This post was written mostly by me (BlueDove) in cooperation with TWhisk.
I just wanted to say thanks, and give a huge shoutout to the developer of Golden Crayon (Tunmi13) for bringing it back after 3 years, now for the 3rd time. I truely hope it stays now for longer than a few months. I can say that this game changed my life, and I wanted to share the details in this post, because I think it’s worth telling how a game, and a few songs can help to establish a relationship, and no, I am not talking about those virtual relationships that people start, stay for a few months, and leave each other because of whatever reason. This is different.
It was end of July this year. GC had just launched yet again. The chats were crowded, and there were around 30 people at a time online. At this point it’s worth mentioning that I’m German, and that there are not many Germans in this english blind community, who speak both english and german fluently. I stumbled upon a person in the english chat who had quite familiar sounding German onoffs, sung by a German singer named “Olaf der flipper”
But what he sang was quite unusual. You see, Olaf is normally a German pop or Schlager singer. He is known for love songs and in general happy songs. What he sang how ever was “Guten Tag, ich hasse Sie so sehr, ja ich hasse Sie!”, which in english means good day, I hate you so much, yeah I hate you. Acompanied by the online message that the player SpammerDuck says something really nice to all of you in German.
I was quite confused and reacted publicly to that hilarious onoff. What followed was a long conversation in public where he kept asking me if he knew me from somewhere else, because he had never seen my name anywhere before in games and was trying to find out if he knew me from any WhatsApp groups or other platforms.
That was basically our first interaction with each other, a talk about a German singer who was singing hate songs in an audio game. His interest to know who I was, however, did not fade away. We kept talking on Discord, mainly because we were trying to write songs about Golden Crayon, because now we know we both have a similar level of randomness.
Meanwhile, we talked about ourselves, our studies, hobbies, and people we both know. Apparently I was studying with a girl he once had in his class and we shared stories about our schooltimes. It was also around that time when we had our first call on discord, and shortly after we switched to whatsapp for texting. And from that point on, there was basically no day where we didn’t chat.
That was the time when we founnd out the most about each other. There was nothing that one of us liked and the other one didn’t. We were just too similar and understood each other too well to argue about things like that. At some point, we have both experienced the same kind of loss, which increased our bond even more.
Now the following paragraph was not written by me, but by TWhisk, who happens to be spammerDuck.
So after a while, we decided that we wanted to meet up in person. It was not really easy to organize, because we are both living in different parts of the country. But I, so TWhisk, decided to take the risk of geting stuck with a Deutsche Bahn train on a friday afternoon and travel to her city. Of course, a lot of things went wrong and I arrived about 2 hours later than it was originally planned. When I arrived at Doves house, I rang the doorbell. What happened? Nothing. So I rang again, but still silence. So I called Dove up and figured out that she fell asleep, but since we were so excited about finally meeting up she ran down the stairway and opened the door for me. However, she forgot the key to her flat.
We still went upstairs and tried to find a way to unlock the door, which we couldn’t, so we had to call someone for us to open the door. That worked, and then we were inside the flat, finally. I originally planned (and already paid for) a hotel room to stay in, however, we dismissed that plan pretty quickly and slept both in the same room.
Now back to blue dove writing:
On the next day, we officially got together, after I spend a night on the floor because I felt too sorry he couldn’t get to his hotel in time.
In this past few weeks, I felt like a happier person, because I know I have someone by my side who understands me, and feels the same way as I do, and all of that, thanks to golden crayon. I can’t express how greatful I feel, how happy I am now and how I hoped we would have met earlier.
Thank you, Tunmi, for deciding it’s time to bring back gc. It means alot for us. We shared this story because we want you to know what you did for us, and how much it effected us.
05.09.2026 <3
I love you 😀