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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.

Thanks! The game is a little bit confusing I admit maybe 1 or 8 unexplained things but I hope you enjoyed it nevertheless!

If you could be so kind, can you please tell me what was confusing/overwhelming? I want to fix everything I can and learn whatever I can so your feedback would be AMAZING. Thanks either way!

Im glad the tutorial helped, in my testing nobody could wallclimb 😭

Thank you! Oh also lore drop: This game is a direct sequel to Hot Coco Loco (my submission for comfy jam autumn) In which the snail, scooter snail got his name because when my siblings playtested the game and he loses his shell they said he looked like a scooter so I called him that. Therefore, he was the first one to ever get a name!

Also I made a mistake when naming the dog (the yellow one) I called him dog fromda pound, I initially wanted to call him hound fromda pound because of the internal rhyming but I was so sleep deprived while adding him in game that I named him Dog Fromda Pound. IDK if he’s canonically called Dog fromda Pound but I thought it be a funny story to share.

Good luck! I’m gonna try playing a bunch of yhem though I won’t have time for them all. I’ll just random queue and see how many I can do!

yeah I decided to abandon it halfway because It was too large scope. I decided to publish it anyway because if I didn’t there wouldn’t be a game that explored the hat mechanic to it’s fullest.

Either way I did decide to make a different game instead, it’s called Sale Mail and it genuinely contains some of my best writing and rhyming to date, it even has me and a small cast of voice actors and from what I’m hearing my humor is very well recieved!

You basically play as a Robot that reads animal’s mail and then makes/designs custom targeted ads for the recipient then delivers the mail.

The humor comes from the mail and the targeted ads you make.

No pressure to play it but if you do, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it!

tysm! I had a lot of fun writing and voice acting! T bet you could tell. My favorite one is the letter to mister fox chadly bradly

So for the first half of the game jam I was making a precision platformer but I quit making it half way through because it was too large scope and not really that cozy. I decided to still make and finish the entire bare minimum game so you could still play it. The Hat mechanic gets explored to it’s fullest there. The game is called the winter robot

Absolutely! I’d have to add it myself but If you want it I coyld add it in later. Might even considering adding support for controllers by default for future jams.

Thank You So Much! I’m glad you enjoyed it. Oh btw did I get a couple laughs? Thank you for playing my game and I hope you’d stick around for my future games. Enjoy your week!

oh thank you, personally it feels like the worst game I made in a while but I'm glad you enjoyed it!

YOOOOOO sorry the .pck file was set to external which means the game didn't work anywhere, I use arch btw so I actually have a linux export you can use.
I also have a Linux export for my other game (it's a cozy Incremental game where you sell hot chocolate) Hot Coco Loco Play it here

Yeah I messed up an export setting which is very sad, but I have now fixed it and since then I have also joined another game jam and made a cozy incremental game where you sell hot chocolate to animals. The game is called Hot Coco Loco and you can play it here.

Yeah that kinda sucked. :( But I fixed the exe now! Umm if you still want to you can play it. Oh also, I have participated in another game jam straight after this one and I've made my best game yet, Hot Coco Loco. You can check it out here

I'm glad you enjoyed it, this is however definetly the most well recieved game I've ever made. Visuals aren't my strong suit so I just spammed shaders I found from godotshaders.com Also I am so proud with how the game turned out. Definitely one if my better games I feel like the main problem is the "flow" or GameLoop. The game doesn't really tell you where to look when. It doesn't compose the scenein terms of timing and positions. This makes the game slightly stressful to some.

Also my game could do with more micro interactions maybe picking up coins or something else.

I'm glad you enjoyed it, also thank you for following me! I'll be participating in a lot more game jams next year so I look forward to expanding my portfolio, skills and audience. Thanks a lot for the appreciation and time spent playing.

Thanks for the complements.

Did you finish the game?

Thank you so much for the complements I really appreciate it.

As for my custom animation engine, yeah it's just a simple script that let's me move characters with my mouse and then record and play back their positions.

In fact I never removed the devtools from the game I just made them invisible you'll find that if you hit R on the keyboard and then move your mouse around and hit R again you sould maybe see a new file appear.

Art is not my strong suit look at all my other games to know that much, so I developed my own "style" over time. I use Godot's built in polygon2D node to create shapes manually, then I apply color to them and that's usually where I call it a day, but this time I went above and beyond. I decides to use shaders. This was my first time using shaders so I just copy and pasted them all from godotshaders.com But they really work well! Shoutout to blur shader that I used way to extensively.

I'm also used to spamming particles until my game looks good.

Did you enjoy the mini narratives I eanted each character to have lore in the interactions and since the lore isn't said too well in game I just have to say it here.

The Fox gets chased by the wolf because he stole some of the Wolf's money, after that the fox xan come and buy a bunch of hot coco loco do a couple spins and buy one more. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.

The wolf falls in a pond once and later always jumps over it.

The snail by the way is the only one that has a name. I named him after what my brother called him in slug form: Scooter. So Scooter buy loco but then it gets stolen by the fox. The fox uses it as a hat and flexes on you for not having a hat. The big yellow dog comes chases the fox and gets Scooters shell back. They are now BFFs.

I dont have lore for the birds/frogs

Sorry for my excessively long reply, I'm glad you enjoyed the game and thank you for making my day by doing so. 

YESS somone enjoyed my game!

I made my own animation engine so I could animate the characters like microsoft paint PNGs I had an absolute blast with this one.

Glad you enjoyed it.