It's About the Yearning Named the Winner of The Lustrous Effervescing Fontanelle of Luminous Mutable Futures Award! (+some updates)

We originally wrote It's About the Yearning for the Applied Hope Game Jam. We're so pleased that the game has received the The Lustrous Effervescing Fontanelle of Luminous Mutable Futures Award! We're honored and very excited. SadPress said about the game:

The jam had ‘hope’ in the title, but the games had all kinds of tones and moods. Sometimes it felt more like Applied Bittersweetness. Lonely Cryptid's It's About the Yearning is a string of vignettes of the dwindling days of cowhands on Mars. It’s a game about queer time. It’s also a game which invites you to worldbuild through the scarcely reliable format of the enthographic interview ... and to imagine intimate and often difficult conversations across very different worldviews and forms of lived experience.

You can read more about the award and see the other winners on the Applied Hope Jam's prize announcement. We fully recommend checking out the other entries and seeing all of the amazing work being done by Itch developers.

As part of the award we received an in-depth review from SadPress, and we've put to use some of their suggestions in an updated version of the game. We've fixed typos and made the optional nature of some content more clear.

Thanks so much to everyone who has played the game thus far!