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Veeeery cute; love the fact that I can give Neuro diabetes in the end

Good job on the contribution! Nice concept, there needs to be waay more time invested on testing and polishing and maximizing the fun of it, the pinball aspect didn't feel fun enough to me and I sadly can't really put into words why; the visuals are very rough too. I am probably biased because I checked out the other pinball game in this jam first '':D

Looks awesome :)

I wish there'd be more variety in the book titles! 

This is so cool and fun!!! 

Good job on the submission :D Love how Neuro looks with her gun. The gun in the first room is a bit confusing because it looks like it can be picked up.

:D wow, then it's actually very impressive!

feels a lot like a board game, love it! the items are cool, the rigged wheel destroyed me ~_~

seeing a cooking simulator in this jam is so cool! lots of work was put into the game, a first place would be very much deserved <3

the tutorial could use a bit more refining, my issue was that I f.e. didn't yet finish to cut a fruit or accidentally ran past an item and the tutorial immediately skipped to the next step, confusing me a bit.

very cool idea and the game looks nice

good job on the contribution; make sure to add screenshots to the page so people have more motivation to check out the game :D i'm sure there are a lot of folks who like these cards of card-building / inscription-likes

CINEMA

this is the kind of cozy stuff that makes me want to play more visual novels, bravo Clap

awesome stuff!

Awesome as usual :) I could argue that the game fits to the theme with how in the end some sort artefact from the past from this timeline was needed to save the other timeline.

The spot where I needed to go back home was not very intuitive, because I was certain that the description that the philosophers gave fits perfectly to Neuro :D

Hope Vedal gets to play it on stream <3

edit: I wish there was a different thumbnail that would fit your usual style so that people pay more attention to the game; I believe you can still edit stuff like screenshots and thumbnail even after the deadline 👍

CINEMA

Anny's and Vedal's cars didn't move for me, is it normal? :'D It ended up feeling like they just chilled by the finish line and let her win, classic parents. Loved the neuro soundeffects. I really wish the map would be more detailed though, I don't understand the logic behind the collisions.

These controls though............... But I think I got the hang of it by the third lap, wish there'd be more levels to play :3

CINEMA

Good art, cool story, very nice!

The enemy AI kinda feels like actual Neuro haha

good job on the submission :) i don't know the rules of Inscription which is probably why i'm not sure how to make much progress in the game

That's a very interesting idea and and the motivation behind the game is valid and important; I enjoyed reading the description and the postmortem.

The game itself feels rough around the edges and ends up being very preachy, like the fun part of the game was left out and it just ends up listing a bunch of things :'D But I can imagine how fun would be if the player couldn't as obviously differentiate between the heavy topics and the light-hearted topics, and would have to think for themselves how risky or inappropriate each topic is (it almost feels like the Impact and the Risk values weren't intended to be visible to the player).

And because those are formatted as cards, and not just faceless chat messages, it would probably be fun to add little drawings on these cards, visualizing the ideas, especially if on heavy topics it would show Neuro herself being part of the topics too lightheartedly, if that makes sense, f.e. depicting her being cute while she blackmails people in a cyberpunk world.

Another format I thought of that would be fun for the concept would be if the player got to see a classic fast-going chat full of ideas, and the player plays as Neuro having to pick out messages quickly to gather ideas, but those controversial ideas disguise themselves as light-hearted ideas, and you end up clicking on them without thinking it through and because of that risk losing viewers. 

AI pictures could be a good source of knowledge in terms of f.e. composition and use of color, but AI still messes up a lot of details or nuances about architecture, furniture and other details, as well as the consistency of lights and shadows, so I definitely don't recommend studying them directly.

If you want to learn creating beautiful anime / visual novel backgrounds, I recommend studying backgrounds of existing animes and visual novels (for me these were Nichijou and Clannad), as well as artists like しおん - https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/14707888 or _LM7_ - https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/420928

For the AI backgrounds in this post, I recommend to exclusively use them as a) draft backgrounds while developing a visual novel to then later replace with actual custom backgrounds; b) as finished assets in context that welcomes AI assets to be used, or c) as basis for rich thorough overpainting to take them as a sort of sketch and transform them into something that doesn't have any of the dumb AI artifacts and visual glitches and actually shows your own unique artstyle.

Thanks! Sounds reasonable... I'll consider doing that anytime in the future and updating the existing files, just because it shouldn't take long and I'm personally curious about how much impact it would have on her visuals. Let me know if you plan to use this character in your project so I know if I should do it until some specific deadline :D

x_x Thanks for letting me know! Didn't notice I had "Hide this asset" checkmark active for some reason.

Дякую, дуже гарна порада!! :O ❤

Дуже дякую, помилки скоректую після голосування, і вже була знайдена добра людина, яка готова редагувати текст цілком :D Сумно, що важко читати, вибачаюсь - писала я й насправді українською, наскільки я це можу, та перевіряла онлайн інструментом перевірки, але треба ще більше досвіду писання українською - буду в майбутньому старатися :P

Потрясна графіка та анімації, чудова історія, дякую за гру :)

????? Арти для двох днів роботи дуже гарні! По каверу я сподівалась, що це буде лише текстовий адвенчур, а не повноцінна візуальна новела, хоч і коротка. Текст сподобався, з відповідною музикою було б дуже атмосферно.

БУДЬ ЛАСКА, додайте трошки скріншотів до Вашої гри на ітчіо! Вони допоможуть отримати більше оцінок, я вважаю :)

Я не зрозуміла історію :D Хоча інколи казалось, що ось зараз зараз почну розуміти, але одразу після цього персонаж починав говорити о чомусь іншому. Але написано цікаво.

Намальовано та анімовано гарно, гарний дизайн персонажів, добре для короткого джему.

Чудова гра, гарно написано, звукове оформлення сподобалося :)

Під час бою котів є трошки діалогу, де інтерфейс зникає, і тому не прочитати текст, тому що він такого ж кольору, як і фон. Можна лише імена побачити.

Ця гра відчувається як якесь scp :P

Good job and congrats on the game! ^^ The movement felt quite nice once I got used to the controls. The music slaps 👌👌👌🔥

omg I got the game jam queen's blessing 🥺✨ thanks Kolaya!!

Довговолосі хлопці *_* Yes please! Гарні арти, чудова отоме ^^

Гарна робота великої команди розробників :) Чудовий задум, цікава історія, читалось швидко та приємно. Дякую за чудову музику.

i don't see any exe in the archive... ~_~ is this normal? T_T

Чудова новела, персонажі так круто намальовані! Гарний задум, читалось легко, швидко та затишно) І теж захотілося намалювати свій план будинку, або в сімс знов пограти :Р

Дуже подобається, як автор уявляв собі світ та персонажів що в ньому мешкають :) Подобаються кольори та оформлення. Хотілося б більше прочитати про все що трапилось та дізнатися більше про усіх персонажів.

Рада була побачити історію про кохання серед новел (в списку тамбнейл виглядав як корейська дорама, тому привернула мою увагу), і задум сподобався :) 

I am extremely happy about you getting 2nd place in the jam. Your entry is the one I'm sure I'll keep remembering long after the jam is over. Having vedal read out the entire narration on his stream was a great bonus and I'm glad it happened.

Thanks, this post helped a lot (found it on the first page of my google search)! 👍❤ Good luck on your future projects, kind person!

I ended up not answering the spoilers question for two years ':D I wanted to leave it open for interpretation - I guess the difference is whether or not she feels connected to the human world by the end, or if she dislikes it and wants to return to how things were :P