Almost 4 Years

Goodness. It's been a while since I made this. Haven't played it since I made it, too.

I wrote this entirely during an airplane flight, where I started messaging my friend and giving her the options, effectively making myself the program of the game. After the first level ("Past"), I started writing out more options and eventually created what you see today. I want to thank that friend for entertaining my silly idea back then.

I think the message of this game is a bit simple.  I don't fully agree with it anymore; I think the reality is far more nuanced but I was literally a teenager when I made this. I'm proud of past me for making anything at all. I think I was quite sad when I made this, and although I'm still sad now, I think the idea of pushing forward never really left me. Maybe I'll make something like this again, just to make it. (The coding on this game is atrocious. I had no idea what I was doing and I still don't but at least I can recognize that a giant string of switch statements is horrid to look at and that there are better ways of doing this). Who knows; I'm in college now, I realized I was trans, changed my username, and I've slowly been healing as time goes on. It's been a long 4 years. This was made before Covid, which just makes it feel even further away.

It's wild, looking back on this now. All the art in this game was made on my phone, and only the actual coding was done on a computer. I still love the frog. I don't know why he's there, but I love him.

There's not much else for me to say. Keep trucking, and I'll make something else soon, I think. I'm currently between a couple different things, and I have a job now, but I do want to make more knickknacks and I have more stories to tell. One of these days.

Thanks for reading; just felt sentimental and I wanted to write something about it.