I'd be down to work together on the jam.
DM me at vibingeagle on discord if you're still interested, apologies for late reply.
This was an amazing game! I love the art style, I got genuinely attached to Atlas and Iris' relationship, it's beautifully written. I found the puzzle minigame to be a really creative way to show their relationship. I was most surprised by how the bad ending was written, it completely subverted what I thought it was going to be. Only problem I had was that the puzzle game during the bad ending kept getting error (tried reinstalling game after deleting data in RenPy folder on my PC but issue still happened), but just pressing the ignore button twice let me see ending 3 still. Genuinely would love to see what yall could do again.
It's an interesting game. I do like the art style, all the characters are very distinct. I will say it was confusing what I was supposed to do at first. A textbox saying "Click the text in the documents to fill out the info" with a sound effect every time something is discovered would help with that. Otherwise, I enjoyed the experience.
This was really interesting to read. Though you said you haven't made many choice-based VNs, for CLEAVE you nailed down pretty well how to use the choices and different endings to show how what may seem like inconsequential things you say still do have on an effect on people. Excited to see what you'll work on in the future!