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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Concept | #11 | 3.375 | 3.375 |
| Overall | #51 | 2.531 | 2.531 |
| Use of the Limitation | #56 | 2.125 | 2.125 |
| Presentation | #60 | 2.375 | 2.375 |
| Enjoyment | #62 | 2.250 | 2.250 |
Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Team members
Script & Art & Programming - S.L. ; Cats - my cats Nietzsche & Russell
Software used
Godot Engine.
Use of the limitation
Everything in the movie can be simply cencored using very general reasons like "political suggestive". Besides, you might die if you are too tolerant to human culture.
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No, I had chocolate soymilk instead. Strongly recommend this.
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I liked the references to The Room. Shame to hear about how it was like working in the censorship department of a Chinese game company- really sound unfair
Interesting idea.
I feel if you had the ability to Pause and Rewind the Video to take a closer look at certain parts, it wouldn't feel so random as it does now.
Story wise I enjoyed the setting of the game.
Did you use AI to generate the first background pictures and others?
Thanks! The rewinding definitely should have been done! I forgot that, and it should be easy since everything was just timeline animation!
But one thing, I intentionally made this game feel so random, because the cencorship I have been through in my last job felt just so random. You may not believe how many things are banned by Chinese government for no reason.
There is no bonus for getting all the points censored (actually you can never do that, because everything can look politically or sexually suggestive.).
The only divergence of ending is whether you find any reason to make the movie die or you lose the job.
The theme was too realistic for me to make this game feel better for players.
And yes, most images were made by NovelAI and adjusted with Photoshop.
a really cool concept, very imaginative and evocative.
it wasn’t clear to me if it was possible to get censorship “wrong” — like to censor something that your boss doesn’t agree with or to choose the wrong reason. but maybe that’s the point, that as a governme— cough heaven censor its safest to just censor everything and not worry about it.
i really appreciate games like this in game jams that try something different. this is a special one, great job xlores.
Actually this game is mainly based on my last job in a Chinese mainstream game company. And one thing we found is that THE CENSORSHIP CAN NEVER BE WRONG SINCE NO ONE HAVE THE RIGHT TO DEBATE ANYTHING.
We were even asked to change red fonts in menus because it's "bloody", so with our black ink in cutaways because it's liquid as blood (though it's black.). And all wineis replaced by tea even tea is totally ridiculous in that historical setting.
And you might have heard that Dungeon Fighters Online in its Chinese version changed all cross of the clergies to a stick. And all tattoos are just covered with black.
This game is realistic to me, and many people in the world.