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A jam submission

Cursing GenesView game page

In this case deaths do tell tales.
Submitted by Zuppu — 1 day, 13 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Scariness...#453.8104.667
Candy!!#593.4024.167
Monsterous!#633.8104.667
Overall#653.7294.567
Halloweeny?#783.8104.667
Fun#823.8104.667

Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Log Line
In this case deaths do tell tales.

Content Warnings
Blood, injuries, implications of violence, possible death, partial nudity, mildly strong language.

Team Members
Programming/Writing/Art: Zuppu
Proofreading: Ra-Chan
Beta testing: Nli and Piuf

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Submitted

This was cute!

I love your use of sounds effects! I was actually scared to find out what was outside.

Having the narrator reveal additional information after the player hits a bad end was really clever! Made the game feel more fair.

I really loved the lesson of having to accept oneself, both parts. I could relate to that struggle because my parents are from slightly different cultures, so I really love how you handled this topic in a very sensible manner.

The art was really pretty and fitting the atmosphere.

Thank you for making this game!

Developer(+1)

Hi,

Thanks~

Glad to hear. It was pain to find the right ones but it was definitely worth it.

I also like that feature, even thought the main reason for it was that the children characters  wouldn't tell about themselves naturally in the dialogue.  And stuffing it all to one good ending seemed too much, so now I engourage players to seek bad endings...

Honestly I don't know how to aswer to the rest. I'm just glad.  Glad that you liked the game and glad that you could relate to my darlings and their mixed feelings about themselves. 

Thank you for playing!

Submitted

This one doesn’t have jam comments? Well, I guess it’ll have one now.

Writing: I think it’s written pretty well (then again, English is my third language) and it was pretty interesting to read and try the different options.

Theme: It is spooky, and there’s a werewolf.

Audio: Those sound effects definitely add to the spookiness. There’s music in some places but not others. But yeah, I get that the music goes quiet in the night (been there, done that). I like the piano music that plays at the start of the story (I wonder what happened at the end though… when I listen to it through headphones I think I can hear some sound. Not that I didn’t hear a door slamming right as I played the last note of my instrumental music for my VN, which I managed to edit out by fading the note out quickly).

Art: Pretty good, but I had to turn up my screen brightness to see it well. And when I look at the window icon, it looks like two C’s with a DNA spiral between them, but I’m guessing the second one was meant to be a G? And if I’m going all in into graphic designer mode, I notice you didn’t take the wings into account when centering the parents in the image that’s shown of the parents that also appears in the gallery (and considering they’re transparent and that they’re light but the parents are dark, I guess it makes sense… but maybe I’d have moved the parents a tiny bt to the left so that there isn’t that much more stuff in one side than in the other, probably fifteen pixels or less though, so yeah, those wings don’t really “fill” the space to the left of the parents, and if I hadn’t had issues centering a not-quite symmetrical icon in a completely different context I probably wouldn’t even have thought of this).

Fun: I think when a VN can have multiple endings it’s nice if they’re numbered and I’m told up front how many there are so I know when I’ve probably seen everything. And I saw three endings and kinda have a clue what I’d have to do to get a fourth one if it exists (in fact, I suspect the logline might refer to that fourth ending, I’m kinda too nice towards the werewolf to want to try leaving the spell on though).

Developer

Hi,

Thanks for playing. (English isn't my first language either, so a proofreader is a must for me.)

Great that you liked the music and sound and I definitely have to check that audio bug or what ever it is, as there should be music in some endings. I'm aware of the overall darkess and yes it's a bit hard to see if you have a strong light source behind the screen. I might have gone a bit overboard with my "this won't blind you even if you play it in a dimly lighted room..."

Oh no, not the window icon I struggled with it so much and now there is a mistake, but thanks for mentioning that I will see to it fixed tomorrow.

Maybe I really should have added the number of endings to the game page... I considered it but decided againts it as personally for me when I see how many endings game has I become over achiever and I have to get them all. Sometimes this leads to me just grinding for the endings which can take away some of the fun from discovering new routes. If you like to know there is 5 (+1) endings, 5 unique and 1 pretty similar as one of the 5. And as weird as it sounds I recommend to play even the 2 bad ends as they, in my opinion, tell most about the characters.