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A jam submission

Escapism - a visual novel (GMTK Game Jam Version)View game page

Allie has only so much time left to stop the increasing isolation before it's too late
Submitted by nicosinclair — 2 hours, 29 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Narrative#41602.5163.429
Audio#67032.3063.143
Enjoyment#70742.4113.286
Artwork#72952.4113.286
Creativity#77992.5163.429

Ranked from 7 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
The Protagonist, Allie, has only so much time left to stop the increasing isolation before it's too late... [Trigger Warning: depression]

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
see description for full credits ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTS9yZCni4n3-FOJ_hYBo_vJHPaUwsMXKuvD9955q9OaEREMJ6kVSYfx_c8rwLOw6DzhP7EoCYQOfhR/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true )

Personal Note (pls read): First-Timer & BLODDY Beginner !! While i am SO PROUD that we really did it, this honestly is not a finished product. This jam entry is simply the outer outline of our idea. Without any mentionable development-experience, we used this jam as a motivation to dive into it. While i needed to upload this to prove to myself i did it, it's not really a contestant, since not even the main part (an <actual> arcade game within the novel part) was finished in time - so we scratched it from the current version. maybe spend your precious time instead with one of the great games from this jam, i know i will <3

Content / Trigger Warning: depression

1080p only (sorry)

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

you have a really good idea here! reminds me of presentable liberty, which (whilst a very dark game which i'd be careful about if it might be too triggering) tells its story similarly, especially with the game of escapism inbetween messages from the outside world. i'd totally check this out again once it's finished! more time to write interactions like this and more fleshed out characters could do really well here.

(also, just a small suggestion, but during the videogame sections i thought it would be a pretty cool idea if it were literally impossible for the player to beat the highscore set by allie and freya)

Developer

thank you for the feedback and i will definitely check presentable liberty out! 

Submitted(+1)

You can really feel how much heart and ambition went into this. Even as an outline, the story drew me in, and I'd absolutely love to see where you take it after the jam. Congrats on finishing your first game jam! <3

Developer

thank you! < 3