another small thing
OSX 10.5+ (intel) ~1MB
Windows ~0.5MB
Source ~10kb
See the comments thread for instructions as to how to build this on Linux.
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Simple message but powerful feeling given by the game mechanics. Great game.
I… I understand.
I tried both the Mac and the Windows version, and I can’t get it to work either way. In the Windows it displays too large, while on the Mac it just displays a black screen (the audio still works though).
after 6 months or a year or half a year I am taken by the need to come here and pay a visit… to the game with 100 names, via Dolorosa, the Rose Garden, “No beaty No more”, … this one Home is may the dearest of all for me.
Or may Collect the 3 Artofacfs. Or Maybe Universal History of Light.
Tyndall.
The one I cam’t find the title, but it’s a surrealistic subway system with a very imaginative “cagey” level near the end…
They are all much better than the 2 commercial releases (pf.which, the first is better than the 2nd).
You shouldn!t shy from publishing a very unique artful game, at least on Itch.io. One, I mean at least 15 of those you already have here.
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