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A jam submission

The Socratic MachineView game page

Interact with a computer to unravel a simple yet complex mystery.
Submitted by BTOTHER — 1 day, 9 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Narrative#54052.0383.000
Creativity#78662.1513.167
Audio#79881.5852.333
Enjoyment#83501.6982.500
Artwork#84371.6982.500

Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
This game tells a story about a loop. I can't give away any spoilers.

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
IBM Plex Mono
WangleLine - Data Hammer
Abab-bk - GameTemplate
XIAN ZE SHI
YarnSpinnerTool - YarnSpinner
YarnSpinnerTool - YarnSpinner-Godot
dotnet-state-machine - stateless
Delsin-Yu - GDTask.Nuget
Abc-Arbitrage - ZeroLog
Cysharp - MemoryPack

(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Flower

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

I'm not sure if I missed something, or there isn't an "end" to this game, but I enjoyed it a lot, it's really cool.

If there is an end, I will give it another go later

Developer

The ending is a clearly hinted "LOOP". You can try querying all the keywords again after two restarts.

Submitted(+2)

A very unique entry! I think I know what it was going for, in terms of the system rewriting its own memory and getting caught in a reasoning loop? I like the investigation aspect, but it was pretty easy for me to just follow the daisy chain of highlighted words until something happened, and if I hadn't caught up with the narrative within my own head, I kinda missed the opportunity once the records changed. A knowledge check aspect, where you have to apply some deductive reasoning or synthesize some information, would mean you could gate progress behind understanding one of the story's secrets.

Or maybe that's already there and I just didn't deduce it!

Submitted(+2)

It was an interesting way to tell a story, and it was getting good, but is there an ending? I seem to have gotten stuck and tried every interaction I could, but it wont progress any further.

Developer

The ending is a clearly hinted "LOOP". You can try querying all the keywords again after two restarts.