By the way you wrote the comment on Zakhari I sense you read my lines in the bonus room ;\\\\; thank you for playing Deep Inside and for taking your time to write this comment! Not many make it to the bonus room, even less don't flee after my exposition dump in the room lol!
As for the info on Aidan I think, from your comment, I should add more in the next update so since we're on the subject I wanted to ask you an advice: what would you like to know or see about him?
(And... is Gareth way too suspicious? xD)
The art was a combined effort of Gholless (the chara portraits), Aki Kurosai (painting and title screen) and me (all the jumpscares lol and the overworld sprites on a base from Kicked-in-teeth), the game wouldn't look so good without them! If you're curious I also listed in the credits their social media pages, as well as the artist of the tilesets :)
Thank you again for your kind words, Ali!
Ehehe, yep I read them all~ Bonus rooms is my favourite part of every game! I really love getting to them and learning about author's thought process during development and all other things author is willing to share. I read even the book with name meanings, though it wasn't as interesting as your lines X) Also really loved that you put all this artworks in the bonus room. Thanks to that I found so many great artists~
Oh, hmmmm, let me think for a bit. I think I am interested in his family a bit. Does he have one? Does he have any siblings? Were there some fun moments that he shared with his family and loves to remember? Something like "one day my little brother poured a cup of salt into my mother's coffee and blamed that on me" but a bit more interesting. Also I wonder where he worked before he came to the mansion? Did he love his work? Maybe there were awkward, fun or unpleasant things about his previous places of work that he remembers and willing to talk about? And I am interested in his hobbies too. Does he have any? I remember he likes paintings and likes them VERY much. I wonder does he visit exhibitions often? Or collect different paintings (or their copies) and hangs them in his room? Maybe he tried to paint something himself? Did it turn out well or did he get disappointed in his drawing skills and decided not to draw ever again?
That's the things I am mostly interested in about Aiden. Of course it's up to you to use them in update or no~
Yeah, he is VERY suspicious X) For me it was a goot thing though, because after teatimes with him I got conflicted. He was sort of charming but at the same time suspicious so I was torn between "well he is sort of attractive so maybe I shouldn't be so crucial to him" and "he seems like maniac sometimes".
Oh! Then I think I need to see the credits again and visit their pages! You're welcome~ Thank you for this wonderful game ~
Thank you for your kind words, Ali ;\\\\;
I'm glad my blabbering in the bonus room was entertaining! I would have said more about the house, but it would reveal the location and that's private property now... and also I have more artworks, but not all the artists gave me explicit permission to show them in the game ;w;
(I can send the deviantart gallery link though, ssshh)
Your points are valid! I'm thinking about a way to incorporate them in the game!
Since Aidan can't have a teatime with himself (lol) I should bring them up in another way.
For the moment I can say he lived with an aunt (the Mrs Courtenay Gareth was referring to in the first scene), the fact he got sent with a reccomendation letter to work as a servant in the house was something common in the years the story is set in. At one point in developing I wanted Aidan to choose one of the paintings with Gareth and having that hung on the wall of his room, I should make this real now I think xD
As for the art, I didn't think about him trying to paint but it would be cool! He's kinda well versed in literature though, he recognizes most of the books in Gareth's library :)
"well he is sort of attractive so maybe I shouldn't be so crucial to him" <--- this makes me really happy, it's exactly what I wanted to convey about him!
Thank you again for your comment ;\\\\;