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I consistently crash at "Misery Loves Bonds" Chapter 1 Deadly Life cinematic, only 3 notes of the song play before it freezes. I downloaded the update but it didn't fix that. I also found no footage so I'm sadly locked out of the epilogue (if it exists) :(

EDIT: I hacked the game by replacing the video file with Caine introduction video and I broke out of the crash, but all I met is a credits screen!!! LOL I guess I didn't miss out on anything, then.

This was a fun experience

That was pretty good! The gameplay was nice. Controls were a bit stiff and it was hard to turn around, and action sections felt a bit sluggish, but puzzle and level design both accounted for it and no encounter was too frustrating/overly difficult as to block me from completing the game.

Most difficult sections only resulted in 1-2 deaths for me at most until I got through, and the checkpoints are fairly placed.

Love the cheese engravings, too. The Boatmurdered references are aplenty and the story was pretty nice! I do have questions how does the personal story connect to the abandoned fortress itself, but I'll mull over that one.

This is an amazing resource!! Thanks for the post-mortem, you're inspiring me to do the same :)

> it's just a casual recommendation system not much more intellectual  than a Facebook thumbs-up.

Voting anything than a 5-Star on any entry tanked the entire language bracket, and the ratings overall suffered as a result.

Instead of "5-star votes" I believe it honestly just should've been "likes"/"endorsements"/etc. so there is no rating system period - leave the nuanced deconstruction to the comments system

So no, a Facebook thumbs-up would've been way better and caused way less of a horrendous feeling when you get 7 people to rate your entry but you can even feel any spite about it because "someone maybe voted us 1 star that's why we only have about 3 stars", but you have an entire 2 pages of 5-star rated projects that all contain 1-2 votes each so they top score on the rankings, lol.

If you score based on the NUMBER of votes and not the 5-STAR SYSTEM, this would be a much better fit for nicher communities and mean the votes are endorsed rather than harshly criticized by an anonymous 5-star system when there may not even be that many contestants in a language bracket to begin with.

I apologize if I come across as blunt and harsh on you but I do believe this ranking system was a huge misfire and I hold you responsible, and leaves a bad taste in my mouth for an otherwise amazing idea and opportunity! If you make another one, please just be transparent about how the entries will be judged, any other system would've been better than this as it completely ran against your ideals of a collaborative atmosphere! It shouldn't feel directly taboo and horrible to rate any other entry less than "5 stars".

Thanks! Yeah, it's a good idea! I'll see if I can implement it later :)

Yep, my entire team is admins, I even checked the "display team as contributors" but they still run into this: "You are unable to rate this project because you have not submitted your own entry. You can leave a comment below though"

Well it isn't fun for the possibility of not receiving any votes in spite of rating other entries because a thought in my mind is we'll be buried if other teams don't figure out how to vote on other entries 🙃

the karma system on itch is also designed for the purpose of allowing every entry to get its fair share of attention while also letting other teams know that voting on other teams is a good thing and will increase their karma.

Sorting by score at the end already declares winners - having the highest score in your respective language bracket is already a "win", because it is a way to rate the entries. Such a rating system is already a quantifiable way to measure "quality" - even if it necessarily doesn't actually dictate as such.

I agree that voting on other entries is fun. But I fully disagree the voting system as a whole is fun because I have to deal with anxiety if my entry will be voted on at all (which ISN'T FUN!!!), and I only have to rely on my language bracket to be able to do so, and they must play the same game they already know start to finish to be able to even rate, and it ends up in a large mess where I wish it was about the substance of the comments and reviews instead and not about voting so I could at least send it to my friends and family to leave a good word and not bother with the fact that their opinion is "lesser" because they're forbidden from voting.

The karma system is specifically designed for this issue and I'm curious on your reasons why you're not using it.

I also want to be blunt that these are all choices you made for this contest. These are systems that encourage specific behaviors and our entire team is actually depressed because of the way the winner situation was handled, the lack of communication on the scoring system, no tutorial on how to do it, and the fact that contributors CANNOT VOTE (despite being stated elsewhere that they should, I'm the only one in our 8 person team who can even rate entries).

I think the 2 week period to judge other entries is a good idea. But the voting system itself is inherently competitive and runs against the core of the contest you stated. It really sours the mood and if the score system was removed, replaced with "judge other entries, leave a comment, entries will be sorted by karma during the judging period" means that the process of judging and reviewing entries would've been the encouraged behaviour instead, rather than scoring a randomized list of entries.

Despite this I'm still thankful for this jam, it was extremely fun to participate in when I didn't have to think about the score system or anything related and I had more fun commenting and reviewing other entries that I could understand in my own language :)

how will the results of the voting be announced? Will it be listed by language, overall, or no winner announced period?

I just realized there's nothing stating a winner will be announced for the jam anywhere on the main page so if this is about creativity, discovery and collaboration then I question why have the rating system in place at all?

I think Dominik raises a good point where rating anything other than 5 stars is already seen as anti-collaborative and bad. For example even if I feel the entry is not perfect/flawed in some way I absolutely do not want to rate it anything less than 5 stars cuz I risk just looking like a dick for it, even if my goal is to criticize the entry and point out flaws while also listing what I liked about it. Therefore I just end up leaving a comment anyway.

Perhaps for the next jam, just don't have rating at all! Encourage people to comment and leave their constructive feedback without any need to introduce any competitive element, cuz in this jam it was confusing how winners would be chosen - and if there would be winners at all :)

Найс! Дядяграмма снесла с ног 😁😂

Это божественно😂🤣

Очень понравилось!)

Название классное! Утерялась игра слов "not enough time/we've got enough time", но слаженно) И граффити круто смотрится!

yah they're both admins and collaborators :v

Круто! Очень понравились "высокоаморальные музыканты")))

Мощь ещё что сольный перевод - тут работы для одного человека ПРЕдостаточно 😰😅

Дельный перевод! Были моменты, которые не зашли. С постером очень трудная тема была.

Музыканты топ, их диалог кайфучий! В общем, кайфово)

Круто!! Мне понравилось)

Когда для нашей версии заливал графику я не сразу увидел, что затемнения это именно где двери, вентиляция и т.д. - не так много людей заметили тему!

Тут я на полу от смеха 😂

wait if they didn't join are they screwed then? cuz I forgot if people clicked "join"

Contributors can't seem to vote, only me as I made the jam entry :(

Hello, everyone! I'm Crystalwarrior, and for our Russian game jam localization entry I managed to implement a fully functional auto-save system, as well as several additional settings option and a fix to the recorder puzzle.

You can find our entry here, and the source code here! (Want to contribute? Create a pull request! I wish I had time to implement something like multiple save slots or even a full on save editor for debugging, would've saved a LOT of time in playtesting haha)

If you want to implement these changes into your project, IF YOU MADE NO CHANGES TO THE GAME CODE BEFORE THIS POINT, simply copy-paste the lua files into your game.zip. However, make sure to also add additional dialogue ID entries in your text_translated.lua:

(Our team used a Google Sheet to manage the translation - if you're interested in our workflow, I'm also planning on making a devlog! Stay tuned.)

If you made changes to your code, the easiest path would be to use something like GitHub to create a repository for your project and create a pull request with changes that have been done on my end merged into yours, allowing you to see changes to code and adjust accordingly to preserve your own changes.

Alternatively, you can use VisualStudio Code's option to compare each file individually.

If you have any questions please let me know in the replies!

By the way: as far as I am aware, you can still make changes to your project during the voting phase, so this shouldn't break any jamming rules!

OH Meanwhile I just made the poster image overlay smaller so the transparent area doesn't overlap the collector LOL

I actually implemented auto-save into my build of the game, the source code is available here! https://github.com/Crystalwarrior/not-enough-time-LocJam-1.0

sorry for the late reply 🙏

Ran into this too, dunno how to fix it yet :(

Thank you! As soon as I got fired up there was no stopping me 🤣😅

***SPOILERS***

Another change I did was to the recorder puzzle, it was a bit too harsh and fiddly before so I gave a small safe zone so Ines could move closer to grab it without being in the exact ultra precise spot (for example, I think grabbing the recorder from the 60s was actually not possible before)

***SPOILERS END***

There seems to be a debug mode code present in the game in `dbg.lua`, but none of the inputs work for it. How do I make the debug mode actually functional?

With lack of a saving system, something to quickly jump to certain places in the game would save a lot of work.

EDIT: Seems like it's as simple as putting in debug = true in global.lua, my issues were happening cuz I didn't clear cache before testing

Are there going to be cross-examinations? It's not stated anywhere on the page and I didn't see anything like that in the reveal trailer

Omg getting an end game character for the ending would be fun! I like that idea of a reward

The puzzle at the end was fine and easy to figure out! I would say the scanner button didn't appear consistently and required me to re press the astronaut though

You can get a lot of upgrades pretty easily using Science, the "Revive" item might also be too busted. Maybe make it single-use and more expensive?

Additionally perhaps you can buy upgrades like "gravity boots" for faster Astronaut speed, something to increase repair speed, research speed, etc.

Pacing-wise I do think it's very solid, it ends when it should as soon as all of the game's content is exhausted and you get in the loop. As a baseline it's very much solid and I see it expanding into something bigger!

I also liked the idea behind the ending, tho yah I wish I saw what was beyond the portal lol. You can also send multiple astronauts thru the door before it lifts away, maybe something bonus could happen if you do that? You can expand a lot on just everything that's in place already without doing too much extra work!

Lovely game! One thing I missed is the SaniTy (st) meter representing sanity, I feel like both Oxygen and Sanity could use a more descriptive icon. The fact that you need to herd your astronauts into the moonbase to reduce their space madness is also not explained in game (the only game mechanic I needed to read the description for)

Otherwise it's a solid, if short, game with a pretty neat conclusion! (Wish there was more to the ending as well - perhaps a glimpse where they went? ;) I also had a window of time to send multiple of them! I'm curious if that's intentional.)

This is pretty neat! I liked it, the game play loop is decently solid if a bit short. Bugs-wise I didn't notice much, but I think if you save when an astronaut is inside the rover you'll lose them permanently when you load the game. Loading a game after finishing it also doesn't get rid of the victory text.

Yeah good idea! It's rad you've already got a functional game now in godot 3, hopefully the godot 4 conversion will not be painful when the time comes

Fantastic news! Looking forward to the updates. Getting the asset system to work well is a great priority and in my opinion is one of the most important factors to this projects success!

I also have a question - is godot 4 viable, or is godot 3 more stable for your purposes?

Unfortunately not 🙏

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Just played it! I have a question, though.

Can you explain to me what makes the seed 2859595888024776241 solvable?

I feel like the game explaining to you the generation process after revealing the solution like a "Summary" would help teach the players where they could've gone wrong, as right now they have to do a lot of work themselves just to learn if it's even solvable or not

Eyyy awesome news! I'll check it out

No, I think your approach to motives might be right! In fact I don't think motives should ever be something you solve. At best it should be a reward for catching the culprit as they tell you the reasons why they did it in an epic confession, as a reward for solving the crime mechanics wise.

Basically the "why" can never be truly proven, only assumed or revealed. You can't really solve what's going on in someone's brain after all.

Oh nice! This makes sense, for the time constraints you can definitely use what you have as basis to expand on the concept! I think there's potential here. 

Also I suggest looking into "a matter of murder" which might have good reference for you. While I don't like motive being used as evidence, in that game they treat it the same as they would a murder weapon, so it's consistent with the game universe and you can have logic apply to some thing that's usually impossible to definitively prove (even a confession can deceive) .