Very impressed with the amount of art here, so many different scenes and characters! The music is such a perfect vibe, and I love your interpretations of the characters, Franky in particular is my fave. Great choices throughout, I love you can spin Chipp to either be a normal guy or just a BBQ chips obsessed guy lol. I've gotten two endings so far, I'll check out the others when I can. It's wild you made a full visual novel in the time we had, this is truly outstanding work!
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Promoting the Restaurant | #4 | 4.378 | 4.378 |
| Sticking to the Rules | #4 | 4.514 | 4.514 |
| Overall | #7 | 4.288 | 4.288 |
| Actually Fun | #12 | 3.973 | 3.973 |
Ranked from 37 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Normally I click through the dialogue in VNs quickly, but I found myself pausing to listen to the soundtrack. Parts of the music made me feel like I was playing Ace Attorney, or some other deep memory from that time.
The writing and characters got me invested, even though I barely knew them. Chipp was off-putting at first, but now I see that he's just an action-movie protagonist going through his BBQ related origin story.
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Project G.R.A.B.Wow! I didn’t know if it was possible to fit a compelling and interesting narrative in just 30 mins, but you certainly nailed it! I love the art and the characters, especially the original designs (and Frankie)! Really cool!
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Gears of StrawI was a little worried about the gore at the start because excessive gore isn't really my thing, but I ended up having a great time by the end! I really felt like the ending I got was fair and earned (the "Jake" ending), and I was laughing so much at the depiction of the Pitmaster and the dinosaur lol Really good stuff with a lot of expressive art and fun depictions of the characters.
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The Curious Case of the Smoke BoxI haven't played a lot of visual novels; so this genre is kind of new to me.
The art is great, the game has good flow to it and I was actually motivated to do multiple runs.
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The Ultimate Smoke Box Boxmaybe my favorite usage of the cold chicken. really fun story and art. its like horrifying but still done in a light and funny way because of the art and dialog.
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The Smoke Box: Big Birthday Quest*guy whose only exposure to visual novels is Danganronpa and Zero Escape voice* This game really reminds me of Dangonronpa and Zero Escape.
But sincerely, this game really impressed me! The music and art really sold the vibe, and I'm sure it varies person to person but the puzzles were just right for me to really hit that explorative flow state. Excellent work!!
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Jam On, Jambon!What a thrilling visual novel with amazing art! Nice job creating all the different routes for multiple endings, it was fun trying to work out how to get them all. Great dinosaur at the end.
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When There's Smoke But No FireDamn, of all the Game Jam years to spawn a game this brutal, I didn't think it'd be this one. I really enjoyed this. Love the no-one-is-safe apocalyptic horror set-up, and tying that into the Bock Bock reference was great. Always love seeing unique takes on the characters, too.
The art is really nice, too. Not to mention how impressive it is that you managed to include so much. Really elevated the whole thing. Great work!
Jake! Nooooooooo!!
You watched me play, you know I had a good time :) Incredible work. I'm shocked about how much art you produced for this game. I'm excited to watch other people play and all the different paths they take!.. oooorrrrr maybe I'll just boot it up again.
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