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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Candy!! | #15 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
Halloweeny? | #32 | 4.333 | 4.333 |
Fun | #67 | 4.056 | 4.056 |
Overall | #97 | 3.389 | 3.389 |
Monsterous! | #140 | 2.444 | 2.444 |
Scariness... | #145 | 2.111 | 2.111 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Log Line
Halloween is coming, the holiday of pumpkins! Help a perfect Halloween pumpkin to start its wonderful life!
Content Warnings
For Everyone.
Team Members
Dongna Chen
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Comments
Writing: The story and the characters are fun, although the spelling and grammar gets a bit odd at times: most obvious the name “Alien 2” is spelled “Aline 2” every time it appears. And I think I spotted several other typos and a few grammar mistakes (example: you wrote “Havn’t you eat” instead of “Haven’t you eaten”). Maybe you could run it through a spellchecker, that should at least pick some of the typos.
Theme: It is about people celebrating Halloween and it’s from the point of view of a sentient pumpkin, and it involves some supernatural stuff, including witchcraft and aliens (maybe a bit fairytale-like, but I prefer that over writing a seemingly random story and then adding a loud “boo” at the end).
Audio: I noticed music, but no sound effects or VA. The music is fun and fits the stories. There’s different music for the different routes, and I like it.
Art: The sprites look cute and cartoonish, the backgrounds look sorta like photographs edited to look like paintings. I kinda think I liked the sprites more than the backgrounds, but I did like both.
The UI wasn’t customized, and that’s okay, but maybe you could have made the cloud’s name appear in a colour that was more readable on the background or maybe given the letters a border.
Fun: The stories were fun, and trying different options was fun too.
What I liked most: The story, the characters and the sprites.
What I’d suggest changing: maybe add some sound effects, for example maybe some chimes could work well when the pumpkin turns into a carriage (or into a lamp or a pie), or some sound could play when the UFO falls down. And make sure the word “Cloud” is readable and fix any typos you can easily spot.
yay I really had fun playing it! the story is so cute and I love the characters that looks like the fairy tales that I read as a child! if you update it, put the same style on the backgrounds, everything looks so nice...
Nice little story. The character art is very cute, especially the mouse, and the story is heartwarming. I think the art direction could use work--it didn't have a very consistent look-and-feel.
This was such a cute little game! Loved the imagination put into it and the UFO was a thing of beauty!
Great work!
Thank you ❤️
Sooooo cute! The characters are lovely and the backgrounds are really creative and imaginative!
It's also lovely to see a game suitable for all audiences here.
Well done!
Thank you for playing my game and for your appreciation 🤓
This is so charming and adorable ^-^ Your character designs are so cuuuute <3 Especially for Pumpkin, Mouse, and Cat! I would buy pin badges of those lil cuties if they were available and I could afford them :3
The art style was great and the backgrounds were beautiful. This was a fun and funny game. Great job.
Thank you 😊