Damn got here late, but let me tell you this is one of the best submissions I’ve seen. Absolutely gorgeous work and congrats on the first place!
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Ciara and the Witch's Cauldron's itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Overall | #1 | 4.230 | 4.230 |
Accessibility | #1 | 4.130 | 4.130 |
Audio | #1 | 4.609 | 4.609 |
Graphics | #2 | 4.565 | 4.565 |
Controls | #3 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
Fun | #10 | 4.043 | 4.043 |
Theme | #13 | 4.261 | 4.261 |
Originality | #20 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
Ranked from 23 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
3.5.1
Wildcards Used
all of them
Game Description
A young girl's mother is bedridden with a disease beyond the ken of any physician. Desperate for a solution, she goes where none other would dare: to seek the wisdom of a witch. But those who deal in magic live by strange ways - and keep themselves to themselves for a reason...
How does your game tie into the theme?
Ciara needs to assemble the proper ingredients on a quest to master the art of potion-making
Source(s)
https://github.com/philoufc/gwj53
Discord Username(s)
philou#2555, Vela#0508, JohnGabrielUK#5729, SSGuillo#8963
Participation Level (GWJ Only)
Varying between members from "a few" to "do not cite the deep magic to me, witch".
My game has an export for Linux, Windows, & Mac and/or is playable through HTML5
Comments
This is impressively good. The voice acting, the music, the art, the whole story, everithin is just great!
Hey, just a heads up, I think I found a bug in your game. I got to the end fine, but I think there is something playing in the background where someone is cutting onions. But seriously, a great game! Well done as per usual.
Also AMAZING voice acting! Seriously raised it to a whole new level. I'm going to have to add it to my games in the future. Well done to the whole team <3
This is massively impressive in all ways that matter making a great game - and more...
5⭐ for each category - you deserved them. Awesome job!
Wow, what a gem.
Love the art and music.
Interesting puzzles, sometimes very challenged.
Great job!
great work all around! the voice acting was a nice touch and the puzzles were challenging and rewarding. good job polishing the experience and having a cohesive story with detailed characters!!
That story, voice acting, and graphics really goes well together. Good job on fulling this atmosphere with only 4 colors.
Puzzle design was great too, it starts off simple and game mechanics are introduced effectively. Level 5 was my favorite, it tries to lure players into wrong solution and clearly shows why that approach doesn't work. Level 10 was a bit of difficulty spike tho, still managed to solve it nonetheless. Adding easier puzzles beforehand would help I guess.
I wouldn't be surprised if this wins the jam. Great job :)
A fast restart would be nice, principally in the last level. But this is a very simple adjustment.
Lovely game, congrats for you all! :)
Awesome job. This is really something. The voice acting is great. The voice of Liadan reminded me of Eda from Owl House. Great story, great art work, great controls, great puzzles, great execution. Level 10 looked so difficult I knew I was never going to be able to figure it out.
in case you didn't manage level 10 and would still like to enjoy the end of the plot, i've added the solution for level 10 on the game's page, under the credits.
in case you didn't manage level 10 and would still like to enjoy the end of the plot, i've added the solution for level 10 on the game's page, under the credits.
Excellent job with the VA and the presentation. The puzzles were very uniquely designed and fun to complete! I just feel like the controls could be a little smoother. Sometimes I tried to move a certain direction as soon as I finished my current movement, but it just ate my input. Maybe you could make it so that actions are queued, or directions just need to be held instead of pressed for movement.
Still, great job with the 3d intro and the puzzle design!
I was a little thrown when the main puzzle mechanic kicked in, I wasn't expected that. However, after a couple puzzles I was having a lot of fun because they were just really well designed. Shoutout to the puzzle wizards on your team.
This is awesome it is so fleshed out, I love the addition of the voice acting too, very well done!
great art direction, the puzzles are intuitive but unique in a way that makes them challenging, spent a lot of time in the last level singing The Cure songs :p.
The story and VA are nice touches!
Poetic art style and narrative, very well polished. I was expecting somewhat of a different gameplay because of the theme, but fun game nontheless. Got stuck on the cure part 3 :) (I think).
i've added the solution for level 10 on the game's page, under the credits, but also feel free to message me if you'd like hints (or the solution) to another level!
I was looking forward to playing this after seeing progress in Discord and it didn't disappoint! The presentation is superb and the voice acting was a nice surprise. Puzzle games of this type aren't my forte so I did eventually throw in the towel on level 10, but I had fun getting there! I might try that level again tomorrow because I'd like to see how it ends.
in case you didn't manage level 10 and would still like to enjoy the end of the plot, i've added the solution for level 10 on the game's page, under the credits.
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