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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Artwork | #23 | 4.787 | 4.787 |
| Narrative | #129 | 4.128 | 4.128 |
| Audio | #429 | 3.809 | 3.809 |
| Creativity | #2629 | 3.574 | 3.574 |
| Enjoyment | #2757 | 3.191 | 3.191 |
Ranked from 47 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?
players have to loop for multiple times to know the truth. It's also a story of loop, dreams in dreams, and fish loops
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
see description for full credits
(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
tina and ufen
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so beautiful!
This game is very artistic and thematic! The artworks are stellar and very beautifully drawn. The premise of the game is very mysterious, and the storytelling gives a feeling of bittersweetness. Great job on this game!
Yay!!! It's THE diving game!! Love the arts, the girl is so cute <3
Finally I have found the narrative masterpiece of this jam! I love the visual presentation of the game.
The drawings, the 3D models and also the overall narrative pacing is incredibly well done and reminds me very much of Yume Nikki and similar story-driven experiences, especially Japanese ones. The philosophy is exactly my jam (heh) and because of my thalassophobia, I feel even more attracted to the absolute dreadful environment. The music reminds me very much of atmospheric tunes like that from Y24U, Taishi or Nhato.
Unfortunately though, the character controls are very clunky and the overall user experience of the game is not particularly smooth, at least for me. Smoother controls and options for sound and key remapping would be a very nice addition.
This is an amazingly great submission though, very well done! I absolutely look forward to what you will do next!
Such a beautiful game!
Awsome visuals obviously, sadly i didn't have time to do all endings so i feel like i missed a decent bit of content. One critcism i can give is underwater movement felt a little too slow after a point, i wish there was a "sprint" button or something similar. Outside of that, great job!
The art is so beautiful and I like the slow reveal of the narrative. It takes so long to get all the endings though ;;
Absolutely gorgeous art, both 3D and 2D, probably my favourite so far in terms of aesthetics. The 3D spatialized audio such as from the record was a nice touch, but could've blended a bit better with the ambience.
Thank you Junferno. I agree on the audio settings. Will polish it as well as the gameplay.
amazing artwork and narrative just like we did ,the artist did really great
Thank you for your heart warming words Jasser. Wish you enjoyed it 🙏
Thank you for liking it ❤️❤️❤️
Somehow, it reminded me of Narcissu, but I'm not sure if it is that kind of story. Eiter way, the game has artistic feel to it and visuals are really eyecacthing.
OMG I’m a big fan of Narcissu. This story indeed inspired by it. You have a really amazing taste.
Wow, so it is actually inspired by Narcissu! That's awesome! Happy to see people who love that story!
Wouldn't say that my taste is all that amazing thouh. =D
I just chanced upon it many years ago when I was still at school. It made a strong impression! And trough the years I've re read it couple more times and even made one of my friends give it a try. I mainly talking about Narcissu 1. I don't really remember other chapters and not even sure if I read all of them. Maybe I should give them another read at some point.
Exactly, I’ve only played Narcissu 1 so I know exactly what you mean by that. One of the 5 ending is inspired by the game (I really told Tina about the Narcissu 1 story during the development). I also played Narcissu 1 for multiple times and still remember the strong impression (damn, I like the music so much).
It’s really a long time since I first played it. Everything around me literally changed so looking back I feel a strange connection that even after so many years I can recall the feelings and emotions in that old summer time…
Other than that the game is also inspired by 魚類による考古学, pool core and dream core, Deemo, and deep blue (an art concept about the ocean I made several years ago, never released).
We made it quite ambitious so you can see both heavy 3D and 2D arts here. But there’re still a lot that Tina and I both think that can be polished bc we are short on time. After GMTK, the plan is to polish the menu visual (like multiple ppl mentioned about the controls) and Start/End Page, adding more texts (we’re only 2 ppl so no time for it), and enhancing the gameplay.
I’m so happy to see your message 😭 Thank you so much for playing it. You really have a great taste and let’s stay in touch.
Well, I had to google everything you mentioned to get the idea. Had no clue about what pool core or dream core is. Heard about Deemo, but never played it. A bit intrigued by 魚類による考古学 - is it a vocaloid song or are vocaloids just covers for some elusive original that I can't seem to find?
I'm sure you will be able to polish it to become much better, it is just the question of time and commitment. I wish you good luck in this endeavor!
Sure, let's stay in touch. I'll follow you too. =)
Very nice visuals. Would love to be able to move faster to collect all the endings. but other than that, pretty relaxing game!
Thank you for liking the arts 😭
Really cool game! At times I wish I could move more quickly and the camera sometimes made it hard to control the character. Stunning visuals!
Haha I played it for almost 200+ times during the debugging so I know what you mean. The player speed in the final version is 3 but I actually changed it to 10 while debugging :P
Maybe we will make add a dash key and stamina to enhance both the gameplay and controls (just think out loud).
awesome game
Awesome comment! Thanks for playing it❤️❤️
Great!! Beautiful setting, animations and music, such a beautiful game!
Thank you Cecilia! Your game’s also one of the best I’ve seen in this jam.
Really cool! As others have mentioned would love to follow the illustrator for more art.
Hi anonsh, please find Tina Here https://x.com/_meltina_?s=21. She just started using X so really thanks for supporting.
Thanks for the love and support! I’m happy you like my artwork(｡ ́︿ ̀｡)
Beautiful. A lot of care when into this. A suggestion would be to make it a bit more clear how to solve these puzzles, I looped through a few times collecting memories in different orders but wound up with the same ending each time. Great art, really enjoyed the experience.
Thank you for your valuable suggestion and the time for playing it. We were running out of time this time but we do have a plan to enhance the gameplay. Please definitely check back after GMTK if you like it 🥹🥹
I'll be sure to!
This little game feels like an art! The visuals and sounds are amazing! You did a great job!
Thank you for that compliment. I’m really flattered.
很棒的游戏了，可谓是视觉震撼了 ！通过美术的叙事方式来解锁最终的故事，这个美术工作量真的很恐怖，哈哈哈
抓住Dylan老师（是的我们这几天一共睡了不到12小时，现在在疯狂补觉中）