unsettling in such a specific way that just makes it feel more real. Great idea for La Petite Mort!

I have so many thoughts about this game, but until they cohere into something useful, I just want to say I loved it. The writing is beautiful, and it really made me think and feel. <3

This is delightful! Some of the endings are truly blood-curdling—my jaw dropped a few times. "I knew from the very beginning there was something wrong with this hotel."

This is really helpful feedback. Thank you!

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

I'm so glad to hear you enjoyed it! Thank you for sharing your experience <3

Loved this game! Satisfyingly ridiculous to do all those things. Thinking maybe I should make a bucket list.

Thanks for playing <3

Very cool game! Moody and mysterious. Inspires me to try making one :)

Great idea for a spreadsheet game! I had to peek at the example but I succeeded in the end :)

There is someone in the game who might want it!

Thanks for playing it! <3

Thank you! I really miss Taiwan watermelon juice!!

You can always try again tomorrow!

This was really great, especially for a first attempt! Very moving, and such an effective use of the single-choice constraint. Thanks for sharing it <3

The important thing is that you didn't give up!!  🍉

Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it <3

So cool to see you wrote an Inform poem! I'm fascinated on a technical level and also haunted by how well it paints the scene. So great.

Thanks so much, that's very kind! Glad you enjoyed the game :)

I love this. At some point I forgot I was playing a game, and then I remembered and my mind collapsed in on itself for a second, but anyway this indirect way of storytelling is very cool.

Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it :)

This is a really cool idea for a game format! Great atmosphere too. Makes me feel inspired :)

This game rules. The writing is perfect. I almost made something of myself...maybe I'll try again, but it's a tough biz.

 🥤 ✨

Wow, this gave me chills. All of those influences really turned into something cool and unique!

Got 'em all! That was fun, and I like the graphics!

Thank you!! I'm glad you liked it :)

Thank you!! I'm glad it was intriguing!

This game is awesome! I really appreciate the fun writing and the player-friendliness—I feel like I got a lesson in writing good choices in games, and also another lesson about homeownership. :)

This was great! Very atmospheric. And what a nice happy ending :)

A very gripping story! I knew it must be about to end, but I still didn't want it to :)

This was a lot of fun! Really funny writing and great characters—I had to start over a few times to see all the shenanigans they got up to. 

Oh yes. This is some spooky greatness right here. The zombie eye definitely belongs in the monster book right alongside the others!

This is neat! Poetry games are fun, and this one feels like a throwback to classic creepy poems of yore. I stumbled around until I found a hopeful ending, whew!

I loved this! The writing is so thoughtful, the way you can choose whether to lean in to the fact that this has been going on far too long already...it really got me. And it's eerie how replaying the game mirrors the repetition over the years. Great game!

Thanks, glad you liked it! (I wanted to implement "replay your message" too, to see everything in one block, but ran out of time....)

Yeah, it was hard to develop a story with such a small project—follow-up calls is a good idea for later, though. Glad you liked it, and thanks for sharing your thoughts!