Nice consistent art direction, and the story kept my interest through the whole thing. Good job!
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Waking Up Neel's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Narrative | #351 | 3.792 | 3.792 |
| Audio | #1715 | 3.292 | 3.292 |
| Artwork | #2144 | 3.542 | 3.542 |
| Enjoyment | #3160 | 3.083 | 3.083 |
| Creativity | #4344 | 3.167 | 3.167 |
Ranked from 24 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 has looping theme around a bed. It "loops" the player to places and loops itself. The rooms repeat with different items etc.
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
All visual art and scripting done by me
Music used - Marion Harris - After Youve Gone (1918-public domain)
(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Adarsh
Comments
very good chose of music and the game have so much mistery. i loved
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Pool Loop: and the suggar manVery cool game! And great mastery of that old movie atmosphere :)
It makes you want to explore it further and add a puzzle or riddle dimension. Because you really get the feeling that this person is not your friend and is enjoying putting obstacles in your way.
Well done for creating all this in such a short time!
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A bird's minutethe story idea is very interesting, i love surreal stuff like this. But i think you could expand on it a bit more. the art style and the music are so fine too.
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The Tower That Eats Peoplethe aesthetic looks so good! too bad I can't play it as I am not on windows :/
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Taxi LooperWwow, that was an amazing experiance and a very unique one at that as well. The asthetic, the atmosphare, the music all makes it very creepy.... in a good way of corse. I'll be honest, I didn't really get the deeper meaning behind the looping bed, if there is any. Maybe its a methaphore for depression? But anyway, well done it s a very great concept with a strong base to build upon!
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Heal Me! - GMTK 2025broooooooooooooooo i loooooovvvvvveeee this from the music choice to the art to the story great game absloutly adore it
i know this is lame but please check out my game its also about a loop in a dream!
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Lupus Saves YouI like the creepy vibes you have got going on. Would be nice if there was a bit more to the platforming gameplay going on.
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Zeit HeistYeah I agree with you 100%. I originally wanted to have puzzle platforming gameplay, but the art and vibes was more important for me so I worked on that first. I am a solo dev and the art is all custom for each scene, no tilesets for quick level development. Hence I had to sacrifice the platforming part, sadly. But at least I got the vibes like I wanted lol!
I love the visuals! You have some cool filters on this? It all fits the art style and music everything feels polished and it goes together nicely! Great submission!
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Life CycleI dig the monochromatic art style! The sudden jumps of the camera going from the ground to the platforming section is a little disorienting, but the platforming handles well!
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It's Burt TimeThanks for checking out this submission! Glad you liked the art style. Yes the camera work needs a bit of polish when player jumps higher than the screen size, however this sudden camera motion only happens at 2 places in the game and after the sudden jump camera should work good. This was something I saw during development too but had no time to make the camera follow smoothly. I will try to patch this after the jam.
Wow! Just opening the game, your unique graphics and story already attracted me.
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Inside the CaveAbsolutely loved the retro art style, it fits perfectly with the music and gives the whole experience a unique vibe. The story really messed with my head in the best way possible, it left me thinking! 🤔
If I could suggest anything, it would be to make dialogue skipping not trigger the jump, and maybe smooth out the camera movement during platforming, it got a bit dizzying at times.
But overall, great job! Super atmospheric and memorable!!! 👏👏👏
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Lord of the LoopsThanks for checking it out! Yes the dialog and interaction system is a bit rushed, I had made a choice to not use premade scripts, I scripted everything in the jam's time and had no time to QA test the code as I'm a solo dev. But I'll try to release a patched more polished version after the jam. I'm just happy that at the end of the day nothing is game breaking lol!
Great little game, loved the art and music and the Neel's walking animation is really cute haha. The monochrome colours along with the music really give it a lot of atmosphere and personality, overall nice one!
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Concrete Tweet (Jam Version)The Atmosphere and art are amazing, The narrative also fits very well. Love the little camera grain effect on the game, as well as the black and white style featured throughout. Definitely enjoyed my time with this sweet little story. Good job!
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loop/deathCreate art direction and little story, creating a loop at the end. I encountered a bug where when the "sleeping" balls got knocked off the platform and landed on the evil woman, they would trigger the dialogue when I pressed up, and one point it glitched the player and made it glitch to the left making me fall. But once I knocked the guys out of the way and went back up there were no issues.
Great game, felt really complete. Well done!
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Traffic LoopsJust to clarify, I know the ball interaction with the player was intentional, I just discovered that if the woman touches the ball it triggers the dialogue when pressing up. Very interesting bug.
I never bounced on the balls since it wasn't really needed, I just knocked them out of the way. Having optional physics interactions is always fun :)
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