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Thank you! Really glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you for the thoughtful commentary 🙏

Yes, voice is AI trained on public domain audio sources I've found. That's also disclosed in the credits. I'm unhappy with how some of it sounds but it's the best option for the moment. Even imperfect voice over has made an astonishing difference in my viewership. 

My plan is to crowdfund for real actors when the script is locked but that probably won't be until the end of the project. Right now I still have to work part time jobs to support myself, I don't have the ability to contract work from others.

I’m really glad you enjoyed Scrimshaw, and thank you for the video essay! The story seems to have struck a chord with some viewers so it’s very cool to see someone try to articulate their own thoughts like this. 

Yeah I had to define my narrator's text as a character, and I set the character name to None so no name appears over the text. So yours would look like:

define vo = Character(None, color = "#6699cc", ctc = "ctc_anchored", ctc_position = "fixed")

At least that's how I did it. I’m really poor at programming so if that doesn't work you may want to try the lemmasoft forums.

Many thanks if you'd like to contribute! Every small bit helps. I think the best way to give would be the Part One art book because you get something in return. But for a simple straight donation I have a ko-fi tip jar. 

https://nomarsh.itch.io/art-of-scrimshaw

https://ko-fi.com/nomarsh

Yeah the click to continue icon is pretty easy to add. This is the tutorial I copied my code from: https://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?t=22196

Good luck with your Ren'Py project! It's a really fun engine.

Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it.

Thank you, I really appreciate it!

I'd love to make a mobile version too but that's a little beyond what I'm capable of right now. Sometime in the future, hopefully.

Thank you! Hah no worries, I made it free for a reason 😄 Hope you like the next chapters as much!

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Thank you! Really glad you enjoyed it! Also there's nothing more valuable to me right now than word of mouth recommendations so thank you for that as well 😄

Thank you! No discord or anything like that yet. I may start one after I start a Patreon since people have been asking for one.

That's really cool! My favorite book on the topic, and one of my favorite books ever, is Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith. Highly recommended if you want to learn more about weird ocean animals (real ones).

Not at the moment. I'd love to do something like that in the future though.

Hey thanks! I really appreciate you covering it!

I'm glad you found it moving!

Thanks so much, I really appreciate it. Glad you found it.

Yeah it has been a long haul. But now that I can see some light at the end of the tunnel I don't think I would have wanted it any other way.

Thank you so much!

Hey thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

Sure, my work email is nomarsh.art at gmail.com.

Thanks! I really appreciate it.

Thank you!

Thank you! I'm very glad you found it.

Thanks! It may be a little wait until the next chapter but I plan to keep the devlog updated with progress

Hey thank you! Glad you enjoyed the update. The little whale should be growing into a medium size whale soon, when I get more time to work on this 😄

Hey thanks again man! Much appreciated as always.

Hey thanks for checking it out! 😄 Kind of exciting to have someone share my work on youtube haha.

Glad you enjoyed it! I am still at work on the next update, life has just been conspiring to delay everything. It might be done in a few months.

The first game was really memorable, I'm very excited to play the sequel!

Crazy to think I played this almost 20 years ago and still remember all of it so clearly. This was really inspired work. Very happy to see it remastered and I hope it finds lots of new players.

The AI generated imagery is strikingly interesting and perfect for a dream world. Really cool VN, I'd love to see more.

I would take these to be synonymous but I just noticed that itch.io separates them into different genres. Sorry if this is answered already elsewhere.

Thank you! Life science has always been a well of inspiration for my work too. I really enjoyed the experiments you have going on your page. 

It’s one of the ideals of sci-fi to spark imagination or thought about the real thing. I make up a lot of silly stuff for Scrimshaw but it’d be flattering if readers take that away from it.

Hey thanks man! Scrimshaw has been a labor of love for a long time now so it really means a lot that there are readers it resonates with.

I’ll definitely keep your offer in mind regarding sound. It may be a few more updates before I know what help I need on that front. I need to be a little less overloaded with other things first. But if you have a reel or something email it my way.

Excellent historical fiction.

This is really fun to tinker with, great work!

Really cool style you've got going. The backgrounds have a strong Eyvind Earle vibe which is perfect for the fantasy setting.

You've absolutely nailed the uncanny vibe of early CG renders. It's spot on. Great game so far man.