Oh wow! Thank you so so much for your incredibly generous and detailed comment! I’m a chatty writer and I suspect I won’t be able to reply to this with kind of conciseness, so I’ll reply to half now and the rest later 🌹
The UI – That was the wonderful Ingthing’s work and ah you describe it so beautifully, I’m really glad you liked it! We’d been looking at inspirations from Alphonse Mucha’s work, but the way she used that as a starting point for something so unique was amazing to see! She then adapted the it to make the ending screen as well, and put together the necklace - I was totally overwhelmed by her talent and generosity.
And the music – I’m so glad you mentioned this, as Edwin’s music is always incredible and I was so excited when he sent me his first version of the main theme ‘Witch’s Lament’! (In fact, ‘tragic beauty’ is a great descriptor for it!) He generously made several versions of it, and two other tracks as well - I'm intending to add a 'music player' screen to the next update, so people can easily identify and replay them!
He was also VERY patient when I sent him a list of abut 20 inspirations, and worked incredibly quickly! Interestingly none of those inspirations were things you mentioned, but I’m very intrigued to hear about them! (Ironically I’ve never played The Witch’s House, I only first heard of it when I was researching potential names for this game! 😂)
Oh and in my crediting rush I didn’t specify the songs that didn’t require credits, I should do that in the next update, but that track is from Dova and translates to Haunted Singing Blues - which Edwin transposed so it fitted the soundtrack better.
Okay yes I’ve written loads so I’ll reply to the rest later, but thank you again for all the beautiful things you said, and also I’m really looking forward to your game, already got it downloaded!! ❤