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Unexpected Panic! jam comments

2024-03-14T04:07:06Z

Incredible experience! It reminded me of Valve's sense of humor in HL and Portal. The game concept is very clear (no spoilers) and the look fits the experience perfectly. WARNING: minor spoilers ahead. The personality of the characters is differentiated, which for such a short game made me feel that its world was greater and rich. The third character deserves its own game; holly molly, that's world building! Also, I think that you did really well at the mechanics, in the sense that they extend the length of the experience by being combined; so A, B and C can become AB, AC, CB and ABC too. The end might look a bit tedious for some, but I found really enjoyable because I found myself playing hard because I wanted hard to play... So self-reference gets into the gameplay itself, not just into the story, and makes the experience very rounded. And the very end, I guess you might see something like that coming, but it felt like a confirmation that I was being absolutely trolled and was enjoying to be so. So 5/5 from me!

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Submitted by IanLindsey — 4 hours, 26 minutes before the deadline

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ncharlieSubmitted2 days ago(+1)

Fun experience that reminded me of the Stanley Parable. The length was perfect for a game jam submission, and I'm impressed with how many VO lines you included. The button falling off the wall was surprising but oddly satisfying in its own way (I'm so conditioned to buttons being perfect in games that it's really weird seeing something behind it :P)

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