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Controls: just your left mouse button.

A clicker poem about the heat death of the universe.

Made in Godot Engine.

Submitted to LSDJAM25 under good-hearted peer pressure. 

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This game is inspired by the dream I had on visuvavasu-thai-XI.

I suddenly felt so connected to everything, I was, everything.
And I had this thought that the end is near, its going to be over...
As I grieved the end of everything, I had this beautiful epiphany of how I must be glad that it happened at all.
I was overcome with euphoric happiness, I woke up with happy tears streaming down my face.

 - paraphrased from me recounting my experiences to a friend on discord.

live like there is a tomorrow, die like there like no death.

The poems in this game follow a structure I invented. 

It's called Cholthoranam, "chol" means word in Tamil, "thoranam" is the decorative hanging we tamils put above our doors. You've probably seen them before in a kollywood movie.

Palm leaves are cut and knot, then strung like a curtain across a doorway. They mark the entrance to a place where something happy/auspicious is happening. I wanted a poetry form that felt exactly like that, happy and handmade!

[word] [word] [word], 

[word] [word] [word]. 

[word],

[word] [word] [word] [word].

[word], [word] [word].

I also wanted the structure to be simple, to remind ourselves how language is about communication and interpretation, not strict structured grammar that commands.

I hope to expand upon this in the future and use it to adapt my old poems.

Thank you for playing. Feel free to tag me if you write a cholthoranam of your own!