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A jam submission

The Worst PetsView game page

Try to adopt some terrible pets.
Submitted by Wild Opus Games — 1 hour, 36 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Originality#83.7893.789
Overall#163.3163.316
Narration#203.2113.211
Theme#242.4742.474

Ranked from 19 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted

As someone else wrote, it would be great if you put some kind of “ending” note at the end of each route, and if you find the time to expand it a little bit - and maybe change the default ink look to fit the game mood. A fun ride, for sure!

[SPOILER]I… got… killed?!? 😬[/SPOILER]

Submitted(+1)

Quirky prototype that ends a bit too abruptly for some paths. Very much chaotic energy humour. The illustrations are funky. I would play a longer version of this one. In the meantime, I'm bringing the pets back, not a good owner. xD

Submitted

This was very fun and cute! The drawings are excellent. I am 100% team Doopoo

Submitted

Damn you Carkat! But I did manage to get them to laugh together so, maybe not all bad. Personally a big team Carkat fan here. I liked how differently themed this one was from a lot of IF games, and the little drawings were for sure very charming :D

Submitted

The drawings are quite charming, I like how they don't look like any known animals and their simple expressions actually fit the personalities I'm gleaning from the text. Some of the endings are a bit abrupt and an ability to go back a step or two would be great. Wasn't sensing the theme here, unfortunately. I can see this game easily being expanded to have more weird pet shenanigans, maybe even some random events to lean into that chaos.

(+1)

It's a cute game with cute, childish drawings and many routes which are a bit too short.  It  feels more like a prologue + chapter 1 to a day-to-day pet care simulator than a full story which begs the question: Are you planning on expanding upon it? 

I'm being nitpicky here, but adding a "The End" at the end of each route would help with the confusion caused at first. Instead of the ending of a route it looks like the route is cut short due to a bug.

Submitted (8 edits)

A fun little narrative, which actually has a lot of variety and non-linearity to it.  It has nice chaotic energy, and it's short so you can replay it a bunch and see all the different paths. Very cute.  A bit of a stretch regarding the theme, but that's fine.

EDIT: Ok, I went back and played it some more and found even more content.  This is arguably the most interactive of all the interactive fiction I've played so far this jam.

Submitted

got a consistent end of content after "You don't get to decide where you sleep." with blurple. otherwise i love the drawings, they add so much

Very short game, easy to play, and lives up to the theme of the pets being just kind of terrible. ;)

Submitted

The struggle of dealing with rambunctious pets (and kids) really makes you feel like you'll blink and something will go horribly wrong. The art is wonderful. I'm on Team Blurple!