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A jam submission

The Court of Life And Death - DemoView game page

A supernatural visual novel
Submitted by endlessmidnight (@endlessmidnigh1), Aster Zerone, huurreprinssi (@huurreprinssi), ejtanmusic — 1 day, 12 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Voice Acting#393.2123.800
User Interface Design#953.7194.400
Halloween Themed#1053.5504.200
Music#1063.5504.200
Sound Effects#1073.2123.800
Accessibility#1143.5504.200
Game Page Design#1163.3814.000
Character Designs#1173.7194.400
Overall#1263.3814.000
Story#1323.2123.800
Game Graphic & Logo Design#1353.2123.800
Log Line#1373.0433.600

Ranked from 5 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Submitted(+2)

Wow! This game was incredible! I loved the creative ideas and characters. The angels are so unsettling yet beautiful. The demons felt so alive and disconcerting! This idea will be fantastic as a larger project. The story was intriguing and the human characters felt very real at times. I feel I've known some people like them.

Also really liked the idea of presenting evidence at the end. That was super tense!

Fantastic Job and good luck with it!

Developer

Thank you, I'm so glad that you enjoyed it a lot and thought the characters were really alive, I am planning on expanding that mechanic if I do make it a larger game, I had to cut it down since a lot of my ideas weren't working. 

Submitted(+2)

Fascinating concept and very interesting story. The character design was exceptional and the working dynamic between the angels and demons was wonderful, would love to see more! Well done!

Developer(+1)

Thank you, I'm so glad that you enjoyed it a lot! I'm glad to see that you would like to see more. 

Submitted (1 edit) (+3)

Holy mother of amazing character designs x3 It's hard to even pick a favourite, but if I were forced to, I think I'd have to go with Azza, but really they're all just gorgeous :3 Not just the character designs though, all the art is a treat for the eyes!

The story is very heartfelt and an interesting concept with a colourful cast of characters. It's really neat that you made it as a standalone demo but that it's also part of a larger story. I love stuff like that :3 I'm intrigued to see what more you have in store. I wish you the best of luck with future development!

Oh, and just so you know, the Windows build works perfectly for me! I just downloaded it today, so whatever issues you were previously facing, I can confirm they're resolved :3

And feel free to completely disregard this, but I noticed on the game page that you're using the 'adult' tag. I once tagged one of my games that way because of blood/gore/other horror elements, but somebody advised me to ditch the 'adult' tag because of the sheer number of games tagged with that on itch that feature sexual content, haha. They said to me that most players searching that tag are basically looking for porn games >.< So I wound up changing it to something else. Just thought I'd mention it is all.

I'm not great at tags myself, but maybe you could use the 'halloween' tag or something while it's still October, and then maybe switch it to 'interactive fiction' or something if you do decide to drop the 'adult' one :3

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Thank you so much for checking it out and your kind words, I'm so glad to hear that, I uploaded the wrong versions probably meant for another platform, thanks, I'm not surprised at the adult tag either. I'm glad that you really enjoyed  it a lot, and I'm so happy to hear that you enjoyed the story, as a writer, I was really nervous about this story too. I kind of conceived as a fairly episodic story, and the structure fit too. 

Submitted(+2)

I can understand feeling nervous because whenever I write stuff, I basically have no faith in myself >.< I often assume what I've written is awful by default, and it's only thanks to the kindness of others that I even have the courage to turn things into games because if not for their support, I'd be too scared to even put my stuff out there.  I think you've made a touching tale though, so I hope more people get to experience it :3

Episodic stuff is great! I intended to do that with one of my longer main projects that I started as a standalone story a couple of years ago for Winter VN Jam... but I haven't made much progress because I keep getting distracted by game jams in general xD I swear I'm not addicted to jams, hehe. I hope you manage to make faster progress than I have + that you have a fun and smooth time crafting the larger project :3

Submitted(+3)

I really love the concept, and your monster designs are really well done! The themeing feels really cohesive, and you managed to pull off a really unique story - congrats!

As a heads-up, it looks like your current windows build doesn't contain an exe file, so I wasn't able to launch it that way (unless I'm just missing something)

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

I am so glad to hear you liked our game! Thank you so much for playing! <3

Thank you for letting me know! I inform our coder about this, and we will see where the problem is!

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much for your kind words, I'm the programmer for this, I'll take a  look at .exe file, issue, I built this using Unity, so it might have that limitations, but I'll see if I can make an .exe file with it,