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Very immersive, polished, and complete. The first section of writing is particularly evocative, and it all works together very well. The music, art, and CSS effects bring it to an entirely different level.

Nice job! I like the setting and characters you brought to life. Unless I missed some info, one of the challenges required looping through all of the options until I hit the right one. It might have been nice to have some clues -- maybe some additional investigation options -- to narrow down the combinations. But overall it was nice to play an entry that has some gameplay mechanics and not just a story to click through.

Great voice acting! Although I didn't get a strong sense of the jam's theme, I love how this entry really leans into gameplay and choices.

I really enjoyed this. The wonderful depth of sensory description in the writing matches its emotional depth. The choice of music provides a perfectly haunting ambience, too. Some additional breaks for player choices would give a greater feeling of agency, but the choices that exist represent the theme well. I'm a nit-picker for grammatical errors, and there were a tiny number of them (e.g., it's vs its), but I suspect we all had them in our projects because Arcweave doesn't yet have a great way to perform grammar checks in-app. Overall, I feel like I'll be thinking back on this entry from time to time for the rest of the day.

This cyberpunk urban fantasy was a pleasing surprise. It didn't go where I expected at the beginning.

It uses a small, third-party blood pixel effect. Otherwise I'd just open source the project and let people put it on whatever devices they want. Maybe if I can find time the in future I'll replace the pixel effect with a custom one so I can open source it.

This is such a fun and clever idea. The simple graphics are easy to read and cute, too.

If you're referring to the "LHPS Central District Processing Hub", then yes there's a password and it's even in the name (in lowercase).

lol, I'm glad to know some people are finishing the game. :-) It was a quick one-day project for the BSOD jam a while ago. I hope it gives some of the feel of surfing BBSes in the 80s.

Good job!

If the text parser weren't inscrutable, it wouldn't be true to its retro 1980s roots, now would it? ;-) Try "take vine". I'll update the game to accept "vines" as a synonym for "vine".

This is an interesting take on the theme (and the diversifier). I enjoyed the journaling/creative writing opportunity.

This was a nice surprise -- very unexpected! Good music, writing, and fit to theme.

Love the blinking eye! You did a great job with the progression.

A lot of fun! It feels a lot like Overcooked but as a single-player game. Bouncing between the different eyes gets pretty crazy!

I pushed up an update yesterday that adds a line to the room's description about that thing when it appears. Hopefully that'll make it clearer for people.

This was a popular genre waaay back in the day. My favorite was Demon's Forge, the first commercial game by Brian Fargo (The Bard's Tale, Fallout). Back then when we made games like this there wasn't enough memory for images so we recorded coordinates to draw lines and flood fills.

Thanks! Did anything happen visually when you got the gem?

Maybe the beast is hungry? You could try feeding it something or dropping something for it to eat....

Very nicely polished and tutorialized for a jam entry, with good progression! This is a lot of fun to play.

I remember you bouncing around the idea at the event. I'm glad you made it! It's an interesting take on the idea and well executed.

Wonderful art, including the great title screen! It can be a challenge to get the cat unstuck sometimes -- but one of these days I'll get all 20 items broken! :-)

Love the squishy sounds! The art style is good, too -- easy to read, so you can focus on jumping from person to person as quickly as possible.

Nice entry! Solid, fun gameplay, and it looks and sounds great!

Thanks! Glad I hit the mark there. Nostalgia for the old folks, discovery of an elder age for the younguns. :-)

Great game! The art gives The Last Door vibes but with its own Victorian twist. The voice acting is fantastic! I hadn't planned to play for so long, but it drew me in.

Thanks for playing, Adam! I'll check out that bug.

Thanks! This was for an afternoon game jam. I agree. After playing it a few times, if I'd had more time the first thing I would've done is add more sound variations. But it does get under the skin this way, which might be fitting for horror.

Nicely atmospheric and a good experience for a first game! Well done!

Overcooked with demons!

Oops, forgot to do that! Just linked it. I structured the game to be able to have lots of callbacks to previous decisions and randomly choose from a library of different vignettes in each time period, but there wasn't enough time to write as many vignettes as I had planned.

A solid, short roguelike! I like the visibility culling. How do we use weapon enchantments? Are they automatic?

Thanks! Our team had some fantastic artists. The music and sound effects are all Allen Lambert's voice.

Got it! Will do.

Nice mix of platforming and apple-catching. It gives a fun, frantic pace to the platforming. The artwork has a pleasing, vivid palette that's easy to read. Good choice in granting lives. It made it more fun to be able to continue a few times when I accidentally landed on the spikes.

Nice visuals and sound! I really like how you were able to incorporate different enemy types. Fantastic job, especially for a first game.

Cute game, but I got stuck in the Hospy. Did I need to pick up a light? The room is all black.

A nicely-polished puzzle game! Simple to learn, with a progression curve that keeps you moving forward.