Very mysterious game. I included it in my compilation video series of all of the games from this jam, if you’d like to take a look. :)
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Really nice graphics! Did you use real pictures as base or drew them from scratch? Love the mood of the game also!
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Jan Ken Pro!Yes! The 'scenes' were made from photographs which I altered digitally. I used a mixture of photos I had taken and public domain stuff from the New York Public Library's digital archives--- it was great resource. I did tweak them by hand and draw in some stuff, but I'm not a good enough artist to draw so much! Thanks so much for playing.
There are a lot of memorable scenes in this game, and it's well worth the few minutes it takes to experience it.
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Rusty BladeNice. The 1 bit aesthetic worked really nicely. The storytelling was suitably vague. I'll have to give it another go sometime and see where else you can end up.
I also think i recognised the image used for the factory, which was a kind of uncanny valley I haven't experienced before, and it surprised me a little, haha.
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Hoard It!Thanks for playing! There's a small split in the middle but it's fairly linear. Certain things tweak certain dialog also.
You probably do recognize the factory from a photo-- that was one of the public domain photos I acquired from the NYPL digital archives! It proved a great resource for this game. Again, thanks for playing!
No worries, as I see it the whole point of these jams is to end up with a heap of games to play and foster some community spirit and actually playing them is pretty important for that, haha :)
I figure for a lot of these jam entries a lot of the magic is in that kind of first "exploratory" playthrough so it being fairly linear is a good thing for efficiency if anything.
You should have seen my notes! I had it mapped out at one point so there were 4 different paths through the game, then later realized that meant way more work for me and parts of the game would never be seen by players. And when you're doing a game jam, you can't expect to necessarily get a lot of time dedicated by the player. I then almost straightened the whole thing out to be 100% linear, but I liked keeping a little split so that you can play it a little differently if you feel compelled to play a second time.
Playing yours right now and can confirm that it's already much more interesting than playing my own one as A: I have no idea what's gonna happen next and B: can gather lots of inspiration for how to possibly do things differently than how I would make them work intuitively. In short: I'm having a lot of fun playing your game over here!
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