the Finding of Your Lingering Warmth
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inspired by The day I couldn't write a poem by Zennyan + mikyokyuji
the text in this game is an excerpt of my Chinese poem Scattered Footsteps
a rough word-to-word translation of it is listed as follows
我 - 跌进 - 你 - 细碎的 - 话语里
I - fall into - your - rustling - words
像 - 攀登 - 一座 - 颠倒的 - 山
like - climbing - an - upside-down - mountain
山顶 - 是你的余温
on the top of the mountain - your warmth lingers
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Really welling up with tears in my eye after I reach the mountain top. Masterpiece as a short game.
谢谢 koway，很受鼓舞🫂
wow it's surprisingly readable. thanks for the experience!
thanks for playing!
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lol just part of me lingering on the internet
PICO-8在设计哲学上和诗歌有很多相似之处，这个游戏完美地体现了这点。
谢谢 ahai
really beautiful work as always
thanks q1
love the game, and loved finding and reading the poem at the bottom of the page only after I'd played. nice work
another round of finding haha. glad you liked it
this was beautiful -- reminds me of bit of the Small Worlds flash game: (https://archive.org/details/small_worlds) but here the effect of only ever having the small halo around you visible creates a very different experience. it feels very mysterious and exciting just to explore and map out the world, partly through movement, and partly through memory, trying to cling to all the crannies i've seen and visited and marked in my brain. you've paced it very really beautifully -- at first just moving felt very difficult, as i didn't totally parse that i would fall into cracks so easily. when the VVVVVV mechanic was revealed i began to feel very confident in my movement. the ending is just beautiful. lovely :)
thanks for playing. when making this, part of me wanted to simulate the emotional process of writing a poem. other parts of me just wanna get lost in the thoughts. and only if lucky (or working hard) enough, I/the player will sort it out and gain a clear whole sight. it was a kinda intuitive and improvisational design process. glad you liked it and good to know some of the designs turned out well:)
btw just checked out the Small Worlds game surprising to find out how a similar idea is couduct so uniquely and elegantly more than 10yrs ago
yeah i feel you replicated that really beautifully here! and yeah, i played Small Worlds for the first time earlier this year and was also surprised how contemporary and fresh it felt :)
好棒！把写诗的时候脑子里那种摸东西（）的感觉表达出来了
耶！确实是我想表达的感觉，感谢游玩:D