you can play it here: saturnyoshi.itch.io/break10

past GOTYs ("shadow goty" - meant something but i didn't tell anyone about it):
2024: B3313
2023: Atelier Ayesha
2022: A Dragon's ReQuest
2021: i'm sleepy, time for bed

past GOTYs (spent sooo much time playing them and thinking about them):
2024: UFO 50
2023: uhh i think by hours Umineko. i wanted to try a well regarded japanese vn after bouncing off anything that wasnt english and simultaneously chat up a girl who liked it. i succeeded
2022: Elden Ring
2021: Hades

here are my past GOTYs (THIS ONE! WOW!!):
2024: Dark Souls 2
2023: Yump 2
2022: Dungeon Encounters
2021: Clockwork Calamity in Mushroom World

i made a template you can use to think about what "frame/negation/kirby" looks like for other issues.
For example:

Frame: DOGE is a govt efficiency project to save $

Negation: Actually it made things less efficient and cost $

Kirby: DOGE was a project to break and privatize federal bureaucracy

it’s good to read this in my thirties. makes me think also of friends who’ve grown into new activist identities & growing older alongside big community names who used to seem untouchably amazing.

like the commentary too, mentioning your pulse in stage 5 reminded me of getting to evaccaneer for the first time and realizing i'd been holding my breath

great back half of stage 5

congrats!! ketsui is so hard

yeah first half of stage 4 pushes you toward improvising but it's unaffordable risk

also try fighting the midboss' second phase a little higher up

anything made in Godot 4 can do this, so you'll know that they're cowards. See:

Tass Times in Tonetown, like YU-NO, is a Lucky Wander Boy game ruled by strange dream logic. It's set inside a dream, but that dream isn't just "wacky"; it's a dream of a cooler, better world, one with more electronic punk music and fewer defined gender roles. It's from 1986, but also 2016 and 2046.

wound up having to reproduce the map on graph paper and play out the floating platform puzzle using candies

oh hey i take an interest in that. invite's expired