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A jam submission

DON'TView game page

Short story about bulling
Submitted by Gastone_21 — 13 days, 4 hours before the deadline

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CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Open Voting#141.5651.750

Ranked from 4 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Jam HostSubmitted

This had an interesting use of media (music and images), and the topic is a very relevant one. I was a little sad the options didn't seem to matter (I spent a good long while wondering if non-bullies eat omelettes or sandwiches, hoping to sway the character's moral fibre (pun intended). 

Some hopefully constructive suggestions I'd make is to make sure if you're doing a morality tale is to make it less clear to the reader, and make those choices a bit more weighty.

Points for the mobile phone response from Eva halfway through - I liked that quite a bit.

Submitted

I think the subject matter is an important one. It was a bit of a shame that this game felt more like a story to read than an interactive one, especially when you offer options to pick from to the player. It would have been fun if there was a consequence for eating a sandwich instead of the omelette (like having a piece of salad stuck between their teeth, and getting made fun of). Same with choosing the movie, it would have been nice if there was a different reaction from the characters.

I also think that things were progressing a bit too fast, like how is the bully going to the cinema one day and the next they are loosing their house? I kind of felt like something was missing in the story, which is a bit of a shame.

The choice of using purple as the text colour in front of a black kinda transparent overlay over a bright background often made it hard to read the text. It would have been a bit better if the text colour was lighter (like lavender, light blue...)

It was cute otherwise.

Submitted

I decided to watch the ComeD movie first, and the events that followed seemed reasonable (aside from the consecutive bank robberies, which was funny).

I went back to the beginning and picked DON'T, there was no change to the events that followed--the protagonist was still a bully. I'm not sure if that was intentional, or...? Anyway, I liked it. 

Developer

Thank you for the comment.  The movie choice has no effect to the story progression. ComeD is a similar game I've made before, and I wanted to include it in DON'T somehow.

Submitted(+1)

Lots of bank robbers in that place.