I checked some of your itch reviews and found it very funny that someone complained about the adding phrases midway when I praised it. Different strokes for different folks!

“H” doesn’t work, still stuck. Firefox browser on Mac.

Finished, what an adorable little game. Short, too. I have a lot of long games I’m juggling so it just feels good to have a game I can say I just completed.

The font you used for things outside the text box was cute! I think the pictured information bar with the numbers is the only place it doesn’t really work. Those are longer words and a lot of text to read for that quirky font, not nearly as fast to read as the Chop Wood, Study, Fish, and Menu buttons.

Your main character art is adorable. But these little guys caught my attention too. Aww!

At first I thought “okay, he’s eating only fish? Wouldn’t that get boring for him?” (I say, as someone who eats rice daily and loves it, albeit I’m no fish fan so I’m probably not aware of the diversity of his culinary options.) Just now, I realized part of his wizard hat is designed to look like a fish. Oh. Okay. That makes sense.

I liked the little concentration minigame, and just when I thought I’d mastered it and was maybe getting tired of it you added new phrases to find, that I think were added midway through the level, which was a very cool move that resparked my interest and made me not bored with it again. I only wish that when you think you have found everything, you can click to end the level: I spent a bit of time clicking off the game and typing stuff here in this lil review/feedback waiting for the timer to bleed down. Somehow I feel I could hand this game to a 7 year old to try to teach them about decision-making in the face of uncertainty, and about the very very basics of how you are supposed to concentrate to learn on stuff (different and more advanced strategies become necessary with different problems or health conditions). I don’t mean that as an insult, it’s just a cute friendly game that happens to be child-appropriate and to have at least a mild attempt at good messaging about focus and concentration.

Nice job to the team, and you for programming!

Finally, I should probably recommend posting on !cozygames@lemmy.world

Started playing, it’s adorable. (Stat raisers are enjoyable and magic is always a good lure to make me try a game.) Music feels familiar somehow.

History > Return on browser just leaves the game totally unplayable. No more UI.

Might want to crosspost to !Bside@fedia.io too.

Saw someone promoting Lemmy Federate again, something they said in their promotion made me wonder:

What happens if a user is the first to follow a community, so their instance’s bot unsubscribes, and then the user unsubscribes?

I used to read a wider spread of genres, but I definitely seem to have consolidated towards shoujosei, and as far as I have noticed you are the only one posting that here. I’m a lot more of a “broad tastes” person outside of anime and manga.

Another series to toss on my to-read list. This would normally be a “click and read immediately!” but I find myself with more things that must be done in real life nowadays :(

I ought to mention I’m pretty lucky that one of the active !manga@ani.social posters, aka OP, shares my tastes in manga :P Thanks again!

Wonder if any of them have actual recipes you can try out in real life, I have recently started getting into cooking. Food Wars is on my to watch/read list.

I guess I am just used to seeing very negative interactions online, especially from two opposing positions, and like to make it extra super clear I’m not trying to be an asshole to you or shit on you, given just how many times I’ve seen “I disagree” expressed alongside insults, or at least an aggressive tone even if there’s no explicit name calling. Call it the pendulum swinging too hard the other way as backlash from it, and a product of me desperately trying to ensure I’m not being misunderstood (it happens!). Thaanks for the details!

I feel like you also have a bit of an advantage because people who don’t really care about lemmy might not care about an address like lemmy.zip, but crazypeople.online gets attention, as would ani.social from anime enjoyers like myself.

Thanks for your work on ani.social :) and probably the rest of the Fediverse, I think I have seen you on my many, many Elevator7009 alts including the dead Kbin ones.

Good to see crazypeople.online still having steady growth.

These benefits are honestly things that do not enhance my personal experience, but I hope others find them useful. I’m probably forever going to be the “not for me but the community has outvoted me so I guess I can let it exist without complaint for the common good even if I personally don’t like it” guy. Thank you for your explanation. You might want to put these benefits somewhere on the Lemmy Federate project sites so people can learn about them.

for almost every community

Do you have to sign a community up to have it put on Lemmy Federate, or is everyone’s community glommed up regardless of whether it was signed up for it? How does this work? I want to know how it works, all the things an admin needs to know, or maybe a mod, not just a list of benefits.

Again, thank you for engaging with me, I realize my questions and bias against it are probably seeping through and making me appear more hostile to you than I am. I don’t really like the tool but I notice a lot of others do and you did put it forward and, I think, create it with good intentions for the Fediverse, and I (have not contributed any code to the Fediverse’s wellbeing) thank you for that.

Thanks for bringing this up, I wouldn’t have thought of that one myself at all!

Since you are the creator, could you point me to learn how it works besides “now every post from communities signed up will show up on your instance?”

I’ll also admit part of my prejudice is because I’ll never touch All with a ten foot stick, so I end up not experiencing any benefit personally, and I do not mind checking out communities on their instance if they seem to have no posts on mine.

Thanks for replying civilly by the way, and not just flipping out on me for my position on lemmy-federate. I am not sure I’d have the same grace in your position, which is why I’m incredibly careful about putting things I make out there online in public lol.

Yeah, I was holding off because I’m still compiling the list lol, that is why I only ever popped it in that comment and not in a new thread yet. Want to find gaming genre communities that aren’t just my personal Subscribed list to add, that feels selfish otherwise

There are some people I have noticed just screaming into the void and I somehow stumbled on their community by chance. If I have any interest I follow and try to post too, and even if I don’t have interest I at least toss them a quick “I see you, community building is hard, good luck!” message. I cannot lift up every community by myself, but I can at least try to help a bit with anything I fall into that I have at least a mild interest in.

Somehow !adventuregames@lemm.ee has also absorbed puzzle games there. Not where I’d think to look but okay.

If you made a puzzle game community I’d totally follow and post whenever I see one.

Sadly I do not really engage with video essays because… ugh, video, I’d rather read an article. Shame, because I wish I could say “I’ll engage with this high quality content!” but truth is I have some I reject on personal tastes too. But I promise there are people who will, even if it is only a few. Speaking as someone trucking on with some communities of like… one other person, and I am lucky to have even gotten them because I was screaming at the void for awhile now.

lol I have been trying to compile a list of all active video game genre communities to release here at some point, thanks for helping me with some I did not know of, here’s what I had so far

• !adventuregames@lemm.ee (also has puzzle and interactive fiction)
• !automationgames@lemmy.zip (replaces dead feddit.de community)
• !citybuilders@sh.itjust.works
• !cozygames@lemmy.world (replaces dead feddit.de community)
• !crpg@lemmy.world
• !dailygames@lemmy.zip (for quick once-a-day web games like Wordle)
• !incremental_games@incremental.social
• !jrpg@lemmy.zip and !jrpg@lemmy.world
• !lifesimulation@lemmy.world
• !otomegames@ani.socialo
• !rhythmgames@lemm.ee
• !shmups@lemmus.org
• !soulslike@lemmy.zip
• !tycoon@lemmy.world
• !visualnovels@ani.social

I do not play that much gacha and only hear stuff, so thanks for telling me that that is actually normal and not revolutionary—the way I hear it told is you have to have that five star SSR unit to clear some gameplay content or whatever.

I know myself. I’m very good at getting my time sucked from me, but my actual money? I’m extremely stingy with that when it comes to media given my very picky tastes (I’ll express interest in lots but in the end I only bother to actually pop for a few things) and the huge amount of media out there, even moreso when it involves paying for MTX. I think I’ve spent maybe $20.00 over 15 years on any game with MTX total. Paying for microtransactions, especially in-game currency that gets used to roll the virtual dice (instead of to make a 100% guaranteed purchase of something), makes me feel filthy in a way buying a whole new game or buying a guaranteed thing does not, especially because I learned about the gambling thing at a very young age. (I did spend $5.00 on in-game currency once, do not regret it but will never do it again.) And because I had the privilege of education about tactics used both in lootboxes and regular gambling at a young age, I always looked down on it before I ever tried it. I never will try real gambling, although I did eventually try games with lootbox mechanics. I still have my distaste for that monetization model, I’ll generally avoid most games with it, but because those two deliver me specific things I want in a way where I do not feel any pressure to spend money, I continue to play. Thank you for your concern, though. I understand being opposed to that monetization model. It’s not where I draw my line in the sand but I do understand others drawing it there.

I also played a ton of F2P with premium currency as a little kid just because they hadn’t all implemented a way to defeat just shifting forward timers. I did have to put in extra effort but in return I earned premium currency or progressed through the game faster than I was “supposed to” without paying real money to get that faster advancement. So that probably informs my willingness to go near the gross transactions with video games but not in real life gambling.

Nah, this is cool information to know. I might be East Asian but I have never been hit by discrimination in my life and, naturally, as a US citizen who does not really travel, I have a very US-centric view and do not always know how race/ethnic relations go down in other countries. Thanks for the lesson!