Working for future archeologists.

Bientôt l’été is both the most personal and formally extreme game I have worked on. So much so that I feel that after this one, I can just relax. I will have said all that I wanted to say as an artist. And I can just play for the rest of my life. Make fun games with stupid stories.

I admit I’m a bit tired. Tired of fighting against what has always seemed inevitable. Also, somehow I don’t really believe that humankind will continue for much longer. So even if my work could have any effect in the long run, it won’t, because the species will be extinct.

Sometimes it feels like I am producing archeological finds for the future. Millenia from now, alien scientists will land on this planet. Minor scientists since the serious ones had avoided Earth for centuries because the layer of junk culture produced by the last humanoid inhabitants discouraged any real interest. And it is these minor scientists from outer space who will find Bientôt l’été and use it to convince the others to get more resources for further excavations.

And this will enable the aliens to discover the Earthian beauty of romantic painting, baroque music, renaissance sculpture, gothic architecture, et cetera. And the universe will have become a better place. The End.