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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Storytelling | #40 | 3.578 | 4.000 |
| Theme interpretation | #81 | 2.683 | 3.000 |
| Overall | #91 | 2.683 | 3.000 |
| Gameplay | #119 | 1.789 | 2.000 |
Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Beautiful metaphorical story
I really enjoyed this. The wonderful depth of sensory description in the writing matches its emotional depth. The choice of music provides a perfectly haunting ambience, too. Some additional breaks for player choices would give a greater feeling of agency, but the choices that exist represent the theme well. I'm a nit-picker for grammatical errors, and there were a tiny number of them (e.g., it's vs its), but I suspect we all had them in our projects because Arcweave doesn't yet have a great way to perform grammar checks in-app. Overall, I feel like I'll be thinking back on this entry from time to time for the rest of the day.
This hit home for me. As an artist I have found myself in similar stages that your story depicted. Very beautiful writing. It captured the dark aspects of creativity. The music paired with the writing made me uncomfortable but not necessarily in a negative way. Just felt like I was looking at my fears and doubts through a magnifying glass. Despite any gameplay mechanics implemented I still loved the story told. This is going to stick with me for a while.
Stellar storytelling, I also gathered the theme too. It wasn't so much a game as it was a story.
Thank you, thank you! I was late learning about the jam so decided to focus on learning the verrrrrryyyy basics of ArcWeave and mostly write a story, so that makes perfect sense lol