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A jam submission

the dream where even though you've been done with school for years you go back to school because of a class you forgotView game page

awful nightmare sim
Submitted by Bagenzo (@bagenzo) — 4 days, 14 hours before the deadline
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Very unusual -3D in Bitsi! I've never seen this before.
The main character is a school student (?) with cute bows.
I can't say that her personality or prehistory is revealed.

In the game, the levels of the premises are quite detailed, and the last one - in 3D - looks cool!
I also liked the colour scheme.

The leitmotif of the game - a bad dream or a flashback of memories about a school - is fully developed.

Thank you and good luck.

Submitted

The colors are saturated and references tv shows about American school in the 90th. 

Аnimation is funny and allow player to se creatures that walk through the school and disperse their bodies. I was very surprised by the ability to walk around the school in 3D. 

There are jarring teleports in the game that prevents from focusing on tge objects. For me tge story was not developed and only left the word 'Fuck' in my head (which main character and other characters have used repeatedly throughout the game)

Player transitions sharply in other scenes and in 3D, which ledt me confused. More clear storyline should be developed: left players with some hints

(animations or points for the player to step on)

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Thank you for the game!

I was impressed with how 3d was built into the 2D game as a part to increase immersion. I was looking on everything from above, and suddenly this scary boring school-maze is surrounding me. This was impressive! Time segments ('one more week', 'and another week') shown through player's movement from one object ti another in the 2D world are very palpable. Limited movement and animations of the Bitsy character has done well for the game.

Same strange pixel faces have reminded me of my class- mates faces. Just as in life every face makes you think about a detached, silent person, these faces presented parts of character's emotions. Together everything told the story perfectly. 

What didn't I like? First. It seems to me that lilac and sandy colors do not combine very well, and also do not convey the atmosphere of a dream about "groundhog day" at school. Also, the balance of white in the purple color is much lower than in the sandy one, because of it characters looked ghostly. And secondly, I did not quite understand, these sprites or objects that cannot be reached, was it planned that way, or is it a bug?