Lovely fully-realised package. Great art style and colours, complete puzzles, voice acting. You nailed it!
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Atmosphere | #3 | 4.250 | 4.250 |
| Lasting Impression | #6 | 3.708 | 3.708 |
| Overall | #6 | 3.592 | 3.592 |
| Characterization | #6 | 3.750 | 3.750 |
| Emotional Engagement | #7 | 3.250 | 3.250 |
| Mental Engagement | #11 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
Ranked from 24 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Comments
VERY slick and polished for a jam game! Everything about this game feels *crisp* - the pixel art, the voice acting, the writing, even the story and the puzzles - they are straightforward, but that makes them fast-paced and catchy. I would totally play a full game in this style!
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The Witch's Lullabyvery scummy! ;)
top notch production level across the board. art, voice acting, progression, story, all excellent. perfectly nailed the classic point and click experience. in that vein, there was a tiny amount of pixel hunting like figuring out the set of drawers were all individual, and not just one item, and the hot zone for the battery box in aux is a little unintuitive hitting somewhere in the empty space -above- the box. otherwise everything made sense and the pieces came together very naturally.
sound and ambience were perfect. i'm a sucker for that classic sarcastic dry humor. both the writing and the delivery were perfect.
the only real scuff is that the inventory was a little too subtly hidden. the little red tab was barely noticeable at first.
wonderful game all around!
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Chapter 1Great game! Great atmosphere and visuals, and a very very clever use of sound for cutscenes. Great job.
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Where Wolf?This was so polished for the time allowed that it's mind blowing. Super well written, stylized amazingly, and great SFX / music. I loved the commentary on the music, it not only helped to characterize the robot but was also hilarious. And the music was great! Overall really fun experience and I would happily play a longer version of this.
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Elsewhere ExpressIf you'd told me this was a forgotten Sierra classic from 1994, I would absolutely have believed you--the literal only thing that would have tipped me off is the length. The environments and character art just perfectly capture those classic sci-fi adventures like Beneath a Steel Sky (including the robot sidekick!) and Travis's voice acting has such warmth and character to it. It plays very smoothly too, not to mention that crisply implemented pixel art that's so difficult to do in Unity. I can't believe you did everything except the voice acting--you must be a rare polymath!
For things I would have liked to see, really all I can think of is that it would have been fun to have a more distinctive-looking monster, but that's really like being served a perfectly-cooked souffle and asking why it doesn't have a cherry on top.
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ArborThis is fantastic!! I really loved everything about this game, I was left wanting more Travis Walker adventures. Well done for such a polished game.
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Last Christmas (Game Jam)There are a lot of things I really liked in this game. First in line is the background art. Essential yet gorgeous! I have to study it out and learn from your style.
The atmosphere is wonderful, very reminiscent of scifi thrillers. I was constantly there, anticipating the jump-moment when I would have faced the beast.
That’s probably where the “AdvJam” limits kicked in, since the beast itself would have deserved a scarier animation, but still, the climax was good.
I liked how you managed to circumvent visual struggles with audio (like during fadeout of complex scenes, where sounds kicked in to tell the story, or for EVA sequence where microjets sound was filling the lack of a specific animation).
Music was interesting and engaging, the voiceover was a real boon and sound effects was at times VERY good.
I would pay for a longer game with the same qualities and visual impact. Really well done!
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Where Wolf?Wow, it's absolutely unbelievable how much work you put in this game. When I played it I forget that it's a game built in jam! This is game already ready to be published! The best game of the jam so far! Awesome job!
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The Untitled KnightThis one was awesome!!! Congratulations!!! and thanks for bringing this game with such a high quality in all aspects
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Last Christmas (Game Jam)Lovely little space adventure, beautiful pixel art and voice, story gave me some Dig vibes!
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Last Christmas (Game Jam)
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