Tsuneko made a game recently called Tsuneko Apple, and Sylvie appears in the game if you collect enough apples.
There's also a special thanks post where Tsuneko thanks various friends and talks about discovering my games.
When I first came across Sylvie's work, I played games on Itch io only to play them and not to give feedback to the author.
I had a bit of low self-esteem, and I was afraid that if I wrote my impressions, people would think I was offensive, like ‘a weird blue cat from Japan is writing some kind of impressions haha’.
In the meantime, I liked Sylvie's work, and as I played many of her works, Sylvie found one of my videos and commented on it.
She saw my playing scenery and was pleased with my reaction to her enjoyable playing, which made me happy too.
From then on, I thought that maybe my play scenes were valuable to the authors, so I started to leave my impressions and a video of the streaming video I played in the comments.
She was also the one who inspired me to do so.
I'm also grateful to Elephantasy and Void Stranger, which I really enjoyed, because I might not have played them without her.
Thank you Sylvie!
Lately, I've sometimes been depressed and I want to die or disappear. My therapist encouraged me to build a better support network. Nearly all my friends are people who I only interact with online, and we are mutuals on social medias but rarely have one-on-one conversations. I tend to isolate myself from the world and I don't usually feel comfortable getting involved in communities. I am a really lonely person and it usually doesn't bother me because I am used to it.
When I played Tsuneko Apple, and I saw pictures of Sylvie that Tsuneko drew, I realized that I am important to Tsuneko and to many others, and that my work is meaningful to people. And then I realized why it is important to have friends and connect with them, even though I'm used to being alone, and I can handle being alone most of the time. Seeing cute Sylvie art appear and being reminded that people care about me made me want to keep being alive. Not just a feeling of obligation, but a real desire to live.
I need to keep reaching out to others so I can make friends and feel happy about being alive. Right now, I rely too much on connecting to people through my game works. Even though this has led to a lot of beautiful things, it means that if I get stuck in a creative rut, then I can't speak to anyone and I lose my reasons to live.
I don't really know how to talk to people normally but I have to figure it out somehow.
