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A jam submission

CasseroleView game page

Bringing It All Together
Submitted by Castle of Gears, OodBird, Zac — 26 minutes, 42 seconds before the deadline
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CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Community's Voice#653.4073.407

Ranked from 27 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Creative Vision / Rationale / How Did You Incorporate the Theme
We incorporated the theme of generosity by exploring moments during grief when others choose to be generous in response. Often this is happy, bittersweet, and sometimes a bit inconvenient.

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Submitted

hi it's Chris!

Brilliant and humorous, everything worked well like an orchestral piece that brings forth your vision of how generosity can be stifling if overdone. I was hectically juggling the casserole, flowers, vases, and all the generous antiques just to read all the dialogue you wrote--peppering laughter and smiles to myself.

A testament to how much I loved it: I read about the bug coming in, totally forgot about it, and when it happened, I thought it was intentional. 

Lovely piece of art for the jam! 

Submitted

Really good!

Submitted

Loaded into this absolutely darling warm vintage art, in contrast to the mother's passing. LOL the sheer chaos of everything piling on my screen naturally fueled my curiosity as to what else could happen.  Kept clicking and combining until I received an error, crashing the game.

In navigating grief, we do our best to hold ourselves together even as the world feels to be collapsing. I was touched by your unique and comical game. 

Such a well-done and well-explored idea. In participating in my first-ever jam, I'm especially impressed by games like this! Wish I could've seen the end :)

Submitted

Super funny game, the combinations and the sheer chaos of it all made me laugh. Loved it.

Submitted

Very interesting take on the theme dark, yet funny! The dada/collage feel of the dollhouse and the piano piece work nicely together.

Submitted

LMAO this game was so quirky and unique, I was having so much fun throwing the food around in between the dialogue, I got distracted so easily. The artstyle is also very distinct, I really like it! Admittedly I had a bit of trouble following the story since the screen got so cluttered, but it was fun nonetheless, fantastic game!

Submitted

Your game has so much potential. It¡s beautiful! It's a shame it crashed on me several times. But even so, I enjoyed it. It's very pretty and fits well with the theme! Well done!

Submitted

God forgive me, I kept throwing the presents in the air without mercy so I could read the dialogues hahaha, your concept is really cool, I liked mixing one object with another and forming several different things, at first I thought they had to be the same objects but no, which made a lot of sense as I was accumulating objects, my game crashed after a while but I played it again and again, great work

Submitted

Very unique game, but unfortunately it did crash eventually. I found it very funny when the screen started to get cluttered with items while I was trying to read the character text haha. It was also fun to combine items, and the art style is also very cool.

Submitted(+1)

I absolutely love this!!!! I kept on playing it and it all made sense one by one until page got unresponsive then I had to start again hahaha.

Overall, really humorous and nice!!

Submitted

Story - Really top notch! All of the characters had such personality and I really felt the essence of being overwhelmed despite the kindness. Really awesome execution here!

Mechanics - Hilariously brilliant. It ties theme, story, and mechanics together so nicely  with this sense of overwhelming generosity. I feel the need to answer the door, but know that I'll regret it in a moment!

Theme - Absolutely on point. Probably the best of this jam, honestly.

Audio/Visual - Really great visual style and the music/sfx felt just right.

Overall - I think the simplicity of this game is what makes it so brilliant. Everything just works (aside from the critical error) and it tells the story of grief, community, and emotions all in one very clean little package. Amazing work!

Submitted

This is a very funny and fun way to play on the theme! It was very satisfying to throw the objects around haha!! Nice work

Submitted

Hey Really love the art and story dialogues!! I love playing around with the objects and throwing them here and there haha!

Wish I could play the whole game but i encounter an error halfway :(( But its okay I hope to play your game if you ever reupload after the game jam period :D

Submitted

Really unique concept! I like how you focus on how generosity can be overwhelming at times, even if well-meant. Fantastic art style and take on the theme!

Submitted

with such seemingly simple mechanics, you have managed to create something that really speaks to the heart. the kindness of the neighbours; the way they all have their different personalities; the way you make the player actually feel overwhelmed through gameplay; the way you can elegantly combine things...

it feels like something borne from the mind of someone clever and sensitive - good work, team! really good work. 

would love to play the game till  the end when you re-publish!

Submitted

it is so warm that many neighbors come and give me gifts, even though the start is sad, but the process is so nice and the whole atmosphere and art are amazing! I also met an error ,but if you have the new version, I would like to try!

Submitted (4 edits) (+1)

Absolutely brilliant. Everything from idea to execution. Great twist on theme. Definitely one of my favourtes from the jam. Bravo!

I see in the comments that you already know about the error, I’m looking forward to seeing the ending once the uploads are unlocked again.

Submitted(+1)

HI! Brilliant work, looks and feels authentic and beautiful! But never played past Gaia - tried twice - the game reports mistakes. Really sorry about that!

Developer

Hey thanks so much for giving it a go! Sadly our final build had a critical error right in the way of finishing the game! Will try and get a version live soon without that, but can't update the itch io page till after the jam ends.

Submitted(+1)

I really like the symbolism of being overwhelmed when the items start to stack over the dialog box. Great concept! I received an error before any sort of ending (playing in the web with Chrome). Not sure if there IS an ending or if the items just keep coming. 

I chuckled when the casseroles kept coming, great game!

Developer

Glad you enjoyed it! Sorry about the error - we found out just before the deadline that there's a critical error right in the way of finishing the game and didn't have time to update. Will try and swap out the build as soon as we're allowed as Gaia is so close to the end!

Submitted(+1)

This was very funny! My favorite part was the candle! Unfortunately an error occur at some point so I didn't see the ending :( Keep up the good work! :)

 

Developer

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the candle. Sorry about the error - we found out just before the deadline that there's a critical error right in the way of finishing the game and didn't have time to update. Will try and swap out the build as soon as we're allowed.

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