Funny story which is definitely out of this world. The screen shake albeit briefly was very jarring. What struck me as odd was that the duck people are a man and a girl (not a woman) despite her looking fully grown.
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Ducks Out Of This World's itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Accessibility? | #5 | 3.929 | 4.077 |
Adherence to the theme? | #5 | 4.373 | 4.538 |
Environment, aesthetics, mood? | #6 | 4.299 | 4.462 |
Mechanics & gameplay loop? | #9 | 2.817 | 2.923 |
Please provide some feedback! Be kind. | #9 | 3.632 | 3.769 |
Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Team Members
Elf (art, script, coding)
Alastor (brainstorming, script)
Generative AI
none at all
Comments
Ahoy there! It seems we both made visual novels involving spaceship crashes!
The background with water, sky and mountains was very pretty and well made, I Iiked how glassy the water looked.
A few elements I particularly enjoyed were the duck sounds, the ancient duck scrolls and the shonen powers, haha.
I was a big fan of your game last year, and I really enjoyed this game as well. There were a few parts of the story writing I feel like could have been improved a little, but nothing stand-out major. I also got a few good laughs, mostly from the visuals, which was great. I liked that not only did this follow a fairly literal interpretation of the theme, but it seemed to also follow the theme figuratively. The serious parts of the story were great as well. I loved the slow realization of what this planet was (though I had first assumed it was just a private game-hunting planet), and I think it was well paced. I noticed the "to be continued...", and I don't know if you're actually planning on continuing this post-jam, but I would be excited to see more of this story. I will say, though, that I felt like the flashback at the end was superfluous, and I think the story would have flowed better without it.
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This is such a silly and original story and I love it!! It especially left me chills when I found out that the computer was actually associated with the hunters and lead the player to the cliffhanger. I think where you left the story off was a nice place that left me satisfied with lots of answers but also left some questions dangling to keep me wanting more. I would've loved to see audio sliders or choices in game, even if they didn't change the story at all. Overall, it was a very fun experience with a very unique spin on the theme :)
thanks so much for playing :D very happy you liked the story! There were a lot of elements planned including decisions, different ending etc, that were not possible to fit in in the amount of time I had for the game jam, so the build is more a teaser. but as such I'm all the more glad you're interested in the plot!
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