I made this for my college art museum; they were looking for writers but I'm not really, so I said I would make a video game "poem" of sorts instead, and they indulged me :)
It was in response to an exhibit that included some "lost works" — pieces that are listed as being in the museum's collection, but cannot be located; instead we just had the label information of the missing work of art.
This game is inspired by that label information; I knew nothing about the painting other than what is there on the title page.
It's not much of a game; not much to do but walk and read. Thank you for your indulgence and time, if anyone plays it! It's short, maybe 5 or 6 minutes long.
Many thanks to oli414 for his dialogue text box lib which i keep using.
And to Robby Duguay for the song "Melancholy" from his "9 Songs in Pico-8".
And morgan3d for introducing me to PICO-8, and zep for making it (also I think I have bits of code in this from both of you.)
Changelog:
1.02 yeah I f**ked up on 1.01 it's all better now :S
1.01 Adjusted "GAME OVER" sequence at very end
1.0 Original release