Emily Sondering
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543 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 18 Sep
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I think one really awesome moment in my development is my game was showcased in the OTK Games Expo, which is run by that popular streamer organization, OTK. And so for that, I actually got to come in person and answer questions about my game. And I think there were about 50 games that were showcased. And at the end, they had...
five developers win $10,000 and then the top voted game would win a custom PC. And I won the $10,000 and the custom PC. What? What?
I was like, whoa.
Yeah, and they would decorate it with the art of Lily's World XD. I haven't gotten it in the mail yet, but I hear it's coming.
About eight months, which is crazy to even think that it's been that long.
There's also so much left to go.
yeah so the idea for it came out of watching horror youtubers like what happened to reddit user r slash da da da or like the creepiest dark mystery and i always had this idea what if you were the person investigating that mystery for the first time or what if you were the subject of that mystery and that's what really spurred the idea of lily's world xd you find this young girl's computer and
At first, everything seems normal. It's very girly. It almost has like a kitschy aesthetic. You talk to her crush. You learn the inside jokes with her best friend. But eventually, you find messages addressed to you, the player. So it has fourth wall breaks. And you really dive deeply into this story about Lily's life and what has happened to her. I would say...
To compare it to any similar media, if you like the substance, you would definitely like Lily's World XD. It talks a lot about beauty standards, growing up, teenage angst, being chronically online. It is definitely a weird game, but if you're down to get weird, you should play it.
Yes, I actually am. I have been compared to that game. I've played both games, by the way, and I enjoyed both. I would say that game was not the main inspiration game, but I really do like that. If I were to point to a main inspiration game, it's probably either Simulacra or Emily is Away. Ironically, I know the game is called my name.
Simulacra is a horror game that takes place inside a phone, and Emily is Away is a narrative game that takes place entirely inside of AIM.
Yeah, I would definitely say that every game I've ever made in my life is a self-insert for myself. And in Lily's World XE, I guess it is a literal self-insert because my face is in it. But it's also a metaphorical self-insert. So, for example, you know, Lily talks about things that she liked in the early 2000s. And those are all things that I also liked. She talked about insecurities.
Those are the insecurities I had when I was a teenager. For me it was really important to actually put myself into Lily both like physically and mentally because You know, when I was a teenager, I felt very misunderstood. I felt othered. I felt I don't know. I just I never always fit in.
And I think that that's what I want this game to be, to have teenagers play it and feel like it's OK to be themselves. It's OK to have weird niche interests and it's OK to not look a certain way.
when i guess to get a bit deep here i grew up in a mostly white area and i was definitely made fun of for looking asian i felt super ugly because i was asian and it wasn't until college i realized like oh wait i'm not ugly i just people were just racist yeah um and
That is a very similar struggle that Lily goes into as in like not feeling beautiful, feeling these societal pressures that she has to look a certain way. And the game is about like strong female friendship and valuing oneself outside of just appearance. That's why it's very similar to The Substance if you've seen that movie.
Yeah, well, I was really excited to recreate an early 2000s internet game. I know it's very ironic, but I actually do not enjoy the internet now. I am a content creator, but I don't like Instagram. I don't like TikTok. I don't like Twitter. I feel like all these social medias are becoming very homogenized. And now when you post on social media, it feels more like you're promoting something.
I mean, hello, I am the biggest perpetrator of it. I am that. And it's less about just expressing yourself. And I feel like in the early 2000s, people would just post to post. They would overshare about their lives because they didn't care about stranger danger. They would share their art, their poetry, and they didn't care if it got a lot of likes or views. And I find that...
really pure and that's what i want to recreate in my game so you know in my game there's old forums you know she has a blog that you can read and it just feels really authentic versus i feel like the internet now is just so perfectly curated
Short answer, I don't. I'm just nervous all the time. Actually, so a couple of friends came over last night and one of my friends is like a professional coder. So I was asking her how to approach this coding problem in my game. And so we started playing it. And then I realized that there was a bug that I've never seen before. And I freaked out.
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