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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Story | #7 | 4.250 | 4.250 |
| Music | #62 | 3.700 | 3.700 |
| Theme | #118 | 4.100 | 4.100 |
| Overall | #194 | 3.450 | 3.450 |
| Fun | #283 | 3.050 | 3.050 |
| Mechanics | #355 | 2.900 | 2.900 |
| Sound | #388 | 2.550 | 2.550 |
| Aesthetics | #390 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
Ranked from 20 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How many people worked on this game in total?
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Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
Grass background by https://rg-poly.itch.io/ ;https://www.gamedevmarket.net/asset/minimalist-gui by https://www.gamedevmarket.net/member/ispolin ; https://www.gamedevmarket.net/asset/character-portraits-5857 by https://www.gamedevmarket.net/member/yusufartun ; Music from https://ovanisound.com/products/film-noir-music-pack-vol-2?_pos=1&_sid=5fe1a5939&_ss=r
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Very interesting little detective game! Connecting conversations and identifying suspects is a really cool mechanic. It reminded me of when I used to make similar games with Quest, an interactive fiction engine for creating text adventures and story-driven mysteries.
You might want to check it out if you haven't already. It feels like a great fit for the kind of ideas you're exploring here. Great job, and I'd love to see where you take this concept next! :D
To be honest Never heard of it, but sounds like a game jam challenge. Had another comment suggesting renpy. Pretty sure this wasn’t my last Visual Novel. Thank you for the kind words and the recommendation
what an amusing little tale. It was REDACTED all along!
I do have to say: the game has a strange morale in that connecting to people is basically saying yes and amen to everything they do and never confront them with anything or even be honest about your motives, but all that aside: you have a full story with an actual ending which is quite rare in a game jam - and even with less time than the rest of us.
hope, you are doing alright over their and keep writing!
Thank you for the kind words. To be honest, where I’m from most small towns only accept one opinion. Deviation wasn’t really appreciated. But yeah some nuanced comments needed to be cut for the sake of time and pacing.
Yeah I’m on the road to getting healthy again and motivated to keep developing.
I enjoyed my time with this!
I liked the detective premise and the way the conversations gradually reveal more about the town and its characters. The idea of building connections with people to uncover the truth fits the jam theme really well.
The dialogue choices kept me curious, and I always wanted to see what would happen next or what information I could uncover. I also appreciated the lighter humorous moments mixed into the mystery.
Considering the circumstances mentioned on the page, this is a very solid submission. Great work, and I hope you're doing well and continuing your recovery!
many thanks for playing the game and the extensive feedback.
and yes I’m nearly back to full health. spending the Weeks with playing games really helped
I'm really happy to hear that.
And honestly, I think it's impressive that you managed to put together such a solid submission while dealing with everything you mentioned on the page. The fact that the mystery, dialogue, and characters still felt engaging says a lot about the care that went into the project.
Most importantly, I'm glad to hear you're recovering well. Health always comes first, and hopefully you'll be back at 100% very soon.
I wish you all the best, both with your recovery and with your future projects. Take care, and congratulations again on the game!
Short, but polished. The UI has potential for improvement. I caught the suspect in the end, it was a fun experience, Nice work on the game.
Thank you for the feedback. Can you elaborate on the Improvement? Just some polishing or any special thing on your mind?
Just some polishing, I recommend making the text for dialogues to choose a little big.
thank you, I will keep this in mind
A little detective game, nice attempt! Well done fleshing out characters’ personalities.
I’d suggest to try Renpy for visual novels, if you lean more towards story-driven games. You can learn it very fast for jams. It can give a more polished look due to its default UI. Also the save button is something that can be very important for multiple choice games, it’s already built in the Renpy engine.
Some voice over for character would be nice to add here, there are free packs with generic things like a laugh or a sigh. Visual novels are a tricky genre due to its limitations, so animations/special video/audio effects add the extra oomph.
Thank you for the suggestion. Maybe in a future jam I’ll set this as a learning goal (similar to this one trying out Godot), but to be honest even though I love Story games I prefer “Walking Sims” to Visual Novels. And than I come back to Unreal Engine like my Main Project Odium but yeah Save Game Feature is always a hassle.
My initial idea was to have some emotions via the faces, or background colors. But due to deadline I had to scrap it. Totally get your point, and will keep it in mind.
many thanks for the hints and feedback.
I see, I’m in similar shoes. I do have many text games but mainly because they are super fast to prototype. I was also avoiding Renpy lowkey, using Twine, but then i did try Renpy and it was very easy to work with. I use text games like game outlines, helps to organise and also figure out how many locations there will be instead of “let’s build random map”. Writing it down forces to mentally visualise what exactly are the player’s options.
Oh yea, had to scrap a lot myself in the jams, it’s easy to overestimate how fast the gamejam process will go..
Welcome, good luck on your journey!
That was pretty neat!
I had fun trying to surf the edge of how many questions I could ask before someone kicked me out. I also really had a good laugh, some dialogue options like “I messed up colossally” just cracked me up!
Good job! Hope the hospital visit ended with you being better!
thank you for Plying. happy to hear, you enjoyed the humor.
and yes, back at home on the way of recovery. Best way to spend now the time is playing a lot of the Game Jam Games.
I think I failed everyway possible, before I got it :D
Good game, shocking twist!
Thank you!
If I had more time, I would have written a specific ending for each failure. So it wouldn’t be for nothing but at the end I had only 2 “Game Over” and one “You won” text.
Really cool to see a story rich dialogue game. I got in trouble for asking too many questions but I just wanted more game lore. Bad habit from other game, ahaha. Great game!
Thank you.
Yeah, I know the feeling. The Gamer in us always wanna ask every question there is. But this isn’t how you connect to most people, right?
Definitely goes against my gamer instinct, haha
Nice music choice! Ovani is great. Clean simple design. I was not expecting the werewolf angle!
Thank you.
Ovani, for me is by far the best provider for music, with their widgets. Always sounds great.
The story is good.
Thank you. I always prefer games with a good story, and I wanna share this with the players
I liked the game! It's simple, fun and engaging; well done!
Thank you
Nice story.
The progression fits the theme.
No fussing with complex mechanics, but the game works well to tell the story.
Relaxingly passive background music, a nice selection for the style of game.
The implementation of the story fits the theme as well.
You make me blush. Many thanks for the kind words
first answer "game over" I was not disappointed! :D
Not the type of game, I personally would get, but I really enjoyed it. Solid work, solid rating! :)
I always enjoy when Developer adding a “easy” way out.
thank you. I’m very happy you enjoyed it, even though it is not you kind of game.
The difference between first try lose and last try win, it's a nice game and interesting to not choose the wrong answer so I wont have to restart again XD
happy to hear, that you had fun. This was my first visual Novel, so wasn’t always sure about the conversation
Fun detective game
Thank you
I enjoyed the detective atmosphere. Cool game!
Thank you
fun "murder mystery" game concept. I appreciate that you repeatedly offer me the option to just fail the investigation by going home :-)
Thank you
I got him!
:D Just a small tip for your itch.io page: you can go to your edit page and add a fullscreen button!
I hope you also enjoyed the best lemonade :)
many thanks, directly implemented it.