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An experimental game where you play with your emotions, seeing if you use words to escape from a feeling. While exploring fear, your relationship to words, and the emotional effect they have on you, discover what happens when you understand that the word is never the thing.
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The book for The Word Is Not The Thing is now available. It’s named The Word Is Not The Thing: A Book About The Game. Simple. It’s available as a free PDF through itch.io. You can get it here: https://mavenmob.itch.io/the-word-is-not-the-thing-book The paperba…
All versions of The Word Is Not The Thing are now available. I was able to get the Android version up but only used the emulator for testing. Maybe that will be okay. Maybe not. I've been working on the book for The Word Is Not The Thing. It's "a book about th…
I had a chance to finish The Word Is Not The Thing. The past two months have been a little bit busy, with packing, planning, moving, and settling in, yet again. This time I moved across Canada, by driving, and decided to set up for now in Montreal, and go from…
I'm working on fixing all the little things and getting The Word Is Not The Thing out as soon as I can. After completing the dialogue and soundtrack, I finished up all the posters and their associated words, with a few I still intend to fix up. Also, I added a…