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thank you so much for the feedback! I think a lot of your points have weight and some were just because of constraints of being a solo dev and having to learn everything as I went.

Before making Start Running I had actually never drawn anything in my life or made a UI or programmed at all in python or written puzzles so it was a sharp learning curve and your feedback is super helpful. 

The game I made at the end of last year, In The Foundations, is more simple gameplay wise but I think has elevated a lot of things that I learned from making Start Running. Thank you for playing and the kind words! 

I added another note to ending 4 - if you still haven't gotten it, let me know if that helps.

Here, I went and made a guide for you! Let me know if this helps:

Are you looking for alternate endings?

here’s a few hints!

the endings rely on the locations of characters in the game: if you take them or suggest they go to different places that may help you see other endings.

for more granular info that will contain small spoilers: abandon everyone/be mean, do weird things in the sewer, touch everything to everything else, pet Stash a lot, get into the CEO’s office. not all of those things at once, but start there.  

thank you so much for playing!

I would give anything to know how your art team makes these beautiful room scenes and environments in the pixel art style you use. They're always beautiful.

was stuck on the level where the note talks about the logs across the road for a long time - I didn't realize the grey block was a "less deep hole" until I just out of desperation was pushing ANYTHING xD

I wasn't able to finish the game, just because it got very hard when I had to move two little guys at once, but I had a nice time with what I played! great work!

Thank you for playing. I’m glad it resonated with you, and I appreciate your compliments. ❤️

Ah, you're correct. It does look like it shows the wrong ending screen for one of the endings. All of them show the correct text, it just looks like the image was shown incorrectly. So goes gamejam stuff :) when/if we update the game, we will resolve this. 

I wrote up a guide too if it helps: https://norbez.itch.io/to-train-a-killer-first-hunt/devlog/776838/guide-to-endin...

I just wrote up a guide. Check it out here: https://norbez.itch.io/to-train-a-killer-first-hunt/devlog/776838/guide-to-endin...

Writer here, I'll try not to spoiler too much: 

if you're trying to leave, maybe don't. If you're talking a lot, try being quiet. If you're being quiet, try reacting to the pain. If you're paying attention only to one man, try paying attention to the other!

Writer here, I'll try not to spoiler too much: 

if you're trying to leave, maybe don't. If you're talking a lot, try being quiet. If you're being quiet, try reacting to the pain. If you're paying attention only to one man, try paying attention to the other!

I know this is weird, but sometimes I still wonder why you were an asshole to me and went through and rated every game on my page as 1 star when I have no idea who you are or what I could have even done to you.

It’s been a little bit since I made this, but if I remember correctly it’s about getting all the trivia answers right. 

thank you for playing it!

hi, I'm back here. a friend bought me Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood and I started playing it and the moment I saw the Florist sitting in his chair with the flowers I lost my mind. <3

That’s good to hear. The demo has a lot of themes that seem like domestic abuse. If that’s not intended, I’d suggest you be more cognizant that if you’re writing a story about a male game developer and his wife is prominently shown and they are fighting, it could seem like domestic abuse, even if there are happy moments shown.

I understand relationships have many aspects and as someone who writes games with horror/nuanced interpersonal stories, I know it’s a hard line to walk. But it would be a shame to have such a cool concept ruined by “the sadness in this story is domestic abuse” when you could tell so, so many relationship stories that don’t have that kind of violence and that can still be horror themed. 

Thank you for listening to my feedback! 

I'm very interested in this game, but I don't know if I have it in me to play another 90s tech style analogue horror game where the husband is abusing his wife, or there's some kind of domestic abuse. I think it's just the lowest hanging fruit, and there's so many other more interesting stories to tell. I can only hope that this isn't the plot that you're aiming for, but if it is, I may just have to skip this even if it's a very interesting mechanic. 

I think the visuals in this demo were so phenomenal, and you all have a really cool idea on your hands otherwise. Great work.

All three endings are in the game! You’re correct that it requires perfect responses to get the other two endings. The “correct”/“wrong” choices require either completely rejecting the pattern or sticking with it and really that’s all. 

Thanks for playing and appreciate your feedback. 

thanks for playing!! appreciate the feedback!

Thank you for the feedback and for playing! We found the door didn't have collision right before we shipped, that's how game james go xD

A lot of new skills were learned during this jam, and we ended up scoping out as much as we could during this time. I agree there could be more added and appreciate the ideas. 

Thanks for the feedback - we were all working on new skills for this jam, and hopefully when the scene changed you were able to keep going in the narrative. appreciate you checking it out!

This was super fun! The aesthetic was on point, and your use of Ren'Py was enjoyable. As someone who programs in Ren'Py a lot, I will say you did a great job customizing the engine. I saw a few endings but didn't play everything because once I knew the answers, the game wasn't prepared for me to do things, so it was a little out of order. But for a game jam game it was fun and unique. 

I’m so excited to hear this!

Thanks for playing!!

Pet, my other VN, is much longer! It's also free on itch if you want to check it out. 

Interesting, I didn't have anything when I came home with items, but I possibly couldn't figure out what to do with them. What I played was fun though!

This was an interesting demo. My biggest issue is that I was having a hard time drawing the door knob bc of the thickness of the pen. (I also accidentally dropped the green orb inside of a piece of geometry and lost it so I had to reset. That's my fault though.) I'd like to see where this goes if you go further with it.

I am stuck and can't progress once I've picked up many items. Are there any tips or tricks you can give me? I think I have to decorate but I have no idea how to do so. Thanks!

I tried to play this but it wasn't my kind of game. I'm not going to rate it because I couldn't play it for too long, but I wanted to say I really did not like that both the splash screen had a loud jumpscare noise and quitting made such a loud noise with a jumpscare. I would suggest not doing that, or at least making the volume WAY lower on any kind of noise that's outside of the game (and thus the player cannot control the volume of it).

Really fun! The music was probably my favorite part, got a good vibe to it. I liked the different gameplay elements, the roguelite vibes, and the art was simple and fun. Responsive gameplay. Great job.

Great game, liked the visuals and would love to see it expounded. For some feedback: It would be nice to know as a player when I should be trying to click on things and when dialogue is happening so I could distinguish between when I can take action and when I am reading. Also love to see people working in Godot.

I really loved the art and music in this. Reminded me of World of Horror in a way. The characters were cool. It was hard to understand where to go and who would be good where, but I did muddle through 50 turns and make it out. No idea how you got such good VN style text in AGS (something I was struggling with previously so I moved away from using it for a game I currently have in development). Great work.

yeah, I did, still couldn't get it to work. No worries - might just be me!

thank you for the feedback! 

thank you for playing it!

No, but by custom I meant made for the jam and I’m not sure any of it was. I don’t want to have an argument here - it’s just an inauthentic entry. 

I apologize if that was too harsh. It looks like this was cobbled together assets and a single fight. If there was more than that, or something custom made, please let me know and I can go through and try to understand better.

I forgot to mention I love the name nods! James, Murphy, Ethan