When I made this game, save implementation was pretty janky in the engine. It's been overhauled since, but I'm afraid there's not a ton I can do without diving deep into the game and rewiring a bunch of stuff and testing to make sure it still works, which seems like a lot of work for a short, free game I finished years ago... Apologies for the inconvenience.
Glad you liked the game! The 3d model of the world was constructed in blender. Animation was mostly done quite sloppily (due to time constraints) using blendshapes. The textured surfaces use images from old japanese asset discs, proc gen/noise, or were illustrated by hand. Each shot was rendered out, compressed in photoshop, and saved as a gif. A high res frame from each shot was used as a backdrop for illustrating the characters. I was hoping to intentionally make the styles and resolutions clash a bit. Thank you for the inquiry, hope this helped!
Another 10/10 Poppy game. I'm always amazed at the wonderful things you do with Narrat. This one is short and fun and well executed, I like how intensely you characterize the protagonist and how you never stray from her perspective. WOW!
Easily the best soundtrack I've heard from the games this year (so far). Great narrative; it's fun how layered and complicated it gets without drifting into rote metanarrative stuff. Parts remind me of the autobiographical sections of House of Leaves, which is rare enough for a game to do, and this one pulled it off so cool and collected... It'll stay with me for a while. Poor Ana.
I don't know how much story significance the name 32xlad has, but it made me giggle for some reason. So thanks for that! Delicious game, thank you Ms. Profumo!
Super well written. I like how the work dove so deeply into areas of squick that are often ignored; it's become a bit passé to write about piss and sweat and blood, and the focus here on skin cells, on crevices within the body, on scabs and earwax, it made it all gross in delightfully fresh and interesting ways.
The story captures some of the isolation of staying on campus over the summer quite well, also.
I like the audio and presentation, the section dealing with the madonna was cool. Well done Dermomaniac!
The story and presentation (especially being in first person, and sometimes slipping into a soft second person?) reminds me of a semi famous little comicabout an angel talking to two women who ask it extremely intrusive questions while it tries to focus on them despite perceiving everything in the area down to terrible details. That sort of altered way of living and seeing the world is a really fun way to explore the main character, kudos.
Good bass on the bedroom song.
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The story is great. I like the angel thing as straight up narrative, and it works just as well as (what I'm guessing is) trans allegory, of some kind. I like the strange mixed pain and relief finding a date seems to bring, the ambiguous note it ends on. I like the final scene, how we see the character flex her agency a little for the first time, and then immediately jump to knowing what she wants and exercising ultimate and final agency to spite the strange man.
This game really digs down into some interesting, unnerving and sort of cathartic emotion. I wish I had more to say but it's not all processed yet; I'll be thinking about this one for a while. Thank you Indigo Children!