This is a really unique idea, and pretty well written especially for a jam game! I enjoyed some of the humour and the "implied lore" was interesting too. I think my main critique, though, is that the prompts you see often don't tie together, like one moment you're in your apartment and the next you're on the street, being searched by police, so it doesn't really feel like a coherent story. I understand that doing that is difficult, especially if you want to have tasks that repeat, but it definitely makes it feel more like a questionaire than a story if the parts don't tie together. Anyway, that is just a small critique, I did really enjoy the game, great entry overall :)
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Presentation | #29 | 4.640 | 4.640 |
| Overall | #112 | 3.907 | 3.907 |
| Originality | #145 | 3.920 | 3.920 |
| Gameplay | #283 | 3.160 | 3.160 |
Ranked from 25 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
What do you like about your game?
Procedural storytelling, immersive simulator; the player builds his own destiny
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Amazing visuals, this game extremely stylish, well done! Got great writing too, what hurts me the most is that we're probably all gonna see it way sooner than 2100 
Anyway, gameplaywise I was a bit confused on how to play, I had to restart to read again that explanation at the start menu after the first couple of scenes of me confused not understanding what was happening. I think an indication for if your health/fame/sanity was going to increase/decrease after each option would be great too, trying to deduce from the scene wouldn't always work. But yeah, these are just small details that we don't pickup during a game jam, especially without playtest so I think it's a sign of pretty well done job. Thanks for making this game, I'm sure it's going to pop off!
No worries, feedback is good. I think the game could be improved with:
- More content, OC.
- Pondering the probability of the cards, so not all the cards appear too often (it is implemented in the JSON but not in the code).
- Reviewing the actual content (as some results can not make sense, as you point out as well; you don't have passive anything xD neither that card should appear more than once).
- Improving the 3D models and/or giving some feedback on which story line are you following; even certain sound when a given card is drawn will suffice.
- Counters, so cards can no be drawn for a while after they are played, or even be removed from the deck if too much time passes.
- Adding a state machine, so cards are not trees or rand() that are loaded from the beginning but decks can be loaded to the card pile depending on arbitrary choices.
- Daydreaming: one mechanic that makes cards have a chance to succeed depending on your stats, so with two choices you can get up to four different outcomes.
Edit: Nevermind, I noticed you are already using decks. Maybe somebody else will find this interesting.
I have one nifty tool for dealing with randomness, and avoid the same event happening over and over again. I noticed it in another game, and I use it in mine.
Decks!
Imagine a deck of cards. Let's say there are 4 cards. [A,A,A,C].
Let's say we draw a random card from the deck, and it determines what event happens. As we see, card A represents more likely event, having probablilty of 75%. Event C has 25%. We pull cards from the deck until there is nothing left, then we just reset it.
What advantage do decks have over a simple random value?
1. We never have long streaks of unlikely events (It's impossible to get three C's in a row, and only improbable with randomness)
2. We quarantee that the rare events happen eventually (So there are no long streaks of likely events either).
There are disadvantages to this system (if the player knows about the deck, and what cards there are, they can have a good chance of predicting next events), but it is a nice way of making sure the player is not screved by randomness.
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