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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Spooky Greatness | #1 | 4.404 | 4.583 |
Ranked from 12 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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There's a wealth of content here, four complete stories in Inform cleverly linked by a framing story created in Twine. One of the best of the Balderstone series.
I only played this game because of Ryan's incessant caterwauling on Twitter.
It worked!!!
Really great and spooky. Well designed as well. I could replay over and over. I still think about some of the stories. What more could you ask for?
Really great and spooky. Well designed as well. I could replay over and over. I still think about some of the stories. What more could you ask for?
We played through a decent chunk of Nyvo the Dolphin during the Seattle/Tacoma IF meetup and enjoyed the Metroidvania aspects, though I will admit the amount of body horror was more than I had expected.
As ever, an excellent descent into terrifying terror and purple prose! I especially enjoyed the Twine overlay, although sometimes I found it allowed looping in a way I don’t think you intended (e.g. when examining the mauve room, you can select the questions about wallpaper, the bed, and the drawers indefinitely if you want to). I also noticed some weirdness in Chrome in particular when starting some of the embedded parser games (singing for me), which I think has to do with privacy settings—so heads up if you are playing this and notice that! It worked fine in Firefox. The individual games, as also as ever, were great, and I really enjoyed the variety of styles this time around.
Excellent stuff!
What a delight! What a cornucopia of ghastly horror! Perhaps a bit overstuffed, I think, with frightful encounters, devious brainteasers, et al, but still, what a marvel! I hope to jot down more of my thoughts on your game in the future, but if I don't, rest assured that I think it was very good indeed.