Thank you for writing your thoughts over the various snippets (rating, collection add, and the comment section here). I'm glad you enjoyed the VN despite it being of different structure, and that it posed a challenge for you! Sometimes I'm not sure if it even counts as a VN, but the O2A2 jam with its very specific rulesets did allow for more experimental short narrative works. There's no room for playtesting to gauge the perceived difficulty when the dev process took up the entire jam duration. So my plan was just... to draw as many details I could on the canvas to hopefully misdirect the player sufficiently. This led a totally different art style than what I'm used to, somewhat of a hurried freestyling, and as you could guess: loads of fun while drawing.
It's a bit open-ended what the future holds for the Novelist character and it's up to what the player fills in. Personally I'd like to imagine that they will do fine, although nothing suggests a happy ending.