| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #1 | 4.077 | 4.077 |
| Theme | #2 | 4.308 | 4.308 |
| Overall | #2 | 4.046 | 4.046 |
| Visuals | #3 | 4.538 | 4.538 |
| Audio | #4 | 3.846 | 3.846 |
| Innovation | #7 | 3.462 | 3.462 |
Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Please share with us the connection your game has with the theme "Tough Choice"?
You play as an angel, and you'll need to choose whether to accept a prayer, or to decline it, based on what the letter says!
Did you use any third party assets like art or music? If so, which ones?
The only third party assets were some sound effects from pixabay or myinstants, the rest all made by me :D
This game, as mentioned below, is like a paper, please. I love it although sometimes I had it difficult like with the alien, one day I will probably learn their language hehe.
I liked the art of the game in general and the calm music that makes you feel no pressure at any time.
I also found the mechanics to be very good, your morality and happiness decrease if you make mistakes.
Congratulations on your creation!
I had a smile on my face the whole time I was playing this game, and it gave me a hefty amount of chuckles. The art is amazing; it perfectly suits the mood, and the palette/color selection is exquisite. The character design is simply flawless.
I think the game has huge potential, so I hope you decide to keep working on it! If you do, I think the game would greatly benefit from a more complete UI, perhaps giving a preview (or hint) of how much you’d lose/win with each choice, and some sort of way to track who you helped (categorizing requests in moral areas, for instance, could be a way to shortcut this to prevent or mitigate decision paralysis). I get why you didn’t do it, as it could give away too much, which totally makes sense in a shorter game. However, in a more fleshed-out version, it could be crucial to keep the decisions strategically impactful—especially if you choose to procedurally generate or randomize the characters/letters/etc., as others suggested. Great job
So happy to hear this, thank you so much :D
Fun fact, there is actually like some events half complete for like a green or red prewiew to show you the losses and the gains, but decided to actually work on solving the bugs lol
I would like to actually continue this game some day, or at least to reuse the main mechanics and make something similar to it, and lots of the tips you suggested would probably make it into the final version ;)
Still glad you enjoyed, thank you!
Dear God, what an endearing, funny, chuckle-inducing experience! It's Prayers, Please! The art is insanely good, and I especially love the fact that it's a complete, compact experience — great for a jam submission. I think you have a gem here if you're willing to keep working on it.
Nice game, it reminds me Papers Please.
I swear to God that if Mario Rossi is writing me another letter... :-D
Sometimes I have hard time in Accept or Decline a letter, maybe collision polygon is not properly set.
It would be also nice to put back the letter and photo inside the envelope when you double click on them
You have definitely a nice game on your hand, fix the little bugs, add more stories and that's done!
Well done!
About Mario Rossi, it feels natural to me that it appears for me because I'm Italian :-D
To find the bug try the following steps:
1) Play the game from itch.io and not from Construct, you might have touched the code somewhere in the uploaded version.
2) Sit with friends and family members, let them try the game without explaining anything about it. See how they play and if they get Mario. It might be that we try a combination of things that you don't do it because you made the game and you know exactly where to click and drag things.
3) Try to put envelopes in the drawer, remove letters and photos from the envelop, and drag those on the interactive areas, that might be the thing causing the trigger.
4) Add logs to the code to track what's happening with variables and such, you might notice something weird.
I know about the deadline, I had I 9 more hours, but for me was time to sleep, so I did a last bugfix causing at least two more serious bugs and I found it out the day after, once the jam was concluded! :-(
Really on theme and I love the art and interesting choices creating some story telling. Great entry!!
Such clean and nice experience! I like idea of using edge of the screen but it worked not every time. Well done!
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