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(Help, idk how to use this site and I'm too scared to ask)


AirGong
@AirGong

Air Gong presents a short catharsis built in Decker for MenHera VN Jam 2024:

Self-Portrait, Vomit on Concrete

It's the night after Kate's birthday, and she's feeling the regret in her stomach. It's the perfect day to stay inside and let her girlfriend Sarah nurse her back to health- if only she didn't have therapy to go to. As the day drags onward, Kate will struggle against her inner fears while desperately clinging to the one thing that keeps her anchored: love.

Featuring:

  • A kinetic, emotional story of around 4K words
  • Wiggly drawings and dithered photographs
  • Several panic attacks and multiple scenes of vomiting
  • Therapy
  • And more!

Staff:

  • Photography, illustrations, programming and writing by Crystal DeForest
  • Art assistance by Sadie DeForest
  • Edited and playtested by Alexandra Ferm (Alexandra IDV)
  • WigglyPaint app and Decker engine by Internet Janitor
  • All sound CC0 public domain

Brisket
@Brisket

So... I've released another solo work! This one is... admittedly pretty dark at times. And I'm not going to lie, partially autobiographical. It's largely based off a really bad day I had. A day that thankfully got a lot better at the end! But it affected me a great deal and stuck in my memory. When I saw about the MenHera VN Jam, I thought it would be the perfect chance to write about what I went through, a bit of my own struggles with mental health. I just wanted to make something very honest, I guess. Not that what I made before wasn't, but something more based on reality.

It wasn't easy to write, but I did my best to convey the sort of anxiety I struggle with most often here. I'm honestly really nervous about this release, but in the end I guess I just... felt like I had to make this.

I wanna reassure everyone also; I'm okay! I'm doing well. Life's hard sometimes but love's carrying me through! ❤️ My next projects are going to be much lighter in tone! Sadie and I got some stuff we've been writing together that I'm really excited about! In the meantime, if you feel like you can handle handle some heavier subject matter, I hope you give this a try!


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Hehe, it's really intuitive to use! Sadie and I got something really fun planned that we're going to build in Decker too!

The two biggest challenges were audio and the Wigglypaint widgets. Audio just because of how Decker is limited to 10 second clips at a time, but this constraint isn't necessarily a bad thing! It forced me to get creative with my background noise, and definitely created a distinctive soundscape for the title. With regards to the Wigglypaint assets, I wish I could make the backgrounds to them transparent, since they end up being inside white blocks. But in it's own way, I found myself charmed by that!

I'm really excited to make more things using Decker! ^^

Ah, I was wondering about that! There actually is a way to create semi-transparent sprites with wigglypaint: in the "Options" screen, enable "Transparency Mask". This will turn the background of your drawing transparent and give you an extra marker for drawing with "opaque white":
demo of wigglypaint transparency mask mode

So, uh, consider your wish granted?

Oh wow, I had no idea about that! That's fantastic! I could have made it a bit more elegant looking if I had known before, but there's not much to be done about it now 😅 This will come in handy for future projects though! Thanks so much for showing me!

hey this was really good! i liked the writing about the feeling of not knowing, and never being able to know. it's scary, and the only thing to do about it is get over that it's still scary, and hold on to what you do know (like love).

put this into [https://rot13.com/] if you want to hear me share a dark personal experience related to alcohol, and don't if you don't :p

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Thank you for sharing this with me. <3 I'm glad that you're doing better. And I'm happy that you were able to connect with the writing about uncertainty. Thank you for reading my work again! ^^