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A jam submission

New SalemView game page

Can you help rediscover the lost arts of New Salem?
Submitted by HinmanLantern — 5 hours, 18 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#4523.1073.107
Theme#4693.2143.214
Graphics#5003.3933.393
Overall#5173.1073.107
Game Design#5473.1433.143
Innovation#5572.9642.964
Fun#7182.8212.821

Ranked from 28 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does you game fit the theme?
Your character will meet the locals of New Salem, and will have to determine what is real and what is not.

Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
I made all assets -- art, music, etc. -- from scratch. I created the font used in the game in a prior project. The vast majority of code is from scratch; I drew on youtube tutorials for some code, and credited sources in-line.

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Comments

Submitted

I loved the art and music! Cool story. (I especially loved the yoyo animation)

Submitted

Nice game! The art is great, the story is interesting and the whole thing is very unique.

Submitted

Congrats on your submission and building everything yourself in a week, enjoyed pixel art and story based game as there's not many story based submissions from what I'm seeing.

Submitted

You did a really nice job with everything. Making everything yourself is really impressive, love that even the NPCs had animations.

And I felt tricked losing that gold!

Small, simple game, art and music were great, I got scammed, RGB gaming tree.

Submitted

Cool little game and fun vibes

Submitted

A game whose story is about getting scammed lol oh dear.

As an experience to tell the story this game definitely works; that much is I think something excellent. Although the purpose is minimum the coins really make the experience of getting scammed that more real.

The music is cute and fits the atmosphere - the fact that you created it from scratch is amazing, even if it is only 8-bit; or at least that's how I feel because I couldn't fit the time to compose in the 7 days of the jam XP

The character sprite I must say is very cute; I love it. You may want to keep this in mind though for future projects: pixel sizes should be constant throughout your game. In your game the pixels for the items are much bigger than say the players and then the buildings have even smaller pixels. Furthermore it seems like you did not scale the sprites by whole numbers. As a result... well... some pixels turn into rectangles. Inconsistent pixel sizes make your otherwise beautiful pixel art looks like a jumbled frankenstein mess XP

Submitted

Music is very nice

Submitted

I like the pixel art style. 

Submitted

This game is awesome! You should expand it out with more towns and whatnot. I kinda spaced out what I was doing and just started buying everything, but I still had fun. My only advice is that its a little slow paced (which is fine if you keep expanding!) :D

Submitted

Haha, when I was walking around the shops buying everything I did think I'd run out of money. But I figured there was going to be a way of getting back some money to keep doing tasks. You fooled me well!

Well done. The story is good and the graphics are cute.

My suggestions:

  • I think diagonal movement would be good for this game. Just 4 directions is weird when you're not constrained to a grid.
  • When you walk to the edge of the playing area, there are just invisible walls. I'd probably prefer it if there was a more physical reason why you can't walk further, like some mountains/forest to the north and the river to the south, for example.
  • The town itself, which is the focus of the game, is not very interesting. I'd add some more houses North and South, or maybe some more features, just for decoration.


But the game itself is fun! Well done!

Submitted

I liked the art and audio quite a lot. Really nice entry good job!

Submitted

Great Work, I Rated it!, can you help me with my jam entry?, It would really make my day if you rate mine too!
Thanks in advance!
Here's mine!!!: https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-7/rate/1415313

Submitted

Solid game, I enjoyed it! It was a cute and funny storyline, really impressive you did all this by yourself! Nice work

Submitted

amazing art, simple story, great game!

Submitted

The art is really nice, the game is quite fun and the story is cool.

Good work!

Submitted

This gives me stardew valley vibes and I love it

Submitted(+1)

Very filled out game! I think the controls need a little work, for example letting players choose to use the arrow keys and/or WASD, and having the talk and advance conversation buttons be the same key. The characters look great (I really like the yo-yo guy)!