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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #14 | 3.211 | 3.211 |
| Gameplay/Design | #14 | 3.158 | 3.158 |
| Originality | #14 | 3.158 | 3.158 |
| Overall | #18 | 2.947 | 2.947 |
| Theme | #23 | 2.263 | 2.263 |
Ranked from 19 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your entry fit the theme?
[SPOLIER ALERT]
Iron Pulse is working on a revolutionary medicine which makes people kill other people or even yourself. The main goal of this company is spreading this medicine as a haze throughout the city and increase the number of contaminants and your power over there. So insanity and contaminants are constantly building up.
What would you like feedback on?
Sound design, visual style and narrative.
What assets did you use (if any)?
There are some 3D assets from Sketchfab and audios from Freesound.
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Great ambience, but I really don't get the story at all.
I do hope that a sibling coercing another sibling to go on a date with someone is not based on personal experience, because that's toxic. But that was the only thing I seemed to understand about what was going on.
Thank you! Yes, there's no personal experiences in plot haha, everything is fictional.
Pretty cool little thriller game! I liked the style and suspense aspect of the game. Everything seemed to belong and felt eerie. Not personally my type of game, but I respect what ya did here, and kept me hanging on to see what would happen at the end.
Nice work!
Spine Tingling ambience, sound design, and environment.
Build up was promising but overarching story was hollow.
Visuals and sound design are good, very impressive for just 2 days. Game was pretty long and it doesnt seem like the game plays out any different if you mess up the inputs ( me and a friend played through it at the same time while i input everything wrong on purpose and we got the exact same outcome) but overall i think the horror atmosphere is very well done.
I can't believe you whipped this out in 2 days! Incredible. Using the theme in a suspenseful way is pretty cool. I made it to the end and enjoyed it. I also like the boss mentioning the previous worker just gave up after 20 minutes. lol
A nice short tense horror game. A lot of FNaF vibes, although some of the mechanics felt a bit out of place - for example the radio being introduced. While the lore was pretty interesting, there were way too many sources of information and I personally think a bit of the dialogue could have been cut out.
The game's pacing was Reeeeaallly slooow, but the great sound design and graphics made for a tense game. Honestly, the biggest missed opportunity is not having someone peek around the corner when the entity is right across you.
Funny scream at ending, game time was pretty long
I really like the game's visual style and sound design, but the gameplay is not obvious.
It was a unique experience, compared to all the other submissions I've played so far. Really loved the atmosphere! As already pointed out from others, I think the narrative was a bit confusing at times, and I only grasped more of it after reading your how does it fit the theme. And, even after reading that, I feel like the theme is only loosely incorporated (As the player, I didn't really feel the insanity and contaminants building up. The tension was, though! :D). Also, I think there should be a few more things to do (like the radio, that one was a nice addition), since I felt like I was mainly waiting for the next thing to happen whilst looking at the screen.
Definitely a very strong submission for this short amount of time! Good job!
I have a weak heart, so I couldn't finish this one. Seems well made, possibly too much so for a 2 day jam. Atmosphere on point, and I'm sure I'd like it more if I understood the mechanics. I was kind of just blindly clicking around hoping for the best. Only thing building up was my heart rate haha. Good job!
the ambience is probably my favorite thing about this game, it really made the experience for me!
personally i found the setting and characters confusing, i think i might have missed something in the beginning because i had no idea what sort of power plant i was in, which honestly i liked! the random metallic scraping, the strange tasks, they all add to the atmosphere tbh. but i found the actual narrative quite confusing, im not a writer though,,, so idk what advice to give sorry
HOW DID YOU DO THIS IN 2 DAYS ITS AWESOME
The game's interesting, but there's something more important: Is there a secret with ćevapčići???
Thanks a lot, glad you enjoyed it! Yeah, there is a secret with ćevapčići and it's under the PC's monitor!
very entertaining experience I really did feel the horror, constantly removing my headphones. The enemy down the hall was genius and had me on edge the whole time. I liked that there was forward momentum to the objectives that felt like it was really going somewhere.
I will say it didn't quite hit the theme for me. I had to read about what the integration of the theme actually was.
Great job
Thank you, we're glad about it!
Well done team! Got those FNAF vibes for sure– it’s very tense. Let’s play : https://f002.backblazeb2.com/file/sharex-hN8T5vpN8wZGmmwU/2024/June/02/21/22/50/156/cfe4e08b-ddc3-4abf-9895-77a6de7c8978/2024-06-02%2021-02-22.mp4