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What a wonderful little game! I love the game loop and the artwork, though I keep messing up because I'm playing in the browser and am seeing some slowdown. I haven't had the opportunity to try it via Linux yet, but I've been having a lot of fun playing it here!

Also, I know this won't apply to everyone, but thanks for specifying Batou likes milkshakes. As someone who's struggled with drinking in the past I don't always feel comfortable with depictions of alcohol sometimes. But here I feel I can rest easy knowing he's just going to get a huge sugar rush, lol.

Thank you! And yeah I did not check for duplicates, lol. I thought about it, but decided it wasn't absolutely necessary.

Well I realized today I never came back and linked to this, my apologies. I've used this tool
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In the settings app you can change the background to one of several space images. I've also linked back here under the "Credits" file.

I got married but then had an accident and died. My poor hot alien husband :(

Nice game :)

I can hope! I enjoyed reading your comments on all the pages btw. It was like following another saga along with the story of the game.

Very fun game and I will check out the tutorial! Something about the continuous shooting make whole thing very satisfying :)

This is an excellent idea for a game! After a while it does get a bit samey, but I had fun upgrading my stats beyond what was reasonable.

This game is WONDERFUL! I ended up sitting with it for several hours totally unexpectedly because it drew me in. The concept (of exploring a dead MMO and reading left behind messages) has been done before, but this one actually manages to make it its own.

I like the interactive comments element, and even left a few myself, but I didn't realize how eerie it would become reading through them and not knowing which are from real people and which are in game. Are Mathbrush and Jadetuin real? I want them to be real.

Highly recommended. I did not expect to enjoy exploring a text game so very much.

Very nice game :) I wasn't able to beat it but will probably come back in the future. I like how the game explores the story and adds more complex things to explore while still utilizing the very simple gameplay of classic snake.

This is a really interesting idea, and I enjoyed seeing the execution of it. Reading the description, I initially misunderstood and thought I'd be on the other end of the call, but I enjoyed reading everyone else's story once I realized my mistake.

Excellent game! I'll say that for me personally, I got pretty used to the controls after a bit, once I got into my "flow." Pressing up/down to change pieces was confusing at times, but easy enough to fix since I type quickly. I've purchased the full game, and I'm looking forward to playing all of the levels!

Lovely drawings! I kind of want to color them :)

Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed them. I haven't done much guerilla gardening myself, but I am a fan of it, and I've seen it done to great effect in many places that have food desserts. I will have to look into it and see if I could develop some ideas around it. Thank you for the suggestion!

Thanks for reading! I absolutely agree that markdown should also count as plaintext, since it's not at all obfuscated and can still be opened in any editor. I probably should have mentioned the similarities, but markdown can also be its own kind of rabbit hole, and I didn't want to get sucked into it for this short piece :)

Glad you were able to find some ideas you liked! I was hoping everyone would be able to find something that would be helpful.

Thank you so much for reading them!

Oh I highly agree on the modability point! I've been working on some simple JS apps in my spare time, and adding support for exporting everything to txt/csv format is easy-peasy and always gives folks a way to recover and save their data. I wonder why more people don't do it!

Thank you so much! Glad you liked them :)

Glad you liked it! And thanks for making the engine :) It's a great tool and one of my favorites.

Agreed!

This is a pretty difficult game, but I like the concept! I couldn't get past the first screen myself, lol.

Thank you! I'm glad the gardening one seems helpful-I would never describe myself as having a green thumb, so I think if I can do it, anyone can :)

Lovely game! I really enjoyed my time with this, and I had fun seeing what I could max out.

Thank you so much!

Thank you! I've fixed it in the files, though it seems that Itch.io may be caching some of them, so it may be a little while before the change shows up.

I like the stream-of-consciousness quality this has, and it's a really interesting way to implement a hypertext game/fiction/story/thing. A lot of it made me think. Thank you for sharing, and also for adding the link to the tool, because I always like discovering new ones!

This is a very creative combination of the bullet hell genre and puzzle games. I like this a lot!

Thank you; I'm so glad that came across, because the whole VC vibe really grates on me.

Awesome, and thank you for reading them! Gardening can bring so much joy and I hope it does to you as well!

This was excellent and I really enjoyed reading through it all! A lot of the resources you linked to were ones I was totally unfamiliar with, and I really appreciated coming across them. Thanks for adding the page with links for easy reference!

This made me very angry in a "this game did its job too well" kind of way.  And I don't think that cable is going to get here before my phone dies. >:(

Very cute game! I enjoyed talking to all of my wyvern friends on the way through.

Hello sir! This is a very good game! I am truly impressed by what you got this little engine to do!

This is cute! I like the theme and it was fun going around and sucking up garbage.

This is a lovely simple little tool, and I like it alot! I've used it to make backgrounds for a project that's not yet online, but I'll link back here when I make it public.

Using Bitsy as a journal is a really neat idea! You did a lovely job of sharing your memories, and I enjoyed witnessing them :)

Thank you! And yeah I totally agree about the signs. I did not realize they were such a pain until they'd already been placed, and unfortunately I cannot drag them. I will try to fix it when I have some time to sit down and do a lot of copying and pasting!

Very unique puzzle game! I enjoyed it :)

Well this is thoroughly messed up, in a good! A lot of these types of fiction don't creep me out as much because I can usually see where they're going, but this...! Made me very uncomfortable. Excellent job!

Awesome, thank you for playing it!