hey hey,

it’s been 5 years, wow.

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https://www.instagram.com/p/DJ1-jfAMAV_/

Liadh made this awesome art on Monday for the anniversary (I’m always delighted to see more happy beautiful kasios) and shared some thoughts (included below too) so I decided to share some thoughts myself. (also I completely echo what she said about fan art; actually has anyone ever done kasio/cassiopeia cosplay?!)

(also also alex made this meme on monday and apologizes profusely for doing so)

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so, actually almost 10 years ago since me and Liadh started working together on a bunch of different ideas including the one that seemed to have the most unbending attractive gravity.

“if found, please return” came together v naturally pulling everything from the previous couple years of my life into it: old prototypes, feelings and new excitement for the future.

I was talking to someone yesterday about where the creativity is in serendipity (like william burrough’s cutup technique) and I think it’s in the deciding to stick with and keep a choice that was made for you or that just happened. a “feel decision”. me and liadh have been working together for this long not because she was the first artist I worked with, she wasn’t!, but because with her I was like yea! this is it, this is right!

at the same time, there’s been so many incredible people I’ve worked with that I really wish I could have chosen to keep working with, but was unable to, and sometimes people I would love to work with more but it just wasn’t the right time for it (I apologize to so many composers on both of these points <3 ).

many many people worked on this game and pushed it and helped it become what it is. even just on the writing it wasn’t just me and eve (who deserves buckets of credit - and ya’ll should quickly hire as a writer or producer while you still can) it was also helped by claire brankin (a lot), aido wall, char putney, chandrika narayanan-mohan, and lots of others. (and on art there was also bri chew, hyyphinette and ok ok I’ll stop here, go play the game again and reread the credits).

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