The game is great and the writing is done right , sometimes the puzzles were not clicking on my mind to solve it but once i figured it out it turned good
Nice game for the jam !
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Community's Voice | #18 | 3.905 | 3.905 |
Ranked from 21 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Creative Vision / Rationale / How Did You Incorporate the Theme
For this game jam, we aimed to make game that was as much about the effort for connection as it was about connection itself. During brainstorming, we tossed around a lot of different ways of interpreting and translating the prompt image. At its core, it's an image that depicts the struggle to connect more so than the actual connection. The hands aren't quite in contact, but they're reaching for it. Will that contact be secured? Is it only fleeting? The questions we began to discuss applied themselves directly to our game, which is also fundamentally a story about the effort for connection. We don't catch Nia or Molly at their beginning or their end. Thus, we can't know for certain how deep their connection can go. But, by playing as the wisp and gradually coaxing the two out of their isolation, bringing light and cheer back to their lives, and reminding them of the things they do feel connected to, we rouse them to continue the effort for connection. We hope that the story, gameplay, and atmosphere might have an effect like that for our players: maybe those who take the time to sort through Nia and Molly's lives, explore their homes, and bring them back together might walk away with some renewed optimism that the connections they want to make in life aren't impossible.
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