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A jam submission

Hollowed SoulView game page

It's 3am. Do you know where your soul is?
Submitted by seven_cents — 5 hours, 50 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Visuals#154.8954.895
Category: Cinematography#224.5794.579
Category: Music#304.5264.526
Story#304.6844.684
Overall Experience#384.6844.684
Category: Voice Acting#842.9472.947

Ranked from 19 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Log Line
It's 3am, do you know where your soul is?

Team Credits & Cast
sevencents, maxacre, peel_eater, jerrica van sluyters

Work Start Date
9/1/26

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

University League Participant

No

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

"Many things are happening right now that I should be processing, but instead I think I'll pass out."

Took me three tries to get to the good ending. Probably because I did something stupid and drank the potion myself at first. 

I loved the house that was insecure about not being run down enough. In fact so many great characters that gave life lessons. And the bat is such a mood. 

Loved the pixel art retro aesthetic. Great ui work, it looked amazing! Oh, and the OST is pretty banger. 

Thank you for making this game. The whole team did a great job!

Developer

Thanks for playing! I'm surprised, most people have trouble getting the bad ending lol. Either way I really appreciate it.

(+1)

With tons of beautiful art and a tight and focused story, this game has a lot of soul.  Perfectly on point and in my head this is now the canon story of Halloween.

Submitted(+2)

This entire game was a great experience but I would like to take a moment to freak out about the art- I LOVED THE ART SO MUCH!! I'm a big pixel art enjoyer so that was a treat for me to begin with! On top of that, the way it was stylized and the SHEER VOLUME OF UNIQUE ART this game had was amazing!!  Truly wonderful stuff! **chef's kiss**

Developer

Thanks! I tried to develop a good process with the pixel art in order to make a bunch of it really fast which mostly turned out well. :) Only a few things were cut. Still I'm glad it impressed you! >:D

Submitted(+2)

This was such a genuinely sweet experience. I absolutely loved Evelyn as a protagonist. The friendship at the heart of the story really got me, and the moment when she meets Jack again was honestly so beautiful. The emotional payoff felt completely earned after the way everything was built up.

I also really enjoyed how much personality the world had despite the game being so short. It gave me the feeling that there’s a much bigger world outside of what we get to see, which made me want to know more.

And the presentation is just fantastic. The art is gorgeous, especially the backgrounds, and there are some shots that genuinely stuck with me. The music also gives the whole thing this wonderful retro Halloween feeling that I absolutely loved.

There’s so much charm in this game, from the characters to the little details and even the adorable witch design. You can really feel how much love went into making it.

Honestly, I had a wonderful time with it. Amazing work, everyone!!

Submitted(+2)

What a great experience! A fantastic mix of Halloween themes and Alice in Wonderland, not to mention the pixel art that were definitely crafted with love. Fantastic entry :)

Submitted(+1)

I absolutely love the visuals in this game. Seriously, you have no idea how much! The fact that you managed to create this kind of artwork in just one month is honestly insane, in my opinion.

I also found the game really cohesive overall. The music fits it really well too, and the whole experience is just really charming.

Amazing work, seriously!

Submitted(+1)

Absolutely loved the art, story, characters, music, everything! Really bold stylistic choices and they all paid off, and so many unique illustrations for just one month. I'm extremely impressed!

Submitted(+2)

I found the game very consistent in its musical and visual choices, very cute, and full of good ideas!I found the game very consistent in its musical and visual choices, very cute, and full of good ideas!

Submitted(+1)

So much humor and honest emotion put into this little gem.  I loved how expressive everyone was and all the varied character design and color choices were very pleasing to look at. I never stopped being amazed every time I saw a new background or piece of character art! Amazing. And the sound always fit the mood too! The MC was also a 10/10. Being hollow never felt so fulfilling.

A touching and memorable game that really is overflowing with charm. WELL DONE!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing! I'm glad the time I spent agonizing over color choices paid off. Every illustration had had 8 different color schemes at some point before I found the right combination. So thanks for noticing. :D.

(+1)

I have so much to say about how awesome and touching this game was!!!! I'll start off by saying how wonderful stories about friendship are to me period. Evelyn was just such a charming MC; from humor to her compassion, she's so wonderful!! To add onto that; the story hit really strong with its message in the end when meeting back with Jack. I think the build up was really well thought out and it made it feel so satisfying! The world building was super interesting and I could feel how expansive the world was even in the limited time we as a player got to live in it. I thought the music was choices were awesome; giving it such a retro halloween game vibe! I was blasted to the past for sure. Then let me not forget the art, oh my goodness!!! 10 10 10s across the board hell yessssss!! those backgrounds were GORGEOUS and the shots augh… the hug Evelyn gives jack oh my goodnesssss teared up for damn sure. to be loved and accepted ACK beautiful beautiful. AMAZING JOBBB !!!!! (the sweet witch was also such an adorable design !! all the designs in the game were super memorable and nice. I could go on dsfhkgb)

Developer

Thank you! This is a pretty nice review. And by pretty nice I mean I'd like to print it out and be buried with it. Seriously this made my whole week thank you so much for playing the game!

Submitted(+1)

A very nice and sweet story! I love the look of the game with the pixel theme and Eve and Jack were just so charming as characters! Really loved playing this vn !!

Developer

Thanks that's such a nice thing to say. :D.

(1 edit) (+1)

Sometimes we all just need to give our friends a good scare! Ha! 10/10  Would spook again! :)

(+1)

i lowkey cant vote yet just know yall got a preloaded 5 stars coming your way

Developer

I appreciate that, it means alot. :)