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Talk about ragdoll physics! I had great fun tumbling around until I fell down a hole and couldn't get up. The music and art style worked really well with the theme. Thanks so much!

Beautiful zine with interesting thoughts on gender and kigs/dolls. I love how well the art contrast the self image with that of the idolized dolls.

This helped me articulate some gender thoughts of my own. Thank you.

Utterly adorable. The change of outfits and hair matching the text is really good, and I love the musings on dollhood. Thanks so much!

Beautiful poem. I love how you combined the themes.

Beautiful poem

Amazing prose and really good thoughts on what a doll might be. I like the comparison between broken dolls and ghosts, as a haunting reminder of something that might once have been. Really good art as well!

Such a nice travelogue of what seems like an amazing journey. I'm so glad to see your lovely doll in so many interesting settings.

😳

Fun and naughty - and really great photo

Beautiful artwork. I love the eyes mirrored between doll and screens

Really cool puzzles, and I love the sprites and artwork. I haven't finished all levels yet, but what I've seen so far is a good progression in difficulty. 

Thanks so much for making it.

Such a good take on the 'princess and the dragon' trope, and such a cool, sexy dragon. I love how even the eldritch powers were sick of the king's shit towards the end.

Thanks for writing!

Such a pretty game where art and gui fit well together. The story is beautiful, with the different parts eventually coming together and the repair of dolls as a recurring motif. Even the gory and dysphoric parts set up a calm and satisfying conclusion.

Thanks so much for making it.

Oh! I did not see that end coming. That happy smile throughout the comic really set the tone in an amazingly dissonant way.

Great comic. I love the final panel.

OMG! Little doll on big adventure. 

It was so cute and silly, and I love it. The cat made me giggle, and the ending was so sweet.

I really hope you post your game eventually. Even if the jam is over, perhaps you could post a link in the comments when it's ready?

Wow! This was my first jam, so I was not sure what to expect, but I love the creativity. It will take me some time to go through all the amazing contributions, and I look forward to it.

Thanks so much, everyone

This was the cutest thing ever. The familiarity and domesticity, the honest appreciation for dollcrafting and fact that the entire thing is a photocomic, meaning that all the things the dollmaker muse about loving is on full display for the viewer. Amazing minature sets!

Thank you so much for making this

Amazing comic with amazing pacing I love how it starts and ends with a (sorta) damaged doll

Reading this is such a calm, cozy experience. So many good - really well drawn - dolls to meet and interact with. I love how I could take my time with every doll, and how I never had to feel that making once choice barred me from another, while the choices still made each meeting a mystery. What might this doll want?

The overall wholesome and cozy tone was contrasted with a few creepy moments and dubious choices. As can be expected when playing with dolls. And learned so much about different dolls.

Thank you so much for creating this wonderful Twine. 

Amazing story about conflicted, tangled emotions. I love how the layers of the story blend together. Especially at the ending...

The music and visual art work well to enhance the writing. I especially loved how each girl had a different relationship to dolls, and how that informed their relationship to one another.

I'm happy to hear that the face worked like intended :-) I fiddled around with the timing a bit, but I think it worked out pretty well in the end.

Thank you so much for engaging with the game and leaving such a good comment. I wanted to show different aspects of what transforming to a doll might mean, and give the player the opportunity to explore those paths. I'm so glad you wanted to explore the different ways the story could go. It's such a good feeling as a game designer.

Thank you so much for your amazing comment. It means a lot to me that you engaged in the game so thoroughly.

It was interesting to explore the different paths, how the few pieces I had - the witch, the princess, the doll, the tea party and the transformation - could be combined into different facets of the same story.

The servant ending was one I hadn't planned for, but as soon as I hit upon it, it felt just right. Of course there was a way for the princess to be a doll only in function.

I loved writing the pleading as well, to show the transformation not as something bestowed externally, but as an internal longing.

Thanks again for playing the game and your very kind comment! You made my day.

Cute!

Beautiful poem, and the tactility of the fabric and other materials is amazing

I'm done, and pretty happy with how it turned out :-)

If anyone finds any spelling errors or problem with the design, please let me know!  

I love it! Cute and haunting in a good mix

I'm about halfway through and have learnt a few new tricks with Ren'Py, so things are looking good :-)

Thank you :-)

This is my first game jam so I have no idea what I'm getting into, but I'll do my best with a choice driven narrative in Ren'Py. 

Wish me luck :-)

Honestly, I would assume they have seen much worse. But you can always pick a different place. There must be someone with mail delivery within a reasonable range.

You might even find a library with an advanced enough printer that it can handle the stapling.

Delightful game. Beautiful, atmospheric and full of heart. I love the take on vampyrism as an allegory, and what really prays on young women.

A tiny typo in both the demo and the game proper: Maggie at one point early in the games says "he girls and I were wondering if you wanted to join us in the library", without the capital "T".

How cute! Mayo made me laugh at times with her antics, and Hijiri's desperate clinging to her pride also at times made her really funny. I loved to see their relationship develop, and now I'm hungry for pancakes.

My favorite part was all those little light touches of Hijiri failing to be as above it all she thought herself to be, like when she dressed up nicely for Mayo in that scene.

Great read, thanks so much.