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A jam submission

Ghosts of New EnglandView game page

A short visual novel exploring your family's history and the history of New England.
Submitted by Sam Scribbler — 1 hour, 25 minutes before the deadline
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Ghosts of New England's itch.io page

Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#422.8353.750
Gameplay#562.6463.500
Graphics#622.9293.875
Overall#662.6463.500
Historical Accuracy#1001.8902.500
Thematic Relevancy#1012.1732.875

Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

On what countries' history is the game based ?
America

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20th-century American history, focusing on the New England (northeastern) region of the US.

(Quick note - attempted to upload a bugfixed version without deleting the original file, failed, then tried again. Sorry for the confusion.)

Credit the makers of any assets you used below:
Engine used - Ren'py
Main menu theme - "Mysterious" by Tom Aldrich

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

I thoroughly enjoyed this. You created a great sense of atmosphere and mystery.
Great choice of backgrounds and other graphics.

The story unfolds gradually and I liked being able to choose my degree subject etc, although the choice for the player otherwise were limited. The game ended unexpectedly when I chose one of the 3 pictures in the hidden room - I guess that is as far as you got.

I would come back to try again when its finished to see where the story goes.

Submitted(+1)

Always love seeing other visual novels in Jams, and another one made in Ren'Py, too! :) I enjoyed the atmosphere, graphics and creepy music. Was almost expecting a jump scare. Unfortunately, the demo ended right when it got exciting (after finding the photos). Hope you'll continue working on it. :) Well done!

Submitted(+1)

This was really good! The sfx and music changes were integrated well, nice job!

Submitted(+1)

Got to the hidden room and then the demo ended… :( Too bad because I would love to read more. Great premise and I hope you continue working on it.

Submitted(+1)

Graphics are really great, music too ! Unfortunately, I didn't managed to play a lot.

With the first choice (pick the lock, open windows...), every choices seems not to work, it brings me to a page with errors...

Developer

NOOOO I thought I fixed that