great fish

on a stormy evening, a whale decides a man's future. 

made for bitsy jam #96: at sea

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content notes:
this project is an IF retelling of a small part of the book of Jonah, from the Torah (or old testament if you prefer). If engaging with abrahamic mythic story is upsetting to you, skip this work. 

known bugs:
when restarting the game, the first walkable map does not reset to its original state. if you have any idea how to fix that, let me know. if you find anything else buggy, please also let me know.

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credits: 

made with binksi by Ju / smwhr using the following tools: 

• tiny binksi visual novel template by PRINCESS INTERNET CAFé
• tall character bipsi hack by Jummit
• ordered dither maker by Sean S. LeBlanc, which dithered:
  • Jonah and the Whale by Pieter Lastman
  • 36chandelles, Stephane Granzotto/National Geographic

opening text adapted from the JPS 2023 English translation of the Tanakh as available on sefaria [dot] org. closing text taken from the Herman Meville's Moby Dick. all other text generated using My Own Brain. All coding errors are from that same source.

great fish was developed in so-called canada on stolen Indigenous land, and was released the day before the 2025 National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. find out whose land you're on at native-land.ca.

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assorted reflections on whaling and settler-colonialism, forgiveness and repair, anti-zionist judaism, and using bipsi + ink + binksi for the first time may be found in the devlogs.