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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Presentation | #29 | 3.742 | 4.000 |
| Overall | #46 | 3.274 | 3.500 |
| Enjoyment | #52 | 3.074 | 3.286 |
| Concept | #55 | 3.341 | 3.571 |
| Use of the Limitation | #62 | 2.940 | 3.143 |
Ranked from 7 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Team members
Nightsparrow
Software used
Ren'py
Use of the limitation
Health is a bargaining chip you can use to get characters to help you
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A captivating narrative! It was a great experience, the atmosphere was amazing and the art is very beautiful! Great job, bravo!
Woah, another renpy user! And an amazing one at that. The atmosphere, the art, the music. It all comes together in an amazing little story with a lot of different endings. Definitely 5/5 for me.
Thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed it. My background is mostly in art so renpy is an easy engine to use for jam games for me. Plus I do think it could use more love!
Wow, that was a very great experience, I was surely did not expecting something like that, it's great to see that this types of narrative game can still be cool (and cool art and music btw)
Thank you for playing! I'm glad I could surprise you
I really enjoyed the atmosphere of the game and the music used! The artwork is beautiful and the story captivating. I found two ends and died once. I love the concept that mermaids do not heal and must steal life to regenerate their bodies. Very nice little visual novel you made here, good job!
Thank you for playing! I'm so glad you enjoyed it enough to give it a couple of tries even!
Nice art
but should have made the health mechanic used more
Thanks! I was hoping I could have had more npc encounters but in the end I didn't have time to implement any more. If I end up updating the game I'll definitely add more chances to use health as a bargaining chip
Hi! I cant play your game! I am getting errors when loading. Please fix. I am using Brave web browser. I have tried chromium and other web browsers too. If possible maybe add a binary build (Linux) ?
ahh sorry about that, and thanks for letting me know! I added downloadable versions so hopefully those will work for you.
Thanks. Nice game. The art is very nice and the story is also inspiring. The story paths are a bit short and I died once, but I enjoyed the narrative. The way you incorporated the health limitation was also creative, with the bone mermaid.
Thank you for playing! I planned it to be longer originally but in the end I didn't have time to implement more encounters unfortunately. definitely something to look at if I have time later on. thanks for the comments!
Hi. I have seen this error in many Renpy web games and had it myself when I tried to upload one and had a really hard time fixing it. Basically, you have to export it in the right web format (Renpy has two ways to export a web version, but I found only one works), then upload the folder inside the generated folder for it to work. I posted my solution in the NaNoReNo jam chat and will paste it below in case you are curious.
"It took me a while to find instructions on how to upload my Ren'py game in a web format itch.io recognized, so I thought I would post this for anyone else who might be struggling. It worked for my version, 7.3.5. and was recommended here: https://itch.io/t/1055894/how-to-embed-a-renpy-game-to-my-page.
In the Ren'py launcher, click "Web(beta)," then click "Build Web Application". Under your game folder should be a folder called "[your game]-1.0-dists". Inside is a folder called "[your game]-1.0-web" which contains several files including index.html. Zip "[your game]-1.0-web" and upload it to itch.io as an HTML game.
Hope this helps anyone going through what I did."
Oh that's super cool of you to share! I just sort of accepted it as just being how it is, but I'll definitely give this a try if my newest build is still having the same issue. Thank you so much for the tip!