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This was quite clever

A great contrast to all those games that are forcing you to be constructive.

It is an account with very few games so they are probably an unexperienced developer and just realized that they can't possibly finish the game in time. That must be annoying but I wouldn't take it personally.

It's fine no worries (btw I have nothing to do with organization I just knew the answer to your question)

Yes, it says so in the description.

The game is published, I am to tired to say anything more. I like it in a way.

Game's jam page: https://itch.io/jam/emotional-game-jam-2026/rate/4262730

Web build coming up soon.

The main graphics and the gameplay loop is finished, now whatever polish I can fit in, not to mention sound.......

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So, I am limited with how much I can do due to work, what I manage to finish tonight will probably be it.

A lot of gray placeholder graphics and elements yet to be added, a lot to do.

Let's begin with two basic states of human existence 

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Starting a thread since everyone else did. Miloš Stojanović, nice to meet you.

6 PM update: Finished work and pondered game ideas. Did not decide yet. I am a very theme-focused jammer so it is critical that I think of a game that will both interpret the theme in an interesting way *and* be doable for a single person. **And**, in this case, while also matching the jam's general theme of feelings.

11 PM update: I think I have decided on the game, let's see.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Okay, the name is Miloš Stojanović.

Hi, I am me and I will be working solo, when I'm not at work. Not sure if updates will be coming every 6 hours as I also sometimes sleep, but I'll do my best.

Cute. It'd be interesting if each dead zombie had a unique description.

Well that knocking sound sent my dog into a barking frenzy. Pretty good story and a way to present it, I enjoyed. 

There were some typos: is their really = is there really, you flea = you flee

Hi! Sorry, I failed to look at numbers and notice that you have won 2nd place overall with exactly the same score as Proyd. Congrats!

As the rules say, " If the winner is more than one person, some sort of splitting can be arranged"

Please add me on Discord: grozni0799 

Hello, congrats, as your game has the best non-organizer score you win the prize! 

Please add me on Discord: grozni0799 or alternatively just put your Steam username here.

Well, this is the jam's most artful entry for sure. For sure. 

Hey! The game can't be opened, I'll post the error message below. You are allowed to upload the fixed version if you want.

ERROR: Cannot open file 'res://Scenes/MainMenu.tscn'.

   at: (scene/resources/resource_format_text.cpp:1387)

ERROR: Failed loading resource: res://Scenes/MainMenu.tscn.

   at: (core/io/resource_loader.cpp:343)

ERROR: Failed loading scene: res://Scenes/MainMenu.tscn.

   at: (main/main.cpp:4560)

Hey! This is an interesting narrative/exploration game, I love the mechanic of flashlight and points of interest being clearly represented as diamon symbols. The mysterious anomalies of shifting hues really help. I couldn't resolved it however, I gave it a good 30+ minutes and couldn't figure out where to look for the remaining cards. It is also not clear what the z-mechanic is, I presume something to do with shifting between levels after pressing that button, but it seems more like a narrative thing than a mechanic, of course it's probably just me being too stupid to figure it all out.

Nice, I think this is a solid take on the theme. A bit sad that there is no sound, but you put some polish into a lot of other things. In 1v1 mode the bot is helpless but in arena mode my victory was always a close call, so that one was most fun. Good job!

Prettyyyy good. I love seeing how entries in this jam took the Z-mechanic theme seriously. And what you made here is actually addictive to play! It seems luck-based at start, but there is definitely a thread to catch because on the third replay I got very far in the game and took a screenshot of final score but now I see I failed to save it to disc :/

Also, awesome amount of polish with the sounds, anims and all.

I did not know about this until seeing this plugin https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/zfighter-296702

But there are other resources online https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-fighting

Hi, I noticed some are using the Itch's default way to rate a game, by using the Rate functionality on the game's page, and I just want to say that this is not a rating that will be used by the Jam. The actual Jam's rating will be enabled in about one hour after this post was posted (when the jam is over). 

I guess I am guilty for making this confusion by using the option that disables the jam ratings before the jam is complete.

So, please do drop by after the jam is over (any time during this week), and rate other games using the Jam's actual rating. The correct rating is on the game's *Jam* page and has *multiple categories* to rate.

Oh, hi there! To be honest, I thought your submission was clear spam, but when you put it like that I guess it has a bit to do with the theme, so I will not disqualify it. Unlike a couple of other games..

Glad you figured it out!

This is usually when it is a good idea to cut some features out. Or cut whatever it takes to get the most important features in. In any case, the scoring categories are shaped in a way that favors the "Z-fighting" implementation. You may get away with most other aspects being unpolished or simplistic.

In a few hours you will be able to submit your game, up until Monday. I am happy with how my game is turning out and will submit it during the weekend.

While the number of joiners is not amazing so far (it was an impulse jam, and Itch took many days to approve its appearance in timeline), I am determined to still give out the prize even if there is only one submission other than mine, so no worries about that. Looking forward to play your games!

Submitted games will not be visible during the weekend, but afterwards you will have one week to play and rate them, so please do!

Hey, all. After over a decade of jamming I had a random idea to host my own. And you may start working on the game right away, the jam's start and end date are just submission windows.

The jam is about z-fighting, and if you don't know what z-fighting is that's great because in this jam you are supposed to come up with your own answer.

Check it out << click here to see it or join

That would be great! I'll sleep on it (I'm in Europe) and will probably do something smart tomorrow.

Oh, that's cool of you, thanks! I'll update the prize info and try to advertise the jam better.

Was happy to spot a pinball game as I forgot all about those, and this is a fine one. But at its current state it is lacking in juice - sounds and particles. Don't get me wrong, the existing sounds and particles are top tier, but there really should be more, sounds in particular. I see special things happening without any fanfare, but the very spirit of pinball games should be in sensory overload. Also I'm not a fan of slowmo when saving the ball, it feels weird, as if I'm losing control, it was fine during tutorial but would rather not have it during normal gameplay. Other than that, pretty good job so far.

Hi, would probably help to leave link to the ldjam page.

Thanks, helped me survive through yet another infosec course with videos

Good start of an idea and charming, but I find it impossible to control the character in the way that is expected by the gameplay challenge. I did really try, out of about 25 retries I managed to bounce back anything at all like 5 times, out of which only once did I bounce 4 times and that was my highscore. I would find this very enjoyable if the challenge was reduced, for example if the movement was limited to one dimension only + you had more time to figure out that the projectile is about to fire, I could see myself getting hooked for a while.

Really a good idea to cover the theme this way, and also to litereally put the entire track into the inside of a looping shape, rather than do some 4D math to simulate the looping.

Really masterfully done, I was hooked for a while, great job

Past 120-ish victory this game has managed to reboot my computer, or at least found instability in this particular browser on this particular OS. But yea, highest marks for creativity and narrative, you wacko.

I do love the concept and the feel of it, you should score highly in creativity, narrative and artwork. I wasn't a fan of restarting from the beginning though, the throwing knives were too hard to bypass and when I finally did those rockets were even worse, so after dying to rockets twice I had to give up as it turned into a time sink. In essence, the only connection to the loop theme is really just the mechanics of restarting from the beginning after death, which is common in games and not very loved mechanics, but the rewind visual were nice. This is pretty good as a weird concept, with a mixture of spooky story and cute graphics creating unsettling experience.

Really amazing job on everything except some aspects of gameplay, as a player I wished you let me enjoy this world you put so much effort into rather than having to restart every minute due to not being able to drive this clunky 8-angles car perfectly well. The pedestrian hit penalty is too punishing, considering it is almost impossible to avoid them if you go with the car's acceleration. One might think that the solution is to drive more careful.. However, the acceleration rate is too high and definitely does not go well with any sort of careful driving, I'd have to move in series of nudges to drive with any care. Maybe someone else is better at this, my feel is a lot of amazing talent and effort was put in but it was a few tweaks away from achieving fullest potential.

Impressive feat of teamwork. I couldn't figure out how to hold 6 runes and had to stop there, but it was quite enjoyable and pretty game.