Nice game! I liked the art style. It also felt very much like Papers Please, which I assume you were going for. Well done!
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Godot Version
4.4.beta4
Wildcards Used
N/A
Game Description
A Papers Please inspired experience. Burn evidence as an archivist for the national department.
How does your game tie into the theme?
You're an archivist, but you end up [REDACTED]
Source(s)
https://github.com/Maaack/gwj78
Discord Username(s)
maaack, vikfro, kaishido, petetimessix
Participation Level (GWJ Only)
22
Comments
Very nice style, had a few giggles due to the acronyms used and everything was pretty well written. Overall good entry even though it isn't my usual go-to genre.
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Jason Drawn - Never Stationery!I liked the sound and ambience and the artstyle of the documents. would have loved to have a sound for having done the right thing, and a sound for failing the particular document. Other than that solid entry
Maybe you could add some small character art for your superiours etc. which blends in while dialog.
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DATÆRASERthanks for playing! There is a dialogue popping up if you burn a document that you technically shouldn’t have (there are a few paths and endings where you have to do “mistakes”).
But yeah maybe we also should have a positive feedback for when you are applying the rules correctly, on top of the recap that pops up at the end of the day.
IIRC most documents with a date are in invalid YYYY-DD-MM, e.g. the first day the first personal letter between from Roger. There’s just one or two in the valid YYYY-MM-DD I think.
Sorry about the document with a date format ambiguity, I tried not to have date ambiguity but may have missed one. Or I may have labeled the data wrong (in terms of “this doc should be redacted”).
I didn't understand some of the instructions at first, but that was more of a "me-problem" :-D
Even though I'm not patient enough for these types of games, I still had my fair share of fun for the time beeing (:
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A game about OlafFun game, I really like the setting and that there's a progression with the story, I wanted to add something similar to my game too. I found some difficulties understanding what I should have redacted and what I should have archived, I think it's not easy to communicate creatively in these type of games, at least that's what I found difficult while making my game which is kinda similar to yours.
I got the centralist ending lol!As the ancient Roman said: Audi et alteram partem or "Listen also to the other side".
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RedactedOoh we also did a Papers Please style document manager. Ours is more tongue and cheek, while this is still chill and serious. I like the assets and vibe here!
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Corporate HellLoved the reimagining of Papers, Please with a modern/topical twist. Sometimes the rules could feel a bit ambigious, but I think that's intentionally part of it, "moral" choices and such. A chillin entry due to its relevance but well executed
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SnowErasersI really really like the furnace and archive sprites. Great work there!
I personally had a hard time understanding what I was supposed to do because when I thought I burn the documents I was supposed to, some dialog pop up confused me by saying "that's getting out of my paycheck". Did I fuck up? I don't know. It may be a language barrier (English is not my first language) or just not used to text heavy games.
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SnowSo some of the rules and documents are a bit ambiguous to instill some moral choices (and to pay attention to clues distilled through details in the documents and story, but as someone who ironically rarely plays text-heavy games too, I totally get it if people don’t understand. It’s a hard thing to balance).
Also there are a few different paths and endings in the game. And for some, you actually have to make a “mistake” which will get you the dialog pop-up (and salary fine at the end of the day in the recap).`
Btw I’m not a native either, I’m French, which is why the game is written in some sort of conlang, English with some words replaced by their French counterpart when very close to the English word. Maybe the title should be “Fournaise in the Archive” or something 🤔
Damn that was good.
I had fun trying to decide what to do with each but in the end guess that I'm a
Centrist.
Can I has cheezburg,
sincerely,
The cat department
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Unlock to EraseYour page is not public - I would love to see the game though!
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Erase Or Leave [IN DEVELOPMENT]
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