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A jam submission

Meltdown Visual NovelView game page

A short one-choice visual novel about a catastrophic winter night.
Submitted by Izumi Games (@izumigamesdev) — 26 days, 21 hours before the deadline
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Engine

Ren'Py

free visual novel engine

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Overall, for only taking 48 hours to put together, a solid short. 

Quick to play, but a bit difficult to follow at times. There was just some writing flow that made it feel like perhaps English is a second language. 

Such as: 

"My hot chocolate, fine, accompanied by the beautiful moon." What were you attempting to get across by adding "fine" to the sentence. I stared at it for a bit trying to understand what this sentence was trying to say. 

"A still liquid, adjusting to its mother frame." Is an example where the word choice felt a bit unnatural making it seem like a translation disconnect. 

Otherwise the pay off with the adorable CG was very nice. 

I was left a bit confused on what actually happened in the bad ending, considering what we learn in the good ending. 

Spoiler below!!!!



Do you die in your sleep? Or is it a real event one way, but only a dream the other? I was just a bit confused. 

Edit addition: Also, why does the earthquake melt the snow? Wouldn't it cause an avalanche? I was a bit confused why the room was filling with water and not snow. 

Developer (3 edits) (+1)

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Hi. This is actually symbolism. Earthquake refers to breakdowns, snow melting into flood meant tears from being in a cold and lonely place. A still liquid adjusting to its mother frame, plus the ripples are metaphors of the consequences the protagonist had faced due to his/her decisions by fitting in the container you belong to (or making others dictate your life). The fine part was an error due to my proofreading tool auto-correcting it that I didn't notice (it's meant to be 'hot chocolate that's fine' - meaning instead of hot chocolate, the protagonist has wine lol thanks for pointing that out, will fix it in next update). Overall, they're emotions turned into a catastrophic scenario. A story about meltdowns (or a depressive episode, in short) turning into a heart-melting future through your choice of getting help from drowning. And yes, English is my second language. I attempt to make it into something like an oration type of writing but had very little time to make it better. Thank you for the feedback! I do expect it to be confusing for many. And I appreciate you commenting on your thoughts! Thank you for playing! 😁