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A jam submission

HatchlingView game page

"This is the Homeward Bound of virtual pet games." - Craig
Submitted by CraigoryHam (@CraigoryHam), LordL75, Skrinkus — 10 hours, 9 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Community choice#244.1434.143

Ranked from 7 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Team Name
Team CLIN

Team members
Craig
Lucas
Nicholas

How does your entry adhere to the theme "virtual pet"?
"This is an exploration of the moments between turning on the virtual pet and the pet displaying on screen. This game is the Homeward Bound of virtual pet games." - Craig

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Comments

Submitted(+2)

Such a unique and refreshing concept! Love how you incorporated the option of player choice with the random events that occur :) Lovely art style, and super thoughtful premise. Great job!! 

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

I really love the music here, really cool way of choosing adventure with choices popping up. The text was really nicely written like poetry.

Also like how the music changed depending on status allocated and where you're at in level. 

Really liked seeing past corposes too, reminds me of how in dark souls you see other players playing their own world, or seeing the markings on ground.

Great job on this.


(Deleted duplicate comment, meant to submit once, but complained that rating wasn't saved.)

Developer

Lucas and Nicholas wrote amazing words and music for this, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Submitted(+1)

This game is really original! It look to me half roguelike and half narrative. Really nice concept!

(+1)

Very interesting game! I included it in my Virtual Pet Jam compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out. :)

Submitted(+1)

That was RAD! I loved the art style and the music, as well as how the stats and encounters worked. Definitely one of the stand out entries for me.

Developer

Thank you kindly!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

first of all, i really liked the art and music being so weird! it had a really cool vibe to it. I was a bit confused about the actual gameplay though, i think i got the hang of it, but it was hard to find direction. great job all around though! definitely memorable.

also you might wanna take down the .exe upload since it only works if u download the other file

Developer(+2)

Thank you for the playthrough and the comments, also the protip about the .exe

Submitted

Getting an "invalid upload" message when I click download :(

Developer

weird lemme re-up, thanks!

Developer (1 edit)

Weird, I was able to download it no problem.  Can you clear your browser cache and try again?