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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Visuals | #1 | 5.000 | 5.000 |
| Category: Cinematography | #6 | 4.714 | 4.714 |
| Category: Music | #14 | 4.571 | 4.571 |
| Overall | #25 | 4.571 | 4.571 |
| Story | #35 | 4.429 | 4.429 |
| Category: Voice Acting | #71 | 2.857 | 2.857 |
Ranked from 7 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Content Warnings
Written descriptions of violence, blood, death, body horror, medical experimentation and depersonalization.
Log Line
You wake up inside a body that is not your own. You must learn the rules of this new body to escape the nightmare that you put yourself in, and to become human once more.
Team Credits & Cast
Briggs - writing, programming, art, music; Galvinian - playtesting, addtional music and sound effects
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Comments
Such a beautifully sad and haunting little experience. Very believably written from the perspective of a machine coming to learn and understand itself, and tocuhes on thought-provoking themes relating to the unpredictability and ethics of generalised artificial intelligence, and the power of just being given the opportunity to live, even where being alive can sometimes be bleak. The way it constructs such a rich, arresting world and atmosphere from such simple building blocks - spare prose, distorted analogue images, soundscapes - is very artful and impressive. Clearly lovingly crafted as well - are the scenes that we see in background images and videos made from real-life handmade models?
Thank you for taking the time to write all of this, I appreciate it and I'm glad that it really resonated with you. About the backgrounds/characters, yes, most of them are physical models made out of clay, spare model kit parts, etc. Once the game jam is fully over I'll probably make a little "behind the scenes" post showing them in a bit more detail. (but not too much. gotta leave some mystery...)
Really beautifully haunting, a study of a person-non-person slowly constructing an identity in a world of disorienting information and contradictory rules.
The voice of the narrator was so clear and really sold the horror. Loved the art style and that uneasy feeling of never really knowing for sure what you were looking at in the space. What a specific, terrifying world you’ve constructed!
It's nice to see a fellow CRT themed game! The style really adds to the disorientation and surreal nature of the game. And I really love the descriptions of the thoughts of something that has no idea what being human means. Also, the idea to advance the music as the text advances during some of the scenes has a great effect! Overall, the direction of the game is really solid and I'm curious what you'll come up with next.
How did you get the text on your game page to look the way it does, by the way? It really fits the style of your game.
Thanks for playing, and I'm glad you liked it! The text on the page is just using the "Doto" font, nothing special beyond that.