Thank you!!

Perhaps it is the footstep noises, carpet/tile floor, and use of empty that really adds to the art gallery feeling? At least, that is how we see it. I agree completely in how the context of relation matters much more than realism for putting somebody in a space. We are not here to argue with the player that they are in a museum! We want them to draw their own feelings out of what is presented.

I chose the music cause I was listening to it while working on the game haha. I find it works out very well. I'm glad you liked the other interaction details, the bouncing was a sort of necessary trainwreck element to me. The bouncing ball movement is foundational, in my view, to the development of the trainwreck approach. I can't live without it, even if I have to complicate things unnecessarily for it!

The synth voice I chose just because I had used it in particular to represent me speaking in a joke game I did before. It's much easier to use than reading all of the text out myself. I realize I never mentioned the poem button, but I did interact with it a lot. I wasn't sure how it mechanically worked, the explanation here clarifies why it seemed so random! Perhaps I did not mention the poem because my audio processing issues made it hard for me to grasp what it was saying, and it sounded kind of grotesque at points? I'm sure that would be clarified by a textual reading of the poem in full!