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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #66 | 3.788 | 3.788 |
| Graphics | #140 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Innovation | #198 | 3.424 | 3.424 |
| Overall | #241 | 3.434 | 3.434 |
| Game Design | #308 | 3.364 | 3.364 |
| Fun | #527 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Theme | #533 | 3.030 | 3.030 |
Ranked from 33 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
Warning - Spoilers ahead:
Our character suffers from a fictional condition that relates to memory loss and confusion. They must read their journal every day to gain their memories. When they read their journal they try to piece together their memories: this is simulated with puzzles and fuzziness. Once they solve the puzzle the pages become clear (they remember). Ultimately the storm is simulated by the growing realisation that is happening in our character's mind. At first they are calm because they don't realise what is happening to them (Ignorance is bliss). But as the moments pass they realise that they suffer from an irreversible condition and a sensation of loss and sadness hits them which simulates the storm.
Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
Yes all code, art and music was made by us.
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Graphics and sound are great and set the atmosphere really well. To improve it, I like the visual cloud effect but it might be done in a way that sort of obscures the text and things you have to do, making it harder to read and see what's going on. It's not too bad, but it's just something I noticed especially if playing it for a while. Overall I think you did a really nice job on the game!
The visuals and audio create an extremely cosy atmosphere, which fits the gameplay extremely well. The story is well implemented. Most of the puzzles are really fun to figure out as they're challenging enough to make you use your brain while also not being too challenging to the point you're scratching your head. First puzzle was definitely a brain stump though.
Still, this is a solid game 👍
I like the artistic direction. And I really like this kind of mindblowing revelations in a story ! The strongness of it is with no doubt the narration !
I didn't understand the first puzzle, even with the solution....
A simple and short game, but effective !
Good job !
Great ambiance, art and sound effects!
As everyone seems, I got stuck on the first puzzle :D, it's a little hard to start, but the other ones felt great. The game fits the theme, but the storm is not preset enough, even though in a way the whole game is the storm for the protagonist.
Great work, guys. Really enjoyed this, also liked the added effect of the "clouds" being there constantly shifting, like the person's mind is never clear, always clouding their thinking.
A very fun experience, a great and concise story to go along with it, great work :)
Really nice game. Love storytelling and the theme of the game.
I got confused at first puzzle (thought 2431 is right answer) and last puzzle (I wrote the name with persons title, so maybe I would also count this solution as valid one). But the other puzzles were great.
Artstyle looks nice as well. Good job.
Great game!Play my game too please:)
Oh my goodness I love this so much, it's so cozy but sad. Great job. The puzzles were difficult but rewarding. I really enjoyed this game, thank you so much
Thank you so much! :)
I do enjoy a puzzle game and I think your game is really high on the innovation scale for me! I think audio was also another strong point. I will say that I wish the overlay effect of the page faded spots could be toggled off. I have difficulty reading certain fonts and it was really important to be able to read the pages to solve to puzzles. To play I ended up having to screen shot the game so that I could read it all and solve the puzzles. I am sure that is something you could easily fix in a post jam build though. I think the game design of the different puzzles was really well done. Nice job!
Thank you so much! :) I added the fuzziness to simulate the confusion of our hero and also to make the puzzles more difficult. But I could certainly reduce the effect or just remove it all together if it's annoying to players :)
This was really interesting! I loved the 4th puzzle in particular, where you needed to figure out what each item did to the patterns. The story is interesting, you say it's a fictional condition, but it looks like dementia to me.
There's a really nice, cozy vibe with the art and music, but it doesn't really match with the tragedy the main character is going through.
The smudges on the pages caused problems on the puzzles, I couldn't see that there was a water drop on the grid in one spot so I placed one there and thought I was missing one.
Overall, I liked it, particularly the way the minigames matched the story.
Thank you for playing! The condition is inspired by similar real conditions like dementia, but I didn't want to misrepresent the real issues that people suffer from this. The smudge you are referring to was added on purpose. I made sure that the puzzle was solvable regardless, but I added it because I thought that it is a way to make the player be in such state of confusion. (Maybe you put something there and you forgot or you don't remember what it is in there in the first place). But thank you for the feedback. I might reduce or remove the effect all together in the future if people find it annoying.