Every Day, Once A Day

I keep coming back to this game, it's amazing, it doesn't take itself seriously, and that creates for some silly interpretations and jokes from me, I also love the once a day mechanic, gives me a reason to keep coming back instead of just leaving for months on end, all in all,  amazing game, very addictive, keep working on it, happy escaping!

Just wanted to say that I love the game! 

Saw a lot of people ribbing on it being some version of worthless and/or unplayable due to being a "once a day" thing, but I can't find it in myself to agree. It's thought-provoking, humorous, reflective, self-aware, and on the right side of pretentious. I feel no pressure to keep playing out of fear of missing anything or losing a streak, instead the game stands for itself to keep me invested and coming back each day. I don't even keep the tab open in the background between days, and yet remember to check in every day!

I'm a bit "stuck" at the moment (gathering daily visions), but I fully blame myself for speed running the rest up to that point. I trust the process and am happily awaiting the next turn in the game!

Keep going, and I'm happy to check out any past and/or future projects as well as soon as I have the time!

I really love this game. I have been playing monday-friday while at work since march, and it has made things a little better. I get to have a little reflection, a little break from the grind, and I never feel pressure. 

I am at a point where I feel a little stuck, but I am kind of trusting the process and doing what I can while I play and enjoying the ride!

Just a reminder to all people dwelling on "did I really give myself a gift today?" A gift can be as simple as getting a coffee, getting yourself some cute clothes, or even eating your favorite food, a gift doesn't have to be special, heck it doesn't even have to be memorable, it's just something that makes you smile or happy

This game has a reserved space in my heart. I lost my progress cuz i forgot to export the save xd, but i realized my present today was playing for the first time again (and now is easier thanks to the new mechanic!). Thank you for this project, keep it up!!

(Sorry for any typo, cheers from Brazil!)

Real Wheekpig hours

Hey Effie, leaving a wee comment because I love the concept.

For me, a self-gift is very, very hard right now, as it is for many people. Not because the world's a dark place - it is, but also it's perspective: where there's dark there's also light, but because I don't have the time or the energy for it. 

I'm in Ukraine, living with ME or long covid, call it what you will, and through the exhaustion tonight I have to take a journey into the wilds of the country to deliver things to those who need them. Perhaps my gift to myself is to be of use, and what else is there that says we *belong* in this world, that we're *part* of this world than being of use to others.

Thank you for creating this space of self-reflection, and allowing me to give myself this gift of perspective.

Turns out that giving myself a gift was easier than I thought! :)

Because you seem like the type of artist who'd appreciate it, and because I had a strange feeling like the game wanted to hear my thoughts but had no place to receive it, I've decided to write my thought process thinking over this game's question.

What I thought is, I'm not sure if I know how to give myself a present like that. As an adult, if I want something, I can take steps to acquire it, and I often do. These things seem nice but often mundane, so to call it a present doesn't really seem right. And if it's something I do daily, could it really be that special?

But then, the prompt doesn't say that it has to be 'special', only that it has to be a present. It seems that a present should be something that makes me happy, but is it so easy to figure out what would make me happy? Would a new shirt, or a cup of a nice drink, make me happy? Perhaps marginally, but I so often experience those kinds of things with little thought, so that it's hard for me to think of them as presents, really.

So I started to think that even if a present isn't special, it should at least be something different from what I usually do, at least a little bit. So then, maybe a present is something that makes the day worth remembering. It would of course be an impossible goal to do that every day, none of us manage to do something so memorable that it's worth thinking back on every single day, I'm not even sure our brains are capable of that. But don't we each, after all, wake up at least hoping that we do something to make this day worth remembering in the future, rather than fading almost immediately into a blank space on a calendar?

It was hard to really think of something I could do on the spur of the moment that would satisfy that condition. Perhaps I'd set kind of a high bar for myself there. But it occurred to me suddenly, that perhaps the comment I was composing in my head was itself a kind of present. To self-indulgently dump my stream of consciousness to a total stranger and hope that, as an artist like myself, they would appreciate the feedback. So, of course at that point I had to commit to actually writing it.

I don't know if I'll be back tomorrow, but engaging with this definitely gave me something interesting to chew on, so I'm glad that I took a look.

Maybe you'll see me again tomorrow =)