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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Cleverness | #282 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Theme | #653 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Artistic Style | #970 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Playability | #1486 | 2.000 | 2.000 |
Ranked from 1 rating. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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- Love the art gives game unique atmosphere! While playing I was not able to interact with most of the things. Really interesting ideas that you have love to see more of this game in the future!
Did you include your Game Design Document as a Google Drive link?
Yes
Seriously... did you include your Game Design Document?
Yes
Is your game set to Public so we can see it?
Yes
Tell us about your game!
Shadows of Grief is a narrative RPG horror game about grief and its different forms; exploring the moral grey territory of trying to save someone at any cost.
Content Warnings: Themes of dark subjects such as grief, loss, chronic illness, and suicide
The player progresses an interactive story through 5 stages. Each stage of interactive alchemic rituals/spells completed leads to new dialogue between the protagonist and spouse.
The escalating dialogue reflects each stage of grief–Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance–as their relationship and former life deteriorates. Tasks and requirements become increasingly disturbing leading to an ultimate choice. This game's art is experimentally alchemized from traditionally painted watercolor and oil paints with digital line art and layer adjustments! Big mood.
Extra Notes
Chat is stinky like 2 am beans, and beans is the best ferret
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Comments
The art is looking cool, unfortunately I could not discover any gameplay. it seemed like most "[E] to <perform action>" prompts did nothing. And I only found one piece of dialog (the woman in the bed).
Thank you so much!! We are glad you enjoyed the art :) This did only get to an extremely early prototype phase for the game jam, we did our best to just get the bare bones up to share it. But we are working on it still to release a finished game before the end of the year! Thank you for your support and feedback!
You guys did an amazing job bud, proud if ya! <3
Thank you so much!! Cannot wait to get this game to a completed state :) thank you for your time!!
The game is still an very early prototype but the art is beautifully hand drawn. So far one of the most interesting art styles I've seen in a jam
Thank you so so much!!