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Just finished this. I liked it! Reminds me of Dennis Cooper with more explicit empathy and interiority. Kelly :(

I know next to nothing about skateboarding but I love all the art and sound put into this. I got Zero’s New Blood! Incredible work on this.

Thank you darpa chief

Thank you!

Thanks for giving it time! And yeah “b-ah-m” is a bug, type “b-oo-m” if you want to see the result it would have led to

Thank you!

Yes!! I’m glad you see it. Thanks for playing, I love Crockpot!

Ah that’s a bug! It would have redirected to the same image as “b-oo-m”. I’ll fix it in the next update. Thanks for playing!

Thank you for the comment about language! I set out to make something that tackled that while also being fun so I hope you got something out of it!

Oh my gosh this looks so good

The effect of tree expanding closer and closer to the camera!!

I don’t even have a pet and this destroyed me. Might be the best narrative I’ve seen done in decker. Thank you for making this

Wonderful stuff! The presentation looks incredible. Forgot to take a picture but my production of Jack the Giant-Killer had Jack facing a clown yelling “Avast, dickweed!”

Thank you for catching the p-oh-m thing, I forgot to make a drawing for that! If I feel horrid enough I’ll add a Peter Griffin screen just for this

Thank you! The syllables in the game are the first syllables a baby can usually say.

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Thanks for playing! I might update the game with more words later on depending on how I feel, so I’ll think about putting those in!

Thank you!!

Glad you enjoyed my drawings!

Thank you!!

Thank you all for reading!

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Thank you! I’d love to see more VNs adopt that kind of design!

Thank you! I could write lots more about other things people commonly compare things to (Yume Nikki, LSD, “surreal” as a catchall term) but I hope people get the general idea

A game can just be :) Really loved this

Thank you Millie, a lot of people are saying it but your Decker stuff specifically has inspired me to shorten that gap between thinking and doing especially. Great manifesto

The one about premises being the only part that really matters in a story spoke to me. I like good execution in writing but at the end of the day it really is what you take away from it that matters. I think it’s a spectrum but I was always annoyed at the types of people who would say the ending of Titanic sucks because the door was big enough for both Rose and Jack, and every day I feel that bar for being annoyed getting lowered

I share pretty much everything I make on impulse so this might be the most valuable manifesto in the jam so far in how opposed it is to me. Gonna consider the dragon thing. Really good writing

Aw sorry. I said I wanted to test out some of my proposals, plus I’ve never hosted a game jam before, so I decided to just test long game durations and the community-gathering thing initially. I’ll probably make a vaguely themed jam somewhere down the line.

But then again this is an open proposal! If anyone wants to make a vaguely themed jam and send it to me I’ll take a look at it and try to join it if I have time!! Love your games by the way.

It’s not lame, that was one of the examples I was thinking of when I came up with this. Thanks for reading!

Thanks, I hope people try more things with VNs. I’m not against people being influenced by anime or doing dating/NSFW visual novels to be clear, but when it’s especially reductive (e.g. like desperate Lynchian stuff) it gets really sad. Thanks for reading!

Yes!! That’s my other big insincere influence I keep noticing with David Lynch. It just comes off so annoying and terrified. I hope people realize they can be less guarded in the future.

Thanks for reading! It’s funny that you link candle’s Manifesto Megamix because it’s one of my favorite submissions of anything on itch.io and influenced a lot of my thinking about how itch infrastructure should be when I first joined it years ago (read: I plagiarized large parts of it lol)

Thank you for reading!

REAL AND TRUE. It’s so easy for people to wrangle rules and guidelines for art into giving up, and we should always be aware of that. “Be pompous for the right reasons” is a good way to describe indie/solodev auteurism in words that I’ve trying so hard to come up with, I’m stealing that

Excellent and correct

Looking into this…

I haven’t heard of Set Yourself on Fire, I’ll check it out. Thanks for reading and for the recommendation!

The Cozy Game Military-Industrial Complex is gonna try to kill you for this but I completely agree. There’s a fine line between earnestly trying to comfort people in the face of the real world and babying people in toxic oversaturated sugar gruel and way too much of what I see bends towards the latter. I’ll die on this hill too.

Thanks for reading! I’m realizing now how it might look so I want to make it clear that your jam didn’t have anything to do with me writing the jam manifesto, I’ve been thinking about it for a while. And in general, I don’t think every jam should be like what I’m suggesting, I just want more examples of what I’m suggesting.