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I've never really seen anything talk about how grief warps your last memories of something, and how losing those memories is its own form of grief as well as Under a Star Called Sun does, and so beautifully simply at that.

Life is fleeting, memory even moreso. Under a Star Called Sun, is a funeral dirge, an elegy to entropy and the final moments before someone's image starts to fade. A short, and bittersweet interactive poem / lyric.

the writing in A Srar Called Sun is a bit more like a song than dialogue. a lonely song that makes no noise at the edge of space.

Fantastic Bitsy game, really enjoyed my time with it. Beautiful, simple, and sounded great! Really quick play, highly recommend.


way to get me crying in less than 10 minutes!

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𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘯𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘦’𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥

𝘪 𝘩𝘶𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮

"when an ordinary day became an extraordinary day" indeed

A game that took me 4 minutes to complete made me cry. I don't know what else I can say to sell this game apart from that.

Qual a diferença entre História e Memória? A História é uma tentativa de compreensão do passado. Seu compromisso não é com o que a memória individual ou coletiva se lembram dos eventos, mas (em tese) com como os eventos de fato ocorreram. A História é sempre socialmente construída e em constante diálogo.

A Memória, por outro lado, não quer compreender o passado: quer imortalizá-lo nas mentalidades. Seu objeto é sempre bem definido e limitado, sendo muito mais influenciada pela emoção do que pelas evidências.

A História não é de forma alguma perfeitamente objetiva e neutra, nem a Memória uma fonte absolutamente inconfiável para compreensão do passado, mas há uma tensão entre as duas. Os dois conceitos se comunicam, mas seus objetivos e as formas que se constroem são diferentes e, às vezes, conflitantes.

Entretanto, esse conflito é absolutamente necessário. A História não existe sem a Memória, sendo esta de suas principais matérias-primas; e a Memória está fadada a se apagar sem a História. O protagonista de "UNDER A STAR CALLED SUN" se encontra justamente no meio dessa encruzilhada, tentando desesperadamente imortalizar os resquícios de lembranças longínquas e tendo que se conformar com o fato de que elas, um dia, não serão nem Memória nem História.

Me and my pal Hugo gushed about this game and others in his podcast (in Spanish, though) which you can find here. https://www.patreon.com/posts/52912441

going through the motions of your day actively and with intention and thinking about them but still being unable to turn off the corner of your brain that's dedicated to holding onto a specific moment tied to your grief and going over it and over it, even as that grief becomes distant and achy and garbled rather than clear and sharp and severe like part of you wishes it would stay forever, that's a VIBE and Under A Star Called Sun GETS THAT VIBE and it gets it with sick art and sick music and a tight ass six minute runtime. artists are wild, so good at stuff

Súper emotivo, profundo y bonito. Sólo en 10 minutos de juego.

I played this game right after a friend of mine passed away and GODDAMN it hit hard.

Muy bonito. Le deseo suerte al pobre astronauta... Diré que te he echado de menos y te diré que te amo

who do you blame for
misfiling a memory
in the file cabinets
of your brain?

"and im writing this

and i know im a visual person

and it’s not like

you’ll write back

from the far edges

of outer space

but one day i’ll get there

and i’ll hug you

and i’ll say i missed you

and i’ll say i love you

until then

i check on the plants

in the greenhouse

i check for bugs

i check the moisture of the soil

i check the dust on the leaves

And when no one’s around

i hum to them"

When I discovered UNDER A STAR CALLED SUN, I was interested by its premise, and I wanted to see how they would manage to tell something meaningful in such a short amount of time. It made me tear up, it made me feel longing for so many beautiful moments that are beginning to be harder and harder to recall. In just. Seven. Minutes.

I won't beat the bush any longer than necessary, after all the experience itself is very short and doing a full-blown analysis would be overkill and spoil you of the experience. There may be games that tell similar things in a more compelling way, but this little work of art being as it is, a marvelous reflection across the stars, a beautiful poem about missing the old times, about missing old friends... And it's precious.

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who do you blame for misfiling a memory

this was beautiful

Absolutely devastating 5 minute tone poem. Played through it a couple times since the first playthrough and really can't get over how effective it is. I, too, wish my brain was better at picking which memories to retain.

jajaja que no se note que estoy cucú mental en la oficina con ganas de llorar jajaja

Beautiful reflection with a smart delivery. The music, the graphic style and the "straight to the point" concept makes this so much better.

"The memory gets corrupted with each new iteration of it"


one of the most polished bitsy games out there, really good music, short gut punch sci-fi, highly recommend it