you’re so right, they’re just people being people (there will be more of them at some point)!! i’m glad i managed to capture that :’) thank you so much for your comment!
your writing really is something special. this was wonderful. so immersive and gripping. i love how you add just enough information to piece the story together and still manage to make the world feel “big” and real. i was there, i felt all of that. it was unpleasant and wonderful and i felt understood somehow <3
OH MY GODD!!! this was absolutely fantastic, i don’t even know where to begin! i’m such a sucker for christian imagery/themes mixed with queerness and this definitely hit the spot. with the horror and angst sprinkled in, this feels made in a lab for me fr.
the writing is absolutely fantastic! the witty dialogue made me laugh out loud several times and the yoyo’s inner thoughts are so well written and gripping. it creates a really nice contrast. the voice acting is splendid as well and elavates the dialogue even further.
my attention span struggles some times when reading but this had me seated from start to finish, no problem. the music and visuals set the atmosphere super well right from the start.
anyway, im really invested and can’t wait for the continuation. amazing work, can’t praise it enough!
waaaaah thank you so much for your enthusiastic comments, i very much appreciate it!! im glad it came across as a malice mizer ouji serve, then ive reached my goal :)
I’ve been waiting to write this until I finished rating all the entries but now it’s time :)
Let me start with a bit of a sappy love letter to the jam itself. Multiple people have already said it but the Velox jams have this cozy little community around it that feels really special. This was only my second Velox jam but I felt the same surge of inspiration and motivation as last time. It’s a place to create something purely for the love of the genre and for the love of creating. Despite the ranking and the voting, it doesn’t feel like a competition. It feels like an oportunity to put something out there and actually have other people look at it, and to then give the same appreciation back.
Playing thorugh all the games has been such a blast and I’m so impressed with what people managed to accomplish in just 10 days. So many amazing VNs, many that will stay with me for a long time for sure!
I have this deep love for passion projects and every single game truly felt like a labour of love. Every game also gave me something I want to work into my own future projects. I just want to create more now raahhhh!!!
As for my own entry, I might write a proper devlog later, we’ll see. But I will share some throughts in short! I thought 10 days would make me less stressed after I managed to get through Formido without crunching… I was wrong. 10 days felt so long that I started putting things off and went into procrastination mode. Somehow I still managed everything I wanted to put in the game (even a simple CG that I almost scrapped from the plan due to lack of time!). My biggest issue this time around was the writing. I wrote most of the script in the first 2 days and then spent a week not knowing how I wanted the game to end… I wrote the finishing lines (of the good end) in the last hours of the jam, when everything else was already done. I’m still not sure I like how I wrote it, but at least it is done!
I also tried a lot of new things for this jam! After Formido, where most of my focus was on the narrative, I wanted to focus on art direction. I had a lot of fun designing the UI and trying to make everythingn look cohesive.
Pixel art was another new experience this project. While I have done simple pixel graphics once before for a game, high resolution pixel art was a new world for me, and it was so fun!! I did struggle a bit getting the art to show up nicely in ren’py at first but once I managed to put it all together, I was really satisfied. I’m honestly so happy with how the graphics turned out for this game and can’t wait to work on something similar again in the future!
I think that’s all for me! Thank you Robobarbie and Allie Vera for hosting once again! And thanks to all my fellow participants for making this jam so awesome! I hope to see you all around for the next Velox <3
Really liked this one! I got very attached to Leo and loved seeing his and Sirius’ relationship unfold through the flashbacks. It felt very complete and well planned for something being made in 10 days. Also very cool seeing those intimidating speech bubbles being used!
I only had time to finish 2 endings for now but will definitely go back to experience the others!
Very nice and well written! Loved piecing together parts of their story. It’s one of those where you just want more. Angsty pining is my favorite after all. Made me tear up a couple of times :’) The voice acting was really nice as well!
I loved how uneasy this made me! Very creative use of the theme and the choices were really nicely planned! Had a really fun time trying to escape over an over lol. The design of the FRIENDs was that perfect level of creepy. I need to go back and find the last ending asap. Really fun game!
This was absolutely spectacular! I really like a VN that focuses so heavily on atmosphere and this one executed it perfectly. The blue visuals, the simplistic GUI, and especially the sound and SFX! So well written, the reveals chilled me to the bone. Wonderful job!
Best fever dream I’ve ever had! Absolutely fantastic attention to atmosphere with the sound implementation and visuals. The writing was very engaging as well. Made me laugh, made me uneasy (good) and made me think (also good!). Had a great time with this one, already wanna play it again!
So impressed by the multiple messaging systems!! I know nothing about MMOs but the overall online friends drama was still very relatable and the chat lingo was spot on. It got me feeling really uneasy and truly captured the weird god complex of some “popular” people you meet in online spaces. I did get a bit confused by all the user names but then again, I’m the same with online names in general…
This made me realize I’m not really familiar with the actual swan lake story (just the music), but I’m really happy this was my first time experiencing it! Very nicely written, nice character designs (why is Roth so pretty but so evil??) and really pretty UI!
I love the use of visuals and expressions to convey the main characters view of her parents. The ‘mother’ especially really freaked me out and made it easy to relate to the hostility the MC felt. Very impactfull and well made!
I was so invested in the story for this one! The setting and the characters felt very three dimensional without there being too much lore to keep up with. Very beautiful and gripping <3
Also loved the sea-themed GUI and menu!!
This was so good wow. I got shivers when things started falling into place, really neatly done narrative. The voice acting was fantastic and together with the music (!!!) it made up a really nice atmosphere. Wonderful game <3
Aaaaah this really hit close to home,,, Very well handled and felt really genuine. The voice acting was really nice and I really loved the characters! They all felt like real people I’d meet in my friend circles which felt comforting!
This was so visually pleasing and well put together and omg the world building!! I doubted if I’d be able to read 25k today but I finished it all in one sitting, it was just that good! Wonderful pacing, great atmosphere with the music, just very solid overall! Great job once again, you guys never miss!
I got error screens on two occasions tho (once at line 2432-2445, once at line 2871 in the script), says there’s an attribute error >_<
Thank you!! They surely will have many late night tea-sessions in the future <3 I’ve been wanting to work with a frame-style GUI for a while now so I’m happy I got around to it!
thank youuuu!!! i was struggling a bit with how much lore to put in there cause i wanted some stuff to be up to interpretation while still having the story be pretty clear,,, glad it worked out somehow haha
Yayy I’m so happy you stuck with it and saw the project through!! I’m very impressed with how many different things you managed for a first VN! The custom main menu, the extra images displayed and especially the sound design (definitely a highlight!). Also, Nicholas is so pretty hehe I wish we got to see more of him :3
