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A jam submission

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A short horror game for Gameboy Showdown 2022
Submitted by BenJelter — 6 hours, 5 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Game Design#43.7203.720
Graphics#44.0004.000
Overall#43.6003.600
Sound / Music#93.4003.400
Innovation / Originality#103.6803.680
Gameplay / Fun#143.3603.360
Theme#163.4403.440

Ranked from 25 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
It tells a story out of chronological order and deals with themes of aging.

Did you use any assets?
Only some environment tiles I copy-pasted from my previous projects.

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Comments

Host

Congratulations, you made it to the 4th place!

Hit me up on twitter, if you want me to send some free stickers to you! :)

Submitted(+1)

Amazing game! I really enjoyed playing it.

Art is beautiful! Music is great, good variety and mood. The story is great, I liked that the mini games aided in telling the story too. Gameplay was fun, I liked that there was an added challenge with trying to avoid the glitches and having to bring yourself back if they touch you. 

Very impressive you were able to make such a good and complex game in 7 days!

(+1)

All I wanna do is solve this gosh darn case hahaha but my mind is slowly slipping away from me! Like many have said, the nostalgic style of the game is a breath of fresh air. As soon as I started playing, soo many memories of the awesome experiences I had started to flood in. This game was put together very well! I only feel that the dire situation and amount of info doesn't really fit as a short game. It should be longer and dive so much deeper!

Great Work!

Submitted(+1)

Amazing work! From the beautiful graphics, to the creepy story I was blown-away! I usually don't like this style of game, but was hooked from the start. Great job!

Submitted(+2)

Boy did I smile when I saw the mystery in the arcade. I love that you made that legend the focal point of your story. Really neat graphics, and loved the dimensional portal animated effects (and all the glitchiness.) Too very impressive for one week of work! Well done!!

Submitted (4 edits) (+2)

I played through twice. The first time I happily opted out of the case and went straight to bowling. It was lovely. The second time I made it to the arcade where I got a call suggesting I retire from the case and go bowling. Seeing as creepy media is often too much for me, I was happy to once more avoid the horror (but I was too late...).


This game was fantastic. I legitimately don't know how you made the illustrations and story and programming all in 7 days. You must've been working HARD!! I mentioned that I can't really do creepy media, and this is one of the few times where I wish I had the stomach for it because I would've loved to see the full extent of all endings!

Wonderful job with this title; it is extremely creative and well made :D

Submitted(+1)

Simply Wow! I didn't think I'd see a game this advanced on a 7 day Jam, even if you reused assets from your previous games, it's amazing. I really liked the "Lynch" storyline, where you don't really know if you're in the real world or not, and the use of the arcade's abyss! I liked a little less the puzzle part, where I remained a good moment before understanding the logic, whereas I wanted to advance in the history :D , and the music is a little repetitive, but normal one cannot make all in only one week!  Congratulations for this game !


(+1)

I got hooked on this story in the first 30 seconds of gameplay. haha! The atmosphere is so tense, the story is great, and the glitches going after you are so scary. It is super replayable as well. Amazing job!

Submitted(+1)

Really love this. Totally blows me away as a Gameboy game. The art is great and I can't even imagine how complicated it must have been to build something like this with the choice-driven narrative during a 7-day game jam. Wow!

Submitted(+1)

This was amazing! What a ride, what a game.

Submitted(+1)

the fact that this one got featured  in 

is insane
(+1)

What a Journey!! I like it! I like that one guy is named Juan.

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:)

Submitted(+1)

damn.

this concludes my analysis of this entry.

Host(+1)

Wow, my first playthrough was really dark! There is no criticism to be made, you did a fantastic job.

(+1)

This was a really cool and mind-boggling horror game about the main character who is an old yet experienced detective, trying to solve an interesting case. The aesthetics of the game was amazing and I like that the character face matches with the actual character design(the character design when moving around the map). The story is really mind-boggling as it really makes the player question whether the main character is actually mentally declining or the main character is accurate in her deduction and perception of the case. I liked how the revival process involves solving a kind of complicated maze and that the glitch witch is actually not as horrifying as everything that is happening around the main character, her family and her supervisor. 

This was a really cool and mind-boggling horror game about the main character who is an old yet experienced detective, trying to solve an interesting case. The aesthetics of the game was amazing and I like that the character face matches with the actual character design(the character design when moving around the map). The story is really mind-boggling as it really makes the player question whether the main character is actually mentally declining or the main character is accurate in her deduction and perception of the case. I liked how the revival process involves solving a kind of complicated maze and that the glitch witch is actually not as horrifying as everything that is happening around the main character, her family and her supervisor.