Geta Game Jam 9

Laboratory Of Conflict jam comments

2019-08-26T20:50:19Z

Pros Decent artwork, I did quite like how colourful it was! There was also a lot of detail and character in it, the religious imagery in relation to the existentialism-focused plot of the game was really nice to see. I really like the concept for the story of the game, it's very abstract and comical! The dialogue has a lot of humour and personality behind it, I'd love to see you expand on that! Cons Once the opening dialogue had ended, I had no idea what to do. Pressing space would make a ball move up passed the screen, but I couldn't find a way to get it down again or to control it in any other way. What you are meant to do in the game after certain dialogue parts is really confusing, I couldn't figure out what to do after the second one. The instructions need to be more clearly hinted. Inconsistent art style, where the brick wall sprite would have coloured detail but some of the other sprites, like the face and the piano wood, would just have one singular colour. Some sprites, like the holy water container and the blue lamp, didn't have the darkened outlines that the rest of the sprites had. The "Next" button looked quite out of place too, it should be pixelated. Make sure that you keep the style consistent for all of the art. Some sound effects would have added a lot more character to the game, like having a Banjo Kazooie-style dialogue sound with the character's voices. Also while the music was pretty good, it did sound quite out of place from the actual tone of the game. It's possible to just spam click around the room to find what object you need to interact with, making the core gameplay and challenge very easily exploitable. A few spelling mistakes in the dialogue, words like "hidding" should be "hiding" and "proaf" should be "proof", but don't worry too much about it. Nice job, this is the start of something that could be quite interesting! I loved the abstract style of the plot and setting, it's just that the gameplay needs a lot more work and implementation. For a first game this is really great, keep it up! If you embrace the style that you demonstrated here in future projects you'll do really well.