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Trijam #78: The 3 hour game jam

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A jam submission

Robot DreamsView project page

Interactive dialogues from Isaac Asimov short story
Submitted by BrunoSupremo — 3 hours, 56 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
How well does the game fit the themes?#34.0004.000
How much do you enjoy the game overall?#62.8892.889
Audio#73.1113.111
Overall#83.2593.259
Did you make it in 3 hours (put 5 by default)#94.7784.778
Gameplay#132.3332.333
Visuals#162.4442.444

Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How long was your dev time?
Around 2 hours. Unless I need to count the time where I was just copying the dialogues from the book to the game... That took me an eternity.

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SmoothProcessSubmitted4 years ago

The text looks nice.

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Robot Dreams
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CapitolJaySubmitted4 years ago

Neat approach to a visual novel.  I'd love to see you expand on the sound and visual effects to further embellish the story.

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Charge Mode
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StelletSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

Continue this experiment after the jam! It is very cool. More sound effects will even improve the player experience

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Captcha Dream
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JafCrazeSubmitted4 years ago

I read this story as I searched for inspiration for this TriJam!
The layout you made was pretty cool :)
My only suggestion would be to start with LVX-1's name a little higher. It's name is the only one that moved when it had different lengths of speech

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L1S4
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BrunoSupremoDeveloper4 years ago(+1)

Thanks. Yep, I even had to split one of his dialogues because it was too big, going up close to Linda height lol

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BrinSubmitted4 years ago

Really awesome experience! The effects really add to the whole experience!! I really liked you using a different typeface for each character, monospaced for the robot works well!!

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Robot's Dream
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BrunoSupremoDeveloper4 years ago

Thanks. You noticed the fonts lol That was the idea, fill it with details, sounds, etc. After the jam (hopefully I'll have not lost interest) i will revisit it and do those add-ons.

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deusalgorSubmitted4 years ago

Really pleasant experience playing throught this book =)

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Bad Toaster Dream Trijam
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Dhruv YadavSubmitted4 years ago

Hi!
It's a nice idea and the effects are pretty good. Not sure if it counts as a game though.

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1 Sheep, 2 Sheep
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deusalgorSubmitted4 years ago

Does TellTale games counts as games? And vast majority of visual novels without real options to impact the story? =)

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Dhruv YadavSubmitted4 years ago

TellTale games and visual novels usually have choices, which brings an element of interaction to it. I get your point, there are VN with no choice option, which are just a form of story in the end. If I have to just read some text by clicking, what makes VN different from E-books?
I am not trying to blame the OP, they have done a great job porting a novel into a VN type scenario. I am just questioning if could actually be considered as a 'game' or not

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BrunoSupremoDeveloper4 years ago(+1)

Don't worry. The time limit really "killed" my chances to polish it. Ideally, every dialog would have sounds and background sounds. And some blurred/undefined images would show according to the situation. So it is a visual novel without visuals lol

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