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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #120 | 4.429 | 4.429 |
| Audio | #145 | 4.107 | 4.107 |
| Narrative | #231 | 3.964 | 3.964 |
| Enjoyment | #2121 | 3.357 | 3.357 |
| Artwork | #4091 | 2.964 | 2.964 |
Ranked from 28 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
The game involves staying "in the loop" with your friends by listening for gossip. It also has you repeating the same night over and over again to hear more gossip.
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(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
ZungryWare, nephguy
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Spacial audio, furniture arrangement, and guests! Everything I would want for my Girl Gossip party! Except in my party I also put cameras in the guacamole, and also I secretly take blood samples. For the gossip!
Ahahaha, what a nice idea. I bet it must have been a lot of fun recording the voice lines for this jam! Love it! :D Also someone really needs to probably practice some "direct communication" in their relationships if the goto solution for social problems was to plant microphones on a party :D
Wow! That was pretty unique making an audio based game. Really liked the premise of the story and the gameplay as well. It was pretty fun to listening to conversation and identifying the things through conersations. Great work!
Such a good use of audio as a gameplay element!! I am really impressed, this is a great creative gameconcept and a very good execution as well. I really liked the conversations, they felt so natural! Very well done!
Sooo incredibly creative! I’ll definitely be completing the journal eventually! It’s impressive that this was completed in just 4 days – amazing work :D
This is so smart, the concept work so well! really creative, one of the most in my opinion! Good job !
Wow, I loved it! and I'm really impressed that you could record so many conversations in such a small period of time. The puzzles of choosing furniture are interesting and how the journal works reminded me of Return of the Obra Dinn: you managed to do it so the solution isn't obvious and trying random guesses don't work. One drawback of using only the audio is that it may be difficult to play for non native speakers, but I get that having subtitles would have ruined the inmersion.
It is one of the most creatives games I've played in the jam, my more sincere congratulations!
Recording the voices was a lot of fun, but pretty stressful as well. We got five of our friends to come over (nephguy did the sixth voice) and we had to have all of them there at the same time since all of the characters have dialogue with all the other characters recorded at the same time from separate mics. To speed up the process, I had a python script where I could hold space to start a take, then release it to end the take. Then it would save both audio files (one for each mic) into a folder with random filenames. Then it would print out both file names to console so once we got a good take I would copy those filenames into the conversations.json file. This rapid-fire approach let us zoom through the lines without having to click through audacity menus every time. Still took three hours though lol.
I had to coach the actors a bit to make sure they all put on voices different enough that they could be distinguished easily by sound alone. Sam had to sound stilted and monotone. Alfonso had to sound brash and rowdy. Zoe had to sound energetic and outgoing, etc. And they did a much better job than I was expecting from five non-VA friends paid only in free pizza.
Thanks so much for playing and for the kind words!
"WAZZUUUPP " haha. SUCH a cool concept with interesting mechanics. A great low stakes mystery and such a creative premise. I will definitely be spending more time playing this to get it all right.
Try out my friends game if you have a chance : https://excalibur277.itch.io/tasks-of-the-spell-looper :)
Very creative game that I never played before! the audio is really nice, I wonder how the placements of the furniture can affect the outcomes
when I saw the name of the game I immediately knew I had to play haha, very creative approach I haven't played such a game yet!
One of the best and most unique game jam games I've played, very polished and very well made in general. Reminds me of "Return of the Obra Dinn" in a lot of good ways. I think my only critique would be that some of the conversations were noticably louder than others, although I could also see that as being intentional. Great job.
The conversations are different in volume depending on distance from the currently selected microphone. But I assume you're not talking about that. It's pretty likely that the different characters (or even different lines) have different volumes just because of our voice actors being different distances from the mics (and not being professional VA's lol.) We didn't have time to normalize the levels on the 100+ audio files so it just is what it is. It is a little intentional that Alfonso talks louder than Laura, for example. That's just a personality trait of the characters.
Return of the Obra Dinn was definitely an influence, as was Her Story. The story in those games are a bit more compelling, but that's in part because we decided to go for 'functional' rather than 'interesting' in order to make sure the whole thing worked at at least a gameplay level. If we decide to expand on this concept, the first thing I would want to do is come up with some more interesting intrigue lurking under the surface and write better dialogue around that.
Thanks for playing!
Incredibly unique idea, smooth gameplay, great audio. Well done!
That Alfonso guy is great
morals? it's only a game
NICE ONE! Very creative idea and the distance system is so cool!