ritual.
One time I did a uquiz on what emotion I created art from and, like, i don't even know if i generally believe in the results of personality type quizzes there's an argument that what they really tell you is what you want to be true or think is true which i somewhat agree with.
Anyways, at the start of the quiz on what emotion I created with I asked myself what I thought it would be, without knowing the results pool just thinking through the range of human emotion and the answer I came up with was loneliness.
So I did the whole quiz and I got my result and it was loneliness.
[CONTROLS]
WASD + either clicking or walking ur guy into interesting things to progress the game.
[CREDITS]
door unlock sound: https://freesound.org/people/angelkunev/sounds/519065/
palette in some places: https://lospec.com/palette-list/pollen8
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I'm too dense to understand symbolic art most of the time(I usually list elements to help, but this is too surreal for that). I love the style of it though, how you found consistency in inconsistency. I'll def check out your other games.
i missed your comment ^^; but thank you!
i dont know if revealing the symbolic elements of a piece of art makes an experience worse, and like death of the author your interpretation is more important than mine in some ways but if youre curious:
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in my head the ritual is like making and sharing art, so all the npcs are participating by making stuff and giving it to you and then youre continuing it by making new stuff and giving it back to them. on a more meta level though youre completing a ritual i started by playing a game i have made
aaaaaaaa this was rlly rlly nice! the ritual of human interaction, how we can only extend so far as allows us to interact with others, how we never know if its finished or worth it or if we even did it right, how we can quantify that it matters by having things we can see and feel and touch,,,, i think funky sticker cowboy was right, i don't know what i'm doing either, but it is kinda fun. i think. i'd like for it to be.
(i rlly liked the "art tip" bits too, idk what you're idea for them was but i thought of them as sort of you as the artist giving something tangible to the player too :) )
aaah i somehow missed this but thank you!! i find how ppl engage with this game rly interesting and ur comment means a lot (u r completing the ritual!)
i like this (:
I don't know if I completely understood what was happening so sorry if this waay off base but I thought it was interesting how the ritual involves so many people who are also participating in the ritual and that the protagonist also doesn't know what the ritual is, implying to me that they've also been caught in the ritual loop.
"I want you to pretend that you know me and because you know me everything I do makes sense." Is a very intriguing line of dialogue! (It feels authoritative yet desperate...a bit romantic?) It's said by someone who might be the person who began the ritual or not since they say it's already in motion. So I'm thinking that like someone in authority might use the line to mean "Trust me, it'll all make sense why I'm making you do this at the end." but someone participating might use it (and I don't know if I'm explaining myself well here) as a draw?
A Draw: I was thinking about what your game desc says about loneliness and about what the hot sticker cowboy said about how the ritual is fun most of the time but sometimes scary. Everyone participating in the ritual seems to be alone most of the time unless another person participating comes along. None of them know what they're doing really but all of them help each other as best they can.
I don't have a conclusion, it just made me think~!!
Also 'Sick Bracelet!' and hot sticker cowboy are so cool~
No, upon further inspection here is my conclusion;
Maybe the TRUE ritual is the friends we made along the way!
AAAh Thank you for writing all of this! It rly made my day, I am resisting the urge to just infodump what the game is about to you, but if you are curious I can tell u more abt what I was thinking while making it.
A lot of ur interpretations aren’t that far off! and there are a few I hadn’t even considered that are really interesting, thank u for playing/completing the ritual !!
Give in to the urge, I'd love to hear what you were thinking while making it!!