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A jam submission

...BUT I JUST CAN'T SMILEView game page

I LOVE YOU BABY...
Submitted by SICKDAY ENTERTAINMENT — 2 days, 7 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Seriousness#1624.1254.125
Audio#5613.4583.458
Enjoyment#5933.5833.583
Overall#7023.5503.550
Creativity & Theme#12003.4583.458
Visuals#15013.1253.125

Ranked from 24 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Game Engine

Other/Custom

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Comments

Submitted

This game is super funny and feels surreal like I'm actually talking to a computer! I really like how you reveal the computer's character and the dialogue is super nice. This is a super unique entry and it's really fun and it's so compelling to play and keep learning more about what you can do/talk about with the computer!!! 

Submitted

I don't know what just happened, but I'm smiling now, so I suppose I enjoyed it, haha. Funny little narrative game, I'll probably come back to this later to see the other routes, good job with it!

Metagame cog 125/126

Submitted

I already got the gear but found other ways to make the computer smile, pretty funny game. And clever theme use, spinning a frown into a smile.

Submitted

Ha! I got him to smile twice! >8D Really fun game and it gave me a good laugh! I also had fun just coming up with silly names just to hear the computer say it xD Great job!

Submitted

I don't know how the computer character and Dave successfully ragebaited me so hard when that probably wasn't even the intent. Even though I was internally baby raging I really enjoyed the game, not enough to smile though! I still win you cheating robot.

Submitted

I really enjoyed this! I think the concept is very unique, and the color palette also makes it stand out. It would have been easy to go with, like green or classic computer colors, but the purple gives it an identity of its own, if that makes sense? It reminds me a lot of old art games on Newgrounds. Fantastic work!

Developer

I don't want to spam everyone's notifications with "Thank you!" replies, but thank you all for taking the time to play and leave thoughtful feedback!! I don't know what I was expecting from this jam but the overall level of quality & engagement & community is kind of breathtaking.

Submitted

Made me giggle lol. Really liked the robot's voice and that you could do things like talk to support. Cool game!

Submitted

I was sooo ready to keep saying "I love you baby but I just can't smile" for the entire game thinking that's what it was gonna be LMAO. Very fun game ! Definitely surprised me how charming the writing is, I was happy to learn there were multiple choices to keep talking to the machine. I really liked this game ! Simple, funny and charming. Great stuff !

Submitted (1 edit)

Cute little game, I like it, the computer has personality and interesting to explore different paths through the dialogue. Also, like the different emojis of the machine to display the different results. Also, very serious :) 

Submitted

It was fun to try out all these fun options.

And I love how you created style and mood with such minimal resources!

I actually sang into the microphone. What does that say about me? What does that say about the integrity system...

Submitted

Bite-sized and adorable. What's not to love?

Submitted

Love the old-school SAM voiceovers and the C64 theme, and the dialogue was funny.  Really interesting concept.  I felt bad lying to the computer and saying I didn't smile.  Not sure I saw any spinning, but I did enjoy playing through it a few times and responding in different ways.

Submitted

You have no idea how much I honestly loved this. I might make fanfiction of this later

Submitted

Well, it genuinely made me smile

Submitted

I love every bit of this game
The witty dialogue, the grumpy robot voice, Dave, it's incredible. No critiques here
I loved this, this made me smile. uh- I mean, no it didn't