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A jam submission

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One little crow has until sunrise to save his flock. May the murder survive.
Submitted by Horse (@HannahMangan9), omelette — 1 day, 1 hour before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#24.8674.867
Overall#104.3334.333
Candy!!#183.9333.933
Halloweeny?#194.5334.533
Scariness...#294.0674.067
Monsterous!#344.2674.267

Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Log Line
One little crow has until sunrise to save his flock. May the murder survive.

Content Warnings
Implied death, blood

Team Members
Creator Hannah R Mangan
Manager Windchimes
Writers F o x y
notafish
Rachel M Mangan
speck
Hannah R Mangan
Editor notafish
Lead Programmer speck
Music and Sound design krzyzis
Art Direction Hannah R Mangan
Rachel M Mangan

Dialogue Editor Paul Shelley
Voice Actors
Pietro Jayce Ghoul
Bosco Icefang
Orso Roger Hanna
Vinca Katabelle Ansari
Cyril Jalen Askins
Charon Stephanie Varens
Fitz Meredith Nudo
Ramses Danny Spiller

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Comments

What to do with the seventh ending ,ah, very good game!

A compelling and well-told story. The mechanic of deciding who gets which scroll is clever and really incentivized me to replay to find out the different ways the story could turn out. The art is great; love the halftone screen and the high-contrast use of black and white art on the color gradient background. The animation and effects are also used very effectively. And the world-building is so well done; I was really invested in the flock and their situation.

Two notes: One, the relative volumes of voice and music--voice was too quiet, music was too loud--and two, I got an error when I tried to skip the three card monty minigame while replaying.

Submitted

Loved the art style and animations! There were a bunch of missing images though, and at Orso's place Pietro would end up standing behind Orso. Sometimes the environment didn't change even though dialogue implied so, at least in Vinca's and Cyril's place. I also got an error when visiting Orso, but I could ignore it to continue playing:

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
While running game code:
  File "game/script.rpy", line 417, in script call
    call fly_to_location(_return)
  File "game/script.rpy", line 461, in script call
    call expression location
  File "game/script.rpy", line 672, in script
    if game:
  File "game/script.rpy", line 672, in <module>
    if game:
NameError: name 'game' is not defined
-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------
Full traceback:
  File "game/script.rpy", line 417, in script call
    call fly_to_location(_return)
  File "game/script.rpy", line 461, in script call
    call expression location
  File "game/script.rpy", line 672, in script
    if game:
  File "renpy/ast.py", line 2115, in execute
    if renpy.python.py_eval(condition):
  File "renpy/python.py", line 1083, in py_eval
    return py_eval_bytecode(code, globals, locals)
  File "renpy/python.py", line 1076, in py_eval_bytecode
    return eval(bytecode, globals, locals)
  File "game/script.rpy", line 672, in <module>
    if game:
NameError: name 'game' is not defined
Windows-10-10.0.19041 AMD64
Ren'Py 7.5.2.22081402
Crowing 1.0
Sun Oct  9 22:26:45 2022
Submitted(+1)

Best game I've played all month.  That's not just for Spooktober jam, that's including ALL THE GAMES.  The visuals and story and voice acting and themes all combined to make something special.

The only gripes I have is that I got an error that the background was missing, there was a bit of lag when picking the leaders to visit, and that I was going to skip the flying minigame but died pretty much immediately after the game started and had no time to press the button.

But even with those gripes, I still stand that this is a fantastic VN and you all did amazingly on it.

Loved this game, one of the best I've seen from Spooktober for sure. The art style is stellar and very distinctive, the voice acting is great, the leaders were all engaging characters.

One thing though, I played through the story a few times and always got the same ending (magpies and rats attack, Cyril disappears) no matter who I gave the letters to, even if I get one of the leaders to agree to help the crows. I'm on a Mac if that helps.

Submitted(+1)

okay this is the best game I have played so far in this gamejam, everything is so beautiful! :0

I love the voice acting and the art is wonderful! the story is also very interesting, it even motivated me to keep giving different scrolls to each leader to see what happens

but one thing that bothered me is that the game has some random bugs, like the character disappearing and never coming back: https://imgur.com/ZLJDRzx

or the game crashing in this choice here: https://imgur.com/xgDVVjM

but otherwise the game is perfect! i really hope you win one of the prizes!

Developer (1 edit)

Thank you for letting us know! We're still working on several of the bugs and appreciate having any brought to our attention. Sorry it bothered you, but thank you so much for playing and for the generous compliments! I'm so glad you experimented with scroll selection - that was our hope!

Developer

We've uploaded a version with some fixes based on your feedback, thanks again!

Definitely one of the top tiers in the jam. I love the animation of this game! The monochrome aesthetics is also a good touch. Voice overs are also great. I just hope that that the mini game is more forgiving since I still want to beat those cats.  :D

Submitted

This is really great and well-made, ngl.