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A jam submission

So You Wanna Be BlackView game page

A satirical life sim: name your baby, then live their whole life in A-Town, one choice at a time.
Submitted by Altygamer — 9 days, 1 hour before the deadline
Rated by 9 people so far
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Submitted

A great life simulation game, crafted with impressive attention to detail. Might occasionally encounter bugs, such as character models disappearing during hangouts, but these don’t significantly impact the overall gameplay experience.

Submitted(+1)

Love all of the little events that happen. Usually these feel kinda forced in games, like there's a clear right answer but these felt good. Like the one where the mom was tired, and you could coo or whine, and cooing rewarded you because she had a tough day so why complain?

The minigame concept is kinda fun to mix it up, although I wasn't sure when to do it. I just did it when it seemed like nothing else was going on.

It was nice that the NPC's reacted immediately to the whine's (when there was something to whine about). The little snippets of black life/culture were fun "Life-changing. You will measure all future mac and cheese against this one." My fiance's black and will never eat mac outside of a cookout lol. Saying "Unc" as my first word was also hilarious.

When I got old enough to crawl around, that was nice. I wasn't quite sure what to do besides coo at people but it was a nice mixup to the normal gameplay loop of waiting on stuff.

I ended up quitting at the 18 months mark. Felt like I had kinda seen it all at that point and wasn't sure what I was working towards.

Overall: Awesome game, great premise! Really love the multiple choice popups. Great work.

Developer(+1)

Being not sure what were working towards is just part of the path lol. No seriously thanks for playing and I appreciate the feedback. The actual goal of the game is to live, thrive and survive until your 60, then it says congratulations you survived being black 

Submitted(+1)

This is a great idea, it realy takes too long on the baby phase, but then takes off nicely. I really enjoyed it and spent more time than I thought!
Great job!

Submitted(+1)

This is a great idea, it realy takes too long on the baby phase, but then takes off nicely. I really enjoyed it and spent more time than I thought!
Great job!