feels like getting punched in the stomach repeatedly for an hour. everyone involved in this game brought their absolute 100% to it. play this game if youre excited to feel like theres bodily viscera caked under neath your fingernails
Thank you kindly for playing!!! I tried my best to have my dolls distinguishable without relying on hair/clothes, which was a very fun character development practice!!
THANK YOU so much wah!!!! Thank you so sincerely for the template, it was a great css refresher and would love to make more with it in the future!!! Thank you so much for playing and having fun with it :D!!
I ask that submissions include visual elements in one way or another, but primarily written media can certainly fall under that! Off the top of my head, that could be a word-heavy zine with visual elements, a basic ren'py VN without any art assets, some sort of collaborative effort, etc.
sorry for rambling a little on the last reply hehe. To respond to the second part of your post, I really like that perspective! I agree that I'm personally less impacted by a magical mask that magically transforms you, but for me I think that has to do with satiating my love for reality.
I really like your idea of the audio mixer.. That's such a good way to put it. When I put mine on, I'm definitely amplifying some aspects of myself, muting others (love to not have to talk for a while lmao), and keeping some of those audio channels the exact same since at the end of the day, I'm still me! Me can encompass both me in the mask and me without the mask. Maybe we should all just take a little mask vacation ^_^
Thank you for your really thoughtful post!! I'm really happy that this jam has already made people start to get gears turning in their heads... I really want to treat this more as a gallery exhibit than a itch dot io jam LOL, and I think you just put a very cool museum plaque on the wall for people to stand in front of, hands behind back, and ponder. Best of luck in making your submission, I look forward to seeing what you come up with!!
Hihi, thank you so much for your interest in the jam and your thoughtfulness!!! Congrats on your mask!! :DD I'd love to see it sometime~~
I'm going to be SO honest: the "media that sucks" statement was me typing on my computer with bitterness and being a little bit of a brat :,) Mostly I was thinking of the outcome of that one impact-font meme-generator image of the Love Live kigs captioned something like "Why are you scared, isn't this what you wanted?" and how the uncanniness of masked cosplays became synonymous with cheap horror. I was also thinking of how the few pieces of kigu media that aren't in that vein just feel... lacking in love, I suppose.
....Which reminds me to steer clear of falling into hypocritical pitfalls!!! Really, I don't expect the majority of people interested in this jam to own a doll or a mask. That shit's expensive!! I also can't expect everyone to be dedicating their life to the study of these hobbies, or that they perform them in the exact same ways I do. I've asked everyone to be earnest in their submissions, which I stand by, but really, who am I to decide what is earnest or not? Someone who learned about BJDs last week can pour their heart into something, no matter how it ends up looking, and is just as earnest as the old hag who thinks they deserve capital punishment because they didn't know the difference between vinyl and resin dolls.
TLDR; maybe I should've left out the suck and maybe re-emphasized care or respect. It's not tangible, but I think you can tell when something isn't made with heart. You don't have to treat the hobbies kindly to be caring--god knows there are in fact very real flaws and horrors within them (looking forward to being dissected on a certain board someday </3)--but seeing them as something people have spent a lot of time and effort is the easiest way to show heart.
Unfortunately I have no plans on making a discord for this jam, currently the only "official" forms of jam communication is this community board and the hashtag 🤧
MAIDNIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what a lovely little treat this was. beautifully done, amazing visuals, superb music and sound design, nostalgic dreamcast themeing, and a poignant reflection on low-paying service jobs. the trailer got me incredibly hyped, and i was certainly not let down. milfeulle i love you <3
i really, really love how you used choice boxes in this. it added so much to the feeling of being trapped in endless rooms, unsure of what exactly you can do anymore
the sheer volume of words, effects, writing, story, and misery to be experienced through this game is truly astonishing. i'm not sure how you all put this all together in such a short time frame, but you did it and i am beyond impressed. good job team. this will linger in the air for a while
flipping between drab colours to blindingly bright ones was great and totally draws you in, i feel so much was said about these characters in so little of words. great job to the team!!
everything felt like torn pieces of paper, crumpled and folded and unable to be straightened out. i'm filled with the kind of existential dread that only exists in a dream where you find out whatever horrific predicament you think youre in is painfully, miserably real--at least until you wake up.
Absolutely obsessed with how expressive and charming the sprites are, bringing it all to life. Topical, relevant, and perhaps the most insane and nauseating coffee order I've ever heard of
If you told me there was a massive team with an unlimited time behind the creation of this game, I would believe you. This is undoubtedly a beautiful, polished, thrilling, and ingenious game. How this ambitious of a project was pulled off with flying colours for a fast-paced jam is astonishing. I am beyond impressed.
The story was captivating, only amplified tenfold by physically being captivated by interactivity and needing my physical input to continue. There are certain scenes that I was just blown away with the presentation.
It almost feels voyeuristic, peering in on Lilith and her internal monologue. She speaks to the reader yet I feel we have no right to listen. A concise and potent tale of T4T and loving your chosen family no matter what. Loved the music too!!
As I read this, I felt myself gripping the hand of the me of 2013, feeling just as scared reading a creepypasta chain comment as me playing this game. I felt her looking at me, looking at her, realizing that our Rosy might be something, somewhere similar now. I felt her just as nauseated at a winrar file, all those years ago. I felt her dread, our dread, cross again over the decade and change like it was yesterday.
I also got jumpscared twice. Just like markiplier, maybe
dude........this was awesome. this was sick. not only did it look cool and make use of extremely cool effects, but what a good little snippet into two characters work lives. wacky dynamics at play, i was giggling and smiling to myself like playing evil barbie dolls. just awesome. this was so good
This was such a well executed concept, the changing but repeating backgrounds made me feel the tension of the drive, claustrophobic in the moving metal box... I really enjoyed getting to "catch up" on what might've happened in the time outside of the car with their conversations, and I really really liked that the world stopped when no one was inside. I felt like a fly on the wall, or maybe just a cassette in the radio, and i really liked it for it.
Woah. From the screenshots I knew it would be good but I didn't realize just how good it could be. The layering is incredible, the continuation of a sentence in titled, pulling Let through memory after memory, just an incredible concept with a beautiful execution. I definitely plan to reread this in the future, as I imagine that a second pass might be an entirely new experience!
Wow.. quite harrowing, deeply unnerving. I really wasn't expecting what ultimately happened, multiple times, and I loved it for it. It makes you ponder questions that inspire guilt when you even think of them. Fantastic visuals that really sell the mundane dread!
i really love that this can work with and without the tangible poker games, but it absolutely is a delight to see this finalized product with so many endings to end up with..!! this is wonderfully executed, and almost made me forget just how bad i am at playing poker ^_^
the whole time i read this i wanted to describe it like a puppet show, one of those intricate little boxes with trained shakespearian actors squatting behind a curtain puppeting handmade marionettes. your use of movement was perfectly utilized, i especially loved how animated frieda's sprite poses were and how much you moved each character to convey the scenes. your eye for layering backgrounds and the timing of when to show and take away one is immaculate, thank you for feeding me knight saint yuri
i really, really, really enjoyed this from start to end. besides it being a fan vn from something you care about, its very clear that you created something purely out of passion and love. it didnt take me very long to read through it but no time was wasted, everything fit together and was really lovely to read. i couldn't help but be empathetic to both ursula and siobhan (and eva and tyrone!!!), sincerely wanting whats best for them and hoping they can continue to talk through their situations. a wonderful tale that i'm very happy i got to read <3
