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A jam submission

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A sort of cosy idler game about writing poems in your soon-to-be perfect cabin
Submitted by jukeri — 1 day, 7 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Originality#14.3574.357
Theme#193.5003.500
Controls#252.9292.929
Overall#283.0313.031
Audio#312.9292.929
Accessibility#362.5712.571
Fun#422.3572.357
Graphics#432.5712.571

Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Godot Version
3.4

Wildcards Used
Overworked

Game Description
A browser-based semi-idler game about writing poems and furnishing your cozy cabin.

How does your game tie into the theme?
This game is pretty relaxed. You can write poems somewhat free-formly, with some rules to help you write, and it doesn't expect you to rush anything.

Source
https://github.com/Johuotar/Poemster

Discord Username
jukeri

Participation Level (GWJ Only)
?

Participation Level across all Jams
None

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

I found this style and the environment and music to be really relaxing. I like the freedom that this type of game gives to the player in that it's up to you to make of your poems what you want, within the character and line requirements.

By the way, I read in your description that if you click outside the viewport it makes the game unplayable, but I found I could recover the gameplay if I (1) clicked back inside the viewport and (2) moved the mouse wheel. I think scrolling inside the viewport refocuses it again.

I enjoyed playing this!

Developer(+1)

Hey! Thanks for the pointer! I’ll be sure to update that on the description. BTW, do you think this is a concept that can be continued into a more “proper” game?

Submitted(+1)

Yes of course, although I think it depends what your goal is. If the goal is to have the player be creative and write a list of poems, with the game giving inspiration / constraints as well as allowing the player to store and review them (as mothnog suggested below), then yes absolutely. If the goal is to allow the player to write anything they want and have it impact the storyline or poem price based on the content of the poem, I think that is harder to do. The closest I have seen was Doki Doki Literature Club where you write poems and it affects the storyline, but that was not actually writing the poems just choosing themes I believe. I think if you want the player to be able to write anything, and it impacts the story, you could use an AI, maybe like sentiment analysis to understand the emotions. But I have never tried to do that before.

Submitted(+1)

Creative, cozy game! I wish I was able to see all the poems I made, it'd be cool to have a screen for showing that (also the time when they were made could be fun).

Developer(+1)

maybe in the future!

Submitted(+1)

Really cool, very good concept

Submitted(+1)

Took me a little bit to figure it out but I got there! Really cool concept 

Developer

Thanks!