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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Graphics | #4 | 4.600 | 4.600 |
| Audio | #26 | 3.764 | 3.764 |
| Overall | #89 | 3.382 | 3.382 |
| Innovation | #226 | 2.491 | 2.491 |
| Theme interpretation | #235 | 2.673 | 2.673 |
| Gameplay | #251 | 2.382 | 2.382 |
Ranked from 55 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
GitHub repository URL
https://github.com/Zelveri/Stardust-Lingers
Theme interpretation
Encountering a spirit from the moon. A journey one may never return from.
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It was such a great experience! awesome art, immersive atmospheric music and enjoyable narrative. I had a lot of fun playing it even though I was a bit tense at some point of the story, I didn’t trust those rabbit eyes :P.
Well done!
The art is just beautiful and the music sets the mood for the story. Great visual novel!
Excellent work for a game jam. The story was compelling and moody, and the art and audio work were fantastic. My only complaint is that it ended so soon, and with so many loose ends!
Really soothing experience :)
The art and music are really cute !
It was such a lovely time watching you play through it, thank you!
The game was both incredibly cute and just ominous. Like you have this constant feeling of impending doom, interspersed with cute fluffy bunny moments.
I really like the writing style. The characters felt believable (to me) and the dialogues relatable.
Art's really nice too. I liked Mira's and Lune's design. Especially the latter's expressions. The text boxes and fonts fit well too.
The backgrounds are pretty, but maybe some other artist can comment on them. Like, I THINK there's something off about them, but it may be intentional (serving the tone). Like, probably they are zoomed-in to make them feel claustrophobic or something. Or maybe there's some issues with the perspective, idk. I didn't study art and I'm not a professional, so I can't comment on that. And also, art is functional to whatever you're doing, so I think they look really good, the artstyle is interesting and they work for this visual novel.
Sound design and music are really good too! Every track fits and helps build that strange mix of cute and dark and mysterious.
I was immersed in the story but it got cut short after opening the cabinet/mirror/thing (excuse my English). I couldn't read what was on it and then the game ended.
Anyways, I hope you finish the whole story and release it some day!
Thank you so much for the detailed comment! I'm glad that the feeling I was going for came across well. Your comment about the backgrounds is pretty interesting, I haven't seen anyone else say that. There's only so much of the story that could be fit in during a month, but it will be continued!
Fantastic art and the music! I like it!
A quick question: was using Unity for a visual novel difficult? If I may ask, did you develop the framework for the dialogue animation and scene transitions by yourself or were there any helpful plugins or assets?
Hey, thank you for the kind words!
We used a tool called Yarn Spinner (https://yarnspinner.dev/), which made it relatively easy.
Also has a very helpful discord community!
Wow that was great. Very polished. Fantastic art, music, sound, and writing. It was very cute, and also had a sense of looming menace throughout. I loved that. Mira's SO seems like bad news.
I hope you finish it. I want to see what happens next.
Oh, one tiny bug I noticed is that when the text is scrolling, the words don't wrap right away (they wait until the line ends), which makes reading the text as it scrolls just a little uncomfortable.
Oh my, thank you so much! This comment really brightened up my day. Someone else also noticed the text scrolling issue, and we are planning on looking into it. I'm very excited to deliver the full story and I hope that it doesn't disappoint!
Great artwork and a nice story that I'd love to see more of. Good animation and presentation of the SMS message exchange, something I need to figure out for my own projects.
Thank you for the kind words, I enjoyed the story in your own project as well!
Really lovely art, congrats!
The art and music were awesome! :-)
I don't usually play graphics novels, but this one must have been a lot of work to do in one month
Really wonderful art and music and writing.
The two time I could choose between options (during the text conversation) let me hope for more of that.
Never played a visual novel before, but this was definitely a nice first one :)