september 13 2023

What is this? Why cant i play it?

is this gantz or am i trippin

felt like an earnest and worthwhile use of my time, would love more of this kind of energy on this website ✨

this has deeply affected me...
the story feels so real like realer than a true story. like when you have a deep conversation late at night with someone you will never see again at a party...
i feel so spaced now... thank you for making this

oh also unrelated  i wanted to ask you if it was ok to feature your itch page in a cohost post (twitter replacement). i wanted to start a blogish thing about underground non-commercial games and I wanted to write about how the work on your itch page really pushes the boundaries of what a game can be.

EDIT: oh also that whole glowing memory thing with person happened to me too.

this is incredible. the deeply minimalist mechanics, the inability to really do much with the one tool you have (click + drag to warp and move the ball) creates a real longing that builds and builds. the prose is beautiful, and tragic, and combined with the anxious mechanic builds a beautiful unison between the two. very effecting piece.

i especially love how you so deeply defy traditional games logic: it's just a wall of text you have to scroll through. somehow it just works. i think in part because your prose is so good. i think also maybe the usual knock on large blocks of text is they create a feeling of anti-agency, stasis, removal. but these all work exceptionally well to reinforce the aesthetics / mechanics of everything else happening in this game. 

while i was reading i kept trying to parse what the texture on the orb was. at varying points i thought it was a face, static, or nothing at all (perhaps just light reflections?), and it wasn't until after i had read everything and continued to scroll and was left with only myself and the orb that i finally could see what it was. a transcendentally beautiful moment. a magnificent game <3 <3