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A jam submission

Nearbyville: The Abduction of WendyView game page

Tests your mental limits with puzzles, a story with layers
Submitted by Isabella Ava (@SuccubellaGames) — 27 days, 21 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Judge's Score#48n/an/a
Story/Writing#502.4493.000
Overall#642.1232.600
Sound Design#652.2452.750
Gameplay#662.0412.500
Horror#701.6332.000
Creativity#712.2452.750

Ranked from 4 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Which Theme(s)/Horror Genre(s) did you use for your game?
Creature/Cosmic/Supernatural

What challenge(s) did you decide to add, if any?
None

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

After playing this game myself, I agree that there needs to be more direction on where to go. After a while, I was unable to go any further than getting either Ending 7 or whatever ending you get going into a random cave. Overall, it's more of a cute fantasy rather than horror, and although I kind of like the simplicity of some of the puzzles, I really dislike not knowing where to go or what to do. It feels like some of the logic puzzles you intended simply do not work the way they should, or that they're not intuitive enough.

Developer

You're spot on with what I’ve been concerned about — my game isn't delivering the level of horror I was aiming for. Would you be up for lending a hand?

Submitted

Sure. I'm not the best expert, but I'll help out however I can. From what I can see, I think trying to go for atmospheric horror will be the easiest genre to try without having to change too much of the game. Playing with sound and light will help create a sense of unease in the player that might REALLY go well with the concept of finding someone who's gone missing, especially since neither we (nor the main character) know where she's been taken. I can already see some places where you've started to do this. If you want, feel free to DM me; I'm worried saying too much here will spoil the game for others.

Developer

Where to dm to you? Maybe you can add my discord master2015hp so we can chat more about this

Host(+1)

I played this on stream and after a bit found it overtly frustrating because I couldn't figure out what to do. If there were more save points or a little more guidance, that would be ideal.

Submitted(+1)

Steel of Studio Blue saw your game played, and here is what he thought:

https://www.twitch.tv/studiobluegames/clip/AffluentBadChamoisPunchTrees-Au7BKydA...