Very interesting game. I liked that you built in a game mechanic. And you also have nice poetry in there. The game gave me a lot to think about. I found it deep. It really stands out and is refreshing different. Found it very good that you could play the game in the browser <3
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Thanks! The harp minigame was my attempt at learning to use imagemaps in Ren’Py and using them for something. And the poetry was my attempt at doing what I seemed to be good at (because I’ve noticed that when I write poetry in my VNs that seems to be what people like the most from them, so obviously I had to include some poetry in this one too). And then I plan to translate the whole thing into Danish and Spanish (I already translated some of it, but I haven’t released the game in those languages, that’ll probably be some time in November or later).
As a translator, I like writing stuff that isn’t easy to translate, and then trying to translate it anyway. So that means things like poetry and comedy. And yeah, I had seen enough poems and VNs about love that I wanted to write a VN with poetry about something else.
I tend to play plenty of jam entries in-browser, so it seemed like a good idea to try and make my own entry browser playable too. I think it might even be possible to play it in a browser on a phone, although I haven’t tested that, so I haven’t marked the game as mobile-friendly.