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A jam submission

Ink Beneath the WaterView game page

Being a palace maid isn't easy... Survive a murder, an evil spirit and an exorcism
Submitted by Arghbulous — 3 minutes, 33 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Category: Music#124.6924.692
Category: Cinematography#264.5384.538
Category: Voice Acting#274.3854.385
Visuals#554.6924.692
Overall Experience#1004.3084.308
Story#1014.1544.154

Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Log Line
When an evil spirit tries to possess you after you get drowned in a palace scheme

Team Credits & Cast
✦ Project lead, Backgrounds, Programming, Writing: Arghbulous ✦ Sprite artist, Character designer: BurntToast ✦ CG artist: Lucirse ✦ GUI: Anne (Quantum Velvet) ✦ Logo designer: Calnite ✦ Composer: Manit .K (Youtube, Insta) ✦ SFX, Audio designer: Skelktons ✦ VA processing: Comet (YT) ✦ Voice actor: Max Ngoh, Alou Devera

Work Start Date
1st September

Which engines and/or plugins did you use? (NaniNovel, Light.VN, etc.)
Ren'Py

University League Participant

No

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Comments

Submitted

Really cool game, I liked the intro and the water effect.
The sounds on hovering button were slightly annoying, and the buttons were a little of, but they were pretty.

Developer

Thanks for playing! Which buttons seemed off to you?

Submitted

the main menu, it didn't feel like their entirety was clickable (I was trying to click the text, but it was better to click the circle to the left),
and I think it was the options, when you move your mouse through all buttons at the bottom that the sound gets ... a little much

Developer(+1)

Ah yes, too much water 😅 I'll keep in mind for the next update. Thanks for the feedback!

(+1)

I want moarrrr god everything about this is so yummyyyy. 5 across the board. What a great first impression, I can't wait to see how you'll develop this further. There's so much to build upon it.

Developer

Thank you so much, I'm glad you liked it! You can follow for updates later on ^^

Submitted(+1)

An absolute feast for the eyes and ears--stunning art across the board, great voice work, lovely UI design, and a terrific soundtrack! Love the character design on our Pretty Ghostie friend, especially ✨Phenomenal work to the team!

Submitted(+1)

The backgrounds and character art are truly fantastic!  And I was impressed at how good the music fit too. There was so much energy to how the characters appeared and where you all chose to put them on screen. Everything was handled with such care and I look forward to seeing more in the future. I'll definitely be checking out your previous work as well! 

(also super glad I ended up reading the rest of the game page because after I got the 2 endings I kept trying to unlock more!)

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much! We're working on an update with more endings in the future, so please stay tuned!

I loved your Mall Daze game, the bestie rating part was so funny XD The UI was so responsive too. Your new Spook entry also looks lit! I'll definitely be checking it out too ^^

Submitted

Thanks for checking out Mall Daze and the kind words. I appreciate it!

(+2)

lovely world you've built! the music complements it well, too (also appreciate the chinese opera singing in the end credits). would love to play the rest of this once it's complete :)

Developer(+4)

Thank you jnsa for checking it out! Also congrats, I see the team you were in submitted their entry too ^^
The "chinese opera singing" in the credits is actually the Exorcist's VA bloopers from when he was warming up his voice before recording his lines, that could have been a whole track in itself XD But it was too funny not to keep it in XD

(+2)

Peak legit peak 🫰💜