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Today I Die

This game is not about winning, so only read this if you are about to give up forever!

1 – grab a jellyfish and keep it away from the piranhas enough time for the word “shine” to become yellow like “die”

2 – replace the word “die” with “shine”, and “dead” for “dark”

3 – using the glowing girl, move away the clouds until you see the tip of the buried statue, and pull it up until “swim” shows up. Replace “shine” for “swim”.

4 – switch “dark” for “painful”. This part can be solved in many ways, but the easiest one is to put “shine” back and grab the bubbles that come up and build a fortress of bubbles around the girl.

5 – prevent the shadows from sinking the girl until “free” becomes green.

6 – Replace “painful” for “free”, and drag the angry girl over all the shadows

7 – Replace “shades” for “beauty”, and bunch the glowing bubbles together.

8 – When the boy comes, you can choose to go with him or ignore him. Each choice will add a different, extra line to the poem, finishing the game.

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what a beautiful game. The music is wonderful, it adds to the serenity of the underwater world. I would have liked it to be longer, and with more endings. But, the shortness also adds to how great this game is. *

Great game, very creative!

Well,this game kinda strange…but it kinda fun.Thanks for making it^^

An awesome game.

Is the girl supposed to be happy or mad to see the boy?

Got stuck between stages 5,6 and 7 when the girl dissapeared…

I read this when I couldn’t remember how to play the game the second time. I didn’t realise there were two endings. It really is a lovely game.

Awesome game, I really enjoyed it. Great job! And thanks to the unusual person making the game without ads!

Quite a lovely game you made, keep up the good work.

Awesome game, great graphics
Has the potential to be like a cult classic

Like everyone else, I think this game is AMAZING.

wow!

Amazing game man, really awesome.

Internet Mazes. Waste of time. Fucking stupid. Me go hunt/gather like you can’t.

that was cool. nice job

You won’t believe me… No one will believe me… But I somehow managed to “swim” in the “dead world” on my first playtrough (didn’t even know what I was doing). And now I can’t replicate it!!! AUGH! It must have been a bug, but still…

Beautiful…

What “clouds” on the second part? I’m confused! D:

Nevermind, I missed something. There we go!

Awesome! Now employ your skills to make something that isn’t rubbish!

Beautiful game.

This game was crap.

total crap

Well, that was nice, the “join the boy” ending made me feel warm and fuzzy. I think using this guide might have taken something out of the experience, though…

Don’t mind the imbeciles, it probably has to few explosions for them. Can’t please everyone.

This was beautiful.

Beautiful game, but I’ve found this game to have much more of an effect when listening to the music of composer Olivier Messiaen.

:::?::

that game blew my mind a little bit. Very nice game design. i’d love to see what you could do on a bigger scale. the gaming industry needs thinkers like you.

Beautiful game Got it almost without walkthrough!

Impressive game; this game is so beautiful !

awesome game!:p

bravo *applause*

I love the music… I love the graphics… I love the poem… and I love the message… but the game pissed me the hell off

ITT: Herp derp I like heavy handed symbolism.

step 5 is retardedly hard for a pointless game

step 5 is also bugged
“free” became green a cuple of times but shadows didnt stop chasing me

Those shadow chicks suck! I finally gave up. Maybe you could make them a bit slower/dumber/killable?

Beautiful and unique.

A poetry game. Loved it.

(Made it thru without walkthrough in a few minutes… step 5 wasn’t hard if you used bubbles. Perhaps it’s hard to make a game engaging for everyone while making it easy for everyone.)

thanx for that! i liked it a lot, and so wise and philosophical (?)
and the sound was very emotional, i really was afraid the moment the world turnt painfull and the girl tried to swim!

This is a nice work of art.

What I find most interesting is the player, once having started the experience, knows it’s incomplete and cannot be gratified by it, until having experienced it, at which point it is complete.

Nicely done.

Funny the people insulting the game and not being able to figure out step 5. . .

safdf stupid

Awesome. Beautiful.

Simple yet moving. An interesting way to combine interactivity, emotions, music, and words. I found it an interesting metaphor for depression.
I found it easy to keep the shadows away by surrounding the girl with the glowing spheres.

This game is absolutely beautiful, and a great game. Thank you for making this awesome game.

that was so lovely.

pro game !!!

What a beautiful game. I want you to know that, silly as it sounds, being 1:32 am where I live and given that I am now passing through a complicated moment and my life, this little gem holds a very personal meaning to me, which I guess was kind of what you setted out to accomplish in the first place. Thank you…

Saw this game on 1up. Unique game, pretty visuals/music. Very interesting concept. Kudos.

IT won’t let me play. I just get blank gray

just beautiful

Warming, subtle and beautiful. Thank you.

Awsome game!

This actually made me tear up a bit.
The simplicity and the beautiful message…

Beautiful game, i want more

Those little black bastards keep latching onto me before I can free the word free. This is too much like real depression. I feel hopeless…

Okay I used the bubbles like a forcefield. Before I was trying to trap the furies but they just went outside the map cheating bitches! I rejected the little guy b/c he was farting like crazy underwater.

I love this kind of games!

A lovely little game. I used more brain cells playing this than i did on the entire AvP game on ps3! Great work Daniel!

I AM IN LOOOOOVE!!!!!

Very beautiful, I wonder what inspired you..

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HOW GOOD!CAN’T FORGET IT!

Very interesting experience. I especially like how the meaning of the story changes depending on how you solve the puzzles. For example, you can take the passive approach with #4 and build a wall, or be more assertive and build a cage around the shades. Similarly, with #6 you can choose to either chase the shades, or you can emphasize her newfound control over them and drag them to her. If I had any complaint, it’s that it’s too short

It’s just great man! 感觉很好=。=

really amazing game… fresh breath in a deep-shit-world of today gaming!

Awesome game, beat it while listening to Radiohead’s Kid A

Awesome

Really great game!

That was… absolutely stunning

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Great game. I didn’t need the guide but it took me a while to figure out how to keep shadows off. Best way is to drag her to a corner, peel them off one by one and then move the girl away from them until its safe to drag the word. I tried putting “swim free” like 20 times until I figured out its “free world”.

ARGGGGH! I cant get passed the effing shadows!!

Amazing Game. I love it. I got this on iPod first before coming here.

This was such a fun game! It was really hard even though it was so short. I had to do some light thing and I tried to follow the steps, but they just confused me more, so I figured it out on my own. There should be a sequel!

Thank you. You have opened my eyes.

Thanks for having the option to ignore the boy.

How do you play this game. I just have a picture. The boy being pulled down. Nothing happens

what a gruesome game… but I’d like to try it for a change. hope it’s not really addictive;)

its easier when trying to avoid the shadows, to switch to shine, collect the bubbles, and then wall all of the shadows in instead of walling them away from the girl

I literally cried at the end. The music was absolutely stunning, my kudos to Hernan for a job well done on that end. And the concept of this game is just breathtaking. Excellent job Daniel. I just broke up with my girlfriend, and I chose not to follow the person that came at the end. The ending poem (which I won’t post here as a spoiler) brought tears to my eyes.

Awesome game . I was surprised at how it touched me (I jumped in the painful world while she was swimming when the music suddenly lunged out at me). Extra Credits sent me!

I wept. Thank you.

A tad too hard for me to switch the Free and Painful, but it’s pretty cool, and yes you need to thank Extra Credits

its fucking awnsome

how do you go with him??

awesome games, i was stuck on the shadow bit but i figured out you can surround yourself with bubbles and they can’t get you!

Grr. I can’t get past the stupid shadows. I like this game, but what sense does it make to have them still be able to snatch you when “free” becomes green?

what a fucking stupid game

It was interesting until 5 at which point it became fiddly and tedious and completely unfun.

Managed to get past stage 5. Trap them in the bubbles so that they can’t chase you. Happy now?

I just made a bubble wall around myself and they couldn’t get through it.

Loved it.

I Really Enjoy This Game! It Inspires Me To be ME! Keep It Up!!

A beautiful game indeed. I only wish there were more meaningful games such as this. This reminds me of Colour My Heart as well. Keep up the good work. You have my thanks for creating such a great game.

What a fucktarded psedo-philosophic piece of mind-shit.

Great games！I like them！

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