Although I'm not entirerly clear on what's happening, the commentary of grief, particularly the denial stage with bits of anger, depression and acceptance sprinkled in is clear. I also get the feeling Viola may not have been the best person, but perhaps that was just the entity being possesive(pun intended) and manipulative. The spook factor and overall art is great, too, especially the sprites! So expressive! My only issue would be with voice acting. The lines just feel a little, bland? But also unnecesarily sly and menacing, near every single one of Viola's lines feels like it has exactly the same "evil" intonation and it gets old pretty quick. But that's not the main issue, the main issue was with audio processing. Some lines would randomly cut off without warning, in a way that was clearly not intentional(ie not partial voice acting). And for some of the branching paths dialogue from previous ones would play while text displayed route-appropriate. Probably bugs but still
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Your Eyes aren't Blue's itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Voice Acting | #27 | 4.200 | 4.200 |
Overall | #57 | 4.075 | 4.075 |
Story | #98 | 4.100 | 4.100 |
Visuals | #104 | 4.300 | 4.300 |
Music | #111 | 3.700 | 3.700 |
Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Content Warnings
Language Scopophobia Gaslighting
Log Line
Your Eyes Aren't Blue is a psychological horror game that follows a young woman, Tiana, as she grieves the sudden death of her best friend, Viola. Tiana's world gets turned on its head when Viola reappears in her life alive and breathing. With no one having any memory of Viola's death, it's up to Tiana to figure out and survive her newest relationship.
Team Credits & Cast
Writers/Voice Directors/Narrative Designers
Britney Saint Joy (PotatoMika): itch.io, BlueSky, Twitter, LinkedIn
Trey Clark: itch.io, LinkedIn
Art
Toffee Matech (Character Artist and Designer): IG, Website
Apollo/Evan: Twitter, Website
S. James Curtis (Background Artist): Website
Rossi: Twitter
Joe Thad Deahl (Logo Designer)
Sunpō (Background Artist): IG
Audio
Fab Carillo (Music composer/ Sound Designer): Website
Denis (Technical Sound Designer): itch.io, IG
Jordan Harmon
Voice Acting
Kevin Lama (Kenji): Twitter, IG
Marie-Aimee Jean-Baptiste (Islande)
Aubrey Akers (Genesis): Twitter
Lauren Pak (Viola/The Returned): Website
France (Professor Kirk McGain): Website
Programming
Jake Livingston: itch.io, LinkedIn
UX/UI
Matthew Lawrence Christy: Website
Parker Machemer: Twitter, IG, Bluesky, Website
Producer
Inbal Ranan: Linkedin
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