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A jam submission

Holes & NeedlesView game page

You wake up in a basement with no concept of who you are, and there are giant rats and weird dimensional holes about.
Submitted by Anastasia Shpilkova — 11 hours, 44 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme interpretation#303.4553.455
Storytelling#323.6363.636
Overall#403.3033.303
Gameplay#692.8182.818

Ranked from 11 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Lovely, intriguing, and impactful writing that is very well paced between clicks. I think you really played well into Arcweave's capabilities to let your writing shine. Great work! 

Developer

Thank you so much for the kind words!! Glad you enjoyed it ^^

Submitted(+1)

Really enjoyed reading your writing and figuring out the mystery of the plot!

Developer(+1)

Tyyy!! Super happy to hear that ^^

Submitted(+1)

The prose is so great and I loved the way it wrapped up. It's such a sweet and genuine narrative. Really well done! Long live the rat king!

Developer

Aww thank you so much <3 Very glad you liked the ending! Long live the rat king!

Submitted(+1)

I enjoyed the writing quite a lot! I'm especially fond of the Rats concept, haha. Bit of a lack of choices for my taste, even just flavor ones. Can't say the "resilience points" moments really landed with me thematically, to be perfectly honest. The mysterious setting & constant surprises were the highlight of the experience, to me. Thanks for making this, and congrats!

Developer (1 edit)

Ty so much for taking the time to play and give feedback! 

Choices wise - I'm not a fan of putting in lots of flavor choices, so I try to minimize those, and didn't have the time to make more meaningful ones. Totally see your point, though. And yeah, I'm not happy how the resilience system came out like at all, haha, planning to overhaul it after the voting is done. Good to know it's not just my opinion, thank you for sharing.

Very glad you enjoyed the writing and mystery elements ^^

Submitted(+1)

The mystery of the start was very intriguing! Had me excited to keep playing to figure it out and discover if things were literal or metaphorical.

Developer

Ty so much!! That's exactly what I was going for, great to know it works ^^