"I knew at the time, to some extent—that I know to a much more visceral extent now—how lucky I was with every decision I made during Frog Fraction's development."
Reader, greetings to you. Please, let me confess my tale. Your timeline will be the only one to contain this artifact, unless there are other versions of myself whom have gotten the same idea. I cannot, of course, vouch for their actions. They are… it hardly matters. Forgive me; I am getting too far ahead of myself. I will try not to get bogged down in details. […]
Reader, make your decision. Travel without care and let the universe decide your fate, or plan the safer route. I cannot tell you that my way of journeying is the better way. For some of us, we do not end where we think we should. We end at a time and a place that once felt wild and infinite, and suddenly feels quite lonely, or halts unexpectedly. In that, I see no difference in how we choose.
I am leaving an artifact here, and in every timeline I visit. If Gustav should find one of these, he will know that I think of him, often.
"Part of what I wanted to do was get my friends paid, you know?" he said. "The people who helped me with the Kickstarter. Both of the people that money went to did a lot of work for me for free to make that Kickstarter happen. […] It's not just that it's going to be a better game with that money, but how about I actually give my friends a job for a year and a half?"It seems to have paid off.His favorite moment during this whole journey was when the deliberately Frog Fractions 2-focused ARG released a video where Crawford is kidnapped by time travelers and drops some floppy disks on the ground. When people found the disks, he expected they'd unlock a series of files encrypted in the now-ancient ARG format—yes, a real thing—instantly. Instead, it took six months and someone with a math degree to break into the code and figure it out.In another world, Crawford took people's money, planted a bunch of questions across the Internet, and called it a day. But he promised people a video game and so, he's made one."If I could get away with," he said, "ethically, not delivering an actual product and inevitably disappointing people… [pause] I can't tell you how often I fantasize about 'What happens if I get hit by a bus?' and it was just a mystery forever. For the world, that would be the best thing."Maybe. But Frog Fractions 2 is a pretty good consolation prize."I'm really proud of this really weird fucking piece of software I made, and I don't think I have anything to apologize for there."