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How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Cactus's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #9 | 3.843 | 4.357 |
| Originality | #10 | 3.528 | 4.000 |
| Overall | #19 | 3.108 | 3.524 |
| Fun | #19 | 2.835 | 3.214 |
| Controls | #25 | 2.961 | 3.357 |
| Audio | #25 | 2.646 | 3.000 |
| Graphics | #26 | 2.835 | 3.214 |
Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
Godot 3.1 beta 4
Theme chosen
Out of place cacti
Game Description
A Short Visual Novel about someone who finds themselves reincarnated as a cactus.
Participation Level
First game Jam
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Yes, a visual novel! Well done, It's funny and it made me laugh .
Thank you, really appreciate that coming from a fellow Visual-Novelist-er (is that a word?) , much tougher genre than I expected as I barely got half of what I wanted on the screen.
thanks again, p.s. stilling waiting for that cactus to make it to space ;)
Half is better than a tenth 😉
I'm pretty new to visual novel. I'm just good at building games so far, but I would like to change it and be good at building stories too.
I'll put my project aside for a while.
This was pretty fun! When I saw the ship room in ice I immediately thought of Penumbra. Were you by any means inspired by that?
Nice execution, short and sweet. :)
Thank you, I have played it but I got the idea of the ship in the Arctic by simply asking a friend to think of the most random place he expected to find a cactus.
I'd say the two biggest inspirations was the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Undertale.
Thanks again.
Undertale: "Ah, the cactus. Truly the most tsundere of plants."
Amazing, I loved every second of this! I wanted more...Subscribe!
Thank you, there was quite a bit more of the story to tell but I had to leave it all on the cutting room floor just to make the deadline.
Man, you know what makes visual novels good, this game is truly gold experience, i love it :DDD
Very entertaining writing, charming graphics and solid controls - it was fun to play through!
Thank you very much, honestly I just looked at Undertale and a few other Visual Novel controls and copied as much as I could, I even replicated the "Quitting..." line that shows up in the top left corner if you hold the Esc key to quit.
Dr Strangecacti
The first working title included a Dr Spikeylove but I didn't really like the sound of it, wish I'd thought of Dr Strangecacti.
Nice writing!
Thank you, to be honest after reading the same lines over and over again during testing I actually couldn't tell if anything I was writing was even remotely funny or coherent anymore.