This is a brilliant comment because it entirely captures what we were going for in the games design! Originally, we had planned for a five day, story based experience closer to the Papers Please format with scripted characters, performance reviews and different endings (“badges”) depending on your play style in the game - time didn’t allow for this unfortunately so we scaled down to a challenge style minigame in the last few hours before submission but these moral puzzles and weird subjective judgements are the core that would have made that kind of loop super interesting :D I could definitely say that a good inspiration on this for me personally was the netflix show “The Good Place” if you’ve ever seen that - really appreciate the high praise and feedback, thanks!
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Ah that’s really interesting that you planned for this moral ambiguity. Very clever.
And I definitely know first hand what it’s like to run out of time in the game jam. Sadly I was only able to finish a prototype and will have to add all my fun story ideas later. But your team should be proud of what you were able to accomplish in the short 2 day jam. Moral subjectivity aside, you made an interesting and thought provoking game! (Plus, I love Shiba dogs)