THE REVISIONIST artist statement

I put out a game yesterday. You can check it out here: The game is called The Revisionist (or you can stylize the title as THE REVISIONIST as I have in the itch page). It's a relatively small project, with something like a 30 minute reading time in total. I highly recommend you check it out, because I poured a lot of myself into it despite its size, and also because this blog post is going to talk a lot about it. I wouldn't necessarily say I am going to "spoil" the game, because the nature of it as a small fiction project means that it's kind of hard to spoil much. It is a game with a few "tight diamond" branching choices and a single ending — I am not going to spoil anything that you can't see with about 30 minutes of playtime, basically. But I did want to talk about this game, since it's the first thing I've released in a while (unless you count the 2026 manifesto, which is actually somewhat pertinent here). how did this thing happenI wanted to see if I could make, from…