Everything up until the ending feels like an uncannily accurate depiction of what it was like being trans and a teenager in big discord communities that were my primary source of support and interaction.
really good!! the atmosphere and aesthetic were really authentic to how it felt back then, both familiar and infuriating (in a good way). i liked the story i was literally so scared when i got caught hehe. it felt uncomfortable and real and im telling everybody about this
i did accidentally softlock myself by leaving the site while a guide was still uploading. it didn't progress and cass says that i've already sent it ^^; besides that this was awesome :-]
Banger game that also correctly calls me out for enjoying trying to be a bit of a thorn in the side of story based game's side after a playthrough. Cool story, cool message (insert ogre only understand surface level themes image), and I think it may be possible to beat the game evading the knowledgecheck cheat detection to some degree; I think you can beat the game without ever actually visiting the "main" server :)
absolutely loved the atmosphere of this game! the genre of simulated desktop games is one that i feel doesn't get much attention. i enjoyed being a little sleuth in this one, the methods of hiding information were very mechanically neat.
i only got particularly confused with the dps question, no idea what happened tbh but im almost 100% certain it's a me issue.
also the ending sequence was fantastic, i always appreciate being able to understand another's perspective better, and it has really contextualized the contents of a semi recent video of yours. i.e. i had understood it, but i haven't had a similar enough experience with online communities to emotionally(?) relate i suppose, but playing through this game lets you experience it firsthand.
Been having issues where profile pictures and such aren't loading with a 403 error, and messages are reaching max call stack size causing them to not come up, hope this gets fixed soon because it's been really good so far
I haven't heard of the 'messages are reaching max call stack size causing them to not come up' problem and can't tell if it's an actual bug :skull: did you have pregame progress in the past few hours when it was bugged? i think i went through a full playthrough fine
I only started this game about 30 minutes before I posted my original comment, got to where I started getting messages from a second person and the messages just didn't show up. I looked in the console and saw a bunch of those errors in creating message elements. Also, I don't know if this is part of it, but the profile pictures were disappearing, and messages rendered in plaintext instead of html markdown formatting. I tried this on chrome and firefox, both normal and incognito.
really like what you did with Discord's UI and the story felt Very Real... i'm not sure if ever this is going to be developed further or just stay as its own thing, but if ever it does i'd be willing to play through it
small bug: i kept the dps converter/vigenere decoder open in the corner in case i needed it since closing and reopening it would download the code again. it appears and disappears during some parts of the ending cutscene. (also the buttons at the very end were unclickable; not sure if that's related or intentional?)
I had some scrapped ideas for this game that involved timestamps and time sequencing a lot more, if your plot is in that direction (or even if you wanted to send me a plot to implement) I may actually do it :frog:
wow, this is crazy. very unexpected for a confounding calendar entry. A couple of the puzzles really tripped me up, but the whole process was very enjoyable. i absolutely love the visuals in the final section, the restraints of the color palette made for some of the most beautiful imagery ive ever seen. super great work
i commented on your game already, it was great, i’m going to check out the extra puzzle or whatever you mentioned. also haha i love what you did with the comments
unrelatedly but the channel “webnovels” got me to look at the webnovel implied in the conversation again; i had looked at it before but i barely did anything with it, and now i’ve gone much further, so thanks for reintroducing me to it
I feel the need to say that the reason there are comments here despite the game being currently not public is because the CC rules specifically tell you to publish it in this pseudo-unlisted state, but you can clearly still find the game through searches/community profile, and because I have an audience already random people are here :frog:
alright I've looked at literally every profile picture I have access to and still have no idea which one has the code and then you called me stupid for trying to send a friend request like that wasn't a reasonable idea when nothing else was there
you definitely, absolutely did not look at every profile picture you had access to, I don't completely regret having 'dumb for trying to find a user that would have long changed names by now' in that text bubble :p
That being said, thank you anyway, since the hints in that section weren't really sufficient and outright skipped the part of finding it :frog: I have updated with this change as well as better memory-foreshadowing for the moment. (if you are past the hint step, it basically says the user is not in the users list, and that you should look in #welcome)
Damnit I swear I tried that but at least my stupidity helped future players. Now to enjoy reading this deep philosophical bullshit that's been forshadowed.
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Fascinating. Not sure what to make of this.
Everything up until the ending feels like an uncannily accurate depiction of what it was like being trans and a teenager in big discord communities that were my primary source of support and interaction.
In an attempt to wrap my head around the ending and finding more secrets I played the game again, fully intending to sequence break.
Ended triggering two temporally impossible cutscenes.
And now I'm wondering if there's a third one, or if they have ties to the final optional puzzle.
Icely you sure did just fundamentally alter my brain chemistry, thanks for that
:}
I spent so long trying to understand why 100% - 25% = 70%. Is this unintended?
also apparently deletemysave doesn't uninvite you from the servers which is pretty cursed
really good!! the atmosphere and aesthetic were really authentic to how it felt back then, both familiar and infuriating (in a good way). i liked the story i was literally so scared when i got caught hehe. it felt uncomfortable and real and im telling everybody about this
i did accidentally softlock myself by leaving the site while a guide was still uploading. it didn't progress and cass says that i've already sent it ^^; besides that this was awesome :-]
Banger game that also correctly calls me out for enjoying trying to be a bit of a thorn in the side of story based game's side after a playthrough. Cool story, cool message (insert ogre only understand surface level themes image), and I think it may be possible to beat the game evading the knowledgecheck cheat detection to some degree; I think you can beat the game without ever actually visiting the "main" server :)
absolutely loved the atmosphere of this game! the genre of simulated desktop games is one that i feel doesn't get much attention. i enjoyed being a little sleuth in this one, the methods of hiding information were very mechanically neat.
i only got particularly confused with the dps question, no idea what happened tbh but im almost 100% certain it's a me issue.
also the ending sequence was fantastic, i always appreciate being able to understand another's perspective better, and it has really contextualized the contents of a semi recent video of yours. i.e. i had understood it, but i haven't had a similar enough experience with online communities to emotionally(?) relate i suppose, but playing through this game lets you experience it firsthand.
so thank you icely for the great game :)))
Been having issues where profile pictures and such aren't loading with a 403 error, and messages are reaching max call stack size causing them to not come up, hope this gets fixed soon because it's been really good so far
I haven't heard of the 'messages are reaching max call stack size causing them to not come up' problem and can't tell if it's an actual bug :skull: did you have pregame progress in the past few hours when it was bugged? i think i went through a full playthrough fine
I only started this game about 30 minutes before I posted my original comment, got to where I started getting messages from a second person and the messages just didn't show up. I looked in the console and saw a bunch of those errors in creating message elements. Also, I don't know if this is part of it, but the profile pictures were disappearing, and messages rendered in plaintext instead of html markdown formatting. I tried this on chrome and firefox, both normal and incognito.
invite links/html were broken for 2-3 hours in an attempted bugfix making game unplayable lol sorry
This line is the only place in the whole game that calls Disconcordia "discord". Typo?
> I know you're in the middle of your discord server detox so maybe this is a lot to ask. But help me get them back! I would appreciate it a lot!
nah, there's a reply a little later that reminds them of the name =3
i spent 30 minutes typing "sythoblade 8750"
chess battle advanced
icely oh my gosh. you cooked hard. what the hell this is incredible
wow icely! this is awesome
really like what you did with Discord's UI and the story felt Very Real... i'm not sure if ever this is going to be developed further or just stay as its own thing, but if ever it does i'd be willing to play through it
(also dithering for the win!)
No way is this reference
small bug: i kept the dps converter/vigenere decoder open in the corner in case i needed it since closing and reopening it would download the code again. it appears and disappears during some parts of the ending cutscene. (also the buttons at the very end were unclickable; not sure if that's related or intentional?)
pushed update to fix, thank you :)
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Peak from icely :D
A neat game with interesting puzzle concepts and a strange, somber story I don't fully understand. Makes me want to do my own Discord game.
I had some scrapped ideas for this game that involved timestamps and time sequencing a lot more, if your plot is in that direction (or even if you wanted to send me a plot to implement) I may actually do it :frog:
wow, this is crazy. very unexpected for a confounding calendar entry. A couple of the puzzles really tripped me up, but the whole process was very enjoyable. i absolutely love the visuals in the final section, the restraints of the color palette made for some of the most beautiful imagery ive ever seen. super great work
thank you :}}}}
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is supposed to be an allegory to ||chess evolved online|| back in the days?
i commented on your game already, it was great, i’m going to check out the extra puzzle or whatever you mentioned. also haha i love what you did with the comments
thank you :) some even subtle things that don't have a mechanic to check revealing them have secret postgame interpretations (that i will not say) lol
unrelatedly but the channel “webnovels” got me to look at the webnovel implied in the conversation again; i had looked at it before but i barely did anything with it, and now i’ve gone much further, so thanks for reintroducing me to it
I feel the need to say that the reason there are comments here despite the game being currently not public is because the CC rules specifically tell you to publish it in this pseudo-unlisted state, but you can clearly still find the game through searches/community profile, and because I have an audience already random people are here :frog:
can't you hide games from search results though
alright I've looked at literally every profile picture I have access to and still have no idea which one has the code and then you called me stupid for trying to send a friend request like that wasn't a reasonable idea when nothing else was there
you definitely, absolutely did not look at every profile picture you had access to, I don't completely regret having 'dumb for trying to find a user that would have long changed names by now' in that text bubble :p
That being said, thank you anyway, since the hints in that section weren't really sufficient and outright skipped the part of finding it :frog: I have updated with this change as well as better memory-foreshadowing for the moment. (if you are past the hint step, it basically says the user is not in the users list, and that you should look in #welcome)
Damnit I swear I tried that but at least my stupidity helped future players. Now to enjoy reading this deep philosophical bullshit that's been forshadowed.