Inside the Library of the World's Sole Reader is, like the title suggests, a homage to Omnscient Reader's Viewpoint. While I struggled a lot with the graphics, being someone very new to pixel art and not a good visual artist in general, what stumped me even more was the writing. I did not want to make it a direct fangame while making nods at those in the know, and I would like to see how people unfamiliar with ORV would interpret it. On top of that, there was bitsy's built-in limitation (and charm). Longforms were simply impossible. I settled on small fragments to represent a jumbled array of half-formed memories. I'd had at least one reviewer telling me how blurry it was when you had no context.

The fragments you see are shuffled from a pool (initially 30, then slowly expanded to about 60 different sentences). Direct quotes are prefixed with ellipsis, while sentences starting with a capital are parts of narrations. I do like that they are out of order, and players can elect to read as much or as little as possible, though due to badly designed levels it is rather invisible (stay in the carpeted area if you don't want to stop a lot. Almost all the tiles in front of the bookshelves trigger dialogues). Too much narrow corridors, and walking through becomes annoying.

I poured a lot of time and soul (relative to the rest of the game) in room 4, and rather pleased with the result given that I had never created a single pixel art design before. It is a testament to bitsy's strong point, really. The three library levels however... I had no idea how to depict a library scene properly with my limited capabilities, and with time drawing near I justified it by telling myself the gnarled appearance was the result of an unstable mind.

What I'd do, ideally, given time and energy, is to strengthen the writing and redo the library design. Adding a bit more backbone to the story fragments,  just a bit, because I also want to avoid a definitive interpretation. 

Since I mainly created this for myself and a friend, I had no expectations fellow ORV fans would find it on itch.io, but someone did. They even made a video about it. It brings me more joy to think that the story does indeed reach an intended person.