Very enjoyable experience! I'm thoroughly impressed with how fleshed out you made conversations here.
I could only imagine if games took the time to make basic conversation more engaging just how fleshed out they would be.
I plan on tackling dialogue sequences in a similar style presented here. This is a really good example of how to flesh out background characters in a game.
I like the art style quite a bit, I think it shows promise! Character's expressions show through clearly.
The premise is very interesting, and there are a lot of route choices, which is impressive to implement in 2 weeks. I kept dying alot on the bad end routes though (10/10 would play again)
I do feel that without audio a chunk of the experience is missing (or at least I didn't get audio when I played it). Of course, from my own fires, I know audio is really, really hard to do. My only advice then is to see if you can find atmospheric sound effects that can sell the effect of the moment decently enough.
The suspenseful storytelling here is top notch! I really liked the cast, they had a nice vibe about them as a friend group. That device has alot of intrigue and mystique around it, that I can't help but be curious what's coming next.
Also, so many art cgs and sound fx, I am thoroughly impressed what you squeezed in here over 2 weeks.
Thanks for the details here! Looking it over... I basically agree with everything you said here. Probably before my next visual novel I should first address these aspects
Totally appreciate your take. Visual novels aren't for everyone, and I could understand why they'd feel too slow for most.
That being said, thank you very much for your review here! Your opinion helps me understand what works about my game even despite it being a visual novel.
For future reference, could I get more details about the issues with the font choice? I'd like to try tweaking it a bit if possible. I suspect others may have felt the same.
I liked the story quite a bit, it was witty, and really used what little there was effectively. We had only one character to talk with, but it was an engaging arc. Right now I still think the name "How to train your abomination" still fits.
Thank you Ian! I'm glad that the experience was compelling as well!
I think most of my stress during the jam was in worrying about whether I could stick the landing or not. Coding and Art were much easier in comparison to that.
I took a spin on the term aberration. It turns out that Aberration has a moralistic connotation too (according to merriam webster dictionary). My work delves deeper into that particular meaning, and explores the question: "An aberration by whose standards exactly?".
This is a visual novel set in the 1900s wartime era:
So some other folks on the jam submission page mentioned that they ran the game directly on their windows 11 and 10 machines without a VM, and it ran just fine. I have had enough folks play the game that no issue of viruses came up.
Considering this, would you be willing to try playing the game without a virtual machine? (I understand if not, but thought it was worth asking considering the other feedback I've gotten by now)
From discussion on my main page, they can get the opening start screen menu but then the game just freezes and goes to black. I unfortunately dont have a windows 11 machine of my own to test it with, and I cant submit a bugfix b/c voting is going on.
To be fair, I havent heard of a crash on an actual windows 11 machine, so I dont know if it's just a VM issue. Right now we're suspecting render driver issues with opengl3
