𝒾 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝒻𝒾𝓍 𝒽𝒾𝓂

- 💜no guyrl* u probably can't💜

- but with new knowledge i was able to finally take the time (2 days, to be precise) to fix most issues in wurmkitschitsch nr. 1!!!

i didn't forgot about this being a series tho, and i also have collected quite some dreams since this release about 3 years ago to be turned into new ludic things... but there also are some really complicated dreams i always shy away from a bit 👉👈 so, in case of anyone waiting (with me 🥺): bear with me pls, i'm not a person who abandons projects, and there definitely will be other parts in the future. i'm actually rarely ever dreaming anything (that I remember), which contributes to this unfortunately being a slow project.  and if AAA-studios are allowed to publish unfinished stuff they get payed for, individual unpaid artist-developers like me are allowed to not finish things immediately as well.

some small things have changed, and i always tried both to be close(r) to the actual dreams that i remember, and also at the same time staying true to the 2021 game jam version and not changing major things.

• the most important things to me were the ability to restart the game (the buttons on the credits-overlay now work) as intended, and also the now fixed (in)visibility of the mouse cursors to click in dream scenes nr. 4 and 7
• while working on the project for the pathos theatre munich in 2022, i did a little testing/showcase session with nicole collignon; while playing this one we noticed that one can get stuck on the right side of "the elevator" in scene nr. 5, where i now added a big collider to prevent that. during the "licking" scene nr. 4 i also had the urge to say "lick him!" while playtest-showcasing, and now added some text that says exactly that, written in comic sans ms.
• generally, scene nr. 5 changed a bit: i made the lighting way darker and deepended the starting location in order to come way more closer to my actual dream. for the replayability i added an additional scene to unlock, and also added some environmental elements for those gameplay reasons here.
• in scene 2 i added kinda like a cave/mountain thing that the player steps out of in the beginning. again, this is now way closer to my actual dream back then.
• the same goes for the added completely black skybox in scene 3 in stead of the more provisionally wireframe-sky that i also used in Messages of Being Ghosted
• in scene nr. 4, where one licks the he/him person (sounds weird to describe, but yeah), i adjusted the hair color into a blond tone to again come closer to the actual dream
• i generally adjusted the lighting a bit in some scenes
• in scene nr. 10 i added a counter and the ability to collect the money and dynamite - this doesn't serve any gameplay purpose, but if i remember correctly, i wanted to implement this back then too. i would love to fact-check this, but due to my document from back then having been destroyed in a terrible hard drive accident in 2022, i unfortunately cannot.

i now consider this first part finished. interestingly, while watching some videos about the original lsd dream emulator game over the past years, i noticed that my game actually unintentionally comes strangely close to some of the mechanics of that. i still to this day never played the original game, but have since watched some video discussing it. like recently dungeon chill's video about the dream diary/literary text that lsd dream emulator was based on, which got me thinking of actually writing down the dreams as a dream-diary-like text, and then providing this text to this and the possible future games of this series. i think, this would be quite nice.

thanks for reading this little text, and, considering that wurmkitschitsch has surprisingly been one of my most downloaded game things as of now, thanks for experiencing it, too.

sleep well, and may you have weird dreams.