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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #97 | 3.164 | 4.143 |
| Originality | #120 | 2.728 | 3.571 |
| Accessibility | #132 | 2.291 | 3.000 |
| Fun | #138 | 2.182 | 2.857 |
| Overall | #147 | 2.307 | 3.020 |
| Audio | #150 | 2.073 | 2.714 |
| Controls | #152 | 2.073 | 2.714 |
| Graphics | #192 | 1.637 | 2.143 |
Ranked from 7 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
4.2
Wildcards Used
Actions have consequences
Game Description
Chose your actions in a string of scenarios and see if you can create a tale worth retelling.
How does your game tie into the theme?
The game let's you create folk legends by chaining everyday events into memorable outcomes.
Source(s)
Not open source.
Discord Username(s)
.ballchen
Participation Level (GWJ Only)
1
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Comments
Great job! This was quite a cool story game, I liked how reactive the final story was to your earlier actions. I'd definitely play through more stories! Agree with other folks about allowing skipping dialogue, particularly for a second run. I also believe that I selected the blood option on my second pass for the bats, but still was shown the mechanism text. Great work, I enjoyed it.
P.S. Add a cover image for your game so hopefully more people check it out!
Thanks for the feedback! I will have to check out why the wrong outcome shows up, seems like a messed up the configuration somewhere.
Nice stories, after getting the devil ending it made me want to do another story and see if I could piece together which options would lead to the folklore ending. This would definitely make a fun story-based puzzle game! I definitely agree with others comments about the text scroll being too slow for subsequent playthroughs, but hey, it's a jam so there are going to be QoL touches we miss. It was still a fun story, I enjoyed it
Thanks a lot! I am glad you liked it :)
I like the collections of stories you made. I wish there was a way to skip the text though because when I'm retrying levels I don't want to reread the whole thing again.
Duly noted! I realised it myself but ran out of time to address it :)
I really liked the concept. I think I would have preferred shorter story segments pieced together rather such long blocks of text. It was unclear if the back button should have done anything (it didn't for me). Loved having a volume level
Thanks for the feedback! You are right, now that I think about it, shorter dialogue boxes could have been better. Maybe I will fix that in the future :)
I always wonder why there's so few narrative games, expecially with a theme like that!
Love the concept! I don't know if it's intended, but it plays almost like a puzzle after some time: you look a the name of the legends and try to understand what would have caused the missinterpretation. Really creative concept! The writing stays simple but is really nice! It feels very alive.
I think i may have had some issues with having the wrong result when pressing a button? I'm not sure though.
Is there more than Goats & Banshees? I haven't been able to unlock other ones.
Let me know if you add more later, i would love to play them!
Congrats :)
Oh and it was a little bit tedious to go through all the text after some time, when trying to find the right combination. Would be great to also be abble to skip the texts before the choices.
Thanks a lot for the feedback and I am glad you liked it!
It was intended as a puzzle game, but I was having a really hard time coming up with stories for it, since I have never written stories before and managing all the options and outcomes was harder than I anticipated.
That is also the reason I only managed to create on 'chapter' within the given time.
Given some time and inspiration, I might add more :)