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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Use of the Limitation | #28 | 3.608 | 3.857 |
| Overall | #38 | 3.408 | 3.643 |
| Enjoyment | #45 | 3.207 | 3.429 |
| Concept | #49 | 3.474 | 3.714 |
| Presentation | #50 | 3.341 | 3.571 |
Ranked from 7 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Team members
Isawter
Software used
Ren'Py
Use of the limitation
I used mental health as currency for the player to progress through different routes of the story.
Cookies eaten
2 actually
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Comments
First of all, what an interesting interpretation of the theme! Playing with mental health rather than physical gives a lot more potential for emotional moments & it was a really smart idea. Overall, very engaging story with great writing & art! My only real complaint is I think it's a bit punishing to start from the beginning once you lose-- I know in Ren'Py you can always just back it up, but still.. I wanted to see all the memories!!
Hi! Thank you so much for playing and I'm super glad you enjoyed it. Also, you aren't supposed to start over! You can press escape or right click to see a menu where you'll be able to save whenever you'd like, that way it's easier to get all the ending you want to see. Thanks again!
Oh, that makes a lot of sense!
Woah, wasn't expecting to see any serious story based games here. That's such a creative and interesting blend of the limitation+theme. The pacing of the dialogue was really well done, I struggle with writing serious dialogue and you managed to make it feel natural, really nice work. I enjoyed this.
The writing throughout was wonderful, thoroughly enjoyed playing. The memories were brief, but with a lot to unpack, and exploring them out of order was a great choice as piecing together the narrative made the whole experience really compelling.
Thank you so much! I slowly started piecing the story together myself as I wrote it! I'm really glad you enjoyed it.
Great concept!
Can't really say anything less than it was a good experience
but in the first playthough there weren't any sounds, only at my second one there were sounds.
Huh, the sound thing is weird, but I'm glad you enjoyed it!