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Wonderful. Thanks for playing and making a video. I love watching people play the stuff I make.

Nice photos >:)

Thank you for playing and for this very thoughtful feedback. This is great, and immensely helpful. I'll keep all of this in mind as I continue to update! 

Love the vibe, really cool vaporwave-y environment and great music and art. Reminded me of Paradise Killer.

Wow, I did not expect that scare- that really got me. Atmospheric and genuinely spooky. Great stuff!

This rules. It's essentially perfect aesthetically, and the writing really adds to the experience. Impressive work on the monster, too! It really can't be overstated how cool it is to be genuinely frightened of a depiction of Frankenstein's monster in 2023 (and then moments later you get to watch him bust out the freshest moves). Very impressive

An absolute treat from start to finish. This is crazy impressive. The art is amazing, I loved the tone of the writing, and the gameplay was pure point & click goodness. Really great work.

I liked the art, and the writing was pretty effective (I really enjoyed how the single scream sound was referenced and then became important to the narrative). I noticed a few typos, but overall I was a fan. Played through twice to get both endings.

Wow, that was pretty upsetting! Great use of body horror, this is the kind of freaky stuff I love to see in games

Wow, thank you for giving such detailed feedback. I seriously appreciate the thoughtfulness. I'm working on expanding this into a more complete game, and more ambient SFX is a great note.

Glad to hear it, thanks for playing :)

This is great. Really impressive aesthetically and the DOS replication is awesome. The familiarity lulled me into a sense of security, so the scare was more effective. Nice job

More is in the works! Thanks for checking it out :)

Wow, this was really interesting! Clever use of mechanics to tell a story. I never knew what I would be doing next. I liked the art, and the found-footage FMV was very cool.

Fun concept, and I liked the pixel art. It was pretty hard, but I had a good time playing a couple rounds

Thanks for the kind words!

Thank you so much! I was really hoping that the music cutoff after the player... "takes a portrait" would be spooky; I'm glad to hear that it was effective.

funny you say that i actually pitched this to Vince Gilligan as a Breaking Bad spin-off game but he just kicked me out of his house and called the cops on me for "breaking and entering"  :/

MORE FRESH MODELS IN YOUR AREA SOON (There will be more levels eventually. Thanks for checking it out!)

Thanks! I'm working on an update with some more levels, so be on the look out!

Thanks for playing! I've got an update with more levels in the works, so it's nice to know that it leaves people wanting more. 

Love it. Thanks for playing through and posting a video. Great thumbnail

Wow, I love it! I'm happy to have my comment included

This is my favorite thing I've played in the jam so far. Such a cool concept, and you knocked it out of the park with every aspect of the execution. Seriously impressive!

This is really impressive! There's a lot more to it than I initially expected - I really liked reading all of the notes. Great work

Wow, this one genuinely scared me! It's super tense when the lights go off. Really fun concept, and great use of sound. Nice work!

Great aesthetic, I loved the visual design (the little ghosts that move around are such a good touch) and music. The character interactions had a lot of personality. Good stuff

Oh hell yeah! I'll absolutely be checking that out when it's released

touching grass really do change people :/

I really liked this. You struck a great balance between funny chat and genuinely unsettling spooks. Looks great, and the music rules. Also, super clever way to do the credits.

Me when I'm being pursued by an entity and I don't have hands:

:(

Me when I meet a "hand"some stranger:

:)

The atmosphere is really, really cool. So many great stylistic choices; I loved the visuals, the sound, the writing, all of it. Impressive stuff.

Pretty fun! The 2.5D style with high-def assets gives this an interesting look. Good weapon variety, and I liked that ammo wasn't super plentiful - it added some extra tension when I had to switch to melee to finish off the final few enemies. A few extra sound FX to indicate damage being done/taken would've really added to the experience, but I liked what I played.

Extremely cool. I'm a huge fan of the style you've got going on. Apparently there's a Bruce Willis ending that I missed so I'm definitely going to have to play again

Damn I need me some Puppy Milk

Lol. Yeah, without the title in mind I'd imagine the twist is pretty confusing. I went back-and-forth on how much info to give players, and where I ended up was maybe a little *too* minimal. I'm glad the joke eventually landed.

Thanks for the feedback and for featuring my game in your video! I plan to expand on this game once the jam is over and watching your playthrough has already given me a couple ideas for improvements.

Incredible work as always. Thanks!!

that boy aint right

Man, this is such nice feedback. Thank you.  I've never made anything like this before, so it's really cool to hear that someone enjoyed it so much. 

When I started making this, I figured it would be a one-off learning exercise, but I ended up really enjoying the process. I don't want to make any promises, but you just might see an expanded version or a sequel in the next few months. 

Once again, thank you!

Oops! Totally forgot to save my rating before I left the page. Nice catch. Done

Good game! It's a little challenging near the end, but it creates a really tense atmosphere. I just barely made it to 5 minutes. I like that the torch's light shrinks/grows as time passes and you find sticks, that extra bit of feedback really adds to the experience. 

This is seriously great. I really enjoyed the writing. Great dark humor, delightfully unsettling, and the perfect amount of mystery. The exploration was fun. It was a little too easy to get lost, but maybe that's the intended experience. 

Loved it, overall. I can't wait to check out whatever stuff you're going to add to it.

Thanks! Yeah, it's mostly AI art. The title screen and beginning images (the first scene, the train tracks, and the park) are from https://alte.itch.io/suburban-photos , those seem to be actual photos that are just put through a filter. Every other image was AI generated using craiyon. I tried to deliberately choose wonky looking stuff, both for the atmosphere and so that it was more clear that it was AI art.