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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Presentation | #227 | 4.169 | 4.169 |
| Originality | #654 | 3.729 | 3.729 |
| Overall | #1116 | 3.289 | 3.289 |
| Fun | #2639 | 2.566 | 2.566 |
Ranked from 166 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
The player talks to characters they don't understand and tries to speak the language with almost no context in a foreign town while searching for a lost person who knows the plan for the day.
Did your team create the art for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
Yes
We created all art during the game jam
Did your team create the audio for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
Yes
We created all audio during the game jam
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Fun game. I love the art.
Fun game. I love the art.
Awesome art ! I felt lost but I guess do it randomly is the goal of this game.
The artworks and music are fantastic. I felt lost a few times, which was the point of the game. Really well done.
Your presentation is wonderful :)
I love the art style!
This is such an interesting concept, and the game is amazing! The music very nice to listen to as you’re playing along and the player’s inability to understand what’s happening is awesome since it goes along with the theme. Great job!
Great art, great music, definitely feel out of control haha.
The language is solfege? I picked sola because la comes after so and I didn’t want to tempt fate with a minor scale lol
Our Writer/Artist is very happy you worked that out. Thanks for the feedback.
The art style is fantastic! Well done.
A game about trying to understand a foreign language is a great idea! Good art too!
I love so much the art style in this game. This game reminded me of when I traveled to Japan and I couldn't communicate properly hahaha
I really like this game. I just got one ending, and I'm looking forward to another. To some extent you really feel like you're in a foreign country where you don't know the language.
This is a genius idea for a game and I would love to see it developed further. The art was fantastic and the story hooked me right in. I did find a bug where if you go back to the hotel room instead of the alley it will continue to play the dialog from the alley even though I did not travel there. Maybe it was because of this but I ended up getting soft-locked and unable to progress. Regardless, fun game and good luck!
We foolishly made the game in an engine that really doesn't favor a vis-novel style game so a lot of the bugs are cause I was programming by the seat of my pants and the script was started a bit late to give enough time to test it well by the time it was finished.
It's still impressive that you made a visual novel! I can imagine a late script would cause problems. Do you think you'll update it after the upload freeze is lifted? If so I'd love to check it out again to see how it ends!
Very cool art style, how is it made?
We made it in GameMaker with a lot of custom code.
The text function to write it a chara term at a time gave us an option to swap fonts or add extra features with special characters.
Art was made in ibisPaintx on an iPad with a layer for screen tones.
I really like the art a lot :)
The artist has been informed.
I want sound at the beginning :/ also instead of scrolling text to explain everything, maybe do it through an in game cutscene or tutorial. I know time in game jams is limited, but I would still like to have seen something more creative. Other than that, nice game!
We had the title crawl instead of a normal cut scene because "there are no bad ideas" and it was quicker to make that than programming more dialog boxes.
makes sense, time is precious in game jams
The idea is cool and the visuals are amazing, but the gameplay at the end was randomly clicking one of the options and keep going. I guess this is exactly the point to follow the theme, a cool interpretation, but in the end a little boring.
Frustrating without being boring is a difficult knife's edge to walk.
Looks amazing and great, but not very fun to play. Im not even sure that my choices affected anything at all.
This is a really cool idea! A visual novel where you can't control what you say! Great Execution too
I think it was a good idea but I didnt totally get what to do when I didnt get the town map but good job