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Starfisher's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Game goodness | #6 | 4.059 | 4.059 |
| Use of songs | #10 | 3.471 | 3.471 |
| Overall | #10 | 3.765 | 3.765 |
Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Starwatcher // The Decemberists
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A contemplative story, with a lot left unsaid and, at the same time, a kind of sense of security. I think this mixture of strangeness and closeness that one can feel towards a parent, especially a father (who is rarely emotionally equipped to communicate his feelings) is really right and touched me a lot.
All I got at the end was a blank screen, without the game telling me that I'd reached the end - but as I played on mobile (and more precisely on safari), that may just be a compatibility problem.
Sorry about the ending, it was supposed to remove the passage background to display the image only, but as I've learned only after posting, it did not work on mobile.
Thank you for your comment though! You've picked up precisely what I was trying to convey and that's a comfort in itself.
I don't know.
That's really the feeling I get from this. I think that's probably the best I can get. At first, I was having a hard time connecting the song with the game. I thought that it was really only just the similar name and, you know, "space." But it's also the discomfort, that neither song nor game has an ending that we know for certain, left in that vague void of "it is what it is" whether that be an oncoming war or conversations never had.
I don't know, and I love it.
Very interesting place to go from the song! Reminds me a bit of older literature with a similar slow pace and limited dialogue. I think the story leaves me with a bit of vague, lingering discomfort. Nothing gets resolved here, because it's just two people refusing to acknowledge whatever has happened between them. I think it leaves me wishing there was something I could do about that.
Really enjoyed it!
I do like the inclusion of a "Golden" eye description, which is something I personally like. Nice touch on the transition. There are however some grammatical errors. The story feels a bit slow for me, but considering the tension between the two characters, I can understand why that may be intentional.