i'll start. mine is one key: hold to keep a candle lit at a dark window so a stranger walking past looks up. if the flame dies, they don't look. that's the whole game. no tutorial, 20 seconds, and the ending is a note sliding under the door.
it's called Someone Notices and it's my first jam entry: https://candlewindow.itch.io/someone-notices
what's the one action in yours? curious what people do with this little time.
that is the sharpest note i have had on this game, and you are right. holding beat every gust, so the flame only died if you stopped playing. so i changed it tonight. the candle is finite now: holding burns the wick, about fourteen seconds of hand for a twenty second night, and with the wick gone the flame only falls. holding the whole run now dies around seventeen, and the candle visibly shrinks in the holder so you can see what you are spending. the shape i want is coast in the quiet, burn the wick through a gust, arrive at the window still lit. same link, rebuilt tonight, so your three runs would end differently now.
thank you for running it three times instead of once. half-beat is the cleanest idea in the jam: a game whose whole subject is input arriving late.
I've been eying up doing some jams for ages now, and I figured this is the best way for me to finally get into it. So I made my account and I looked through the rules and thought to myself: "Hm, this makes me think of that thing that people say when they rescue feral kittens". So that's what I'm rolling with.
My hook: you are a generative neural network answering customer’s drawing requests. The fun part is that your drawing is then analyzed and recognized by the real pre-trained neural network (working directly in the browser, no external requests). So you are trying to pleasure the AI pretending you are an AI…
