Pretty neat concept and visuals. Too bad (on Firefox) that the drawing was never quite centered where I wanted, and right-mouse always brings up a menu :) But I could close the circle with LMB only and was able to get along okay. Somehow I never died, either.
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Hypnoscape Express's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Visuals | #17 | 3.694 | 3.789 |
| Execution | #31 | 2.975 | 3.053 |
| Overall | #31 | 2.963 | 3.039 |
| Game Design | #32 | 2.821 | 2.895 |
| Audio | #41 | 2.360 | 2.421 |
Ranked from 19 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Comments
Dialogue system and the dithering looks great!
The circling mechanic has some potential but currently there isn’t much at stake with it. Maybe by talking “right” with some of the things, you could gain a form of ink that you could use to draw the circles, this would limit you how often you can deal with the baddies that way. Maybe some of them could be stunned with the right shape (if there was more than circles) so you could talk them out of hurting you and gain some ink and so on.
If you die while drawing your cursor mode seem to get stuck and can’t restart the game?
Either way, cool vibes!
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SuperImposerMakes me feel uneasy (in a good way)! Lovely visuals and interesting circling mechanic :)
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LaborgeistLove the shader! Also really intrigued by the main mechanic. I think this could be cool in a faster-pace game too where it’s more important to lure things and line up specific “circles”. A bit buggy with where the line appeared relative to my cursor in browser (and itch didn’t let me go full screen for some reason), but tons of fun!
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MEANINGLESSI loved the graphic style and audio choices, though would have liked some backing ambience as well. The drawing is a cool input mechanism, but it does get a bit repetitive after a while, and I ended the game voluntarily after a bit. I also unfortunately had a couple issues with the mouse cursor not matching where I was clicking in web and native. Here's a video of my playthrough.
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These FourI love the visuals! I'm so curious how you did that. The mouse circling is cool, but the outline didn't line up with my mouse. Also, it's a bit repetitive. I didn't realize you could interact with the aberrations until I read the description- an in game tutorial would be nice. Otherwise, great game!
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Cell Centered
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