Cozy Autumn Game Jam (2023)

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A jam submission

Otsukimi ScrambleView game page

This is a quest for Reunion and Homecoming under the Full Moon.

Submitted by Rayko — 7 hours, 12 minutes before the deadline

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Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Aesthetics: Does this game have aesthetically pleasing artwork or polish?	#72	2.799	3.429
Overall: Is the game objectively good?	#74	2.333	2.857
Creativity: Does the game include something unexpected or interesting?	#80	1.983	2.429
Fun: Is the game enjoyable or satisfying to play?	#88	1.866	2.286
Cozy: Does the game you feel cozy?	#97	1.750	2.143
Theme: Does this game represent the theme well?	#101	1.866	2.286

Ranked from 7 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Source Code (optional)
https://github.com/RaykoEZ/CozyAutumnJam2023

Resources & Tutorials (optional)
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/index.html

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HurDerKenSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

I like the art and the story. It felt a little slow at the start, but the pacing felt better after the first choice came into play. I got 4 endings: 2 main ones, and slight variations of the main endings. The music was pleasant to listen as you read the text. I don't know if I missed it in a different story branch, but it would be nice to know the Boss' motivations for staying on the planet for a long time.

A short story about helping someone else.

P.S. Kaspersky Anti-virus didn't seem to detect an issue with the download.

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RaykoDeveloper1 year ago

Thanks for playing!

And thanks for the feedback! I’ll take this into account in my storyboarding next time.

As for the motives, there should be a clue somewhere if you unlocked and cleared the secret. I’ll have to add an ending checklist feature next time for this.

MegaFuzeSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

This is pretty cool! Its been a while since I last ran into a renPy game. I liked the art and the story. I also like these types of stories where you can assign yourself a name. I named myself OrphanDestroyerX and got a few good laughs from some of the dialogues. I gave 2 runs and got 2 different endings, good stuff overall, great job!

Also, my antivirus didnt pick up any signs of a trojan when booting this game up, so all is good!

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Key To Autumn (v1.1 update)

RaykoDeveloper1 year ago

Thanks for playing!

Yeah, I suspect the antivirus was a Win11 thing, the flag was most likely raised by a machine-learning program.

MegaFuzeSubmitted1 year ago

yo quick question, how did you turn your renPy project to an exe? Did you use pyinstaller by any chance? Because I just got word from a discord dm that someone had their antivirus flag my game as spyware. The only similarity that both your game and my game have in common is that we both used pygame to make our projects (renPy was built using pygame). I just wanna know what the process is for turning a renPy game to an exe cuz the tool i used, Pyinstaller, has a method of packaging a python project to an exe that has most antiviruses flag it as shady malware.

RaykoDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

I’m assuming the flag was from Windows Defender too?

I use the [Build Distribution] button on RenPy.

The engine uses a build script here: https://github.com/renpy/renpy/blob/master/launcher/game/distribute.rpy

There is an archive on Renpy’s repos which used pyinstaller (renpy-dep), but I don’t think it’s used anymore.

I didn’t have the issue with your game on Win10.

For my game, the antivirus flag came up on a Win11 PC.

MegaFuzeSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Looked into it a bit more, and i feel kinda dumb now lol. The archived Renpy Repository did in fact seem to have PyInstaller, which was meant for a tool they were making called "RenPython", but I cant seem to find that tool inside of the current RenPy repository, or at least I cant find any file/folder labeled "RenPython". So I'll just assume that this tool was probably canned. Also, I didnt get flagged by Windows Defender. I think it was from MalwareBytes. If I tossed my game's exe file (not the game's zip file), it would get flagged by 4 out of 70 antiviruses as malicious, which one of them also happened to be MalwareBytes. And tbh this is expected since pyinstaller is pretty much known for getting lots of false flags for pygame projects. hell, I once had Norton delete a quick test build of an entry I made for last year's cozy autumn jam lmao.

So im gonna conclude that RenPy has probably developed its own method to distribute RenPy projects, and your situation of getting flagged is pretty different to mine. So uh yeah, sorry about bothering ya and I wish ya the best of luck on the results when the rating period ends!

RaykoDeveloper1 year ago

The best to you too!

RaykoDeveloper1 year ago

Build 091023 has some tweaks and clues & a Mac build but it probably won’t be judged for the jam.

Posh CatSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Love the art, great writing!

RaykoDeveloper1 year ago

Thanks, means a lot to me!

Finn Truong1 year ago(+1)

I love the art and the writing is really engaging! I really enjoyed playing this! Great job :D

eqn0xSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Great art, fun story, playing through different endings is neat!

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Will1 year ago(+1)

I may be biased but I think the art is pretty great

CanardouSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Nice to see a game made with renpy. I did two endings, it's great to have multiple real paths and choices avaible ;) Good job!

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RaykoDeveloper1 year ago

Thanks for playing~

RaykoDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

This is my first time working with RenPy and writing a Visual Novel.

An interesting experience.