Really liked this - genre-savvy, characterful and compelling writing, and a well-worked concept. The form is really strong, and I could definitely see this expanding into a longer/deeper piece.
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A Case of Trouble's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Narration | #1 | 4.867 | 4.867 |
| Theme | #2 | 4.667 | 4.667 |
| Overall feeling | #3 | 4.667 | 4.667 |
| Originality | #4 | 4.467 | 4.467 |
Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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I absolutely adored it. The initial setting was engaging, and although the story takes a bit of a turn, I felt a real sense of continuity by the end.
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Memory BoxGreat one. I would love to play an extended versions with more items/consequences maybe. That would probably take more than 3 days to make though
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Piggy BankReally nice story, I like it but I feel like not one of my choice had consequence or at least I’m not sure. Each time I tried to do another choice than the obvious (keep the tin) I felt the story force me to take it (and I understand on a storyline point of view), but I felt like a bit cheated on them (and maybe some of them have real consequence). (edit, I read the other comments and remove my complaint about it. I don’t have time to play it more than once if I want to be able to play every game before the end of the rating period, so I can say yes, that for me it was too subtle, I test on some choice if we could do something else, and disvocered no and didn’t try more. I’m sorry about that!) Overall your narration is excellent and very fluid, and I like read the story very much.
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Asteroid GardensExcellent story - really reminded me of Cloud Atlas in the ways that these actions have consequences across generations and how strong the voices & styles are to represent the different generations. Played it through a couple of times and was really impressed at how much variation there was in the narrative depending on the choices made but how you keep it on course.
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A Follower of AresVery, very good. :)
I should say more than that. I found this interesting, in that I saw what was happening reasonably fast, and so started gameifying it - keeping things in the tin in the hopes I could pass it to myself, making an assumption about what would help me the most, later. It didn't spoil it for me - it worked despite that - but did mean I wanted to play again. So, double good.
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In Case of Trouble, CALL ME.
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