Lots of recommendations for this game, luckily Chrome was kind enough to load it for me on Mac! yay!

So it obviously took a lot of time to pull all these dialogues and maps together, not to mention the inventory system. This was an ambitious game jam entry.

I lucked out on the ending where she comes home... but that was indeed pure luck. I wasn't 't really able to follow the story and some interactions (like filling up a bucket of water or buying a tuna sandwich) still confuse me as to whether they were meaningful or not!

Wonderful atmosphere, amazing detail, overall great game.

Awesome game! Really impressed with this one.

I managed to convince Irene to come back :)

In hindsight, flying balloons is a really good interesting way to interpret the theme. I would've loved to make a game about airships hahaha

Very interesting game and very different from others, definitely well thought out and quite polished. I will be back to play again and hopefully can get a better ending... at least hopefully freezing to death with Irene is not the only solution...

Just Fantastic, I’m really impressed, amazing job.

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Wow. That was amazing! The amount of well-written dialogues was amazing! Definitely attention to detail. I actually felt like I was talking to the characters!

For some reason, whenever I disabled the shader, I couldn't press buttons, though wasn't a big problem, since I preferred the shader anyway.

The text speed also was a little slow on short comments, such as when a character says, "Oh.".

The music and sound were also really great!

Overall, awesome game!

Wow. No hyperbole—perhaps indeed the big "wow" title of this jam that I've played thus far.

I had some reservations from the first interaction in regards to the way the dialogue was written and the lack of music / immersion, but that got quickly dispelled once entering the world and seeing those integrations dramatically improve throughout the rest of the game. The style of art was lovely (reminded me of Papers Please), and the CRT filter + unique aspect ratio made this one feel different.

I couldn't believe the attention to detail of the game. The number of settings and characters, the varied responses to the same dialogue options, the inventory system, even the text speed + fade-out animation time as they related to the narrative events. Just an extremely polished piece.

I'd be hard-pressed to make a helpful criticism, and would have to look for tiny, insignificant things. I suppose story-wise, a little bit more imagination was needed to setting names rather than North/Small/generic adjective] Island, and perhaps the gameplay was too linear (unless I just got really lucky and progressed in the right direction; which looking at some of the comments below, does seem to be the case, so scratch even that). Otherwise, I was very satisfied with the narrative here, and my standards are incredibly high in that department.

Excellent job. Loved this submission.

I'm impressed with how much you managed to make in such a short timeframe. I know how many coding challenges there are when a game like this (cough dialogue system x_x cough). Pretty cool to see a mystery game submission, where most of the game relies on dialogue and thinking about which actions to go for at which moment. At some point I got a bit stuck, I didn't know how to get more money or what to do when it was unsafe to travel.  Also I know it's the type of game, but I'd love to see some visuals (or with something like a quick mouse hover) directly displaying all the information to judge whether it's safe to travel (instead of the clicking each check, which got a bit repetitive at some point but not where it hindered the game too much per se).

Lovely intro with the perfect music. So relaxing. Thank you for this experience. But I have to admit, i wasn't able to finish the flight due to a lack of fuel. 

I love it, this has some Carmen Sandiego vibes, it's impressive how you came up with such game in a short time schedule.

The CRT shader is a cool effect, it makes me feel playing an old game, but i would like to know if you had that intention or it's something else?

Awesome game! The atmosphere is so good, from the slow fadein-title and music, to the retro-style dialog system and map :)

But yea, as others already mentioned, its hard to find ways to earn money/fuel, I feel like its possible to just be unlucky with the path you chose and be stuck. Anyway, time to try it again!

This is  a cool game!

I think the atmosphere was built in a cool way, with quite a bit of polish contributing to a good mystery feeling. Also the amount of systems required for this is quite impressive. The balloon and map gave a nice feeling of being an explorer.

Well done, I really liked it!

Very polished game!

So much work went into this one I suspect. I managed to finish the game without visiting many areas. It felt a bit like I painted myself into a corner as I arrived at the east with 1 fuel tank left, but I made it anyway. Maybe I would have been able to earn some money if I went to some other place.  

Great music and mood in the game. I liked the map a lot, and fun detail with the GWJ letters on the balloon!

Very impressive entry, well done folks!

really awesome - I found it gripping. I loved the variety in the music especially.

Interesting visual novel that I've played a bit and I'm saving it to finish later. I like the artistic section; it has personality. Good sound, especially the typewriter typing sound in the texts.

It must have taken a long time to write all the dialogues, questions, and answers. Did you use any specific plugin or tool to write the story, link each scene, and then bring it into the game? Or did you create your own framework for this?

Great artstyle and audio!

Woow I loved the experience, it reminds me a lot of paper please but with a nice story line ! I just finished the game with the ending where you are stuck with Irene in the mountain,  I will look for other endings right now !

Good polish and great artstyle, love the crt filter!

Really cool entry, really charming. I loved the audio especially. 

I think it might have been nice if there were some more hints or pointers considering its a game jam, because i did feel sort of lost at some point. Maybe i just picked the wrong flight destinations and got unlucky. That said, i think this wouldn't be as big of a problem in a non-jam situation as i could spend more time with it.

I also like that you can toggle the shader. I think it adds to the feel but its nice having the option, same with the skippable intro.