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I can definitely confirm there are side-effects on non-standard resolutions though XD\n\n![img03.png](\/\/\/raw\/cf6\/72\/z\/55e7b.png)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":907633,"author_name":"Chisenoa","author_uid":"chisenoa","epoch":1673369419,"text":"i didnt understand :(","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":909629,"author_name":"HayriCakir","author_uid":"hayricakir","epoch":1673388276,"text":"I liked the art and audio!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":910979,"author_name":"LDJam user 8951","author_uid":"8951","epoch":1673411353,"text":"You can deep think about your life choices while playing this true art of minimalizm.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":912224,"author_name":"IanLux","author_uid":"ianlux","epoch":1673440622,"text":"great mood.\nI think having more animation (like the tomatoes visibly growing or some kind of audio\/visible feedback when planting) would really benefit the relaxing experience.\nOther than that, nice job!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":912752,"author_name":"Ale","author_uid":"ale","epoch":1673452766,"text":"A nice and relaxing experience. You did a really good job on creating a mood here!\n\n...also, what an amazing name.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":915093,"author_name":"LDJam user 279867","author_uid":"279867","epoch":1673499781,"text":"Big mood. No doubt about that. \n\nThis is a beautiful game to look at and listen to. Very chill and that is honestly a refreshing change of pace from the soul reaper type games from this jam.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":915114,"author_name":"Bowen","author_uid":"bowen","epoch":1673500502,"text":"I hope you can add a new function that Player can save the progress as a video and play it.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":916170,"author_name":"Jesseww","author_uid":"jesseww","epoch":1673536990,"text":"I liked it. I think? No, I did. I didn't really understand what I was doing, but I enjoyed my time. You all did a great job on the audio. 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