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A jam submission

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A longtime career man tries to learn how to spend his free time in retirement.
Submitted by Aiden Rose Creative, DunkelDuggie, mulyuyo, d'arcy the witch — 4 hours, 14 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Presentation#54.7894.789
Overall#394.1774.177
Creativity#624.2114.211
Fun#2233.5323.532

Ranked from 109 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Preferred Name
Blossoming Garden is our team name!

Aiden Rose Creative - > Aiden
D'arcy the Witch -> D'arcy
Mulyuyo -> Grace
Kyu0muu -> Pog / Clem

Newbie?

Experienced

Nope - I've completed at least one game jam before.

How does your game fit the theme?
We based our idea around just getting started on hobbies and ideas you would keep putting off - finding time to begin on things you miss or never really got back into because other "more important" things got in the way.

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Submitted(+3)

soo good like nice game like i have no words

Developer(+1)

Hehehe we made 'em speechless, guys!!!

(But for real, thank you for playing <3)

Submitted(+3)

Very nice and unique theme to the game, with some good art to accompany it. Good stuff all around and a story to boot, great job to the entire team

Developer(+1)

Thank you thank you thank you! Entire team worked tirelessly, especially our programmer! But comments like yours make it all worth it 🤧

Submitted(+3)

Good interpretation of the theme:) Forced me to relax a tad as well aha. Very good artistic style good job!

Developer(+1)

Thank you 🤧

We were doing our best! And relaxation is never a bad thing 🙂‍↕️

Submitted(+3)

A incredibly cozy and good  looking art style. The story is very real and relatable too. It's all really well done, The music fits too. It was short and sweet, wouldn't have complained if there was more :) reallly well made 

Developer(+1)

Thanks! We are planning to make extended version to add everything we couldn't fit due to time constraints! So you will probably have a chance to play more of it ;p

Submitted(+3)

That was an incredible story game! I really liked the piano minigame and the song itself was also beautiful. I like how the art piece ended up getting hung in the house after. The overall art of the game was also amazing, probably the best I have seen so far!

DeveloperSubmitted(+1)

Ahhhh, to be the best you have seen means a lot! Thank you for playing our game, we worked extremely hard and for all parts to be loved that much means a lot <3

Submitted(+3)

Super beautiful art, and super realxing game, it motivated me to start drawing again. Great job!

DeveloperSubmitted

Ah that's amazing! It was a feeling I think we all feel as creatives but we wanted it to end more positively than it often does.
I'll be sure to make sure our artists see all the comments on art as well <3

Submitted(+3)

Super nice art and music! You guys form a great team! Really loved the piano part as well (piano player speaking here XD)
If you have some time, check my game! I think you will like it ;)

DeveloperSubmitted

Ah amazing! I'm also a pianist so I was quite annoying to our dev about how to make it feel gratifying to a player - glad it's not just me
I've added it to my list!

Submitted(+3)

Awesome, loved the music and how it fit with the game, really loved the mechanics for the piano, neat little story. 

DeveloperSubmitted

Thank you very much! I spent a lot of time during the jam trying out a more atmopsheric style for the BGM so that the traditional piece in the minigame would stand out, glad it worked out!

Submitted(+4)

Ah, this is seriously lovely. Also I can relate to that feeling he has, so it was surprisingly moving. Congrats!

DeveloperSubmitted(+1)

Ah thank you. We tried to go for a very natural and realistic narrative so I'm glad it lands!

Submitted(+4)

Beautiful game! I seen it on Shovel's livestream but I had to play it by myself. Lovely story, art and music. Great job!

DeveloperSubmitted(+2)

Thank you so much, especially for coming after stream where the majority of the content was already shown XD
Our team worked extremely hard - thank you.

Submitted(+4)

i rly like  the pinao playin and the art the dialogue aswell pretty cool gameplay 

Developer(+1)

Thank you very much 💖

Submitted(+4)

This game was soooo cute! It really made me think of all the other creative stuff I stopped doing since getting busy with work :( I really loved the piano sequence. Really good job!

DeveloperSubmitted(+1)

Coming from BRAMBLETALE?! To hear our game complimented by one as amazing as yours is stellar, thank you so much :OOO
The narrative really seems to be hitting, we're so glad (especially little old writer me).

Submitted(+4)

Loved the game! Amazing dialogue and such a great art, its like Im playing on a painting instead of just a normal game!

DeveloperSubmitted(+1)

Thank you so much - our artists were truly astonishing at managing to get that storybook style and it did so much for the game!

Submitted(+4)

I saw this on Inbound stream! This game is amazing and the visuals are top tier!

DeveloperSubmitted(+1)

Ah the One-Step team, hello and thank you for making me realise how bad at platformers I am XD
Thank you so much for coming from stream, we know our game is short so most of the content was shown so it means even more.

Submitted(+4)

i rly like  the pinao playin and the art the dialogue aswell

Submitted(+4)

Beautiful.

DeveloperSubmitted(+2)

Coming from your team? That means a lot - thank you :)

Submitted(+1)

<3

Submitted(+4)

Aesthetically, f**kin amazing, alongside with the soundtrack it just felt like a big ol' cozy hug of a game. I love the story and message behind the game as a whole, and some of the dialogue really hits deeper as well. The minigames were really enjoyable, I'm glad I was given a second chance after messing up once on the piano minigame. The painting section was arguably my favorite, I haven't gone through all the possibilities but I definitely wanna try them all out. Amazing in every category, insanely made.

Submitted(+4)

this was such a Stunning game yet it's so much this is why games are an art form you truly captured a feeling thats hard to even discribe with your own words if you felt it for years.

truly a masterpiece !

DeveloperSubmitted(+1)

That is so unbelievably sweet of you; to call our story and little slice of life a demonstration of games as an artform is not something any of us saw coming in the jam but it fills us with such pride. Thank you for taking the time to play our game!

Submitted(+4)

-be me, unsure of what degree to pick

-"how do i feel"

-pick lost, because unsure of what degree to pick

-"its like im 18, choosing a degree again"

goddammit its peak

DeveloperSubmitted(+2)

Seeing this happen to you live in the Discord was absolutely impeccable timing XD
Glad I managed to get our target audience down correctly with this dialogue and story!!!

Submitted(+4)

Fun: cozy vibes, I like the minigames, mostly talking though, great work

presentation: The best thing about this game is that the art and sound design are amazing and very well done.

creativity: great idea, starting your day, finding hoppies, fits the theme well

DeveloperSubmitted(+2)

Thank you so much for playing!
We originally had scoped 4 mini games but jam time just didn't allow for them to be polished so yeah, v dialogue heavy - even for a narrative game.

Submitted(+2)

Yeah most difficult thing is figuring out the right scope. The same thing happened to me. I want to make more levels where you run from the water, but  I was only able to make 1 at the end 😅. I'd love for you to try my game, I'm sure you're gonna love it😁

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