Cats with Cannons: Let's Play Pentiment

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Viola the Mad: Feb 13, 2010

Yeah so I read the first update of this LP and immediately bought the game on Steam. It is Good.

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Viola the Mad: Feb 13, 2010

IthilionTheBrave posted:

I'm also loving the cat. Best character so far. Please pet her at every opportunity.

Pet every pettable animal in the game. Seriously, more games need to have petting options. Also, be nice to Sister Illuminata, she's the best.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2023 01:37

Viola the Mad: Feb 13, 2010

rope kid posted:

I have a BA in history, focusing on the Holy Roman Empire in the early modern period (more specifically on witch-hunting). My grandmother was born in Bavaria (near Kempten) and in researching my family history I've traveled to Germany maybe a dozen times and Bavaria/the Allg�u 4 or 5 times. My dad is an artist (well, was... mostly retired now) and I learned a lot of art history through him and the books in our house. I'm fluent (but not native) in German and have a solid (reading) foundation in Latin, French, and Spanish. I was already pretty familiar with a lot of notable manuscripts and incunabula from the 13th-16th centuries and had read a lot about the development of different bookhands and the early typefaces.

So I had a lot of background knowledge going into the project, but we bolstered that considerably both with additional research and with our three PhD consultants (Christopher de Hamel, Ed Kern, and Winston Black).

E: I should also add that Zoe Franznick, who joined the team in the second half of development, is a medievalist, albeit focusing in an earlier time period, and a Latinist (much better than me). She did most of the heavy lifting for the extended Latin passages in the game (I stuck to simple phrases/sentences). We also had a Latin consultant, Heather Nabbefeld, who was a classmate of mine in college and now teaches at Boston Latin School.

Back up, back up, back up. You're one of the devs for Pentiment?

# ¿ Mar 7, 2023 22:23

Viola the Mad: Feb 13, 2010

Quackles posted:

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Epicurius posted:

If people are interested in a medieval work about how women were treated, I recommend "The Book of the City of Ladies", written in 1405 by Christine de Pizan, the daughter of Charles V's astrologer who became a poet and qitee to support herself and her daughter, after her husband, a French knight, died.

The book is about her upset at the way women are portrayed and treated, who is then visited by reason, rectitude and justice, to write about all the noble and holy deeds done by ladies, and with her words, build a city for tge greatest of Ladies, the Virgin Mary, can dwell

This has been on my reading list for ages.

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