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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Art | #100 | 3.773 | 3.773 |
| Music | #102 | 3.409 | 3.409 |
| Originality | #160 | 3.545 | 3.545 |
| Overall | #173 | 3.470 | 3.470 |
| Is the graphics 1 bit? | #215 | 4.500 | 4.500 |
| Theme | #269 | 3.182 | 3.182 |
| Gameplay | #328 | 2.409 | 2.409 |
Ranked from 22 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Dithering, outline based on color difference, color -> 1bit
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What worked:
It looked pretty cool and trippy. The atmosphere was pretty cool. My first instinct was to jump into the giant pit. It didn't go so well. I thought it was a cool area to look at.
What didn't:
It was kind of weird for music to only play around torches in the second level. I'm not really sure about the design reason for that.
The second level might also be a bit too dark, but it was cool to use the torchlight to find the right direction.
Some interactivity would be nice.
Bugs:
Didn't see any.
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Great job!
Thank you so much for your comment!!
About the design for the torches with the music: It was just for the gimmick. We just thought it would be a cool little addition along with the whole dark/light theme!
It was also way too dark in the WebGL version, which even after some changes, still didn’t feel like it did justice. Sorry for that! The game is planned to be expanded more for the “definitive” version, with a lot of the gameplay we couldn’t add due to time constraints, along with some fixes for those little things.
Definitely took a little bit to get used to the artstyle, but I came to like it in the end! It's a really nice and simple game, and I love the addition of voice acting to it! The music in the different segments fits the atmosphere pretty well! I certainly had quite a lot of questions by the end, really curious to know what happens next! Overall, I think there's a lot of interesting lore to be explored here. I'd definitely be interested to see more!
Thank you!!! There were plans for a bit bigger of a story, alongside with some gameplay elements, that will be added in the definitive version once we get to that. I’m glad you liked it!
unique and fun gameplay, chill and immersive sounds, and a really enjoyable game. great work!!
Great to know!! Thank you for the compliments!!
I have indeed a lot of questions at the end x)
The ambiance is very weird but in a good way ! And i love the visual effect!
Very original, nice game :)
Future continuation coming up???? reall????????? mayhaps……….
Very strange vibe you had for the whole thing. The singing torches certainly had me intrigued. I do wish we saw more of the story play out or develop outside of the cutscene, as I was rather invested to see where things would go. Even still, the mysterious, ethereal nature also worked.
On another note, our entries have very similar names.
"Luna Obscura"
"La Obscura"
What a happy little coincidence!
Hahahah we were deciding for the name for quite a while, looking for something that would fit the narrative/style, along with referring to the moon. Ended up being a last-few-minutes choice.
Good to know you were captivated by the story, and atmosphere, that’s what we were counting on!
We did have plans for a longer gameplay, but since we were only two and I’m not a very good programmer, I ended up taking too long to set a lot of the things up, which ended up taking a huuuge bit of my time from modelling and level designing. We are counting on expanding this story through our other games, or by a more “definitive” version of this after the Jam is over. Do consider keeping an eye out for that!
It felt weird at first but I quickly got along with the game! Really good effects and originality!
Thank you!! I was quite worried if the “follow your instinct” approach would work, and I’m glad it worked most of the times hahah
Really liked the shaders and effects on it! Cool soundtrack
Thank you!! I’m glad you liked it.
Pretty cool atmostphere, the corridors are maybe a bit too hard to navigate but really cool game still!
Thank you!! The exploration of the sewers is a lot easier on the Windows Build, since it’s highly dependent on the lighting, and it kinda sucks in webgl hahah
strange gameplay, but absolutely amazing creative direction, both musically and sonically. thankss
I’m glad you liked it!
i liked your game. We used the same base for our shader but i noticed in the credits you mention a license. What license is th
The CC0 license pretty much means that you can use it for anything you’d like (as far as not selling it without modifications i think???). Basically it’s the go-to for “you can use it for whatever you’d like”.
And nice to know you liked it! I’ll give your a try too.
It's pretty cool! I do think making the dithering not screen space would have been better though.
Thank you for the suggestion! We did try that initially, and while it didn’t look bad, it was hard to achieve an interesting look with it (also I’m not the best programmer) :(
Also normal dithering made it hard to see what was going on many of the times in the game, so we chose this method instead with the outlines.
What a strange feeling... The graphics are captivating and the atmosphere disturbing. I find the result unique and rather fun. We also tried 3D on this jam, maybe you'll be interested. Congratulations for this surprising game!
I’m really glad you liked it! The atmosphere was what we focused on the most.
I will give it a try too, it’s always nice to see how other people approach what you were trying to!
Really fucking bizarre, in the best way possible. The motion sickness just added to the atmosphere!
I gotta say though I found it a little anti-climactic in the end, especially after all the exposition.
I did feel like it was going to be quite anti-climatic, but due to the time constraint, we had to kinda just make-do with what we already had...
But I plan on expanding it a little bit for a "definitive version" after the jam, fixing those little problems and making it have some more content to it.
But thank you so much for letting me know your opinion!
love the visual effect of this, feels very unique and looks very cool
Thank you!!
very well done... just like a fever dream I had once^^
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it