The visual style of this little game is combined with the polyphonic "organ" music so harmoniously! I really wouldn't think that this things can go together.
The story is fragmentary and incomplete for me. But it perfectly holds my attention with intonation and dramatic tension and unusual characters.
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The theatrical framing deliberately makes the player aware of the artificiality of the experience. Yet, it also sets up a very artistic tone and makes up for a reflexive and meditative experience. I liked how the player is told that they will 'play' the part of the character, but the word is used in a less gamey and more theatrical sense. This was definitely something different!
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Game of 1000+ poemsI really loved the music and your art style. I would be really cool if the story branched a bit more, but obviously it's a jam game! Captured the western vibe nicely.
This feels really well put together and a pretty solid effort all round. Good work.
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Robot Fighting MechanicThe aesthetics were great for this from the colors to the music to the sprite work. The story is nice and the writing is quite solid. It feels like a traditional western, and I'd love to see more of it. I really like the frame around the visuals which gives it a more silent movie kind of vibe to me. Great work!
Thank you, that means a lot (especially from you, you seem to know aesthetics very well!) I'm not well practiced but I tried to jump around in perspective and keep it sorta cinematic. The music is actually excerpts from two classical guitar pieces from an old guitar class I transcribed (I had the sheet music lying around).
Nice format for a short story! The byte-sized texts were fun to follow and the limited palette pixel art was pretty appealing.
I played it twice out of curiosity to see if there were more variants to the story events, which were pretty subtle, but it could be something interesting to expand upon and give unique consequences to the dialogs.
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'Llama vs. Llamas'this is super beautiful. I look forward hopefully to a long novel.
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Dangerous AloneThis has a wonderful look and atmosphere also a really unique way to tell the story, great job!
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The Next KingGod this was awesome! I loved all of it! I might have to go and play it again to see if there are alternate paths, but this is super cool. The style, the writing, just everything fits! Really really cool!
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