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Submission for Interact-If Text-Based Story Jam
Submitted by Azara Nya — 1 day, 5 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
UI Design#123.2003.200
Story & Plot#212.1002.100
Overall#212.1752.175
Gameplay/Usage of the medium#231.6001.600
Usage of Theme#231.8001.800

Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Team Members
Azara

Program
Unity

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Comments

Submitted

I would like to echo Manonamora's thoughts. I thought the UI was beautifully done. However, figuring out how to scroll down was quite difficult - you can't make it harder for people to play your game than absolutely necessary, because you've got to rope them in as quickly as possible.  I also had a hard time following the story and how it connected to the contest's theme. Still, you should be proud of the overall design! Best of luck.

Submitted

The design of the game is really *chef kiss*. I love how it changes between the different chapters to show the different settings. That said, it was hard to figure out how to get the next it of text. Scrolling was only working for the visible text, I just started clicking around to make it work at the end, but it was not very intuitive or easy to make it appear. I think there is a bit of delay as well?

The story was short and cute, but I am not sure whether it fits the theme well. Or maybe it's not that obvious? I dunno, it didn't feel like it was giving me cliffhanger like other submissions.

It was a shame that the way you told the story was a bit confusing. Skipping the spelling/grammatical errors, it was a bit confusing at each start of the chapters to see who was the first person narrator and who we were supposed to play as. Are we Bert? Are we Ernie? Are the choices Bert's or Ernie's? 
Following both stories are fine, but the UI didn't help make the distinction between the two characters.

Finally, this felt more like a visual novel (as in reading on the screen, not really choice) than IF, which is a bit of a shame. I would have loved more choices (like telling the Grand-uncle off, or asking more questions around, or use the USB key...)

Pretty game, but falls short on the content. Still, thank you for creating it! It was neat to try something different.

Also, is this game based on some kind of Bert and Ernie meme? Cause that would be hilarious.

Submitted (1 edit)

I could not figure out how to get off the main page...?  When I downloaded the game, I was able to click through the story.  The browser version wasn't letting me click, though.

I wish there was a little more interactivity.  There were also a lot of spelling/grammatical errors that I noticed, which made the story a bit hard to follow.  I liked the UI design!