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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Originality | #3 | 4.545 | 4.545 |
| Narration | #10 | 3.818 | 3.818 |
| Overall feeling | #10 | 3.818 | 3.818 |
Ranked from 11 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Impressively complete and great worldbuilding. Somehow, as well, the perfect shade of green.
Fun story!
This game is totally awesome and I loved it!!
I found the surrealist humour of this narrative rather enjoyable. However, I did run into a big at one point where at the store it prevents progress due to no more content in the loop. I had to restart the story at that point.
Could you remember where that point was? I thought I'd tried all the paths.
it was at the store, I first bought the soda, made the wrong decision, then went to the store and bought a dead fish and librarian. After that there were no more prompts.
That part usually works. It might happen when you go back from the failure, but I'll try to narrow it down. Thank you for the details. That's 5:00 AM programming for you.
Yak butter and ginseng soda...
I enjoyed the surreal happenings, but suddenly there was a game objective(?) and I started "losing" – which (for me) seemed contrary to the set-up. It went from "anything will happen and it will be surprising and arbitrary..." to "figure out this very specific moon-logic puzzle or you will die and lose your inventory..."
- the inventory was persistent (even insistent) when I had no THINGS (maybe should skip that part of the loop)
- When I clicked on "Self" in the Jung book, the webpage crashed… or maybe I had an existential crisis.
Thank you!
The inventory system is not where I would like it to be currently. Where did you get the crash? I can't replicate it.
I was a Jungian, and then I found the Jung book… I think it was in the contents page, with many definitions. I clicked several and got standard definitions, but when I clicked "self" the webpage shot to the top (showed the beginning of the story) and I couldn't scroll down - sort of like the page was reloading, but no error… I had to reload the webpage. If there is no unusual Ink there, it must have been a web glitch? I will try another round later, see if I can hit it again.
Never seen that happen. It's probably a glitch. Ink seems to have trouble with large files, and the one it's pulling from there is actually an entire (public domain) book, with my own additions.
Really trippy stuff. Nice
Thank you!