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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Host's Choice | #1 | n/a | n/a |
| Story | #14 | 3.283 | 3.417 |
| Horror | #56 | 2.562 | 2.667 |
| Enjoyment (Best Game) | #61 | 2.642 | 2.750 |
| Aesthetics | #62 | 2.962 | 3.083 |
| Sound Design | #64 | 2.482 | 2.583 |
Ranked from 12 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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i liked this very much! It was beautifully written, and the art was great too! One way to improve this game would be adding interactivity - more choices that give different outcomes. But in the short time a jam provides i assume that is very hard to do. Also, i had some trouble with the safe. In europe we use dd/mm/yyyy format instead of mm/dd/yyyy, so i was trying a password of the type dmyy instead of mdyy thatvit actually was. Until i realised that i was stuck there, trying out passcodes. Great experience overall!
Yes, sorry about the date thing, that was a bit of an oversight on my part! In retrospect, I should have made it so that any date format would have worked - my friend in Hong Kong mentions that they use yyyy/mm/dd. Glad you enjoyed it, regardless! Thanks for playing :)
I really enjoyed the game. The writing and the visuals work really well together to set the stage. I definitely prefer this format over an actual adventuregame command interpreter thing. Sound might've been a bit underutilized -- I would've loved to hear Olivia or the taped seance, for instance, rather than just reading about them. The record player sound is certainly effective though.
I loved the artwork in this game and the sounds were pretty spot on, overall, it set a very good ambience and the story was pretty intriguing!
I got stuck on the safe code for a bit before I remembered americans exist lol
other than that, the game did feel quite smooth and I felt smart for figuring it out anyway! :)
Oh no, that was an oversight on my part lmao, I should have made it so that any correct format for the date would work. Glad you enjoyed it!
I like the images shown for each page of text, makes things more interesting. I feel the game could have benefited a lot from some ambient looping sounds.
Short but nice and moody experience.
There's not much difference between this game and an audio book, I feel like the choice are a good idea but there's really a lot to read. Maybe you could change this into a point and click adventure ?
That could be an interesting project. I'll have to try to make a point and click adventure at some point.
I like the visual and auditory atmosphere your game creates to complement the writing. The puzzle was a simple yet fun element, and I appreciated the inclusion of a hint. The one thing I would recommend is giving the player a little more agency, be that more things to interact with or choices that impact the plot. In summary, I really enjoyed your game and hope you make more like it! :)
Thank you! I appreciate the comment. I was planning to add a bit more choice, but I couldn't spend as much time as I wanted each day on it, and time started catching up with me, so I ended up having to make a choice between more interactivity or making sure the central plot was finished. The only major choice I realize in retrospect is really the one in the beginning where you choose which thing in the basement to interact with, and each thing "wakes up" a different haunting.
I do want to make more games like it in the future, and with out a time limit I'll be able to flesh them out :)
Interesting story! I like the way you handled the sounds and the images.
Thank you! Part of the reason I made it the way I did was to experiment with sounds and images in Twine. As far as I'm concerned, I accomplished what I was aiming for :)
this would work better as a visual novel
Perhaps! I'm not too familiar with Ren'Py, but maybe next time I'll give it a shot.
you can do it with engines like game maker or godot, if the scope of the game expands later on