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Just read about Michael and Lenka's art project <=-) It's... thoughtful (I'm not gonna write a review the project ((duh, though I possibly should. Just not here) but I just wanted to note it's amazing how you've picked up a concept from such a project and continue spreading awareness about it. I would have never known this art masterpiece even exist.

You know, I'm probably overthinking a bit, (my thoughts rummage a lot when I type kinds of comments; the bad thing, I can't always make a clear statement because of it) but I HOPE you get my point!))

So, back to the game, music is great as always!!! I tried to make something out of the dots lmaooo, the first thing on my mind was squiggly Little Dipper. Then it looked like a crab? Then spider... T___T

I kinda liked the art out of these symbols. Especially the "artist" one. And I'm not sure how to call this type of technique, HELP??!! ASCII art maybe? But then again, the circle with the "To draw is to observe"... Word cloud? Pictogram? It's definitely not calligram... It's probably called something easy that I just had to forget. Suffering the curse, dudes... >=-G

Anyways, the game is just wonderful! <3

Good job, jsmonzani

jsmonzani235 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

Hello! Thank you very much for your feedback, it's always a pleasure to discuss topics that I like!

Discovering great artists and sharing them is one of my joy, so I'm super happy that you liked Lenka and Michael's art.

Seeing you enjoy my music really makes me feel that games are a great way to share it. I occasionally publish short albums online but I like it even more when the music serves a story and mood. Also thanks for trying to make something out of the dots!! :)

The styles I was after for these letters drawing are typewriters drawing and calligrams. You're right about ASCII art, sometimes subgenred as PETSCII for C64 characters for instance (which also include basic geometric shapes). Generally speaking, the "correct" term is textmode art. Great artists for these are Polyducks or MrMo who work with geometric-like characters.

If you'd like to see me exploring this style, I suggest you'd check out my games Nature, Vignette of the ocean and No wizard where I worked with extra constraints.

No matter the choice, as a visual artist, I purposely select such crude representations to suggest rather than show, and let the player's imagination work. That's why graphics are particular in all my text-based games.

Thanks again!

Ratting235 days ago

lol, thanks for the infooo! L=-J Kinda shame that I never knew about the textmode art until now; reading about it. So, I'll check out other games in an hour or two.

Thanks for answering my questions I guess! Good luck V[=-5"

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