Great game, it was a lot of fun. The music and story were very engaging and I think it was a very well polished experience. No notes from me, I give it top marks.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| How engaging was the story? | #1 | 4.455 | 4.455 |
| How good was the game? | #2 | 4.227 | 4.227 |
| How Artless was the game? | #4 | 4.409 | 4.409 |
Ranked from 22 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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2 years ago(+1)
I’m glad you enjoyed it! The Chuck E Cheese scenario has four different outcomes with two different ways to defuse the situation and the plan was to be that detailed with the next two scenarios but I looked at the deadline and realized there was no way that was happening in time! I even have screen shake and layer fx in the build to trigger with certain words, but I didn’t have time to write the scripts to trigger them. I grossly underestimated how much time this round’s task would take! I want a superpower to just freeze time when I’m working on a project, cuz boy does it fly by.
2 years ago(+1)
Yeah, potty mouths galore. I put a language warning on the game page, but maybe could have had it on the title screen or before that.
That part was in the voice of God narration bit, right? The Defuser never says anything about his purple shirt.
But just in case I slipped and he did say something ... umm ... err, he could sense the purpleness through his defusing skills!!!
The Jumper is also referred to as green in the narrative bit. But if I slipped on The Defuser dialogue, then it's also Defuser sense tingling!!!
2 years ago(+1)
Woohoo! 4 for 4, the true Defuser. I'm glad you helped this sad man find peace again.
I'm glad you liked and thanks for the feedback. I couldn't agree more about the legibility (I even slightly altered some of them from the character colors so it read a little better, but it's rough).
The font throughout the game was just supposed to be placeholder while I figured out how to set up the system I made for the decisions and while I familiarized myself with Scribble. I wanted to have a unique font for each character, and Scribble even lets you do things like run a script on the start of a specific word, so I have screenshake and things like that to go with some of the writing and other screen fx and plans for audio, but I grossly underestimated how much work this task would take! When Sunday rolled around I figured it was good enough!
2 years ago(+1)
Thanks so much for playing. Also ... Ohhhh!!!! Which scenario did you not defuse, was it the final one?
If so, I love your decision to not redeem him.
2 years ago(+1)
Oh, then that makes the ludes option even better! Ha. Glad you enjoyed it and I consider that some high praise after playing your excellent entry. Thanks for taking the time to leave feedback. I appreciate it.
2 years ago(+1)
You always gotta watch out for Opposite Day! Thanks for playing and for the kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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