| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #21 | 4.333 | 4.333 |
| Overall | #24 | 3.993 | 3.993 |
| Innovation | #35 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Audio | #72 | 3.833 | 3.833 |
| Gameplay | #108 | 3.708 | 3.708 |
| Visuals | #126 | 4.292 | 4.292 |
| Enjoyment | #137 | 3.792 | 3.792 |
Ranked from 24 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does the game fit the theme?
The game's central puzzle mechanic is about trusting no one (unless they all agree) to solve the riddles
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
Two SFX were taken from free-sound as stated on the jam page.
I also reused my core jam code that is a walking sim movement controller and stuff for sounds but as the game's mechanic is quite simple, most of it wasn't used.
The shader used throughout the world was an experiment I had done some weeks earlier.
How many people worked on the game?3
Yeah you are totally right with regards to the ending. I wanted to make four dedicated endings and dragging out the process a bit after having gotten the room with the four creatures on the doors but with the cat having kidney stones (he’s much better now) and end jam fatigue I had to make it much simpler than planned.
Very happy you liked the game and the visuals and the riddles didn’t fully trip you over! The one you are referring to, the most difficult of the elemental rooms, you need to notice that the snail is rhyming:
IT MIGHT BE
WORTH,
MIGHT BRING
JOLLY MIRTH,
TO HEAD
INTO ????
The second part is realizing there’s only one critter in there so “everyone” is agreeing. =)
This game is a masterpiece, I love it.
The game's style is like a dynamic, paper-thin scrolling game; it's simple, with only neutral colors. It's truly incredible how they incorporate the looping concept into this type of game, and it looks even better when there's a narrative.
Something that happened to me was that I reached a door and could see the space of the scene.
Such a treat waking up to a recorded play-through of the game!
The start-screen with mouse lock was a bit of a gamble and I was out of energy to make something proper :) but I should probably have also made it release the mouse when jumping and crouching too.
I’m not sure what I did say to make you think I was french, maybe something about keyboard layouts on your game? I’m Swedish with a QUERTY keyboard, it just has a bit of strange placements for some of the buttons =)
I’m very glad I did try hard to make the riddles easier, but it is very plainly so from your recording that at least as a jam-game I should have either tried to make them easier still or I not have kept the 9 required solutions in a row to trigger the ending.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Oh thank you so much for the detailed feedback! Glad you liked the bugs. Most of them are based on photos that my wife has taken. I’m glad you got to the end. I really tried to make the riddles not too hard and kept making them easier and easier but I might have a knack for making very hard riddles :)
My musician will surely be thrilled to hear that you compared his music to that in Transistor!
Thank you for the compliment on the music. The Transistor soundtrack is definitely in my regular rotation - makes me wish I had thrown in some guitar in there!
Oh, and if you want a listenable version of the track in the game: https://polymonic.com/releases/trust-no-one/
Thanks for the thorough feedback! Glad you enjoyed it. The bug you got is very strange. I don’t do anything fancy at all, just reload the current scene. It does ofc cause a bit of a spike in the strain on the computer but nothing that should cause more than a little stutter. Might have been that the browser tab of yours was having a bad day :) or there’s some slow building memory leak in my code I’m unaware of.
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