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A jam submission

ValorieView game page

A short adventure of a bird who hates light
Submitted by Finn Truong — 2 hours, 6 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
VISUALS#114.5804.580
MUSIC#174.1184.118
SOUNDS#273.9083.908
OVERALL#1073.8243.824
DESIGN#1623.5383.538
THEME#2303.4453.445
INNOVATION#3603.0083.008

Ranked from 119 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted(+1)

"For someone who loves darkness you sure love burning shit down". lol

I love the graphics and the music. And can't say that the platformer is too easy. But, even though it's funny, I would advise a more serious dialogue... It does not fit the atmosphere at all. 

Submitted(+1)

Wonderfully atmospheric game, big fan of the dialogue and characterisation. Nice use of theme, good job.

Submitted(+1)

Very good game and music, but dialogues are too long.

Submitted(+1)

Loved the game the visuals and music was fantastic.

Though i would like to know why Valorie hates the light so much.

Submitted(+1)

Nice atmosphere, it could have been great to have more game mechanics even if it's a story based game.

Submitted(+1)

Wow really great music and art and interesting story. I really wish the animation would be a lil bit better to fit in with all those great stuffs.

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Pretty and moody game you made there. Even though the bird is pretty grim, it felt like a wholesome experience somehow :) Visuals, sfx and music work really well together. Nice stuff!

Submitted(+1)

The best visuals of whole the jam (at least until now). I love the combination between sounds light effects, art, dialogs and music, they fit incredibly well, and everything is perfectly polished. It reminds me a lot to Night in the woods and that is an amazing thing. Fantastic work mate!

Developer

I love NITW, one of my favorite game of all time :D I'm really happy my little game remind you of it!

Thank you so much for playing and the  kind words! I really appreciate it!

Submitted(+1)

Really adored the visuals on this one, and how well everything blended together: visuals, gameplay, sound effects and music. Even the little "Thank you for playing" at the end being animated makes this feel so much more polished and cute than if you omitted these details. My biggest gripe with the experience is the narration, which can be quite slow (I'm a very fast reader and would love to have a button to accelerate it), and the grammatical mistakes and weird sentence structures would occasionally distract from the experience (though, as I imagine you're not a native english speaker, this is obviously a minor point). Good job on this, really well done!

Submitted(+1)

Best game so far very polished awesome, plz rate my garbage game

Submitted(+1)

Well done! I enjoyed the "dark" humour X-D

Very nice looking game and the music gave it a nice atmosphere. I love how you used the lighting.

Val sounds like a sweetheart, hehe

Keep it up! 

Submitted(+1)

Game had a very nice visuals and tone! Great work!

Submitted(+1)

This game looks absolutely stunning. It is simple but its fun, a nice experience.

Valorie sure does hate light huh? Would be nice to know why ^^

Submitted(+1)

I Liked the glow effects and the atmosphere! I agree with the the dialog comments below, that it doesn't seem to fit but it was enjoyable regardless , nice job!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Very nice game. The visuals and atmosphere are perfect and the sound design is great as well. The only thing I'd say is that the dialog (while it was funny) just didn't fit with the rest of the game. Polish this up and add some more gameplay and story and I see this doing very well.

Submitted (1 edit)

Super cool game! 

The visuals, the music, the sounds are all super nice. Playing that sound, when I jump on the platform is such a nice touch. Everything is super neatly put together, great job.

My one and only critique is the dialog. The atmosphere that the visuals and the music create are emotional and the dialogs don't fit that. The dialogs rather use slang and are kind of "meme like" with phrases like "eat shit", "hehe" or "heck yeah". These dialogs could be great in a different game, but it doesn't match with anything else in this game.

Other than that, amazing game and I really loved it :)

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Thank you so much for playing!! I really love your game so it means a lot :D

About the dialogues :D Honestly, I've been making a lot of kind of depressing game, and I'd make another one for this jam but you know, I  want to shake things up a bit last minute. I kinda know it doesn't fit like at all but I have a lot of fun writing all the dialogues so totally worth it :D

All jokes aside, I really appreciated you taking the time to play my little game and give me some really lovely feedback! I'm really happy you liked it :D

Submitted(+1)

This game looks and feels very good. I love Valorie because she reminds me of me when I was a teenager. I absolutely didn't like the light. I just wish it was a tad bit longer. I give it a solid 5 star

Submitted(+1)

This game is absolutely beautiful in it's visuals, probably one of the prettiest I've seen in the jam. The music fits perfectly and all of the little sound effects, like jumping on platforms is perfect as well. I wish it was longer and had a better conclusion to the story, but for 1 week, that's entirely understandable! I hope you keep working on this and turn it into a full game, I'd happily play it again!

The only improvement I could suggest would be to make the platforming a little more fluid through something like coyote time.

Great game overall! Check out my game if you get a chance!

Submitted(+1)

Very relaxing game! I enjoyed the whole experience. Great work on the dialogue and character development, I was actually kind of sad when the game ended. I wasn't completely sure what the white glowing bird did. Did I miss something? I tried to interact with it. Either way, great game overall!

Developer

Thank you so much for playing!! 

You can press E when the prompt pop up near the white bird to trigger some dialogues :D

Submitted(+1)

Beautiful atmosphere. Very funny and well written dialogue, really gave strong characters in a very short time. Well Done!

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