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Relic of Taytown's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Graphics | #44 | 3.743 | 3.909 |
| Fun | #82 | 2.872 | 3.000 |
| Originality | #86 | 3.133 | 3.273 |
| Overall | #87 | 2.972 | 3.104 |
| Audio | #93 | 2.959 | 3.091 |
| Accessibility | #101 | 2.524 | 2.636 |
| Controls | #104 | 2.698 | 2.818 |
| Theme | #128 | 2.872 | 3.000 |
Ranked from 11 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
4.2.2
Wildcards Used
Transfer Takeover, Actions have Consequences
Game Description
Relic of TayTown is a visual novel style game of fetch quests. Play as Gary, a basic salary worker that just wants to go home 🙁┬─┬ノ( º _ ºノ)
How does your game tie into the theme?
The game explores the lore of TayTown and how the relic affects time and space within and around it through stories told by the townsfolk. 📖
Source(s)
no?
Discord Username(s)
sodagummy, carrotsss_5800, lizcheong
Participation Level (GWJ Only)
1 (first time)
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Comments
I enjoyed the story. All interactions coming from the options menu felt confusing. Especially with how much you use the map I think ideally that would be present on the screen at all times.
Hi! Thank you for the review! We’re glad you liked the story and will work on fixing the HUD in the update!
Cute game and cute dog! Lots in common with our game too, even down to the food fetch quest joke lol. I enjoyed meeting all the characters and it was cool switching to the dog and exploring the different dialogue options. I’m a fan of the art especially. Well done!
Hello! Thanks for your kind review! We are glad you like Pancake interactions and the art!
Pancaaaaaakes! Very charming art and I was surprised to find a day/night cycle. I may have accidentally sequence-broke the game by finding the ring and fishing before getting the request from the NPCs to do that, but overall great job for your first submission!
Hi! Thanks for the compliments! I’m glad you liked our art :D As for the sequence-break, in the code I checked if you had specific conversations with other NPCs so the requests would more or less be in the correct sequence. Having the items in advance would skip some alternate dialogue and some of the additional lore I put in those paths, but as long as you never gave an item that you didn’t already have, then it was working as intended :D Thank you!
Feels like a prototype of a game but there's not much game in the game. The few dialogues as a dog are cool, but that's basically it. Not, let's get through each issue one at a time.
I'm not really sure how I should feel about this, but feels very uncompleted. Nothing really works in here.
We are beginners in godot. Thanks for the feedback, we’ll take note and improve next time.
Very cute art! I think some sound effects based on interactions would help the feel of the game a lot and disguise the short background music loop. Solid gameplay and everything’s there, maybe some QoL tweaks for how to access things. Nice game!
(Update) OH! I forgot to mention the banner on the page is SO good. I may or may not have spent a couple minutes wondering how you got itch.io to show an image as the “start game” background :facepalm:
Hi! Thanks for your compliments! I’m glad you like our game! We’ll try to make the options and actions more visible next time. I’m glad you like our banner too tee hee :D
Took me a while to figure out how to get out of the inn, but I had fun figuring out the trades!
Hi! Thank you for your feedback! I’m glad you liked the trades system! For the inn thing we’re planning to add the map button directly in the HUD post jam, hopefully that will help :D
The art is super cool. Need some work on the animating but there is a lot to do in this game! Well done!
Hi! Thanks for your feedback! We’re glad you liked our art and gameplay! We wish we had more time to animate stuff too haha XD
Great art style - very cohesive and it knows exactly what it's trying to deliver. I like the "one small favour" approach to the story i.e. a chain of fetching things for people, and cool way of tying in the wildcard by playing as the dog!
If I had to nit-pick, I'd say maybe switch the background audio up a bit - it did start to get a bit repetitive. Also (as someone else pointed out) it would be cool if the map/trades were icons of their own on the UI.
Other than that, amazing job for the time limit!
Heyo! Thanks for your review! I’m glad you liked our art and story! For the music, we originally wanted to make our own but ran out of time. I’ll add more variation if I do swap it out post jam :D We appreciate your feedback!
Cool game! I think the art is pretty cohesive! It seems like there is some sort of energy/ time limit per “day” so I think it might be helpful to put a gauge to show how much time/energy is left!
Thanks for your review! I might add the time progression as a clock icon or something. (More for the backlog tee hee)
Nice little game, some small bugs but they don't break the game, I have a suggestion, maybe try to make the game a full point'n click game would be cool. Also, it's kind of not intuitive how the map and the inventory are in the options menu, I've spend some time to learn how to leave the Inn until I clicked options, maybe add the map in the HUD of the game could be better.
Congrats and good luck!
Hello! Thank you for your feedback! Regarding the controls, we did try to simplify it towards the end but it probably would have been easier to plan it from the start haha. I like your suggestion! I’ll put the HUD suggestion in the backlog for post jam changes! (Ps may I ask what bugs you observed?) Thanks!
for some reason after half of the playthrough, when was announced that it was the end of the day but didn't teleported me automatically to the Inn so I had to do it manually. I don't know what triggered this bug tho.
Oh oop we’ll look into that, thanks!