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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Category: Music | #4 | 4.846 | 4.846 |
| Overall Experience | #15 | 4.846 | 4.846 |
| Category: Voice Acting | #19 | 4.538 | 4.538 |
| Story | #37 | 4.615 | 4.615 |
| Visuals | #55 | 4.692 | 4.692 |
| Category: Cinematography | #58 | 4.231 | 4.231 |
Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Content Warnings
N/A
Log Line
It’s a monster MOSH! Help a dysfunctional rock group win a battle of the bands!
Team Credits & Cast
Charlie Lee - Project manager & 2D artist, Kieran Velez - Programmer, Gallow - GUI Artist, Hikari Ito - BG Artist, Honeybee (ljw_honey) - 2D Artist, Lisette Amago - Composer/Sound Designer, M3t4lp0w3r- Composer/Sound Designer, Molli Shuker - Writer, Noah Gartenberg - Programmer, Pauline Reinacher - 2D Artist, Rex 'Daemon' Beck - 2D Artist, Vitaliy Stepanyuk - Programmer, Yaygun - Programmer, Devon Hunt - Voice for Onyx, Jonna-Lynn Alonso - Voice for Toni and Fay, Lauren Pak - Voice for Serena, Maliki LaForce - Voice for Philo, Maria Eugenia Hernández - Singer, Sakami - Voice for Aria, Stephen Zhu - Voice for Lucero
Work Start Date
September 1 2026
Which engines and/or plugins did you use? (NaniNovel, Light.VN, etc.)
Unity, NaniNovel
University League Participant
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Comments
Amazing game!! Was very impressed by the character designs and loved all the small details while playing! Great work!!
Finally got around to playing this, amazing game but of course I wouldn't have expected anything less! Very fun to play, great characters, and I loved the minigames and rhythm gameplay! Music was of course AMAZING. My favorite was the Java Jams track. I actually downloaded a second jam game to play tonight but didn't get around to it because I spent too much time trying to beat that on hard mode (unsuccessfully) haha
All around great work and had a lot of fun playing!!
asdlajsdkajldkajsd thank you so much toffl ;; v ;; so glad you enjoyed!!
This might have been the most time I've spent with any game during the jam? There's just SO. MUCH. TO. SEE. Truly impressive that all of this was put together in such a short time! I hope you people got some SLEEP and rest during all of that crunch.
The art was great, script was fun, and the music was fantastic. I felt literally joy while playing along during one of the songs (Fundraiser, I think?) as it was just crafted so well along with the beat.
The character designs were also such a treat. Really well done. AMAZING WORK.
ohmygoodness, thank you so so much for your very kind words and praise. absolutely made my week to read. the team is certainly resting as they can + still polishing up, but slowly! ill def pass your comment for Fundraiser to our sound dept, they'll be super happy to hear this!
Okay, gonna come back with a more useful comment later on once I'm deeper in, but--TEAM VERY HUMAN(adjacent) CHARACTERS NAMED LUCERO UNITE! Also y'all cooked on this, I can already tell--character designs are fire, music is fab, Null Jam is always to be trusted ✨Back to playing now, but I'm already sat and enthralled!
Well isn't that a coincidence? XD Hope your Lucero is more reliable - your game is def on my list to play, so I'll find out soon enough! Thank you so much for checking out Rotheart :3 Interested to hear how your playthrough turns out
Just finished! ✨ Your Lucero is...messy in a very different way from ours, hahaha! (Fake) critique: your Lucero shoulda been a drummer, at least based on my own experience. Drummers always have the backup bands.
Real talk though, start to finish, this was a joy--I'll post a more coherent comment on the main page, but Null Jam games always are super fun, and this was no execption! ❤️
I really loved this game! There was so much to do, it was beautiful, and the story was great. I played it throughout three days because I kept getting busy, but I always looked forward to getting back to it. Something that stood out to me was how much fun I had. I literally said to myself "wow it's been a minute since I've had this much fun on a game like this." Thank you for your awesome creation!
wow i could cry this is the sweetest comment. im so so happy you enjoyed rotheart, just as much as we enjoyed making it!!! 🥹🫶
Had a lovely time! Also Glad my musical talents didn't matter so much for story 😭
Hey! Thank you so much for playing our game again this year, and very glad you enjoyed!! :D Excited to check out the stream later, I know some of the team have beaten me to it ^-^
A very comprehensive game; I really liked the character design. good job !
thank you so so much for taking the time to play! ♡ 😭🎸
Great game! Love the inclusion of minigames (and skippable) and partial voice acting, is kinda looking for it to be fully voice acted someday.
ahhh thank you Azure ♡♡♡ it means so much to us that you took the time to play! it would be so cool to fully VA the story; i know i want it too 🥹👉👈 i cannot wait to check out your team's game as well ‼️‼️‼️