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A jam submission

Dead ContactView game page

A short psychological horror game about an old laptop, a missing girl, and someone who shouldn't still be online.
Submitted by Meanly (@xmeanly) — 10 hours, 17 minutes before the deadline
Rated by 13 people so far
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How does the game fit the theme?
The game revolves around discovering who you can trust as the player investigates an abandoned laptop and slowly uncovers the truth behind Blaire's disappearance.

What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
Some images were taken in real life and edited with a pixelated filter, while others were sourced from the internet with proper credit given to the original creators.

How many people worked on the game?
2

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Comments

Submitted

Cool little experience, love your visuals. The game looks and sounds great. 

You've managed to keep your focus tight and it shows. Everything just flows nicely, great show of respect for your player's time.

Having the ending explained at the end may be a bit patronizing however, but that just be me being prideful.

Excellent entry.

Submitted

Hi, wow this is an incredibly good game for a jam ! I love narrative games and the story caught so well on me.

Your gameplay is simple but it works perfectly, visual and audio assets are well chosen and articulated together, I thought I knew the ending but you managed to surprise me (and I write stories too). I think you're in my top 5 played games (I've rated about 45 games so far) <3

Submitted

The audio, the graphics and the story were really awesome. I wished the story was longer and added a bit more to the relationship between the characters and what happened that night. I didn't manage to look at the messages of the other characters thinking it would be needed later in the game but seemed like it didn't and I couldn't read them. The OS was very detailed, you can see how much effort was put in this! Incredible game. 

Submitted

Goosebumps! Very underrated entry, congrats on this amazing game and I wanna make sure the word gets around other people about this, be proud!

- southofparis 

animo!

Submitted

Literal chills from this. I loved this so much. Something about the old OS visuals with modern responsiveness is oddly satisfying too haha. I really like this one a lot. One of my favorites. 5 stars all around.

Developer

thank you for playing my game! i'm very glad reading your review.

Submitted

this was so incredible!! i was so immersed i actually hit the back button on my mouse a few times and had to reload the page lmao but luckily never lost progress! insanely impressive, especially for a week and only 2 people?! i love the kinds of games so this was a delight to play :]

Developer(+1)

hahaha I knew this would happen! thank you for playing my game :D

Submitted

Nice game ! I wish it would be longer, and it's the right level of "horror" for me. Great job!

Submitted

What an incredible game. I have to say, this usually isn’t my kind of genre, but I felt so immersed in the story. I experienced this huge sense of emptiness and nostalgia for something I’ve never even seen before. Thank you. :')

Submitted (1 edit)

Damn, I spoiled it for myself, but the game is cool and very well done. 

Submitted

I really liked it, good theme, the story was well told, maybe add the tutorial as a shortcut in the windows so it's not hard to find

Submitted

I couldn't figure anything out but i enjoy the game and the style. It made me feel tense even tho nothing showed up o.o  Thanks for making it!

Submitted

The interface was amazing and how you managed to integrate details into every part of the system, including sounds

Submitted

I just finished playing Desktop Explorer, and your game really captures that same magic! Very well done, especially in only a week!

Submitted

Not loading. Chrome/Opera

Developer(+1)

hello, I fixed the issue. thanks!

Submitted

Game is not loading,, chrome on windows

Developer

thank you!  done fixing the bug.

Submitted

Game not loading here. Just a blank screen. Tested on Google Chrome.

Developer

hi, fixed the issue. please try again, thank you!

Submitted

The game won't load for me :( I press the Run Game button and wait, but the game never appears. I'm on a Windows PC, running Chrome. I tested Edge as well and got the same result.

Developer

hi! really sorry about that. I fixed this now, thank you!