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jononono 04 Mar 2022 16:04

Good concept. Great execution! +1

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JasonMakesManhattens 05 Mar 2022 00:39

Lightly, but legitimately, unsettling. Like looking down the hallway of your childhood home when you were home alone past midnight.

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Such is life in the Soviet Union

Xebrax124 17 Apr 2022 21:51

Would be interesting if the article went further into talking about how the "weather patterns reflect your emotional state", but it may ruin the simplicity. +1

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Vizlox 08 Aug 2022 05:24

I'm conflicted on this article. I really like the beginning, but the article quickly trails off into a lot of random ideas that I do not find very interesting, personally. I love the idea of a level that pretends to be your real home, and it's genuinely scary, but I think this article fails to deliver on the premise.

The emotional state thing feels out of place to me, and the weather stuff is just not very interesting. Also, I think the lengthy paragraph about the voids is pretty boring.

Here's an idea: instead of being a perfect replica of your home before you left it, it would instead be a perfect replica of how you remember it. At first, you wouldn't be able to tell it's fake. But over time you would realize that there's things that are off. Memories are inaccurate, and tend to be blurred together with similar memories. So this level would be like a weird combination of several different versions of your house from over the years, based on your memories.

Perhaps the memories would get more distorted the longer you stay, and the house would become nightmarish.

Re: -1

Avathy 17 Aug 2022 07:17

i appreciate the criticism, even if it is partially subjective.
the main focus and setting is the replica of your home, but i wanted to focus more on what happens when you begin to realize that it's not baseline.

i do, however, very much like the idea of it being based off of how you remember it, with inaccuracies and strange visual errors that are normally only visible within a mindscape of what you can imagine and visualize. i do wonder how that would affect wanderers with aphantasia.

if i ever decide to go back and touch this up, i will consider that change and rearranging the main focus of the article.

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Avathy