That was fun!

I got stuck for a good while and was afraid I'd never make it (my girlfriend and I tried to play Luig and Pog last month but got nearly zero progress), but I gave it a little time and I fiured it all out in the end :D

If the feedback is of any use, my first point of confusion was (SPOILERS) the octopus. Finding the first tentacle of the sequence sounds and looks a lot like solving an entire puzzle (I think the sound effect is the same) so that threw me for a loop. I thought, "Oh I got the sequence right accidentally on my first try. No, wait, it always says I win as long as I finish the sequence with that tentacle. Well there's no HINT button on this screen so I must have solved it already. But it lets me solve it as many times as I want and doesn't give me any new items. Is this a bug?"

Since I was stuck, I tried the HINT button in other screens and was very confused that one place said I needed the bucket of dirt I had already used somewhere else! It all made sense eventually when I realized there were multiple endings, but boy was I confused at first haha

I liked the mirror ending the most! The mermaid (and her entire room) is very cool looking and having a twist player character reveal is always a good time. Come to think of it, making Luig out of dirt like a golem is also a pretty darn cool one.

Great game all around!

Will do!

Duuude this was amazing! It took me XX very enjoyable minutes to solve the whole thing. Such a cool moment when you (SPOILERS) think the last key isn't even needed or that you can brute force it but in the end of course it is and you can't (and that music punch during the arrows bit is fantastic!). My solve order was: tree, IV dudes, tic-tac-toe (took me a while), II-headed dragon (very tricky!).

My II extremely minor complaints that barely detracted from the experience at all: the window by the staircase looks a lot like a door and the II "stripey" key/lock patterns look a lot like each other. Both had me clicking on the wrong spot C times haha

Congratulations on another great one! I'm so glad I found your games. If you ever implement multi-language in your engine and need strings to test the feature, I'll be glad to translate a small game like this into Spanish for free.

Thank you so much! I had fun watching you play and loved the commentary.

Babe wake up Vidar dropped a new 2 minute banger of a game

That was super fun!

I've had this on my backlog since 2023 but it always felt so daunting! I finally gave it a reasonable go (after getting more acquainted with paper puzzles in general via Daily Thinkies) and managed to finish it. I regret not trying it sooner, though I probably would've postponed it even further had future me told me it'd take me 8 hours over the course of 2 weeks to properly beat it haha

Fantastic stuff. Every new rule felt very fun and was communicated perfectly. There's only one level that really stumped me (E13, even after getting the solution from YouTube I'd still love to know what the intended deduction chain is meant to be), which for a 100-ish level scope is just amazing. I had a grand old time!

Oh man, I remember feeling A very small seed captured something truly special, and this is incredibly touching in a similar way. I mean, I may also just be easily manipulated by emotionally resonant pointing and clicking, but either way this is so my jam and I'm very glad it exists.

¡Juegazo, che! Now I want to try all the other ones :D

No worries! Congratulations on the game again. I've spent these past two weeks recommending it to everyone I know haha

This is incredible!

I'm ashamed to say I was expecting something much more generic than what I got. The writing's good, the worldbuilding is so efficient and woven into the main mystery, which is also excellently done. I'm sure other people saw the twists coming, but I was genuinely surprised several times! I don't think I played any other adventure game that packs this much goodness in such a tight 2 hour package. I love The Name of the Rose and Dune and whodunits, so in retrospect I shouldn't be surprised, but still!

2 minor complaints: When you're asking Tiabata about her “reasons”, choosing the “simple” option lets you see both options eventually, but choosing the “complex” option skips over the simple one (I did that my first time around). Having gone back and read both, I think “complex” first then “simple” would flow nicely and should be possible. Or better put, the fact that it isn't possible felt accidental.

The other one is a small bug (SPOILERS!!!): once you use the screwdriver 3 times, you can use it a 4th time on any of the loose screws and the game doesn't account for that. Ava says she'll do the 3 all in one go, then proceeds to say "That's already loose" 3 times. I realize I'm a dummy for trying that, but it still felt awkward haha

Anyway, congratulations again on an amazing game. I won't soon forget my time on the Nation!

Same thing here, unfortunately! Once the ball gets stuck in that corner, there is no losing or restarting that'll get it unstuck :( It just bounces back and forth between that ship and the level border.

Oh that worked like a charm! I still got super lost again haha but after a little mapping in Photoshop I found my way out :D

Interesting! I think I got softlocked though :(

After getting the briefcase, I got completely lost during the escape sequence. I ended up on this screen, where both doors lead to inescapable rooms (one is meant to be entered and left after deactivating the lasers, the other one is impossible to go back on when guards aren't solid).

¡Está buenísimo! Debo admitir que recién pude terminarlo hoy, que creo que tuvo un añadido en las instrucciones. La mecánica es súper interesante, pero va a haber que agregarle mucha más tutorialización para que la gente entienda rápido cómo funciona. Incluso cuando vi el cartel de usar la B, demoré bastante en comprender cómo funcionaba todo. Con música, sonidos y un buen tutorial, creo que este juego puede quedar excelente.

¡Impresionante! Gracias a todo el mundo por el esfuerzo,  y sepan entender lo estricto de la hora límite por el poco tiempo que tenemos para juzgar los trabajos. Si su juego tiene página de Itch pero por alguna razón no llegaron a presentarla a la jam, pueden escribirme a david.marchand@davinci.edu.ar (con el enlace al juego) e iremos viendo caso por caso qué podemos hacer dentro del poco tiempo que queda para organizar todo. ¡No prometemos nada!

Vamos a aprovechar esta madrugada para jugar todo y deliberar sobre los ganadores.

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Imposible 😭😭😭 Mil disculpas 🙏 pero pensá que tenemos que tener juego ganador definido para mañana a la tarde.

¡Hasta las 23:59 del viernes!

¡Hola, gente! Espero que ya hayan arrancado sus juegos y que estén tomándose el debido tiempo para descansar también. Soy David, uno de los organizadores de la jam, y dejo este hilo abierto para cualquier consulta que les vaya surgiendo.

Jajaja

Amazing game. After ~40 min of going back and forth, 41k seems to be my limit, hard as I try.

Jaja no te desesperes. Creo que la única vez que vi 6 fue cuando programé el juego para que se jugara solo de forma óptima. Dudo que sea humanamente posible. Perdón por dar falsas esperanzas.

Wow that all sounds fantastic! And very big-brained for me: I've yet to read a play by Shakespeare unfortunately (this game is based on very superficial research haha as I'm sure it shows).

I'm so glad this little game found some audience. Let me know if you need anything else.

I checked! She has to go deeper into the alley, behind the houses, and check the wet clothes to get the slippers. Then back to the alley entrance, you have to click on the sand while Thaddeus is looking at the sky.

Haha I'm so incredibly flattered and I want to know more! I wrote this one many a year ago, but I thiiiink La Octavia has to first go deeper into the alley to grab a pair of slippers, and then run on the beach BUT you have to click that link when Thaddeus is not looking at the alley or the beach. So it's a timed puzzle haha

Jaja tenés razón

Mmm, suena a bug, siempre deberías poder saltarlos y lo hacés justito antes de chocártelos.

Pero de todos modos deberías poder chocártelos a todos y terminar el juego igual, solo que un poco más lento, ¿no?

El Senado era la verdadera estafa todo este tiempo jaja

Seguro hay varias maneras, y fijate que está disponible para descargar el archivo de Twine de este juego para que veas cómo está hecho, pero me imagino que es con (click:) o bien (click-append:) o alguno de esos.

En la documentación de Harlowe tenés ejemplos de cómo se usa y hasta tenés el botón de ▶ play para ejecutarlos y verlos en acción: https://twine2.neocities.org/#macro_click

Improved to 303! I can finally rest, as long as the developer hasn't announced any updates on social media.

Yesss finally. Great game, obvs.

JAJAJA gracias.

Super fun! Would've loved gamepad support, but I guess I could've installed a program that takes care of that.

Jaja muchas gracias.

It's true that "adventure" is a finicky term. Adventure games are things like Monkey Island, which have very little action-centered gameplay but are just called that historically because of Colossal Cave Adventure (1976). I'm just used to "adventure" in games meaning puzzles, inventory, a story, slow-paced contemplative gameplay, and sometimes no literal adventure at all. That's why Zeldas are generally specifically called action-adventures. But yeah, interactive fiction almost exclusively means text games, so "adventure" is a much better fit here.

Congratulations on the engine! I hear your about the asset creation. I work in Construct, which has its own graphic creation interface, and I struggle so much when I try to prototype in any engine that requires me to open a separate tool. Incidentally, I'm currently creating my own "engine" (really more like a template haha) for making very simple adventure games in Construct.

A separate button for the puzzle would've definitely ironed out the kinks in my experience specifically: I know I would've pressed the 4 relevant cells, hit the button, get the validation, and just assume the solution was pressing all the possible combinations of the symbols from the bottle. Then again, it would add a little more friction to the interaction, which not everyone prefers, so it's hard to tell. I do love it when apps on my phone validate a verification code just as I enter the last digit without asking me to hit enter (and extra points if they just recognize the code from the system clipboard).

I feel weird saying that this instantly became one of my favorite games of all time, but what can I say? I'm a sucker for <5min games, and this one's just so gorgeous and simple. It really does feel like you included everything needed to tell a quaint little story and absolutely nothing more, which I love.

It does feel a little weird that you put it under Interactive Fiction, when Adventure fits the bill much better. Granted, it's a very simple one. Can I ask what engine it's made in?

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About the puzzle: your hint shows A2-C3 to be a solution, and I guess A3-C2 would be another one, but I solved it by doing A2-A3-C2, in that order, which took me by surprise! In retrospect, it feels like the solution should require an absolute maximum of 2 buttons.

On the other hand, it didn't really bother me, I just went "well I guess it worked somehow" and kept going. I guess I wanted to tinker with it a little more, and it ended up being a lot easier than I expected, like it solved itself almost, but other people complained that it was too hard so I can't really say a harder version would be better haha making games is tricky.

This is full of amazing ideas! I do feel it's a little unintelligible at the moment, and that more testing could make it actually GREAT.

Even Outer Wilds had to make clues super straightforward for testers to pick up on the relevant information. I feel we as players are often left feeling that game was much more cryptic than it actually is.

I have to admit, the actual solution took me like 20 minutes to execute after I gave up and grabbed the guide (but I was too engaged not to see the ending!). I kept messing it up and wondering how on Earth I'd have done it without step by step instructions.

It's true that I could've experimented more. Now that I know how to use the elevator, I definitely feel "why didn't I try that?" But most other things (shadow/light, glitch) were more on the side of "I wouldn't have noticed that in a million years".

Just spit-balling here but maybe limiting the amount of simultaneous tabs would help. It feels too overwhelming to be allowed to open as many as I want when I have no clue how many I need to test how they interact with each other. Of course you can't prevent new tabs, but I'm sure there's a way to comunicate a limit.

¡Gracias por la pronta respuesta! Ya modifiqué esos 2 archivos en mi proyecto (y en mi copia suelta de plugin para uso futuro) y por supuesto ahora funciona todo bien. <3

¡Buenas! Empecé a usar el tutorial de "game stub" con esta versión beta3. ¿Es posible que no esté funcionando la función _on_item_used()?

Modifiqué popochiu_clickable.gd para que mi player diga "item" o "else" dependiendo de si estoy usando un objeto del inventario o no, y nunca dice "item".

Si intento usar un ítem del inventario sobre un NPC, por ejemplo, player dice "else" y se ejecuta el diálogo normal del NPC, como si lo hubiera cliqueado directamente sin ningún ítem del inventario.

Sé que no es suficiente información para reportar un bug, pero más bien estoy preguntando si estoy cometiendo un error de concepto muy básico que sea fácil de corregir entendiendo mejor los tutoriales.

¡Hermoso! Me encantó jugarlo en colombiano, aunque se me escaparan algunos términos.

Es cierto que hay varias cosas que desaparecen después de la primera partida y hay que cerrar el juego para que vuelvan a aparecer (como el pez), y no tengo la más pálida idea de cómo desbloquear el final de Los tortolitos, pero con los 3 finales que conseguí la pasé excelente.