Hello and welcome, welcome and hello.
Perhaps you've read my essays or poems, journals and maybe even listened to my songs.
This is another one in the step of creation, an attempt at forming thoughts on the fly as discussion.
And, within the conversations, sprinkled (albeit clumsily) monologues taken (not always) from my own essays.
Rest assured that this is not a compilation in a VN form of my essays, but they still are a compilation of sorts of thoughts.
An attempt at flowing from myself to myself, towards conversations that make sense to the questions I had that day.
Obviously, as with any new undertakings, a lot of time was spent early on, with bursts of inspirations and obsessions through the
solitary weeks I take for vacations from the world of Man. And, maybe then, I feel less alone.
I don't know if it's nice or not, but it's something I wonder about: Can you create company?
Nevertheless, it is a creation, and a virtual one at that: memories of it will linger around faintly, and only will make rare
appearances as part intrusive thoughts.
Speaking of "intrusive", why are they called as such? They are our own thoughts, why attach to them negative connotation? Whatever,
humans are weird. I get the idea but it's never explained. Why do they never explain?
They don't even ask questions about things that are presented in front of them.
I think you know what to expect already from just these short paragraphs.
Right, and also, this is a narrationless VN, where there's only dialogue. Thought that perhaps, narration was not needed.
I am not so sure anymore, but it would have been weird to include it in the middle, so there's just people speaking.
No inner thought either.
Now on the verge of 2023, I wanted to wrap this VN up. The format I chose to tell what I wanted to tell was perhaps ill-suited,
and as such, because it was meant with these limitations in mind, and instead of scrapping it, wanted to finish it.
So I did, I think. Unsure, it should feel finished though.
* On that note, some reflections:
I think it was silly to have a filter scene at the beginning of this VN. If you want to get past it, just be humble ("i do not know").
There's a few missing scenes because I didn't think they would fit. I think so too, still, so they are not here.
Musically is was very inspiring, created a lot, though I do not know what constitutes creation in some settings.
Some find my music serene and scary both; which is interesting, but I do not know if that is true.
Subjectivity aside, I already started working on the next VN, and I think it will be a better fit (because there's actually space to read).
Maybe you'll find it interesting whenever I share it.
Maybe there will be someone that will find something in it.
And it would be nice, I think, to hear what you may have found. Here, too, actually.
So, if you happen to play this and read through it, may you find something that you can attribute it a value to.
** As for anything, if you want to get into contact, my public mail is human.bog@gmail.com, or somerled.tihomir@gmail.com.
** Got other ones like people have multiple ones too; but these I share, because I share them.
Have a day (you can give the adjective for this day yourself, just imagine I said it too), and look at the sky every once in a while.
It can be beautiful to stare at.
- Somerled / Pox
Credits:
Dearest friend Wrm
Good friend Mali
References:
> Thematic
Untravel - Rival Consoles
> Textual (as in, part of a piece of art in dialogue)
[Song] Blue Verb Reprise - Vegyn
> Poems
The Ocean - Richard Hawley
III. Universe - The Microphones
Breathing - Liz Harris / Grouper
> Musical
The Ocean - Richard Hawley
Black Song - MONACA
III. Universe - The Microphones
> Chapter Cards music references (title | artist | album)
In Pursuit Of Ghosts | Max Cooper & Tom Hodge | Yearning For The Infinite
Lost Wisdom | Mount Eerie | Lost Wisdom
Fallen Trees - Part II: Existence | Lubomyr Melnyk | Fallen Trees
Dreams and Phantoms | Gray Acres | Dreams and Phantoms
Love Proceeding | BADBADNOTGOOD | Talk Memory
Derelict Hearts | Astrophysics | HOPE LEFT ME
Thanksgiving Song | Grouper | Grid of Points
Three Years | Aracea | Nothing Will Last
Words Left Unspoken | Jasmine Myra | Horizons
> Art (Backgrounds)
Photos I took over the years
A photo found on the internet
"Desert Ruins" by Jorge Jacinto
> Art (Character)
Made from templates provided by さのすけ
(Maybe) no copyright infrigement on them or picrew.me
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> Personal works (re-)used
Untraveller (part II) [album] - Somerled
Untraveller (part I) [album] - Somerled
Entroscopy [album] - Somerled
Forlorn Angels [album] - Somerled
Other songs from Somerled
Essays : Duty and the Death of my Fellows | Differed Thoughts, Different God, and the Shame of Being
Poems : Sundust | Beliefs of Time | Hindrance
Journal : Deserts of Life
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Plans for 1.0.0:
- Tidying things up if I feel like it one day. As far as I'm concerned this latest release could be considered 1.0.0.
- Yeah, that. Should be fine enough.
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Changelog:
0.1.0 - 30/12/2022
- Finished the story, or what passes for a story.
- Which means new chapters.
- Added all chapter cards.
- Removed the post-demo scenes (they didn't fit).
- Fixed typos (most of them probably).
- Yeeted the menu button in the bottom right corner.
- Changed the lighting of the menu background (including the backlog one)
- Some text changes.
- Some flow changes (was there a flow in the first place?).
- Some music changes.
- Can I make it 1.0.0?
0.0.2 - 08/12/2022 - Download through Mega.nz - Download from website
- UI update (stopped using a stock one. It's not much but it's a thing)
- Finished a scene
- Added a new Chapter continuing the story (or whatever the story is)
- Removed the choice at the mountain peak (as one could simply skip a scene)
- Reworked the "filter" choices so that they simply guide to the early ending scene instead
- Added the early ending chapter
- Introduced the idea of chapter cards at the beginning (for now only in the early ending scene)
- Fixed some typos
- Minor text changes
0.0.1 - 25/09/2022 - Prototype release - Download through Mega.nz - Download from website
