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A jam submission

Rooting For YouView game page

A short little puzzle game
Submitted by HalfSmore — 9 hours, 23 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Is the story enjoyable?#24.2674.267
Is the narrative clear?#24.3334.333
Is the storytelling well integrated into the game?#34.2674.267
Overall#34.1074.107
Does the environment contribute to the Story?#63.9333.933
Was the game fun?#83.7333.733

Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

What are you pronouns so I know how to refer to you in the video?
He/Him

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Comments

Submitted

Very touching little tale. Nice way to take a calming, methodical puzzle game into a narrative. 

Submitted

A very touching tale! I also appreciate that you recognized those of us who maybe didn’t have the patience to get through all puzzles (definitely not me tho, ofc) by having the skip to next option, really helped to ensure I experienced the full extent of the story. Too bad about the bug, but having the gif there was a reasonable solution.

Submitted

Love the puzzels! Took me a second to understand what to do but when I understood, it was a fun game and good story as well!

Submitted

really nice story, great job :)

Submitted

Amazing work with this!
The art, the colours, the cutscenes, the SFX and music! But most importantly the puzzle aspects and your choice to allow people to skip or retry. Genius way to not create any walls for players to be frustrated, rather, allowing us to move at our own pace and experience the story, or try to do better in another puzzle. Amazing work with the mechanics in the puzzles btw, felt so smart when I managed to git all the water in some (few) levels.
PS: this game made me thirsty now. 

PS2: Thanks for providing the link to the final ending!

Developer(+1)

Glad you enjoyed! Puzzles games are definitely my favourite game to make, however difficult they often are to code. I personally always include a skip button because it’s important to me that whoever is playing gets the full experience.

Submitted

I admire you have this rationale and you take steps towards this! I have so much to learn and so many things to account for. Congrats again!

Submitted

The puzzle gameplay is really good. It made me feel so clever. At first I didnt understand how it worked, but once I got the realised it, were puzzles a lot of fun.

Submitted

I love the puzzle aspect of this game, really well done and I like how the story worked well with it. Well done!

Submitted

Really cute little story, the ending cutscene is beautiful. I must say you once again made me sad (but this time I expected it).

The puzzles are really interesting, but I am very bad at them so I appreciate the skip button. The minimalistic artstyle is great and the audio fits very well. Awesome entry!

Submitted

it is so impressive how little pixels you really need to create a rich and atmospheric story! 

I really enjoyed the puzzles. it is a very well integrated mechanics!!

Submitted

This was really good!  Clear story, simple but fun gameplay.  Great job!

Developer

Thanks! The final cutscene was actually bugged :P but I put a link in the description with what it should look like and I'd appreciate if you could take a look as it it rather important.

Submitted

Oh yeah wow.  I thought the flower was being cut for something but knowing what really rounds out the story.  Thanks!

Submitted

the puzzles were really fun to solve and the story was told very well :)

Submitted

The story unfolds really well through the cutscenes between levels and seeing someone caring for the plant initially, followed by a gradual decline adds a powerful layer to the gameplay. I think the game cleverly blends strategy with narrative and I really liked the later levels with the added obstacles

Developer(+1)

Glad you enjoyed it! The final cutscene turned out to be bugged so I put a link in the game description to what it's supposed to be like.