hi! droqen here. desert-archive is now offline. you missed it!
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here are all of everyone's thoughts from when desert-archive was online, in order of their posting.
thank you all for playing and sharing <3
i flew in to the sun
so beautiful.... i love platformer
from sylvie
omg this was so good 

single powerup metroidvania

absolutely a poem/haiku game

I had 2 A-HA moments and felt like a freaking genius. You remain my fave designer. Jimmy Joe
Hello, it was very enjoyable. Felt good to build momentum on walls. The warps inside walls made it seem like there would be more secrets!
Thank you.
- Fachewa
deeply in love with the tiny frog
I liked zipping up the walls! whee!
hi droquen! I liked figuring out the upwards wall sliding, and the way the background of the player sprite stays the same color when underground

-hazel
Neat! Like how messed up the little guy is -Joy
I don't feel like I understand. I don't feel like I'm supposed to understand. Some floors have side rooms, and they loop on themselves, and you can get yourself in a wall but you can't do much from there? It feels like I could understand, yet the mysteries are the point. I'm supposed to want to know more than I can know. Very approachable game. @GreytideSkye
the movement felt v. good! surprisingly similar to a super metroid hack i played recently, tour of italy. i like the sun.
-gate
Very pleasant !
°1ivier
I should've been working but I played this instead. -kat
I stood around the fire - Daniel
very strange wall sliding -YinYin
elegant
it was cool! I liked realising I could climb the walls after I found the thing at the bottom (or could I always do that?) and realising I could fly by flapping back and forth once I got in the sky (or could I always do that?) the background changing colour also worked really well I think. 

thanks
Very cool!
-Luigisopa
it pretty good
pretty cool and unexpected, not sure if i missed some secrets though
really cool!
Worlds shortest metroidvania
clovelt
I'm just horrid at controlling the sliding frog but I love them. I was melancholy when it got to the sun jewel but I wish it well. -chillmill
Im bit high so idk how real it is but the realisation of the wallsliding mechanics kicked in so smooth and discovering the next area after u use it to get out of the cave also perfect. Veri nice

Franek
beautiful, love the colors
It took a while to get used to the movement and certain areas were hard to enter due to the hitbox but overall lovely. Spent a while trying to read the text, oof. 
really loved it! cool style and mechanic
Super cool!
I thought nothing of it after falling in the deepest pit in 10 seconds, I was about to leave when I found the wall-speeding thing!
The experimenting to get out of the black area followed by that weird exploration that keeps looping around even inside walls, then that "what now?" moment before realizing you can just shoot for the sky... I liked it, from my run it felt like playing an ultra-compressed mini metroid-like.
Now I wonder if we had the ability to climb walls from the start or if we obtain it only by getting to the deepest part, because I fell all the way down SO quickly ahah
Anyway, great stuff o/
-Teo Chhim
Not sure what it meant, but it was fun to find out the mechanics by trial and error!
- José 'Zarc' Castanheira
it was cool! i thought i was supposed to do more with clipping through the walls one screen over, but apparently that wasn't necessary
beautiful and good
-jw
Really good mechanic! :)
Fun main mechanic
Weird and beautiful as always :>
Pretty cool, but i had no idea when i would loop the screen or go to a new screen.
Its a cool game with very nice ideas but sometimes i felt frustrated trying to do what i wanted and falling off to the bottom of the pit. I'll check your other games!
pretty weird, a bit forgettable, doesn't tell me much
Fure
I liked it!
really cool!
Zinovoy
Lovely!
really liked this one :)
- joey
I thought it was good. Enjoyed blur. Did not try very hard to read the prose. Enjoyed wall riding on clouds. Great game pleased to play.
xx Gurn group
doug!
bscit
I didn't notice what the flame did at first, and I thought the different movement was because of the background decorations.
However, once I restarted the game and realized what the flame did, everything fell into place.
Getting between one-block wide areas can be a bit difficult.
Great job : )
very fun!! i loved how you never know if the experience has exactly *ended*. it makes conitnuing onwards more intrinsically motivated in some way
I've always wanted to do that!
posshydra. thanks for creating games
THE SUN
It was interesting! TBH I don't 100% know how it works at the end, but it is intriguing. Thanks for making it!

- Francois
i made it to the sun
beautiful
I liked figuring out the momentum of the wall climb! - Noyb
the sun ate me again. super mario bros 3 prequel. can't wait to throw a turtle shell at this jerk.
it sure is hard to read those words. fun to go upwards! :D — @jseakle
very cool :)
Lade1rex
nyooom
Neat!!!
phew did it in the last hour