also im going to be honest youre not the first one to ask for spiders number. I understand why this is happening but it wont stop being funny to me. women want her fish fear her
Oh my gosh im so honoured to have someone go through something i made in length like this. Im so honoured !!! Will start going through things one at a time :D
1) The sprites were drawn digitally, with the paper texture being from the nearest notebook to me - there's 2 variations, one with a torn page and one without !
2) I'm actually super happy you like the bg art !! I was really worried about it not getting the point across because it was rushed (we had a deadline to meet and all) so I'm glad I got the vibe across !! especially that part about the backrooms, i really wanted to make it feel slightly off in the way liminal spaces are, with how empty and devoid they feel.
3) I have no musical background so thats an honour to hear !! There's no official name for the bad ending music but it was frequently described behind the scenes as "music that wants you dead" and "music that kills you" and the file is called heartattackmusic dot wav. so yeah it was very much intentionally made to be startling and im glad it worked
4) Thats very much the intent with Itsy and Bitsy leaving all the time - making her relive things that resemble the event repeatedly so she can fully remember what happened and hopefully get through it.
5) While there is no confirmation where the game takes place (and by that i mean. i didnt think of that), I think the headspace interpretation works really well, especially with the game being based around memories and all. I think the backrooms look can also add to this - liminal spaces kind of feel like places youve been before even if you havent, sometimes like the hazy memories of places you've been in your dreams. So while there's no true answer I think this is a really good interpretation of it!
6) She's not in a band yet, but she wants to be! Her story has pretty much concluded and I don't think it'd be fitting to expand so much on a story about letting go, but I do think she eventually joins one in college.
7) I can confirm she's wearing her friends cardigan - I tried to imply that with the endings, especially the way the cardigan is shaded purple while the rest of her is shaded red, and how purple is the main colour used to identify things attached/related to the girl. The girl in the bad ending is pretty much used to confirm it. It's also why she gives it to Itsy in the good ending - it's an act of letting go and moving on.
8) would you believe me if i said itsy and bitsy are minimum wage workers. I should really get to writing more about those two some time - maybe in a future VN, no guarrantees! I did kind of want them to mirror Spider and her friend, but not like a 1:1 parallel , more just somewhat similar - it's part of why I picked the "cheap nativity play angel costume" look for them (Itsy's halo is supposed to be fuzzy instead of glowy like most halos look like, like a cheap headband one that's made out of gold tinsel or pipe cleaner), it kind of ties them to the choir in a way! The main reason I picked those outfits is mainly just that angels are seen as guides frequently and thats their role in the story, though.(maybe i just have all too vivid memories of christmas growing up and being forced to sit in the freezing parking lot a shopping center with my girl scouts group singing christmas carols ;-;)
anyways im so honoured to have someone go through like this thank you so much :D this made my day
A short game but really interesting !! Maybe it's just me and eye horror (I can never really handle it well) but that ending did unnerve me quite a bit. I like the muted green-ish colour pallete, it feels somewhat sickly and really adds to the feel of the game. Good work!
Thank you so much!! its an honour!! We definetly did alot of chatting behind the scenes about itsy and bitsy and what their lives might look like even if it didn't end up in the final story, so a vn about those two specifically definetly isn't out of the question - I'm going to busy with artfight coming up, though, so no guarrantees !
That's absolutely fine !! You had alot of games to go through and i'm just very happy you decided to check it out in the first place, it's an honour to have any kind of playthrough of something i've made, honestly !
The attempt 1 thing at the beggining is actually a mistake - it's supposed to be attempt 10, but with the story not revealing the fact there's multiple attempts until spider collapses in the forest. alas I was very tired while playtesting and didn't catch it. same with that "draws" typo - whoops ! thank you for pointing it out ^^
I'll make sure to take note on the 3rd/2nd person writing thing for next time !
thank you for pointing that out !! i dont know how i missed it when playing through . whoops! and yeah, the lack of difference between the characters talking is definetly something we need to take into note for next time
Didn't get to do alot, but I played for a bit and enjoyed it :D
Ran into a minor issue with the music - it keeps playing deep beeps and then occasionally the first notes of a song, but honestly it feels like it added to some layer of ominousness (if that is a word). The storm music played fine, and when I started the game the music was working fine, so I don't know what caused it.
Very fun regardless !! i love fish :) have a nice day
