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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Halloween Themed | #21 | 4.722 | 4.722 |
| Character Designs | #28 | 4.778 | 4.778 |
| User Interface Design | #84 | 3.889 | 3.889 |
| Game Graphic & Logo Design | #88 | 4.167 | 4.167 |
| Overall | #92 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Story | #99 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Accessibility | #99 | 3.722 | 3.722 |
| Game Page Design | #115 | 3.389 | 3.389 |
| Music | #128 | 3.167 | 3.167 |
| Log Line | #130 | 3.167 | 3.167 |
| Voice Acting | #139 | 1.556 | 1.556 |
| Sound Effects | #139 | 2.556 | 2.556 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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I love the art style! Ember and the demons all have such personality 😄 I had fun experimenting to see what kind of demon I could get, and seeing how summoning them changed the effects of the ritual.
Thank you for playing ❤️ glad you like it :3
wow this is so cute! can't wait to see al the demons in the final version!
Thanks for playing <3 Super cheerful to read the feedback :3 Yes the plan is to add the demons till Halloween 🎃
Graphics are cute and the music fits perfectly, the interface works well too. I did notice some minor lag when I picked the Wind option. Overall, this is well done. Good work!
Thank you very much for playing ☺️and feedback. Will check the wind branch >3
Nice writing, I love seeing poetry in VNs, especially when it isn’t love poetry. And I love the cute cartoonish art too. (I played this like two days ago, but played a few more entries before writing this feedback, to have something to compare it to.
There’s so many categories to rate this year, so going in detail about each of them would probably make this comment really long, but here’s a summary of what I thought about when rating this entry:
Theme: a witch summoning a demon on Halloween seems like a pretty good fit for the theme. I might even replay this one on Halloween to see more of the demons, especially if it gets updated in the meantime.
Story: Really good (especially because I like poetry).
Audio categories: I might play this one again to give it another listen, but it seems to fit the game. It was a bit quiet though, at least when there aren’t other sounds playing. If the things the gods do would make noise I think that noise could be nice to hear.
Characters and art: Pretty good. The MC behaves like a YouTuber and I’d probably click that subscribe button if it were there (well, I clicked the follow button). And the cute art is nice to see and fits the story well. And I like the cat that sits there and sees everything but is probably used to weird things happening so it doesn’t even both to blink. And I like the particle effects.
UI and accessibility: I like the YouTube-inspired UI, including the textbox looking like subtitles. I like when YouTube videos have good subtitles. But I guess I’d have liked it had a play/pause button that toggled autoplay, a transcription button that shows a history screen in the side, and so on (but yeah, I know customising UI in Ren’Py can be trickier than it seems, and I’d guess the accessibility in this one is probably better than the vast majority of non-Ren’Py games in this jam).
Marketing: The page is bit short, but I like the demons on it. As for the thumbnail, it shows the artstyle and fits the game, but I feel like the text looks cut-off. The image is not as wide as a YouTube video thumbnail, so if you could move the last lines a bit to the left, it might be easier to not read “Demon” as “Demo”. And together with the log line saying “choose your demon VN” I think it does a good job t showing why one would want to play it.
What I liked most: the writing and art. What I’d suggest changing: have sound effects.
Wow, thank you very much for the awesome feedback! I love feedback and really appreciate yours <3 So glad you noticed the poetry. I started poetry in English to improve my English skills glad it works well. Yes I definitely will work on the points you mentioned. I already made synchro for first intro part and Sfax will come. As I tried to keep the game short I still underestimate the polishing phase, I will try put as much as I can till Halloween in it <3
Playing it today, picking “wind” at the first gate and “might of mass” at the second, then picking the leftmost option for the third choice, I got an error. And apparently copy-pasting the error didn’t work, so I typed it by hand:
IOError: Couldn't find file 'Demons/Paimon.png'.I thought I’d mention it. (Also, I’m pretty sure I only posted my other comment once, so I’m not sure why it showed several times; I’ve removed the duplicates now.)I’m working on the rest of the demons as soon they finished will implement and fix it, thank you ☺️
This is a wonderful game. The art design in this is so cute but the choice and interface design is just gorgeous. I also loved how you designed the Gods.
The demon I summoned was well designed and so adorable yet also evil! Also great job making it playable in browser.
I saw you're planning more for this and it's an amazing start. Well done and good luck with this project!
Thank you very much for playing and adorable feedback :3 glad you like it. Yes wanted polish this one till Halloween and add the missing Demons.
a cute little horror game, i had a good time eben if my own demon didn't show
Thank you for playing <3 glad you like it ☺️ Yes unfortunately I didn’t finished all 20 Demons in time, but I will upload them as soon I have them. If you want to know how your demon would look like send me the name and I will send you the image. Or you can wait till Halloween and play again. Wanted to finish them till then.
I absolutely loved how the different gods had an effect on Ember's environment, it's such an interesting take on summoning rituals! So stoked to see this thing finished!
I absolutely loved how the different gods had an effect on Ember's environment, it's such an interesting take on summoning rituals! So stoked to see this thing finished!
Thank you for playing <3 Because the story is super simple I wanted to add a bit visual effects to make it a bit lively, glad that it had an impact :3
This is a lovely little game. Beautiful designs for the choices and a very pleasant art design overall. The story and lore were nice and our newly summoned unicorn dragon Aim is adorable! Well done!
Thank you for the sweet feedback <3 Nice that you got the one with picture \ÖwÖ/
THIS IS SO CUTE, and Sabnock is so charming :> Solid artwork btw!
Not sure if it has been flagged but both options during the third gate after choosing Wind & Mass in the first and second gates has bugs of the sprite not showing and the other crashing the game. :(
Hello, thank you for playing <3 and for the bug report, will check it and fix :3
This is so cute, I love the artwork, and Ember is so cute and perky, even when there's snakes or ants taking over her home haha. Can't wait to see it finished!
Thank you very much for playing <3 so glad you like it!