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I'm trying random games that have a nice illustrated cover art and yours is awesome! I loved the pixel art inside the game as well, simple but very effective in creating the right atmosphere, such a sad story! Coincidentally the gameplay is similar to our game, even if the story and vibe are completely different :)

I really liked the art, but it was a little bit too hard for me to play! Love the concept of trying to escape the sinking titanic :D

I loved the character designs and dialogues, I had fun playing :D I got comfortable in the beginning, thinking they would repeat a final hint even if I had skipped part of the speech, but then they stopped doing that and I had to pay attention OoO 

Hi! I'm the artist of this game if you want to rate it: https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-15/rate/4313288  :) Thank you in advance!

I had so much fun playing, I loved the little sounds they make most of all XD

I loved the art of your game, the monsters were so cute! We made many cute monsters for our game as well :D

I loved the aesthetic of your game, one of my favorite in this jam! Took me a while to understand I had to ring again when no one answered, but that made it even more fun :D My score was 2005$!

I did it! :D I had so much fun playing, it reminded me so much of "baba is you". The art is so cool and the puzzles are very clever and original, best puzzle game I've tried so far in this Jam!

Artist here, thank you so much! The small guy seems to have become a fan favorite :D I imagined him as a hamster monster and called him Mr. Ham, but now everyone calls him a bear, so I guess he has become Mr. Ham-bear? ahah 

Thank you for the feedback, we wanted to add so much (like a tutorial at the beginning) but there was no time left. The fact that some guests ignore you and go to their seats is intentional! Some are young and impatient, and fire monsters are too hotheaded ;D

Thank you so much, I'm so glad you had fun playing! We wanted to record sounds for each guest and action in the game but sadly we barely made it in time with the music! Fun fact: the "sssh" sound before the music was my own voice! XD 

Thank you! We wanted to think outside the box and we saw that the word "place" originated from the Latin platea, a word that in Italian (our language) indicates the stalls of a theater. That is where the whole idea started :D

Artist here, thank you so much! You can't imagine how many times I tried to convince the developer (my boyfriend) to put that feature in the game but alas he was convinced it would make the game too easy! Thank you for making me win the argument XD

Artist here, thank you so much for your review! Fun fact: the monster you like was born from a watercolor splash XD I needed inspiration to make all those different characters, so I splashed some color on a page and tried to find shapes that made sense. He was the first one I made and my partner instantly fell in love with him. I thought of him as a monster hamster, and called him Mr. Ham, but now that you mention it  I see the resemblance with a bear! OoO

Here's the first sketch :D

Hi, I'm doing the same and rating as many games as I can today :) Here is mine: https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-15/rate/4313288

Thank you in advance! :)

The music is wonderful and I loved the art! The shifting between worlds was so cool :D

I was looking for other people who made original art for their games and yours is truly amazing! It immediately caught my eye and then the game was so interesting to play. So cool that you started with a cozy puzzle out of pressed flowers, one of my favorite things, and then ended it in such a dark way! Very unexpected plot twist :) 

I was looking for games with nice art and yours was amazing! Loved the colors, the music, it looks very professional. Wasn't super clear how I had to play or how long it would go on before I had to repay the debt, but it was fun. It reminded me of Dispatch which was also a big inspiration for our game :) Would have been more challenging if I could manage multiple missions at a time, but I know how hard it is to make a polished game in such a short time!

I could not find the last villager but I had fun playing! Loved the interpretation of the theme :) 

I was looking for games with nice original art and yours caught my eye, I really loved the atmosphere and the concept. The mechanic was so cool, I would have loved even more hidden messages to tell me something about the story of this girl or the building she is exploring. Congrats on your first jam! :D

I was looking for games with original art like ours and yours looks awesome. I loved the atmosphere, the lighting, the beautiful sky and the sounds you chose (the dialogue sound was so nice). My partner had to help me with the hardest jumps (I'm the worst at platform games) but we finished it with no issues :) It's so cool you made it all by yourself!

I was looking for games with original art like ours, yours immediately caught my eye and did not disappoint! The art is amazing, I really loved the animations, and the general atmosphere, the music too :)

Artist here, thank you so much, I'm so glad you loved the art! I've never drawn so much like in the last week, coming up with 15 different monsters was so hard and I almost lost my mind making the theater. It's not perfect, but I'm so proud of myself for finishing it :)

Artist here, thank you so much! The orchestra tuning at the beginning is from a free sounds library, but the show music I made myself! I'm not a composer in any way, but I had so much fun messing with Garage Band :D

Thank you so much for the review, that is high praise! :D We loved your game as well!

Thank you! We tried to balance it as much as possible, I wonder if anyone can get a perfect score ;D

Nice score! :D Thank you for the review!

Artist here, I'm so glad you loved the art! We wanted to implement so much more before the deadline but we had to sleep sometimes ahah. Thank you so much for leaving such detailed feedback :)

Sorry if I get sappy, but I wanted to commemorate this moment with a small post (now that I'm not sleep deprived and can think straight).

My boyfriend and I started making small games for game jams when we were just out of highschool, our last one was more than 10 years ago. It's one of the ways we connected and learned to work as a team, we probably had some of our first fights as a couple over some pixel art drawing and how many features we could implement in a 48h contest.

Now we are in our early 30s, both with a career in creative fields, but always using our skills for companies and other people's projects. Two weeks ago we saw a video talking about this jam and we got so nostalgic for those sleepless nights making games for ourselves. That is why we decided to participate and I'm so glad we did! We still had to work our regular jobs during the day, but we spent every other minute on this project.

We've sadly discovered we do not have the same stamina we once had (we are old), but we can reignite our creative spark in no time. We probably included 80% of the things we wanted to implement but it doesn't matter, we are so proud for finishing it! 

You can find it here: https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-15/rate/4313288

My partner used Godot to build it, he had never tried it and was curious to discover a new game engine, but he didn't know we couldn't export it to web when using C# scripts so you have to download it to play! Sorry :(

I made all the art myself from scratch, I usually draw as a hobby but never this much, my ipad almost combusted.
I would love to try other games with original art, leave the link if you want me to rate it :)