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My biggest piece of feedback is that it's very easy when you're skipping through previously seen text to accidentally click on a choice you didn't mean to.","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":735311,"author_name":"Turquoise Moon","author_uid":"turquoise-moon","epoch":1633482931,"text":"That was really cool. I really like the art and the story. Playing through different routes was fun!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":735387,"author_name":"yojammerjammer","author_uid":"yojammerjammer","epoch":1633483691,"text":"This one was really interesting.  I love this take on unstable.  Kept me hooked in.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":752484,"author_name":"maxds98","author_uid":"maxds98","epoch":1633722032,"text":"Very nice! Thanks for your game and for web build! I really liked the story :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":752498,"author_name":"CozyGamePals","author_uid":"cozygamepals","epoch":1633722361,"text":"Wow this felt really ambitious! So much writing and endings. It appreciated the \"go back a few steps\" option after hitting a wall. Made it feel like a choose your own adventure book. Nice work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":753038,"author_name":"PenguinMunch","author_uid":"penguinmunch","epoch":1633731917,"text":"Super fun game! I love the concept and the sound design. Great job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":753106,"author_name":"Linkwin","author_uid":"linkwin","epoch":1633733505,"text":"Great story and dialog! Very nice writing, I felt attached to the characters. Overall I enjoyed it thoroughly .","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":753301,"author_name":"rufson","author_uid":"rufson","epoch":1633739988,"text":"Nice text, humor, drawings of characters and of course the musical transitions at the right moments increased the mood even more. Nice one!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":753375,"author_name":"guimoliveira","author_uid":"guimoliveira","epoch":1633742355,"text":"After letting them die twice I managed to save someone. Great game! :slight_smile: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":754249,"author_name":"Kamuniaft","author_uid":"kamuniaft","epoch":1633772734,"text":"Great job! This sci-fi novel features surprisingly big amount of content, like a whole solid chapter! Story is catching and sound effects are awesome. I opened 3 endings (except those where u end up dead) and it was really fun :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":763982,"author_name":"Johnsensei","author_uid":"johnsensei","epoch":1634225039,"text":"I had to publish the post jam version for technical reasons. It incorporates some of the feedback here, like offering to skip ahead to choices if the player has already read a scene on that playthrough. Thanks to everyone here for the plays, ratings, and feedback.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":764211,"author_name":"LeReveur","author_uid":"lereveur","epoch":1634240445,"text":"I found four endings, I'm not sure but I think I've explored all the ways and saw all the scenes. Fine graphics and sounds, it's helping a lot for the mood. And this is a very decent amount of scenes for a LD entry! Even if I was expecting one ending for each character saved with me, and one alone (instead of the four actual endings), but I guess this would have need much more scenes, so, much more time :laughing:  \nVery well done!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":766505,"author_name":"Johnsensei","author_uid":"johnsensei","epoch":1634504408,"text":"Just shipped the game to the Apple App Store for iPads and soon macOS. 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