Hi everyone! I would like to share my first Bitsy project with the community. I'ts called Hawk and Puma, and you can find it here: https://nieblagames.itch.io/hawk-and-puma
It's a fictional experience based on the real figure of Guaman Poma, the indigenous chronicler of the Andes who wrote and drew the titanic work called "El Primer Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno." A 100-thousand-page letter to King Philip III of Spain, with 400 hand-drawn illustrations. It is the result of a research-creation process taking influence from the work of researchers and intellectuals like Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui and others.
In the game, we join Guaman in his journey to defend the life and rights of the indigenous peoples of the region, while he encounters a spirit from other lands who questions him along the way. This spirit is a representation of Niccolò Machiavelli, as a figure who constantly questions Guaman's motives from a different worldview and set of motives. The encounter of these two characters was an interesting creative exercise to play with because of three important details that became strongly relevant during the research process: 1) Guaman is writing to the King, while Machiavelli writes to the Prince. 2) Both are characters of important historical, political, and cultural transitions. 3) Machiavelli died just a couple of years before the probable birth of Guamán Poma. So, Maqui, the spirit you will encounter, is a lost soul who arrived with some colonizers to the Tawantinsuyu.
I'm struggling with a bug during the transitions and would love to add music in the future, but still. It has been two years since the first time I shared this project, but now it was time to share it for anyone who would like to try it.
I'll appreacite any kind of feedback (and help with the bug if possible).
Best,
Nico [Niebla Games]