62.34 Abstraction

I made this for my college art museum, 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 a video game "poem," of sorts, 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, many thanks to:

• oli414 for his dialogue text box lib which i keep using.
• Robby Duguay for the song "Melancholy" from his "9 Songs in Pico-8".
• morgan3d for introducing me to PICO-8 and zep for making it (also there's probably still bits of code in this I borrowed from each of you)