It is a shame that the game have such problems when interacting with other players, as i have to keep moving the player in order to find the right position that will make “F” and “E” work each and every time.  At the end, after talking with everyone, i wrote “Hiwa” to the first character again and the game froze like this:

The music was still playing, but i could not close the dialog panel.  And, to be honest, i did not feel like repeating all that again.

It was a very good idea, but i think this kind of interfaces require some sort of artificial intelligence to react better to my inputs, rather than me having to remember a list of keywords i can use.  I bet that integrating this with ChatGPT, or something like that, would feel more like i am actually interrogating them.

I am sorry, i feel like i am being too negative, and i hope you do not take this wrong.  I liked your idea, the story was interesting, and the graphics wonderful. Very, very nice.

I really like what this game was going for. The dialog and art are well done.
I did struggle to finish though as certain elements became hurdles that I decided not to struggle with anymore:

- I like the idea of typing in questions as it feels more human, however; this introduces problems that compound over the following bullets.

-  The amount of acceptable keywords to remember throughout the game is 9. The human brain can only keep about 4 things in short-term memory at once. I took a screenshot of the words with my phone to help me, but that was just a band-aid over the remembering keywords for the input field issue. This could be solved by having all of the keywords displayed in a legend somewhere on the screen or simply ditch the input fields and give choice options that implement those keywords instead.

- I realized that every time I asked a question and dialogue ended, that I couldn't simply interact with them again to input another keyword, I had to change my position slightly.... and I mean just ever so slightly. Which is  odd because its feels like the condition for whether you are able to converse with an NPC is somehow tied to whether your distance has changed instead whether you are overlapping or colliding with them? 

That being said, please don't feel discouraged by this feedback. I think the idea was one worth exploring and given the nature of jams having limited time, there is only so much you can do after building a game around a system and I can tell there was a good amount of effort put into it. Good work!

I loved this game's concept! It's really a shame I had some issues with the controls but after a few tries I realised that if it doesn't work one must go stand directly on the person in order to interact. I enjoyed the many different characters and what they had to say and most of all I enjoyed the option to actually type out the topic to discuss, I think that was quite unique!!

I had to restart a few times to finish the game due to a UI bug, but it was worth it! The art, characters, and story mix very well together. The dialogue of the characters was also engaging and colorful. I also liked the addition of pronouns in each characters description. I had a lot of fun with this, great job!