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I have had to delete like 6 different messages here claiming to offer an update d version in the last few days so I decided to be safe I would make this post.

Loved the vibe of this and the alien feeling simple geometry of the ship in the starting area. It was fun looking through the creatures at the end.

Aww thanks James, never be as good as Diffin Game though sadly :'P

Aww this is exactly the reaction I hoped for in writing and designing this game. Really glad you connected with it like this. I genuinely believe more horror should feature happy endings or at least less negative outcomes. There's so much to explore in dissonance with psychological horror. So many people believe the worst despite the objective reality being a lot more hopeful and I'm glad I was able to communicate this through the ambience and narrative.
I do still read every review, thank you for writing this one and brightening my day <3

I've been playing this all afternoon and I can't figure out more than one ending... all of which are good or very very sweet... Amazing game yay! (I'm already there, just give me no... weeks because I'm really happy u made this)

Reminded me how many bad days at my internship Bitscord helped me through. So happy I met some amazing people through it.

yes and I love it >:3

its simple dont eat the cat

The comment made me smile

Thanks for playing! A lot of these issues stem from the jam deadline unfortunately. However the limited fish is an intentional decision. You're a researcher not a warior, you're there to interfere as little as possible with the ecosystem. That said I had to scrap a mechanic that would allow you to scare away fish due to time constraints and I think that would have helped a lot along with a better indication of when you can no longer catch a fish and better communication of the health/oxygen mechanic.

The game was heavily inspired by There's Something Beneath The Surface At Coral Cove wich I made for a Ludum Dare over a decade ago, having to return all the way to the surface in that game just wasn't fun and running out of oxygen as the fail state never felt entirely right, so this time around I decided to make the fail state something researchers actually have to worry about, money, I imagine the diver just gets teleported out when the oxygen runs out, it's at least 50,000 years into the future after all hehe.

There's plenty of things I can hopefully communicate better about the mechanics that resulted from this direction once I find time for an updated version. I also had a bunch of extra room designs done but was making them in the last half hour of the jam and couldn't place all the spawners in quickly enough to put them to use, and I really didn't have time to properly balance the stats. As I say hopefully I can make a nicer updated version soon.

10/10 would become fertilizer again <3 

<3 this is so real

Also wanted to add here it'd be really nice if one of the mouse buttons was bound to walk. I always found this really useful in walking heavy games like Proteus as it means you can play with one hand. A mouse sensitiyvity slider wouldalso be much appreciated, for a game like this I'd like to be able to turn 360 degrees without lifting the mouse.

Played three and a half hours without realising how much time had passed last night abd discovered so many interesting things in a way that I think will help them stick in my mind more strongly thank you so much for making this!

Walkipedia <3

I appreciate the sentiment. We'll see what I do upon my travels in future but if this stands on its own I think I will be no less creatively satisfied with it.

Oh no the way you explain that it's not a steam key is fine, I get why itch has it labeled as such, hopefully they add the option for changing it at some point though.

Having worked with it a little more I wanted to let you know this plugin feels like exactly what I'm looking for when I normally load up a soundfont and has the perfect aditional effects that I'd want as default on my instruments. I could probably have a soundfont with equivalent sounds but having a VST that loads up all these samples by default with a nice array of effects and adjustments will probably save me a lot of time so thank you.

Ahh my mistake, I was looking at itch for install instructions.

Might be an idea to ammend the line "It says you will receive a "steam key" - but the key is actually to register the plugin when you run it, nothing to do with Steam." to add something about activating the discs separately and set expectations about how regtistering works more clearly as I made my assumption based on this.

OOH it's probably just that I wasn't aware the discs needed seperate registration, that's a little unintuitive so it might be worth clarifying that in the install instructions as it lead to a slightly confusing first impression. Had a lot of fun with the plugin yesterday. 

Love the core idea/presentation of this VST but it needs to be registered very often. Is there a way to get it to stay registered between projects/VST instances? I'm using it in FL Studio in case that helps.

Hey, thanks for this review. I appreciate the detail you've gone into here. I would honestly have loved to expand on the exploration and narrative delivery. This was initially supposed to be a 3 day jam game that dragged into a 4th day, so the elements of the walking sim had to be simplified for that timeline. Making the environment took a lot of time ':)

By now I have unfortunately lost the source for the project but I am still hard at work making games. I'll probably return to an aesthethic like this in future hopefully with time for some more interesting narrative design and aditional gameplay elements.

I agree that there's a certain sense of undermining the narrative in the ending, especially when viewed through the lense of traditional storytelling. It was a rough but hopefully somewhat effective attempt at evoking a certain emotional journey utilising the interactive potential of feeling lost.

Thanks for playing.

Here is a video demonstration of a magnetic compass. This is the type of physical compass I'm familliar with reading so it's what I chose to emulate for this game. The game shouldn't have the same ux as google maps because google maps is meant to be a convenient method of navigating in real life, whereas this is a horror game about navigating with less than modern tools.

You're not the first person to struggle with the compas, and I'm sure you won't be the last, hopefully it added to the sense of being lost in the woods I was going for :P

Ooh that's strange, are you sure you haven't misunderstood how a compas works? The red end of the needle will always point north, so to tell which way west or east is you line up the red point with N on the compas and the directions on the compas face should be correct with west to your left and east to your right. 

It is true that when you turn 90 degrees to the right the red arrow will be pointing to the W on the compas but this only indicates that North is 90 degrees to the left of your facing. As the red end of the compas is magnetised to the north pole of the earth this should be how a real compas functions too by my understanding.

The tree creature wasn't based of any IRL folklore, or at eaast not intentionally, I just wanted to make something with a bit of a slenderman and weeping angel inspiration combined with seeing people play prop hunt.

Thank you for playing, I'm glad you had a good time.

Ooh I love this idea so much thank you!

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Really love this game!

Wow well done!!

Ihope Tammmy gets her dreams to come true and the economy 2 becomes real.

Some of my favoutrite interactive works I've ever played, thank you for making them.

Oh, I'm sorry to hear you're feeling down, hope you can learn to enjoy things and be happier in future. I certainly found happiness in making this :)

Well why wouldn't the only robot still running in the end times be a piece of shit?

First off thank you for taking the time to play, this game was released years ago and has seen no real updates since launch, it is complete as envisioned at the time and doesn't require revisiting as I'm busy making new games. Please consider this if you are thinking of asking developers to update their old free projects in future. We all only have so much time on this planet and leaving something in a concrete state is often more important than fussing over perfecting it in retrospect.

To address your feedback directly, replays *are* redundant unless you just want to take in the atmosphere, in which case leave the story stuff alone, that is the nature of this work. If you felt you missed some items, that's the intended experience, one of uncertainty :) Personally I feel that if a piece of art makes you wait it's the viewers choice to get impatient with it.

Anyway I hope you managed to enjoy your time exploring Bleakshore personal frustrations aside.

Wonderful work dino!

you can already use the auto harvesters to automatically harvest and replant and the sprinklers automatically click the crops for you.This game isn't going tobe developed further but I'm using it to help inspire the farming mechanics for a bigger 2d survival game project.

Update 30/08/24: This game is in fact now being developed further :3

Just a Hyph taking selfies with her songs :3

Hey, if you hover over the seeds the tooltip will tell you the next blueprint you can unlock by growing that plant.

Yeah I didn't end up looking into it because I assumed it was just poor communication on my part not an actual bug.

Appreciate the feedback. My response to the 2 points raised:

1. What does it mean that you can never know if you've collected all that was left behind?

2. I considered putting a map on a signpost in the world but was tight on time. The more time that passes, the more I like how people feel lost in this work.

Glad you enjoyed the game, thanks for playing!

Thanks for sharing your experience. I felt the "I live like someone who wants to die" line deep in my heart. 

I had a very similar experience to this last year, and it cleared the space in my head to start making some genuine progress when I'd always felt paralysed with fear. Knowing what it means to be happy within yourself reassured me and gave me strength and this brought that back to me for a few moments. 

Things still kind of suck all the time, but I know they don't have to, I know there's other ways to feel, I know I wasn't crazy lying awake all those nights thinking something was wrong!

I hope you're doing well. Your art is not only visually beautiful but it so clearly communicates a psychedelic experience that is maybe not universal but at least shared by many.

Completely fair feedback, hopefully I can get back to this project and make some usability and balance upgrades in future. Thanks for taking the time to play and leave a comment!

I love to see them, go ahead!