I went from "Oh wow, this looks so good" to "WHOAAAA" as soon as the first battle scene came up. The pacing is stellar, fell in love instantly with the two main characters (Iago especially) and I was blown away by the monsters' designs. I also loved how you used colour (or lack thereof), especially on Iago's eyes near the end!
I'm here after reading the postmortem and imagine my joy in reading I still have at least two more games to bask in the worldbuilding! This was a great introduction to a bigger world, can't wait to see more of it.
Wow, the full manga presentation with screentones and fullcolor pages! I knew some teams were working in this style, but I didn’t think it would go as far as almost panel-per-panel illustration! That’s an impressive amount of illustrations! There are even animated sequences with effects that even webcomics rarely use!
The drawings are sometimes changing a little across panels, and I had difficulties recognising the character without glasses during a fight scene (I suppose he doesn’t need them when summoning gods), but the angles and poses are punchy!
Usually I stop after a few scenes when a VN gets too long to continue later, but I ran through the end on this one. I guess the fact it’s all dialogues and reads like a manga really helped (in fact it was shorter than I thought, but I wouldn’t have minded even if it was longer).
I was studying how other jam entries manage to do short stories, and this one is a good example! It is self-contained but hints at a bigger world like traditional one-shots. And you could keep it short by focusing on a key time of character evolution and hinting at the future.
Also, I like how the duo mixes and matches usual power-personality attributes. Instead of having a bland foil and a superhero-style character with both powers and confidence, powers and confidence are split across them, and the interactions between them matters.
I couldn’t believe no one commented on that one yet, but I see the comments are just on the main game page. I suppose more non-jammers played it, which is also a good thing!
I definitely wanted to emulate the feeling of reading a manga so I'm glad it was an easy and quick read! I do hope to do a somewhat longer game set in the same world with a similar style later since this was the pilot to both the setting and the game mechanics 😂 I had to make sure I could actually keep up with making all the animations and comics.
I'm glad you enjoyed the characters and game, thank you so much for playing!
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I went from "Oh wow, this looks so good" to "WHOAAAA" as soon as the first battle scene came up. The pacing is stellar, fell in love instantly with the two main characters (Iago especially) and I was blown away by the monsters' designs. I also loved how you used colour (or lack thereof), especially on Iago's eyes near the end!
I'm here after reading the postmortem and imagine my joy in reading I still have at least two more games to bask in the worldbuilding! This was a great introduction to a bigger world, can't wait to see more of it.
Wow, the full manga presentation with screentones and fullcolor pages! I knew some teams were working in this style, but I didn’t think it would go as far as almost panel-per-panel illustration! That’s an impressive amount of illustrations! There are even animated sequences with effects that even webcomics rarely use!
The drawings are sometimes changing a little across panels, and I had difficulties recognising the character without glasses during a fight scene (I suppose he doesn’t need them when summoning gods), but the angles and poses are punchy!
Usually I stop after a few scenes when a VN gets too long to continue later, but I ran through the end on this one. I guess the fact it’s all dialogues and reads like a manga really helped (in fact it was shorter than I thought, but I wouldn’t have minded even if it was longer).
I was studying how other jam entries manage to do short stories, and this one is a good example! It is self-contained but hints at a bigger world like traditional one-shots. And you could keep it short by focusing on a key time of character evolution and hinting at the future.
Also, I like how the duo mixes and matches usual power-personality attributes. Instead of having a bland foil and a superhero-style character with both powers and confidence, powers and confidence are split across them, and the interactions between them matters.
I couldn’t believe no one commented on that one yet, but I see the comments are just on the main game page. I suppose more non-jammers played it, which is also a good thing!
Oh, thank you for the comment!
I definitely wanted to emulate the feeling of reading a manga so I'm glad it was an easy and quick read! I do hope to do a somewhat longer game set in the same world with a similar style later since this was the pilot to both the setting and the game mechanics 😂 I had to make sure I could actually keep up with making all the animations and comics.
I'm glad you enjoyed the characters and game, thank you so much for playing!