Hello Peppekz here the creator of Losing Importance!

This is a small devlog about my background thoughts of the story and design ideas.

Originally the story was more about a slavic entity helping Dominik a grumpy old man to find someone to date in his age, but I didn't like the dates itself so the idea was cut. The slavic entity at the start was Południca.  An entity that appears on a heat stroke and would kill you if you hadn't answered her riddles correctly. :D Only problem is that our bear answered her questions immeadiatly without hesitation correctly. She was quite pissed at that, cause it should be in a tone of annoyance, rather of relief. So she would help him out, cause she wanted a fair game at the riddles and not some guy, who "unfairly" answered. (Here a small concept sketch of her.)

Furthermore, I wanted to take her as a character and commission an artist for a similar song to Transistor - When She Shines Nevertheless, the idea was cut and I went to the bingo game instead, cause it sounded more fun to write about! Some of the og idea designs still stayed in my head, cause I wanted to draw a similar clothing style to one of the characters of "The Peasent" Movie to Dominik. (Concept with references for them.) A song out of the movie made into a remix.

But during drawing of the character I found myself into a dilemma of "Would elderly people really wear this?", so I said freak it asking around some people. And an answer I found funny is that most people that age like to stack their clothing and go out with the most senseless stuff out.

So I decided to give my bear a trenchcoat, a pullover and a t-shirt to boot under there. For the robin a bath robe :D By the way, why robin? Cause I hate that nobody uses that cute bird. Just look at them! And the last two parts of the design spaces. Why the wedding ring focus and blue flower?

The wedding rings are like one of the cut contents really of the end dialogue. The dialogue should have been a bit more about Martin's love life. How he never ever tried to forget anyone's time. No matter how painful the seperation was with them. Love that existed should have not been forgotten in his mind.

For Dominiks perspective it was more of an insult towards him, cause like a wedding ring at least is a proof of trying to find love and finding it. The blue flower is like a bit more complicated in my mind, but basically it's just a representation of Dominik's longing to get out of his mold. And him sharing the flower with Martin is kinda a connection part between them. Now to the music part. I actually wanted all soundtracks made with harmonica, but finding free music for that was hard and yeah. So I stuck with one of them to a scene. The prominent scores are from jerbear or the jam site.

Original vibe was inspiried by those music songs:
Edna Bricht Aus - Kindheit, Harveys Neue Augen - Nadel und Faden

Can't really back up more stuff, but their is now an inside meme in the dev discord and it's called "Losing Impotence". Do with this information as you fit. If you have any further questions, please ask away!

But for now. Going back to my lair and try to make another short story. Perhaps a package day sequel?