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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #186 | 3.767 | 3.767 |
| Overall | #261 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Visuals | #264 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Creativity | #264 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Enjoyment | #452 | 3.100 | 3.100 |
Ranked from 30 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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For this being your first game, this is really good! I loved the art.
thank you very much!! I'm really glad I gave gamedev a shot finally. will pass on the compliment about the art and I'm sure I will get a big smile from them <3
Short but really charming and interesting! I liked the project — the art is beautiful, and the little story is nice too haha. Congrats on the project!
If you have a moment, I’d love if you could check out mine too! Play it here: https://kaijota.itch.io/graverun
Watch the gameplay on YouTube:
Thank you!! I'm SO happy to have finished something, haha. I'm really glad you enjoyed it. and I can actually play yours YAY (I'm on linux) so I will rate it rn!
I've never lost and won at the same time before lol. Fits very well with the theme and the art is great!
LOL, I adore this comment because that is EXACTLY the feeling I wanted to evoke!! :D thank you so much for the compliments, I really appreciate you taking the time to play and share your thoughts.
Congrats on finishing your first game! This was such a neat concept; the idea of reincarnating as a game mechanic would make for a lot of interesting branching options in a VN. Id love to see a longer version of the game! If you have time, we'd love to hear what you think of our submission and get feedback on our characters. I totally get what you mean about wanting to focus story building but having to buckle down and learn new programs. We're still relatively new to Game maker so our story was a bit limited because we focused on game mechanics but we tried to add in some extra dialogue to help the characters feel more interesting. https://itch.io/jam/jamsepticeye/rate/3933344
thank you! you are definitely right, building this out with branching paths and more possibilities could potentially take this from 'interesting idea' to 'cool experience,' I think.
glad I'm not the only one who was learning as I went, sounds like you had a very similar experience! gaaah I want to rate yours but I can't run the game since I am on a linux machine, I'm so sorry. but screenshots alone look SO impressive oh my gosh, that is a tasty art style and well designed menu screen. best of luck to your and all your projects ;v;
Woah another Renpy game??? I really like the backgrounds, it was really satisfying to play, I just think the game should've been longer lol
eyyy renpy users rise up! it absolutely came to my rescue, I went on a JOURNEY to find a program I could both run on my computer and feasibly learn in the limited time (which was actually only two days for me). you're totally right, it's VERY short haha, and I definitely wanted it to be longer. but when I found a point that felt decent to end it on I decided to just focus on making the game complete instead of chancing adding more to the narrative.
thank you SO much for playing & for the feedback!
True, my first option was GDevelop but it's kinda bad if you want to make an actual game. I also learned Renpy in about 2 days (The rest went for planning)
i enjoyed this!! it was an interesting story to follow, the concept of dying / trying to die purposefully to become something better or something more convenient was interesting! i liked the story a lot and i also adored that pixelated background with the clouds!!
thank you so much!! it definitely was a take on reincarnation even I wasn’t expecting until I wrote it, so I’m glad you enjoyed it - and that the logic of the character was able to be picked up! happy to hear the bgs worked, I was very much striving to have the overall look be simple but cohesive (and yknow, pleasant to look at, haha)
Always liked the visual novel format. It didn't feel too dissimilar from my submission! Keep up the strong work!
THANK YOU <3 ohhhh and the vibe twinning, now I am curious... I’ll be working on rating games tomorrow (especially the submissions of kind folks like yourself who rated mine!) so I will be seeing you on your page soon c:
Very cool for the first game!
I'm not really a VN person, but still liked it (and was surprised it wasn't longer).
ironically, I’m not entirely a VN person either! I REALLY appreciate you checking it out despite it not being your usual thing, that means a lot. I definitely did want it to be longer, but alas- time conspired against me, and I actually was only able to work on this for merely two days. I am considering coming back later and developing it further for that reason though :)
Cute visuals and adore how it ties in with the jams overall theme!
appreciate that so much! I put SO MUCH thought into matching the theme, so this is a stellar compliment ;v;
This was one of the first games I tried in the jam, but I couldn’t rate at the time. I finally found it again. Excellent visuals and use of sfx. the final creature is so unsettling (in a good way)!
oh my gosh THANK YOU for putting in the effort to find my lil story again to rate it, that’s SO sweet of you?? you’re one of the good ones <3 appreciate the feedback, it’s my first time putting so many elements together so I’m glad they worked to evoke the intended atmosphere!
No problem it really stuck out in my mind obviously! to remember it till today haha
Good job!
thank you!!<3
Well… for something that started with a kitty that took a dark turn, lol. Nice little game. Thanks for sharing!! :)
yeahhhh :’) ngl I originally had no idea how to end this story, but I had told my wife to go nutz with character design and that is indeed what they did. so when I saw nine sprites of increasing de-evolution dumped in my inbox I was like well… I gotta use them—
Thank you so much for playing and commenting!! ;v;
Cool game, loved the illustrations and the theme. Wonder what the poor kitty becomes next.
truly also my logic while progressing through the two characters it transformed into, hah. in one of my earlier iterations of this idea, I very nearly had a cast of straight-up cryptids lined up.
I liked the art and music and how they, while simple, really backed up the story well! I am just a bit confused as to whether there were supposed to be multiple endings or not, since the branching logic would lend itself quite nicely to that format :) Really neat to see what you did with the theme!
understandable— I think you’re absolutely right, branching paths and alt endings would be very cool to explore with this concept. I did have ideas on ways to make the choices matter more in that way, but I only had time to learn the bare basics of simply coding them in unfortunately. still, I left them because I liked the idea of evoking a sense of no choice, in a way? as in, regardless of what the player does, the story will progress, and the character will change, which is the experience the character themself is experiencing.
Neat little game! I enjoyed it ^-^
glad to hear it!! thank you SO very much for giving it a shot!
Interesting story concept, loved the reincarnation concept and how it can make people feel almost invincible. Was pretty short but the story didn't feel like it was missing anything.
really appreciate that assessment, I think short stories are a weak point of mine so I’m relieved to hear that it at least has a sense of being complete despite being as short as it is.
Very nice work!
thank you! <3 <3
Very cutesy and fun with amazing presentation. The whimsy tone and sprinkles of existentialism blend nicely. Loved it!!
thank you!! I am so pleased to hear the vibes came together as intended<3
Very cool game!
Art/Music work really well for the concept.
"Did I just die? That... sucks." <- #Relatable
I didn't like having the cat die, but I did enjoy playing as a semi-psychotic demon clown, so I'll forgive it this time. Congratulations on a first attempt/first completion and thanks for sharing this game!
I also wanted to say that I liked the dithering, but someone else beat me to it. So I can no longer comment on the dithering. I hope you continue with the story and make it more complete, or at least use your newly acquired skills to make another creation. Either way, keep up the good work! :)
I have been thinking about this comment all day simply bc I, TOO, HATED THAT THE CAT DIED… I asked my wife to draw me some little guys, went :D when I saw cat, and promptly went ._. oh no wait fuck but my story is about the character dying—
Pleased as hell that line landed with you, too. I didn’t want to take up narrative space with a long reaction, and that was the first thing I thought of and it made me laugh.
so unfortunate that you were foiled by CLASSIC one-time-use-only dithering compliment… but the spirit is noted <3 (haha)
okay but seriously THANK YOU for your encouraging words, it’s nerve wracking to put up work using a skillset I am still an amateur in. but since that is what one must do to eventually gain said skillset… I indeed hope to keep learning and making things, whether to develop this to its full potential or by doing something new :’)
Love the art style! Interesting story, Iike the idea behind it, would be cool to see different routes fleshed out more and see what else the little kitty could turn into!
thank you so much! I agree, it would be fun to take this further - and play more with the idea that the initial character was but a round lil fluffball!