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A jam submission

GoldfishView game page

Short text-based horror game
Submitted by evermelon β€” 1 day, 8 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity#173.6363.636
Story#312.8182.818
Horror#472.5452.545
Enjoyment (Best Game)#552.5452.545
Aesthetics#801.8181.818
Sound Design#831.1821.182

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

Do you allow SCREAM ZONE to promote your game via social media?

Yes

What game engine did you make this project in?

Twine

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Comments

Submitted

Great narrative, really cool reference material that you're pulling from. It's always cool to see more Twine games.

Submitted

Rlly Cool! Would love to see this as a full, polished release!

Submitted

Spooky! And I love the title. my only suggestion is its sometimes hard to know if the text is done or not before you press the button, I accidentally missed some dialogue at first because of that.

Developer

I agree with you. The original plan was to make the button to show up at the end of dialog, but I couldn't figure out how to code that in time. I did move the button to the bottom of the text to try and make it more obvious when the text was done, but it's still more confusing than it should be. 

Submitted(+1)

I see what you did there. Good luck with your entry

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much!

Submitted

where is the promised fish

Developer

It's a reference to an art piece where a guy put some goldfish in a blender and then waited for people to press the button. I genuinely did not consider the idea people would expect a real fish. Probably could have thought that through more