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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| MOOD | #9 | 3.593 | 3.593 |
| AUDIO | #11 | 3.556 | 3.556 |
| GRAPHICS | #23 | 3.815 | 3.815 |
| OVERALL | #31 | 3.407 | 3.407 |
| THEME | #36 | 3.370 | 3.370 |
| INNOVATION | #40 | 2.963 | 2.963 |
| ENJOYMENT | #64 | 2.778 | 2.778 |
| HUMOR | #67 | 2.037 | 2.037 |
Ranked from 27 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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I thought you did a nice job with the visuals and am very surprised that there is a full story here in a 24-hour game jam. That was an interesting approach to take with the theme. Nice Job!
Thanks and gald u liked it, we did overscope on this project with the story and art, we ended up putting in a lot of hours into this jam even more than intended but we are both proud of the results!
nice game
Thanks glad u liked it!
Very good game. Crazy how much you got done in 48hrs. The storyline was direct but built up enough to get invested. I feel if you continue work on this post Game Jam to find a way to branch paths more. All in all I am blown away by this game!!!
thanks, glad u liked it, we got a lot of done because we spent A LOT of time on it, i myself spent plus, minus 20 hours on it this weekend.
Maybe we can hop into a game Jam together some time. I like you commitment lol
id be down, i usually program alone but if u do another task like art or composer id love to work with u! or just game design in general
I suck at art lol I normally just do programming and music but I'm always will to try
I actually didn't click on this game at first but after scrolling through submissions again I have to say: was worth it. Nice story, cool/funny voice acting at the start from the boss. Nice pacing, no boring time. Great graphics and sound. Sadly I died because I didn't share my food. I don't understand why he jumped before the yacht trip and not after it but I guess I can't expect any more story-writing within a 2-day game jam.
glad u did end up clicking on it, and thanks for the kind words, SPOILERS (in case someone reading the comments before playing) the reason he jumped before was because Rian bought those tickets for em to go together, and when Rian then died it was the final drop in the glass. but yeah the story was going to be more in depth but as u said with the time frame and everything it was hard to do, even with this story i myself put in close to 20 hours, with pipsqueak not far behind. so more story and more endings would've been even harder
Beautiful game! My choice of hamburger and fried saved my life in the end, really appreaciate how the choice I made reflected the game's ending, super cool! Voice acting was great, and it was a really hard hitting story, you have a knack for storytelling! Keep on doing what you're doing!
Thank you for the kind words, and glad u found the secret ending! you dont know how much these comments mean to us, only being two people for this game jam and this overscoped project really made us work!
I know that feeling, we are also a team of only two people, but its fun! Hope you keep making more games, add me on discord, I would love to see your future projects: geronimo8230
YOOOO THANK YOU !!! Couldn'tve done it without Jocotes amazing coding fr,, (I never even touched a line of code in this whole project)
and FR the Voice actors actually were insane! It was so funny to see Fuegowaves (The boss') recordings when he sent em to us,, and I debated putting the bloopers into the credits but decided against it to keep the sad mood QnQ
Damnn, I would have loved to see the bloopers, it would have been a nice relieving thing to have to make you realize its just a game, but this version is also great :D
The voice acting is really nice. The story is simple, but I guess it gets the point across. ˘-°
thanks glad u liked the voice acting, the story was going to be a little longer with more endings and more complicated but due to the time frame we had to compromise! but i agree its a lil simple, but im glad we got to pull of a secret ending ontop of it
Brother what. Chill out mahn. Its a game jam. This game reminded me of Night in the woods. I bet if you guys decide to go with this you can surely make a game like that. I can already see the effort that has been put in. Very awesome. Big W for this bro.
Thanks man, yeah effort has been put in. since our team consisted of two people being me the programmer and pipsqueak as the artist (+ a lil voice acting) we had to put in many hours for my second and pipsqueaks first gamejam. i gotta play this game night in the woods, someone else said it reminded em of it too. so yeah thanks for playing and glad u enjoyed it
I actually didn't realize how much it did resemble Night in the woods until it got pointed out !!!
And HOLY COW IS THAT A HUGE COMPLIMENT I loved Night in the woods soso much,, so TYYYY!
Wow what a touching story. The voice acting makes it all so much better. Great job on this.
thank you for playing and glad u liked it, i think voice acting is such an underrated part of a story game. really makes it shine, with the game technology we have i would love to see a game in the future benefiting from ai to make story games more interactable with speaking into the mic and having the npc anwser in sound not just text
Good game and story. I myself am going through difficult times right now, so the best thing you can do for yourself is to find a reason to live on.
Thank you for playing, and i hope u get through these though times ur having, remember that ur loved!
Ty !!! And I hope this get better for you man D: We implemented the small 'Find a reason to live on' in the secret ending,, :] Idk if many people have noticed it yet but yeah!!
I had an ending where a dog met me on the roof. I don't know if this is a secret ending or not. Thank you for your support, everything is not so bad for me, I’m not going to die :)
yup yup that was it
I was not expecting this! Great game!
Thank you! compared to other games here its a very dark game. but i guess that makes us stand out
Alot of effort put into the story, good audio design, nice visuals and you can get start to finish in a good time. Dark theme and ending so I wouldn’t say I enjoyed playing this game, but it is great that it is used to raise awareness for a very serious issue. Well done everyone involved.
A lot of effort is the minimum requirement for a game about a serious topic like in here. together it was a team effort of 6 people including the voice acting!
Yup alot of respect for doing so
very good submission Tho you caught me off-guard, nice story and art tbh its one of the few story heavy games that i played until the end and watched the credits
omg so happy u played through to see the credits and glad u liked it, tho did u get the secret ending?
one word, yacht? no spoilers
TYSM !!!! The Credits were my favorite part of the whole game fr,,,
The Sprite and Art seems really good and looks like a lot of work went into it. The voice and music adds a lot of life to the game. This is really good and is a real unique use of theme. Great game.
thank you so much, i hope u played through it all and if not i reccomend u do it!
THANK YOUUU! And to think Jocote didn't want Voice acting at first smh,,,
A unique use of theme to tell a heartbroken story of life. Well made.
thank you, the story was supposed to be a lil more interactive but because of the time frame we only got to one ending, and maybe a secret one...
Great game , loved it
will keep on eye on it . incase you guys keep working on it . loved it
one of my most rated games along with XORIBIT . great job really . !!! .
i rate this game best pixel art rpg in this jam .
glad you'll be keeping an eye on it, hopefully ill get to release an update to it as soon as the voting for the jam ends
Yessir Update will be cooking soon!!!
Classy art. Emotional.
art was all made by pipsqueak, and the emotional story took quite a bit of time to make for a game jam game
AWHHH TYSM !!! Hope you like it :D
some stuff was hard to even rate given the theme… like humor?
sprite work is great, full of life, some animations have a lot more frames than it is reasonable for such a short jam (I mean this in a good way, it’s polish)
props for adding voice, specially with the nature of the game it adds a lot.
I don’t really have much to critique honestly
thanks, i gotta add on for the artist here. in the end there was still room for more work for the artist, closing the end we were struggling with finding tasks for her
really glad u enjoyed the game
YOOOOO THANK YOU !!! Sprites much longer then I wanna admit purely because I had no clue how to make them before today,, but tysm !!
And SO TRUE our voice actors were so nice to get it in on such a short notice