Really cool idea! The cinematography and animation were awesome! You really nailed the aesthetic! I popped for the Ouya lol Great job!
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Let's Watch Steamboat Willie!'s itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Voice Acting | #10 | 4.600 | 4.600 |
| Overall | #27 | 4.373 | 4.373 |
| Visuals | #58 | 4.662 | 4.662 |
| Music | #67 | 4.169 | 4.169 |
| Story | #103 | 4.062 | 4.062 |
Ranked from 65 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Content Warnings
Crude humor, alcohol consumption, silhouetted violence
Log Line
Two film nerds sit down for a comfy evening watching old movies. Next up is Steamboat Willie, and they quickly take to bickering. By the time the cartoon is over, one of them will be dead.
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http://A VN that lasts the seven minutes and forty-seven seconds it takes to watch one classic cartoon.
Team Credits & Cast
Cast & Crew
Voice of Lee - Juniper Lee Thalia Watkins
Voice of Niles - Josh Wells
Team Lead, Writing, Coding - Alexis Royce
Sprite & Concept Artist - May Sparrow / queenburd
Audio Director - Floweramon
Composer, Piano, Voice - Kayla Price / Rainbow_Cookies
Bass, Horns - Jade Decker / twigxcabaret
Drums, percussion - Adair Greysen
Mixing intro/outro music - Sophie Hissen
Copywriter - Victor Lownie / windienine
Coded in Ren'Py
Is your submission created with the Light.VN visual novel engine?
No
Does your submission contain Boy's Love content?
Yes
Does your submission contain voice acting?
Yes
Comments
69 days ago(+1)
Thank you so much! And I gotta brag on Kayla and the other musicians here; the soundtrack is dynamic, which means that for the bulk of the game, there are four separate tracks running! There’s a comedic baseline, two different semi-improv jazz tracks for varying levels of horror, and a track just for those killer horns! All of them were composed to work in time with the existing Steamboat Willie audio, and the game’s coding shifts the levels frequently in response to context and the player choices! Kayla one hundred percent vibed with the idea and listening to the music while working was such a treat each time. It’s great when you don’t even get tired of the music while bug testing!
If you’re interested in checking out the individual tracks, or want the soundtrack for easy listening, I encouraged her to put the soundtrack up on Bandcamp. Please consider supporting her over here: https://kaylaprice.bandcamp.com/album/lets-watch-steamboat-willie-ost
78 days ago(+2)
Thank you! I had a lot of trouble with the first draft of the script, and I had to refer to some troubleshooting on how to write a short film, which had some different storytelling rules from what I used to with games and prose.
And yeah, Ren’Py is amazing. There were so many places where I wasn’t sure before starting that the coding would be possible. And then when the jam started and I was actually able to get going, it was so much simpler than expected. 😆 I love this engine.
78 days ago(+2)
Thank you! I broke a lot of my own personal rules for VNs while making this, including taking away so much interactivity from the player. I lost a lot of time trying to figure out how to implement a pause menu too, and it’s easily my one big regret. I’m fairly certain that none of this would work if the game were longer than eight minutes; even this is pushing it. But it was fun to get to experiment and see if the idea would fly at all.
And heck yeah, I’m getting yours downloaded now; I’m looking forward to seeing your adaptation work! 😁
Well, I let it simmer and have come back to it for another go, and I think doing it this way was really brave in an awesome way. Also, completely overlooked the MS3K vibe with the silhouettes before morphing into its own thing with a more unsettling vibe. The 100-year NDA joke about Mickey Mousing was really good too.
Thanks for the download and I hope you enjoy it!
78 days ago(+1)
Thank you! I think that having strong silhouettes is really important for a visual novel. Our sprite artist, May, is really incredible with body language, and so we focused on having lots of poses, rather than lots of facial expressions. Though they did really impress me by adding mouths and eyes anyway! 😁
78 days ago(+1)
Thank you so much! The voice actors were both a joy to work with, and I felt so lucky that they understood the characters so well!
80 days ago(+1)
Thank you! Niles is such a little terror to write, and I was astonished that Josh Wells was able to wrangle the bulk of Niles' puffed-up blatherings in a single take! That dialogue tends to end up being a mouthful.
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