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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Music | #5 | 4.204 | 4.204 |
| Story | #7 | 4.315 | 4.315 |
| Aesthetics | #10 | 4.481 | 4.481 |
| Sound | #17 | 3.963 | 3.963 |
| Fun | #416 | 2.889 | 2.889 |
| Theme | #427 | 2.926 | 2.926 |
| Mechanics | #514 | 2.556 | 2.556 |
Ranked from 54 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How many people worked on this game total?
2
Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
Soniss free GDC SFX, Art created using Midjourney, Mister October font from Dafont.com
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Not sure if it was my system or not, but I couldn't get into the forest. Not sure if I was supposed to click on something but all I saw was a fairly white screen with scattered trees (not sure if that was intentional or a bug on my end). The story idea sounded amazing and the artwork you generated is gorgeous! Voice acting was spot on too. Great job!
Thanks for taking the time to play and for the kind words. Appreciate you flagging the forest issue, will look into this!
Great job on the game, mate! I've left you a rating. Would you mind giving my game a spin and leaving a rating too?
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Thanks so much for playing and for the rating! Yeah of course, will check it out now
It Was a very sweet story. And I love the animation. Nice work :)
Thanks so much for playing and for the kind words!
Very sweet story, and a very wholesome game overall!
Stretching a bit to see the theme here, and a little bit of animation and/or consistency in appearances (the Babu changes into many different forms throughout, I was really excited about the horned little creature that momentarily vanished) would really help take it up a notch.
Not sure if it was just for me, but the final menu wasn’t working.
Also, there’s no way those are the Babus real parents! 😜
Great job all-round! 🙌
Thanks so much for taking the time to play and for the feedback!
Yes the theme took a bit of a backseat, the thinking was that the Babu was being born in a storybook world, thus making it "Life in two dimensions", but I agree that it's not the strongest link to the theme.
I would've loved more consistency between the incarnations too, especially in relation to his parents! One of the pitfalls of using AI art without much knowledge of the prompts! Everything came out looking a little bit different to what was intended. Had a great time experimenting though,
Thanks again!
Wow, just a special piece of beauty videogame, Nice work!
Thanks for the kind words!
Absolutely gorgeous art direction. Good job!
Thanks so much for playing and the kind words!
Wow the art direction here is at a pro level! Great drawings, great music, great story, great narration. Nice done! Loved this little game!
Thanks so much for the kind words, really appreciate it. I absolutely loved Frank 2!
Music and narration just hit the spot! Really well done on the arkwork and the storytelling!
Such a cute little game/story!
Thanks so much for taking the time to play and for the kind words. Have just checked out your guys' game and loved it! Great work
What a wholesome approach to a game! Loved the personal narration and the storybook telling concept.
The artwork is amazing!
Great submission =)
Thanks so much for the kind words, glad you enjoyed it
The game looks really great. The action text felt a bit off though. I love the music and the sound effects. The narrator voice really enhances the storybook atmosphere of the game. Overall, the game did really well in telling this wholesome story.
Thanks so much for playing and for the kind words, as well as the feedback. Someone else pointed out the same thing so will definitely take this into consideration in future
Artwork, story narration, and music of this game are all amazing.
I think you could improve the game by adding some animation and some puzzles for the player to solve.
Thanks for the kind words and the suggestions, I completely agree with you about the animatons and puzzles, hoping to do more involved gameplay stuff in future!
Beautiful looking game and great voice acting. I really loved the design of the forest and the artistic use of white space.
Thanks for the kind words, really appreciated
The art is GORGEOUS!! the music and background sounds is very calming. Would've been better if the boy's walking is animated. you could lower the background sound effects and music a bit, it's drowning the narration voice.
The voice and accent is gorgeous too. hehe <3 Can we expect a Babu merch soon?
Thanks so much for the kind words, and the helpful feedback. Will definitely look into balancing the sound levels a bit. Would love to animate the boy's walk and adding some animation to the Babu would give him a bit more character too!
Haha the Babu could make a good plushie that's for sure!
I really enjoyed the game! The music and the art are really on point!!
Thanks so much for taking the time to play, and for the nice message!
No need to say thanks the game is fun i enjoyed playing it!
I would appreciate a lot if you could try my game too and leave a rate if you like it!
I loved it and showed it to my kids! They loved it too!
If you have the time, can you play and rate my game, too?
Aww that's great to hear, thrilled that you all enjoyed it.
Of course! Will go and play it now
you guys, what a beautiful little story. the art, music, sound and narration really worked great together to tell a soothing story.
i think you could probably even enhance the feeling of walking through the woods by experimenting with different techniques to combine 2D sprites and a 3D map to get some parallaxing effects etc. also the hard edges of the water colored trees kinda threw me off a little bit - but I'm just nitpicking here ;-)
Thanks so much for taking the time to play and comment. Completely agree that adding some depth to the scene would enhance it massively, have never tried parallax effects before but will read up on it. Nitpicking welcome, I'm still learning! Absolutely loved your game, hope lots of people are playing it
Please tell me you did the painting. It is so beautiful!
All of the art was generated with Midjourney and then tweaked in Krita. Was absolutely astounded at how good a job it does, albeit with quite a lot of experimentation as far as prompts go. Would recommend having a play around with it, it's pretty addictive.
Thanks so much for playing and commenting
Cool game! The art is really nice and matches the story well. The itch page was really pretty as well. I thought it was really cool with the narration. It would be nice if there was text too though. The resolution makes the game quite hard to play.
Thanks for taking the time to play and comment! Yes would love to have added some text as well, I know the audio levels are a bit up and down. Just ran out of time unfortunately! Am hearing a lot of issues regarding the resolution too, will see if I can get it fixed this week.
Relaxing game. I think the scaling of the screen of the game should be fixed because the text at the top right can be barely seen, and I think the font does not work with the game. But still, pretty cute babu, pretty cool game. Good job!
Thanks so much for playing and the helpful recommendations! I think changing the default resolution in Unity has caused some issues with the scaling, a lesson learned!
Great submission! Loved the narrative and the artwork.
Thanks so much for playing and for the kind feedback!