I think it's a default setting in Renpy - I'll address it in the next patch. Thank you for the kind words and hope you have the chance to check out some other games from the jam!
(edit: it images the Self-Voicing accessibility option volume in renpy, so I'm going to leave it in and will update the option to clarify in a patch)
i would also contend that there are also a set of people making games are less interested in making games as they are with 'being a game developer', which does actually have a cool persona: "i want to be like toby fox, the balatro guy, etc." / "i want to make my Cool Indie Games and make 1 million dollars and stop being so alienated". they dislike making games almost as much as they dislike paying you for concept art: because the act of creation is not the goal but merely friction for the reward of celebrity. my 2 cents. lovely work.
