Hi Hiro! Thank you so much for the feedback! I'm glad you enjoyed the prose, I did make it closer to the way I write in French this time, since, well, the theme of artistry is a rather important theme in the game! And yes, that was a lot of words and a lot of drawings in a month, but I guess I enjoyed making this game so much I just did it 😭😭😭
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Haha, I was wondering how Lazare would be received; so far, it seems that people do anticipate that he's an unhinged character, just hope he won't be, but alas, I decided to commit to it, as it was much more horrific that way! And I did enjoy writing the cemetry scene, and honestly, the way it turned out, I think that, in this game, at least when it came to my vision, everything was just like in my mind, so I really love this scene too!! And I did enjoy manipulating the water imagery and eventually subverting it indeed in the end with the fire (since the water represents tr**ma for Jonas and death for Nérée)!
Now, why Aquarius beyond the obvious water association... hehe... well... the water association... (more seriously, "water as a trap" is a theme throughout the game; so putting the beauty marks on the face was to signify tr**ma and ab*$e, since Nérée and Jonas are the characters having those; but even Jonas' name is the French spelling of "Jonah", the biblical prophet literally trapped in a whale, so in the ocean, so... water associations looool; but the prison of water is the prison of the mind ofc). And for the beauty marks, indeed, a bit of suspension of disbelief is required looool, but I thought that was quite great character-design wise!!
For the gallery, I hesitated about implementing one haha, but I just thought no one would bother wanting to look at the pictures again (+ the extra work for thumbnails etc. required made it quite difficult within the jam frame!). (And dang, the one with Jonas lying on the bed was one of those I appreciated the least loool, it's always good to get out of my own mind...)
Thanks again for your feedback Hiro, I'm glad you """enjoyed""" the game!! 💛