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Heads up to anyone wondering the same thing - the mods said it’s alright!

I know there’s a rule that games should be playable with only keyboard and mouse, but is it alright to submit a game with optional (but highly encouraged) microphone-based mechanics? I burned all of the first day making a bunch of microphone integrations so I’m hoping it’s alright as long as it’s optional 😬

Thank you so much for playing! I’m glad you liked it!

This was a really cool little project! The style was unique, the dialogue felt really genuine while still being dreamlike, and I loved the twist surrounding the antagonist :)

Well done!

Thank you so much for the extra consideration! It means a lot to me!

Pizza Doggy, I hear you, but I’m gonna push back a little because this feels totally solvable.

Please allow me to cross-post to one other jam with the same deadline if I opt out of prizes and link the other jam for full transparency? That avoids unfairness, makes it easy to filter, and keeps drama at basically zero. I’m a huge fan of your work and you community, and I don’t want to miss out on participating if I can avoid it.

In any case, thank you for all that you do!

If it would help, I’m happy to forego any prize I’d receive and pass it on to any runner up after me (not that I think I’ll win, but just in the off chance it were to happen lol). The other jam I’m hoping to submit to also doesn’t have any prizes involved!

Hey there! I know the rules say not to spam multiple game jams with our submissions, but if what we’re making fits nicely into one other active jam with the same deadline, would that be alright?

Fair enough, thank you!

Likewise! Looking forward to checking out your entry!

That’s kind of my assumption too, but I’d rather be certain by getting some feedback from Moya Horror directly. I definitely think it could be an interesting direction to take for this jam and don’t want to slam that door shut prematurely. Thanks for the input though!

Hello!I posted this the day before yesterday in a standalone topic, but haven’t gotten a reply yet. I figured I’d repost here in the hopes it’d ping @MoyaHorror directly!

Can you please clarify what exactly is banned relating to AI? I assume that includes art, SFX, voiceover, and anything of that nature correct?

I ask because I’m interested in integrating an LLM for players to chat with, designed to hallucinate and respond in a dreamlike/dynamic fashion; kind of a visceral musing on consciousness and personhood. Would something like that be acceptable as part of a submission?

Hello!

Can you please clarify what exactly is banned relating to AI? I assume that includes art, SFX, voiceover, and anything of that nature correct?

I ask because I’m interested in integrating an LLM for players to chat with, designed to hallucinate and respond in a dreamlike/dynamic fashion; kind of a visceral musing on consciousness and personhood. Would something like that be acceptable as part of a submission?

Super glad I got to be a part of Madvent this time! Happy holidays everyone!

This is legitimately so good, wow! I’m thoroughly impressed and am looking forward to anything and everything you come out with. Very cool to see this was done in UE too; I’m also a UE dev and seeing your achievements here is legitimately inspiring!

I really enjoyed the story here! Well done! If you’d be willing to take a look at my submission as well it would mean a lot! :)

Thanks for confirming that! I just made an update on here that should help a bit - if not let me know and I can make it a bit more sensitive! Turns out the turn speed was framerate limited, so switching to a fixed FPS and tuning to that seems to have helped :)

Apologies for that!

Hey there! I just played through all three chapters and I really love the premise for the story! The use of time as a cut between chapters and a plot device was pretty cool. I also really enjoyed the visual style. Too bad on the conclusion to the third chapter, but I really look forward to seeing how it ends! 

My hope: That Life uses her abilities to restore Death and the cycle is restored :)     

Hey! Just a heads up, itch.io is saying your game page isn't public. I can't access it to try the game!

Does the character turn in place at all for you when holding A or D? This game uses tank controls (like classic Resident Evil or Silent Hill), so the character can only turn and move forward/backward. 

If that's not working for you, my suspicion is a sensitivity issue if the character doesn't turn at all when pressing A or D. I'll debug further if it's still not working for you!

That makes sense! The main reason I ask is that I definitely think you could charge for it :)

Glad to hear it! Out of curiosity, would you be willing to share why you’ve decided to make the Steam release free?

Same here! Leafo to the rescue again :)

You’re very appreciated, friend! Thank you for all that you do!

Thank you! As always, you’re the best!

Same exact boat, yup. No response yet from Leafo either :/

Is there any way we can ping leafo?

Thanks for the quick reply! I’m heading over to the discord right now to check it out!

Same. Mine has been stuck for a full 12 hours now.

That would make sense. I did see in another post that people were having issues as far back as yesterday morning. My build is still processing after 12 hours 🙃

I really love everything Haunted PS1 does, and I’d love to have a chance to contribute at some point. What is the process like for a developer to get their game included in a haunted demo disc? And where can I sign up???

Hey Leafo!

Not sure if you're aware, but a bunch of people are having issues with butler as of today. New build pushes aren't going through, and any attempt to push again yields a 400 error: "creating build on remote server: itch.io API error (400): /wharf/builds: channel win's latest build is still processing, try again later"

Personally, I've had a build waiting for processing for about two hours now, but others have been waiting all day.

What's going on with it??

Having the same issue here. Desperately hoping for a solution soon.

Hey all! I'm running into an issue where I was unlucky enough to have the itch.io site go down while I was pushing a game update via Butler. Even though the site has been back up for a while now, the updated build still hasn't processed and I'm unable to push the same build again (throws "channel win's latest build is still processing, try again later" error). How can I fix this problem

Hey all! I'm running into an issue where I was unlucky enough to have the itch.io site go down while I was pushing a game update via Butler. Even though the site has been back up for a while now, the updated build still hasn't processed and I'm unable to push the same build again (throws "channel win's latest build is still processing, try again later" error). How can I fix this problem?

Some areas got really frustrating, but overall I liked it. Definitely some solid horror in here, and the sounds were really nostalgic in the best possible way!

I really enjoyed this a lot. I'm not normally big on visual novels, but the themes in this really struck a chord with me and I'll be thinking about it for a while. Thank you so much for your hard work here!

I absolutely loved this! Very challenging overall (it took me 4 hours to actually get the "good" ending), and very satisfying to play!