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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Spooky Greatness | #12 | 3.286 | 3.286 |
Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Which category is your game in?
La Petite Mort (created in under 4 hrs)
Which theme does your game fall under?
Spooky
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Comments
A limerick can be quite hard to write,
But here are some that will give you a fright.
(When I review I actually prefer
To write iambs in a pentameter.)
I'm not going to write a response as a limerick as that's one skill I do not have! (I don't know how you do it to be honest.) I'm not sure but I think there might be a bug after the blessed end link? (I'm not sure if it is meant to go dark/blank due to what's happened in the story, or if it should have an end like the others?) Also, I'm really curious now, what's a wampire? (I looked it up thinking it'd be a kind of vampire of some description and google told me it was a rock band which I'm pretty sure is not the case here.)
Edit: Just had a scroll through the other comments and saw the black screen was on purpose so disregard :)
It's just like a vampire, but spoopy.
And thank you for being my groupie!
So now I'll proceed
to sit down and read
some Paolo T. Bacigalupi.
Thanks for the reply (and the limerick :D )
As a big fan of Limerick Heist,
I also found this one quite nice.
These patterns of speech
make a memorable niche
Fun, sideways-thinking, concise.
I quite liked this game
but I am still not sure what
a limerick is. Help?
this sad ignorance
can only be remedied
by more limericks
lol
At times this game was more funny than spooky, but it had some dark/spooky elements to! As someone who enjoys humor more than scary I didn't mind.
Really enjoyed the twist when you kill the vampire and the branching after that. There did seem to be a dead page, but it seemed intentional since you died? I also felt like there were SO MANY OPTIONS at the end, but there were only 3 or 4 endings. A bunch all led to the same page with no differences, at that point you could just have one less option, but it was good none-the-less.
I am really impressed that it is all done in limericks. Some were better than others, but the whole game was 100% in a limerick, well done!
Yes, you and the page are both dead;
you totally picked up my thread.
Thanks for reviewing,
as well as for clueing
me in re the ending-branch spread!
The scansion was sometimes a stretch
Which seems fine for a four-hour sketch;
The tone, while surprising,
Was clear from apprising
The content note that you could fetch.
On blessed relief when I harked,
I found only a screen full-on dark.
On purpose? A bug?
I must leave with a shrug,
And rate other games--what a lark.
:)
(Good job pulling this off with consistency on the limerick front. My favourite part was--oddly--the description of the fridge's contents.)
On purpose. Such blessed relief
contains only darkness and grief.
A "HEY YOU'RE DEAD END"
would not really blend
in well with that somber motif.
The gameplay was simple but fine
For a 4-hour game made in twine
But I think your rhyme scheme
Clashes badly with theme
I was just looking for a fun time