I want to congratulate you on managing to impeccably weave lovecraftian tremendum in religious narrative and would like to refer you to the novella Lazarus (Eleazar), by Leonid Andreyev, which is dedicated to the Gospel account of Lazarus, the brother of Jesus' friends Mary and Martha, who died after a short illness... Before the triumphant entry into Jerusalem, Christ raised Lazarus from the dead after a four-day stay in the grave. According to the church, Lazarus was ordained by the apostle Paul and was the first bishop of Cyprus and it's also interesting that tradition mentions that Lazarus did not laugh after his miraculous resurrection... Andreyev uses this story as a basis for his own, but after peering beyond the veil, Lazarus is no longer the same, his face is cracked and beginning to rot, and his gaze, for all beings bathed in the sun, becomes like Medusa's sting. Lazarus, as a living testimony of God's mercy, is paraded through the Roman Empire, but instead of fascination and religious ecstasy, the encounter with the resurrected in people causes chills and existential horror. Since the motifs are similar and playing your VN irresistibly reminded me of the aforementioned short story, I coldly recommend it to you ;-* Keep on spinning!
Thank you deeply for these schizoid off the rails, but at the same time on the rails situated musings... I didn't expect to come across a mention of Russian formalists on the itch page of an obscure bitsy game :-) I wholeheartedly recommend Vladimir Propp's "Morphology of the Folktale" for some further entangling disentanglements of narrative structures... Keep on choochooing my man !i
Sorry for necroposting, but as long as your games are played, you have an obligation to light the traveller's way through your fantastic, murky creations ;-b I watched your gameplay video, but didn't notice the exact moment you got the scissors, which I need to solve the flower puzzle and get the purple key... I'm loving this platform, through which I'm discovering nugget games that regain my hope in future video game development!
Edgy goth chick's musings about being defiled and bred by the Deep Ones.. Commendable (cos my favorite kind of vore morsels are SuicideGirlslike), but at the end rather pathetic attempt at whorror...
Hey Moshe :-) I discovered your brand of atmospheric space exploration games while following the trail of influence of Tsutomu Nihei and his cult manga BLAME! on video game developers... That's when I also came upon Johan Johannsson's art house film "Last and First Men", which uses the footage of the brutalist monuments (spomeniks) in former communist Yugoslavia, abstract memorials dedicated to victims who died in WW II, and because they look like alien edifices from Lovecraft's visions, repurposes them as the remains of an ancient human, spacefaring civilization... The style and ambient music reminded me irresistibly of your games, so I'm asking you to allow me to download "only on request" gated games for Windows, Living With The Moonoliths, VoyageE and Wonders between Dunes. My email is salcburg@gmail.com ... Thanks and I wish you luck on your quest as a guide on the way through, by imagination warped, time and space...
