Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it! The artist metalmiku really did pour her artistic skills creating the atmospheric art, so she appreciates the feedback, and I´m glad you liked the story and that Mr.Cat has a fan😸

And indeed, there is so much you can insert in title screens and openings in games, since they usually make more sense AFTER playing the game : D 

Oh wow, thank you! I do really enjoy when game mechanics are an integral part of the narrative, so that was my driving motivation designing the nerves-mechanic. My inner audiophile smiles while reading comments about the sfx/music, it's sweet to see the curation and placements of music/sfx resonate with players : ) 

I think on the last days of game jam, the artist told me that “I´m doing way more art than I initially planned (o_o;)”, I have known her long enough to say she's passionate about what she does and works like a frigging machine (take that AI!). 

And indeed, the story was affected by the time constraints and my developing writing skills, I did have to tell myself mid-writing “Ester, you´re not writing a gothic novel, this is a game jam, think about pulp fiction!”, so this kind of feedback helps to give me perspective to evaluate my own writing, thank you! 

...and on expanding the game, I do really have to automate my game balancing. I made a manual chart to make sure the nerve mechanic is a balanced and a thoughtful part of the narrative, and oh my, it looks like a spider's web even when the game is short^^;

With all the foundational work the team of three did for the game, there is definitely an interest and intention to develop this into an extended version with multiple endings! 

Thank you! I think everyone had that game jam passion while making this, and I'm glad it shows! And yes, I asked the artist, and she used photobashing technique with some overpainting to create the detailed yet paintery backgrounds, Pexels being her source for photos. As for Godot, I asked the programmer since he set up the project:

"Yes, it did require more setup. For a pure visual novel without much gameplay, I probably would have used Ren'Py or programs specifically designed for VNs. The Dialogic 2 plugin that handled the VN part is still quite alpha and lacks features that current VN editors have. I'd recommend Godot if you're aiming for a highly customized or gameplay-heavy VN like Princess Maker, but otherwise, other VN editors are less work. Right now, I'd suggest giving Dialogic 2 some time to mature so that it stabilizes and more features are added, and so that extensions from others start appearing—the support is there, but the extension ecosystem hasn't developed yet. For example, even making the screen "flash" wasn't available in Dialogic; I had to implement it using Dialogic's extension system."

For me, it was all fun and games using Godot once he set up the project and functions, though there were couple crashes and few times weird bugs, but everything returned back to normal once I restarted Godot (like half of my text from the last scene suddenly disappeared 0_o). 

Thank you! This feels so validating as designer/writer. It was the game mechanic that drove the project into Godot, thanks to our programmer for being into the new Dialogic plugin update :D and I can tell the artist did enjoy having quite free hands in overall visuals, so I guess it shows.