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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Presentation | #21 | 4.630 | 4.630 |
| Overall | #213 | 3.937 | 3.937 |
| Originality | #414 | 3.890 | 3.890 |
| Fun | #1051 | 3.290 | 3.290 |
Ranked from 100 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?
It fits in both narrative (connection between the girl and the bird) and technical (puzzles) way
Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?
Yes
We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam
Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?
Yes
We created the vast majority of the music during the game jam
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This is such a beautiful game, the art style, the music and the design. Great job, my only critique is that the controls of the game were difficult to use.
thank you! controls? you need only left mouse buttons and wheel/up&down buttons. could you explain what was difficult?
Sorry my bad I didn't explain what I meant very well . I meant that it was difficult to perform the action I was trying to do, like when spinning the pin wheel to unlock the next frame or when placing the puzzle pieces. It took a few times to get the thing to do what I want, which takes the player out of the immersion. But overall great job, just giving some critique in case you were planning on updating the game.
i see, thanks for the feedback!
The approach you took to tackling the theme is really unique and separates you from other jam games I've played. I know you've already heard this but the puzzles are HARD :)
I think you can make the puzzles hard but it would be nice to ramp up the difficulty more smoothly. Other than that, very interesting game.
I would appreciate your rating / comments on my game as well, to see what we can improve. Thanks for making this.
thanks for your feedback! yes, i could increase the difficulty, but essentially there are just three puzzles. i have three similar games which have easier similar type of puzzles if you are interested.
sure, i'll try it:)
You absolutely could release this as a kids' puzzle game (though hopefully they could handle the lunar cycle puzzle better than my poor brain). Just great presentation and art and story. The wallpaper page was particularly good!
thank you:) though i think puzzles might be a bit difficult for children:)
I think they could manage the wallpaper and constellation ones. The moon phases would be a little much.
Very poetic game. Didn't except the puzzles to be that challenging tho! But I managed to make it thought.
Birds are quite facinating right ;)
Good job!
thank you! glad to hear that you managed to pass the puzzles:)
yep, birds are great:)
This is the most beautiful game I've seen in this Jam, but not very much fitting the theme though imo. Love your artwork and surprised to see you get all this done in 48hrs!
thanks! well, i think the theme shouldn't be understood literally as two objects connected physically by chain or whatever. i understand it in term of having connection between girl and bird, as well as puzzles are related to connecting objects.
Very impressive artwork & sound. Well done.
thank you!
WOW! The atmosphere this game creates is stunning. I really love the watercolor-y style, as well as the eerie music and the words that guided me through the game. Really really beautiful work :)
thank you so much! i am really happy that you liked it!
Beautiful art and a charming narrative! The puzzles were simple but fun. I have mixed feelings about the music, the style and instruments are great and fit the game really well, but the melody feels somewhat disharmonic which makes it a bit disturbing and depressing. Perhaps it is intentional? Another detail that would in my opinion improve the experience would be if the camera moved automatically after clicking on the vane, but that's just a minor thing. Overall, great submission!
thanks for the feedback! the music was made in a way to create certain atmosphere and mood of the game. well, i was trying initially with moving camera but didn't like the effect it was giving - i want it to be rather like reading a children book when you stop at each page for some time and slowly moving forward instead of quickly going through it.
Really liked the art and music! The story was a nice way to compel me to keep going through the puzzles. But seriously, the art and presentation was fantastic for a jam game. Good job!
thank you! i am really happy you like it:)
Lovely music and art, so relaxing to play through, and nice puzzles. I really like what you've done with this!
thank you so much!
The art looks so beautiful and it's fun to see how to story unfolds. Good job!
thanks a lot:)
Loved the art style and the way the story was going, you have a whole comic story going on with this, good job @ana.merzlaya :)
thank you:)
Nice implementation of interactive comics, noticeable hand painted pictures, interesting puzzles making me stuck a bit several times. Sometimes there are small problems with not understanding what to do next between puzzles
thank you!
what do you mean? when you finish with each frame the pinwheel is appearing and if you click on it it means that you are ready to proceed to the next frame.
Yeah, once a pinwheel appeared on a blue background and noticed this after a while. Also sometimes you had to click on it several times to see next frame, maybe it just has a delay before showing
oh, i see, well i know which place you are talking about and i was not sure where would be better place to put it, sorry
hm, if you see that pinwheel is rotating and your heard the sound it means that next frame is ready. if you don't see it it might mean that you didn't scroll enough far to open bottom border of the frame (i wanted to prevent animation to start before all frame is visible in case you miss something)
thank a lot for feedback!
Such a calming and fun game. Its really good I liked everything especially the art!
thanks a lot!
This drawing style is amazing!
thank you!
One of the best yet, no words, everything was excellent! A little more hints on the puzzles would be great, but they were solvable now too. Bravo!
thank you, i appreciate that:) yes, maybe puzzles were too difficult, but well
In addition to the obviously excellent artwork, music, and story, I like a lot of the little touches, like how the entire thing is one sheet and the artwork fades in and elements appear or change, like the branches coming into focus. Finding constellations is a great use of the theme. I could have gone for a little more gameplay, but so much work clearly went into it I can see that would be hard to write in the time constraints.
thank you so much! yes, with such time limitation we had to make compromises.and didn't have time to include everything we planned
Interesting way to implement the jam's theme both in the plot and in the gameplay.
I really had struggle with the second puzzle, where you have to drag and drop the constellations. It felt like it took me ages to find the bird.
Despite that, i would have loved to play more puzzels, that take more advantage of the drag and drop mechanic in an more interesting way.
Overall i think this is a great game with a lovely hand drawn design. Great job.
thank you for your feedback:) I think the trick is to find some reference points which are rare appearing - for bird it could be three dots in a line on the tail. you might want to check my other games with similar style - also point&click with similar puzzles (but much easier :))
That was a really beautiful experience :)
thank you:)
A lovely story. I did have to go fullscreen in order to see everything, but that was fine, probably enhanced it if anything. The music was perfectly fitting a reverie-like state near sleep.
I could wish that the illustrations would load in with slightly less delay upon reaching the panels. I found it slightly distracting that the instruction text kept moving while I was working on the puzzle.
The art was beautiful, though it took me a while to match up those branches! The pacing was a little choppy just because I took so long.
Overall very much appreciated it, thank you for the experience! Cheers.
thank you for your feedback! yes, maybe i should stop animation of instructions when you already got the point what to do, thanks for idea. well, i animated to make sure people notice it.