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lower the veil3 days ago (6 edits) (+3)

*spoilers

This game was so cool! The teal-pink dithered aesthetic is beautiful, and stunning illustrations - so much personality, backgrounds felt kind of somber and melancholic, scratched my brain just right. limited palettes can be tricky I think because there's a risk of sprites disappearing into the backgrounds, I liked the presentation here a lot. &I feel like it was a great pair to the fever-dreamlike tone of the writing. was beautiful in the literary way too, I enjoyed reading many of the descriptions (like 'feathers fletch from foiled sheaths'). and I LOVE Sol's design, I wish I had an extroverted friend like them lol! 

one interesting thing that really stood out to me was just how unrelentingly *rich* the worldly descriptions were and how MC's lived experience is so tightly (and fearfully, maybe desperately) embodied in their physical sensory experience because they're afraid to lose themselves. and that this is despite a deep-seated yearning for authentic connection with others and searching for it, and not finding it, and not knowing what it is or what it should feel like, even in a huge crowd full of sticky lovers and warm bodies that are waving something they claim is shaped like it - or even performing what they think it should be shaped like (thinking ab the mask motifs) - in MC's face.  I think a lot of people would resonate with the themes of alienation and belonging here, and how much MC struggles to connect to both themselves and others, how they cling to the safety of what is familiar and yet ultimately unfulfilling because the devil they know looks better than the devil they don't.

also. when I first saw good ole mr tower I was like 'oh hell no lmao GO BACK GO BACK' and tried the other options hoping for different cards, LOL, but then I was like 'damn that's a perfect choice tho', same with the others. hell yeah! 

loved this. storm of talent, really unique game. 10/10 would get overstimmied at the sad apocalyptic queer rave again

one very minor note, and this might be intentional - I imagine it was intentional with the text speed - the preference sliders seem to be locked on the macOS version, I couldn't adjust the auto-fwd time or any of the volume sliders. just fyi

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criticalspell3 days ago (1 edit)

this is such a kind comment, thank you so much! I'm really glad to hear that you enjoyed it :)

I think for the setting and how it relates to the story, a big theme that I set out wanting to write about was displacement, assimilation, and climate refugees - a world where collapse happens slowly, and society evolves selective resilient traits (like collectivism) to preserve itself. but i think that a lot of the feelings contained are very universal, as you've said. I also wanted to draw on concepts of death and reincarnation/ finding life again after crisis. If you're at all a cautious, or a paranoid person, or if you at all want to preserve the bits of yourself that make you You... it can be so hard. 
The game is actually to be updated with an extra scene and a branched ending that "completes" the arc of the story (as well as more Sol moments), so please look out for that! (I hope that we can stick the landing) :D

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lower the veil2 days ago

Ohh thank you for the insight, I definitely see it - I remember the collectivism thread being strong too, like in certain descriptions of the crowd being insect-like(?) as if they were part of a hive, and how palpable MC's grief was adjusting to their new environment. Looking forward to the future release, it's gonna be great!

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