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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Spooky Greatness | #19 | 3.538 | 3.538 |
Ranked from 26 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)
What languages do you participate in?
English
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Fun concept, well executed.
i thought this was gonna be a different game and then it turned into the game i wanted it to be so good job
Thank you, that made me smile!
very charming game. the core conceit is hard to get right, especially in 4 hrs, for the best of folks, and I think the game stumbles along the way. for ex: I wish there had been custom dialogue/prose when different combos of the monsters speak to each other instead of a bottleneck passage which just swaps out the names (as far as I could tell). But for 4 hours by an author new to the genre, it's pretty good, and having one theme disguised as another is fun! I also liked the drawings.
Thank you for your kind words and for your helpful feedback!
I enjoyed the creativity of the character designs and how the writing managed to convey two different things at once. I'm more used to playing parsers than choice games, and it was somehow satisfying beginning to see the web of pathways.
Thank you for your very kind post!
Spoiler so hiding under this tab
Well that was a bit of a twist! Always nice to be surprised when you think one thing is happening and it turns out to be something different. I liked that there were a few different monsters to interact with and decide who to run towards/evade/ allow to vie for your attention (although what happens to you if you let them take you is probably a little concerning even if you do make it into the urban legends). Although the twist is a arguably a “romance” one, it doesn’t feel like it leans too heavily into it, more like if you get caught you decide whether to keep you humanity or give in and be warped into something else to try something new.
I did find one small name-bug (game runs completely fine, it’s only a very little one), I can let you know where it is if that’s something you’d like to know.
Thank you for summarizing the game thoughtfully, it really helps me see how others experience what I write!
I can't make any substantive changes now but feel free to post bugs and I'll fix them once it's over!
Cool, it’s only a little one. I think it might just need a variable to switch the “Icicle Face” speaker as I got a sentence where it said:
screenshot below
I got this too and for me this screen also said "they has". The rest was smooth as far as I noticed though!
I spotted another bit where a variable change is needed.
spoiler/bug
It says:“She’s a grown woman, Gordon,” says your mom. “Let her make her own decisions.”
no matter what pronouns are chosen at the start.
You're right! Thanks for the report!