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thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

thanks I appreciate it! Glad you enjoyed it! I credited 3 people, it was me, who made the game, drew the art, wrote the song, voice acted jess and the mom. then a friend who did two lines for the mom and another who did bart and the dad.

thanks! glad you enjoyed it.

I bet one person did this…

thanks

TYSM!!!!!!!!!! Really I did outdo myself! I’ve been building up to this my past 4 jams.

I’d love to have you in my discord, if you want your choice either way TYSM for playing and enjoying my game! Thank you also for the complements!

thanks!

oh right, makes sense.

Thanks!

ok nice!

Thanks so much! I appreciate the complements! I listened to Hamilton first time a couple weeks ago so I had to do something with my ✨INSPIRATION ✨

That’s fine! Thanks for playing anyway! It’s not really the kind of music I listen to either, I just chose “rap” because uh idk why not try something I don’t usually engage with. but yeah there is no ending I didn’t have time to add one :( making a song takes a lot of time.

oh except from the text saying “perfect” “good” if you type on beat and “mid.” “BAD!” when you don’t? I do admit my game definitely lacks gameplay, at the end of the day though I’m just glad its functional!

maybe…

Thank you for enjoying my game! This is actually the first song I ever wrote! It took me the first 4 days of the jam to write soooo, that didn’t exactly leave time for much else but I’m glad you enjoyed it nevertheless!

Thank you! I agree I definitely needed some beats but ran out of time, sad I couldn’t get to it. Glad you enjoyed it either way!

Yeah thought somebody would

Thank you! Its literally the first song I ever wrote

Ah basically the same idea, yours just doesn’t support “crossfade” transitions. They have to make the whole screen a predefined image or in this case a solid color then from that into the next scene basically making fade to black but with extra steps.

this is a pretty decent game. There’s not much to it though. I actually made a game where you sell hot coco for comfy jam autumn. It’s called hot coco loco (the previous game jam). It was a nice chill game with no real purpose good job on the collecting sound effect I think it sounds cool. Also is your screen transition taking a screenshot of last scene, placing it as a texture rect in a canvas layer via an autoload then using a dissolve shader to make the transitions?

loved the pitch, and the mechanics were nice puzzle mechanics, obviously not a puzzle game I would say but also just kinda frustrating with the amount of timings you gotta do, the enemy penguins aren’t really like solid pattern left right left right exact deterministic timings. This game is more like asteroids where you got a thousand penguins all going in different directions without a care for each other. I got to the level that’s just a bunch of vertical lines, then gave up cause, I’m not dealing with that. Someone else can move those stones if they need to be moved. Not my problem.

maybe I just didn’t give this game a fair shot though. I sound a lot frustraigted than I actually am, in reality it just got boring quick for me, though I never really like puzzle games idk if you classify this as one but my brain looks at it and says puzzle game.

Thank you I’m glad you enjoyed it! It’s kinda funny how both this game and the game before it are just greedy capitalist simulators with a cover on top (this is he sequel to hot coco loco btw but both games stand on their own)

Thank you! I hardcoded it so the frog always stays asleep I thought it would make the perfect punchline to finish the game

thanks for playing it! I’m glad you enjoyed it!

Ah okay good! Well I liked the script! I was just cautious because people who use AI TTS are more likely to be AI bro’s.(Not backed by anything just guessing) I was just doubting myself on whether or not I’m enjoying AI content.

Either way its funny how you and I chose basically complete opposite approaches for the voice acting in our games. I have a mix between voice acting and very old so bad it’s good tts. In my game you play as a robot who has to make personalized ads for animals by reading their mail. The mail is voice acted but the ads you make (because you are a robot) is TTS but not just any TTS a really old barely TTS TTS.

I would recommend checking my game out not just because I do Shameless self promo-but because I think you’ll love it! I wrote all five messages myself and voice acted two myself! I got a Hobbiest/semi professional voice actor through a cousin of a cousin of a friend. And he did the other 3 messages. Hearing the mail and making the Ads actually tells a very silly story that you have a say in. Definetly one of my best works if not my best work thus far! It’s a direct sequel to Hot Coco Loco the game I made for the comfy Autumn jam and I’d recommend playing that then this to get the full cinematic universe experience. CAN’T WAIT FOR SPRING! THEN I EXPAND FURTHER!

On the contrary, I used AI to write the Python script so boom conflicting information, But yeah all the mesaages and my fire writing-written by me!

I really love the way it turned out.

Oh if you love the characters then you should play Hot Coco Loco! Its about 15 minutes long and Sale Mail is a direct sequel to Hot Coco Loco.

The limitation for that jam included Intro and dialogue that the player can’t understand. It’s stands in strong contrast to Sale Mail but I think you’ll enjoy it none the less! I made an animation engine so I can individually animate every character with my mouse cursor so in that aspect they feel more alive.

Its actually really cool comparing hot coco loco and sale mail. Everything from voice acting, writing and even visuals are handled differently or upgraded.

Also join my discord if you wanna chat some more there! I’d love to! I made it as just a small community where I upload my progress during game jams and next year when I hopefully release my first game I could show it to my game jams friends for feedback, playtesting and I guess publicity.

BTW THE VOICE ACTING WAS SO MUCH FUN!

Im glad to hear you enjoyed them! Canonically I got away with the TTS because you (The robot) Is making the AD and low quality tts is just more comfortable/ cozy because it doesn’t remind the player of the eerie scariness of the real world where I could make VERY realistic TTS with AI.

It was also very practical to use TTS because all the lines in game that are voiced by TTS (The Ads and corporate praise) add up to 120 Lines of TTS, which as you can guess, Is a lot of work for a game jam game and I couldn’t do. In fact I had to make a python script that goes through every line in my game, automatically generates the TTS for it and automatically adds it in game. Just because of the sheer amount of content

YESSS SOMONE WHO LOVES IT! BTW, did you play multiple times to choose different products because each product has 12 unique lines that includes your options and the corporate praise after delivering the mail.

Yeah the state of the game is rather unfortunate. I think I 100% Made the right call changing the game midway through.

And BRO I LOVE what I did for Sale Mail. The comedy and voice acting is peak. Also It’s cool to see in which ways I repurposed the winter robot to make Sale Mail.

I mean this is difficult stuff. You gotta one make the game difficult enough to be engaging and easy enough so people can actually beat it in the small amount of time people spend playing a jam game (3-10 minutes) Thats Flow where challenge meets difficulty and Flow = Fun. Thats why it’s hard to make a fun game

Dang this game must have amazing developers! The systems are so advanced and elegant. I wish I could code this well one day…

okay but for real I didn’t play the version with the tutorial and sounds until now and yeah that defiantly bumped up those aspects the game feels a lot less empty now, though I feel like you kinda made your audio score worse with the sound effects you chose.

The game is kinda… Hmm it has room for improvement. I couldn’t play the whole game (I got lost in the massive snow tunnels) but from what I did play nothing really stood out to me… I’m sorry. WAIT. The UI Looked good! I love myself a good godot UI you guys themed it well.

Writing is okay, the game itself feels way too slow. The anticipation for the sweep attack is very unclear on first play, and dying is very punishing (because you practically have to wait out the entire fight) Notice how I say wait out? This game is very exhilarating and kinda slow it feels like your just waiting for the next attack or just getting frustrated because you move so slow and can’t really dodge an attack. No in betweens, no close calls.

But I do like the humor and writing. Keep making games! I hope I’m not too negative and that this feedback helps you in your next project. Enjoy your week!

I think it’s cute, there’s just… Nothing for me to focus on so this is kinda just sit bored out of your mind simulator BUT, I love the snowman customization!

Conceptually interesting but In practice it was a bit confusing at first I didn’t notice the next thing and idk something about a 2d grid just doesn’t scream compose music on me, for me. It was fun to play with nevertheless.

The camera is waaaaaay too sensitive as a result I couldn’t finish the game. Mostly played for the memes because there are two penguin dashes.

Was the dialogue AI generated? I’m not talking the tts I recognized the voice is from eleven labs but the dialogue itself?

Ah okay, Yeah my letter scoring system does look a lot more complicated than it actually is. Getting different scores actually changes nothing (Except in rare cases where it changes the corporate praise you get)

I didn’t really know how to make scoring have strategy, so my strategy was random bs go!

I’m gonna try to have a little more intent and actual tradeoffs/gameplay next time.

you can right click to recall the hat! it even says so in the tutorial! 😭

If I had one more day that’s all I’d spend my time on, adding sounds everywhere.