Holy crap guys seriously, I have so many good things to say about this entry! I'll start off with Chaos' art as that's the first impression. The portraits are all really well done, and the sheer volume of tile assets is ridiculous. Considering that as well it's hard to say many critiques with the time restraints so just really well done and I liked all the cast and environments! I also checked out Jake's Soundcloud before playing and am definitely a new fan, all the tracks seem to hit that balance of being completely listenable but also nice on a loop so brilliant job! Carc0sa and Whyms I'm not sure how the rest was split between you two but functionally and narratively the game was great! In terms of puzzles, I thought the challenge + amount of hints felt pretty nice, I've not played RPG horrors in a while but the difficulty was similar to what I remember. I almost finished without saving anyone but luckily I saw multiple endings on SoundCloud and felt an urge to save all these cool characters. I tried to get a screenshot of the cool happy grass scene but it timed out, probably best to not spoil it for other potential players anyway since it was a sweet surprise. Whether you guys choose to add to this or do something else I hope you continue working together, you seem to have skill on all bases so will be looking forward to seeing what's next! :)
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Game Design | #5 | 3.792 | 3.792 |
| 2D Art | #7 | 4.167 | 4.167 |
| Level Design | #7 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Art Direction | #8 | 4.042 | 4.042 |
| Use of Audio | #10 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| User Interface | #11 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
| Commercial Viability | #11 | 3.542 | 3.542 |
| Original Audio | #12 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
| Fun | #14 | 3.458 | 3.458 |
| Overall | #14 | 3.708 | 3.708 |
| Itch Page | #15 | 3.042 | 3.042 |
| Techincal Accomplishment | #16 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Use of Theme | #16 | 3.542 | 3.542 |
| 3D Art | #27 | 1.708 | 1.708 |
Ranked from 24 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Number in team
4
Does your game include art/sound packs or pre-prepared code?
If yes, please provide the source of the packs used
Sound Effects, Minor Graphics (Vortex)
RPG MV RTP
Additional SFX: Game Dev Market RPG Sounds
RPG MV Additional Scripts: GALV_Busts
Galv_ShadowsDarken
https://galvs-scripts.com/
YEP_Core
YEP_KeyboardConfig
YEP_FootstepSounds
http://www.yanfly.moe/wiki/Main_Page
Please provide a link to a 30 seconds gameplay video of your game
https://youtu.be/I-b1CbaSUqY
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There's probably a few bugs left in the game that I didn't find to squash before the polish window closed. The game wound up pretty big for a jam title, with rather a lot of moving parts compared to my previous projects. That combined with the short timeframe for testing meant I'm not surprised there are still a few ways left that you might be able to softlock in certain circumstances I've not been able to stamp out yet, so apologies for that one!
Thank you!
Really nice to hear you liked the game.
I've been doing my best to fix bugs as people ran into them up to the close of the polish period. (I thin I fixed the statue glitch a few minutes after reading it here...direction fix was supposed to be on and it was not, whoops!)
The game probably has more moving parts, so to speak, than anything I've worked on before, and having it done in a week meant testing wasn't comprehensive, so I was pretty sure there'd be a few noticeable bugs. Nice to know my efforts to fix them up are appreciated though! I've hopefully gotten rid of anything that majorly impacts gameplay.
As far as the rat puzzle....
..maybe you just need to find something the rat likes? :)
Thank you!
We had a chat just after theme reveal and tried to think of novel ways to handle the theme, so tried to... basically implement it in multiple ways.
That it all the characters and the setting are in some way left behin d by society. And we had fun coming up with different ways to embody that. Poverty, obsolescence, the loss of fame, etc. Always love how jams restrict you enough to boost creativity.
Thank you!
It's always really nice to hear people got invested in playing the game. It's definitely what we were going for!
So pleased you enjoyed it and it was amazing to watch it being played on stream. Those of us from the team present were really stoked, and the member who watched it afterwards were really excited too!
The characters were something we really focused on, in art, writing and music, so it's very gratifying to know that came through.
(And I'm pleased my reading a clock repair practice manual at 5am paid off.)
Also very pleased to hear that we are cool. B)
Really awesome game! I'm incredibly impressed with how much of a narrative and how many levels and puzzles you were able to make in just a week! So much content and overall well written. I really do like the story and the narrative about being isolated and forgotten, definitely fits the theme. You guys somehow didn't even let any typos slip into the dialogue even though we only had a weeks time to do all of this!I'm also impressed by the unique character development. The clock obsessed Nora, the goofy bastard Luca, and the cold thug Griffon. The music was also very good, definitely has a classic SNES game feel even though it sounds modern. The artwork is amazing too, I generally think anime characters all kind of look the same but these characters are very unique with their own distinct styles. The character sprites are spot-on representations of their portraits too (or maybe its the other way around?). The moving statues were creepy and reminded me of the ones from Dr Who which I'm a big fan of. The puzzles were all well done except I had a hard time figuring out how to solve the puzzles in the moving statues area. For the life of me I couldn't figure out how to get the last party member to jump into the portal with me though. I'm not sure if that's the reason why this happened but my game would crash at the screenshot shown here. :(
Literally spent the last hour playing through the game and I wish I got to see the ending! In fact, I've never played a game jam that lasted more than like 10 minutes. Great work! Visual novels and narrative-based games haven't really become mainstream but you guys have made it very engaging and gotten me interested in them.
Thank you so much for your kind words! Everyone on the team put in a lot of effort into the game, and I think the end product came out all the better for it. I'm also really glad to hear that you enjoyed the characters, since they play such a big part of the story. It's a shame you weren't able to get through to the ending for some reason, because our artist made lovely artwork for all three endings of the game.
What follows after this is spoilers, so if you'd rather avoid those, stop reading now!
You get the last party member by pushing the statue into the shadows behind the wall and "out of the light", rather than into the pit to break it. The statue will then give you the guitar pick, and that's it. There are three endings in the game: the bad ending, the neutral ending where you only save a few party members, and then the golden ending.
Thank you so much again, and I'm glad that you enjoyed our game!
Thanks for playing!
Hopefully tackled some of the audio balance issues in my latest polish update. It was just me from the team working in the engine , and I would freely admit to audio not being my forte, so I'm sure it's not ever going to blow anyone's minds, haha.
Glad you had a generally positive experience though!
Thank you!
We were obviously having to work within our deadline, so had to try and keep things (relatively) simple . Our artist and composer worked really hard creating an environmental tileset and creating music tracks for each of the characters respectively, and I'm glad it shows.
Hope we can keep making things people enjoy playing! :)
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