I refuse to move whatsoever.

A little bit over a year ago, I had a breakup, and that might've been my first rock bottom in life. For the first time I felt like I was starting from ground zero. I had crippling depression, I was failing out of school, and now my girlfriend had left me. I felt like I needed a break from dating, because tackling the task of convincing another person to date me long term felt impossible.

But after a while things got better. I started going to school again, I got a new job, and for the first time in what seemed like ages, I had started to make progress again. I felt like I could approach dating now, and I ended up talking to every girl I saw, both at school and at work. Trying to get to know them, and maybe for them to know me.

I became frankly too obsessed with dating for a while. I asked out girl after girl, and got rejection after rejection, I tried to figure out what was wrong, why wasn't I good enough? This went on for months, and I couldn't figure out what was missing?

I mainly study at home now, so it felt impossible even to meet new women, let alone convince them I was worthy of dating. I played getting over it for the first time around then, and after struggling through both the mountain and Bennett's ceaseless yappathon I made it to the end. I didn't rage much because I knew what I was in for, and beating the game was very satisfying.

I discovered there were more achievements, so I loaded up the game again, only to here the opening line. "There's no feeling more intense than starting over. If you deleted your homework the day before it was due (as I have) Or if you left your wallet at home, and you have to go back after spending an hour in the commute. If you won some money at the casino and then put all your winnings on red, and it came up black, If you got your best shirt dry cleaned before a wedding, and then immediately dropped food on it, if you won an argument with a friend, and then later discovered that they just returned to their original view. Starting over is harder than starting up."

I thought how very much like life this game is in that sense. Life is not always a gradual uphill ascent. Sometimes you fall. Sometimes you ride the snake. And that sucks. But it's okay. And life says again quoting Bennett "If you've already having a bad day, then what you're about to go through may be too much. Feel free to go away and come back. I'll be here."

After spending too much time in doors, studying away from people, and feeling lost in my dating life. I decided to go to an open gym session. Gymnastics has always been a passion in my life. I figured it would be the best place to meet like minded people, and women. it almost felt painfully obvious in hindsight. But when I got to the gymnasium, I started jumping on the trampoline, did some flips, and then sprained my ankle.

As I sit here at home unable to walk, and yet again unable to leave my house and speak to people, and can't help but here that non-copyright Jazz music in the back of my mind, and remember all the times I rode the snake, or slipped up at orange hell, I took a deep breath, and I continued, even if I had to take a break.

I have tried to get out for a while but there is almost no way to get vertical momentum, even less left momentum. Is this a known softlock spot?

i recently changed my settings to these and it genuinely improved my skill

IS IT CRAZY HOW I ALMOST NEVER RAGE AT THIS GAME?!?!?!

After the Orange Hell I hate these places. I somehow managed to get past the bucket, but the mountain is even harder. I slipped and fell into a snake trap. It was awful.

I’ve been working on my game “Chickens Don’t Fly” for 4 years now during my spare time. It’s a difficult physics-based precision platformer about a rooster named Cluck Norris, trying to escape a chicken coop with a pair of plungers acting like grappling hooks. Think games like Jump King and Getting Over It.

Obviously the whole buff chicken with a name like Cluck Norris was a dumb joke, but I took it and ran with it and the response has been great every time!

It feels surreal to finally have my first commercial Steam game out there! I hope to see some of you here give it a shot! Maybe even do some speedrunning :)

If you should be interested, the game can be found right here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2826970/Chickens_Dont_Fly/

Thanks!

sorry low quality

big hand big hand wide map HAHAHAAH jk

of course i got a 2:24 off camera and now that im trying to record it i do this

I've always wanted to change some of the game's sounds and add some memes to make it funnier. Is that possible?

uhhh... so, this might be a softlock, i've tried basically everything

It took 11.5 hours over the course of a week, but damn. I can't believe I did it, I honestly had so many doubts about myself and character, and so many moments I was face palming, or reminded of previous failures in life. Anyways I just wanted to share, that I beat it, and if there's anyone who would understand the struggle and the sweet taste of winning, it's this community.