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Holy shit, this is incredibly cool. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you so much!

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Hi!  If you pick the option to watch the door instead of hiding under the table, you should be able to shoot the enemy in the QTE.  Please let me know if you try this and still have issues!

Sorry, no plans at this point to make an Android version.

Yeah, but in the past, whenever I've done that it's never actually run on people's Mac computers.  I'll give it another shot, though

Hey, sorry for the late reply here.  I tried creating and uploading a Mac version.  I've had issues with creating Mac versions in the past, so this might not work.  But if you get the chance, please give it a shot and let me know!

Thanks!

"Major endings" means story endings, i.e. endings you get by completing the story rather than losing favor and getting murdered/imprisoned

Hey, glad to hear you're enjoying it, and sorry you lost your progress!  Not sure why that happened.  Did you manually save at any point in your playthrough, or were you relying on autosave?

If you're interested, I could help you create a Mac-compatible executable -- I just don't have a Mac to create it myself.  Let me know!

Thank you so much!  I appreciate the kind words :D

Very cool!  Thanks for posting!

You should be able to press "E" on the keyboard to access it in the browser version :D

Hell yeah, I appreciate it!  Credit where it's due, I didn't create the Disco Elysium style GUI -- the creator is credited in the About section.  But I absolutely love using it because DE is probably one of the best written games of all time!

Thanks so much for checking it out and uploading this!  I enjoyed watching your playthrough.

Fun fact, pornogrind actually has its roots in the 1990s so it's more of a millennial genre than a kids these days genre!  :P

Thank you so much!  I was tempted to add more choices and complexity but alas, only 500 words :(

Hahaha, thanks for checking it out! :D

Out of curiosity, what do you mean by "the choice of tense makes the prose a bit awkward"?  As far as I can tell, this is written in third-person past tense, similar to the vast majority of popular fiction.

Thank you so much!  I'm glad you enjoyed it :D

"Don't forget your stick, leftenant!"

"Bravo, sir. Wouldn't want to face a machine gun without this."

Sorry, I couldn't help the obligatory Blackadder quote.  This was a really cool, poignant little piece! I enjoyed playing through this a lot.

This is extremely good stuff!  Thanks for this.  I will be using it with my upcoming horror mystery VN, Innocent Creatures.

It's been a while, but thanks again for this feedback!  I'll be updating this game soon with some proper actual character sprites :D

100%.

I thought this was a very strong and well-polished piece, both in terms of writing and art. The characters were well defined and fleshed out, and the worldbuilding was easy to comprehend if a bit much to digest at times. The beginning was a bit heavy on backstory and slow to get going, though. I could see this being made into something like an anime!

Thank you for the kind comment!  And I'd say your take on the story is accurate.  It's been a while but I do plan on following this up with a proper sequel.

I agree re: the sprites having color that matches their names, I like that idea a lot!  I will let you know when I update this game and follow it up with a sequel.  🫡

Sorry about that! Should be viewable now.

Please note that I was unable to get proper character sprites done in time.  I plan to update the game with character sprites in the near future.

And now the game has a proper logo!

If anyone wants to do some last minute contributions like artwork, sound effects, or even just proofreading - go ahead and let me know!  Slim chance, I know, but I figured I'd go ahead and ask before I slap some filters onto some public domain images.

If anyone's interested, I have a build with the finished text plus music and sound FX, but no graphics yet.

https://witching-metal.itch.io/a-long-walk

Hey, this is a really good little narrative experience!  It ran a little choppy on my system, but that's almost certainly due to my outdated drivers.  The graphics, writing, and sound design came together really nicely despite being a rather short experience.  The effect with the world falling away when you approach the door was cool too.

I have just a couple minor bits of feedback regarding QOL:

- The sound balancing seemed a little iffy in places, the sirens at the start seemed a good bit louder than everything else for example.

- Escape key seems to quite the game immediately - would be nice to be able to access option settings in game if possible!

- I'm a slow reader, and the text boxes sometimes disappear before I'm finished reading them, requiring me to back up and walk up again.  It would be nice if they stay open until you dismiss them or walk away

- The mouse sensitivity is a little high for my liking even on lowest setting - I would prefer even lower settings.

- The phrasing on the college letter threw me off at first, it's either missing a word (inform/tell) or it's an intentional fragment of the letter, in which case it might help to include part of the word "inform" at the edge of the paper or something like that.

- This is a super minor one, but the model used for the airplane doesn't seem consistent with a commercial airline, which the note mentions the MC flew.  The model chosen looks more a single-seater hobbyist type of plane.  Totally understandable with the small team and limited timeframe, but as a player it's the kind of thing that throws me off a bit while experiencing the narrative.

Great work Vera, Matt, Corentin, Yuliya, and Jaryn!

Cool stuff!  Is this going to end up being a VN?

Hey, space jammers!

I'm a writer/programmer working on a Visual Novel for this jam entitled A Long Walk.  I was wondering if anyone's potentially interested in joining an ongoing project.

My submission is a short neo-noir VN that follows Gregory Ward: A ranch hand employed by organized crime to hide "packages" on the private property of a remote farm in Arizona.  When the cops finally show up and shut down his operation, Ward takes a deal to put his associates behind bars in exchange for just a year in prison.  But only a week into his sentence, the power goes out and the prisoners overwhelm the guards.  Ward and the other so-called "snitches" must make their last stand in an empty basketball court if they want to leave the prison in once piece.

If anyone is interested in contributing, I could use the help of artists, testers/editors, voice actors, musicians, and anyone else who would like to share their talents on the project.

Hey!  This is a great one-pager and I dig the looseness and freedom you give to the players and GM alike.  Keeping that ethos in mind, I have a few suggestions for polish:

• I would try to reduce extraneous explanations to the bare minimum so you can save as much space as possible for rule explanations. For example, I think the first two sentences of the Roles description can be simplified as "Each role comes with special knowledge and some gear."
• I think the specific rule explanations are great (e.g. rolling and health) but it's a little vague in places, such as "negates electric damage" or "negates all chemical damage" - as a GM I'd be likely to ignore these if it's not referenced at all elsewhere, such as in the Consequence Ideas
• Generally speaking, I think these rules would benefit from an additional one-pager that gives Scenario ideas.  Better yet if they provide character some character archetypes that players can base their own characters on!

I look forward to seeing more of this, especially some scenarios!

Is there a download for this game?  I don't see a link available.  Sounds cool!

Love the art style for this!  Will have to print it out and give it a shot.  Sounds interesting.

If anyone needs a Mac build, I can send the files required and instructions to create the build yourself.

Unfortunately I don't have access to a machine and cannot create a working Mac build!

Hi, if you're familiar with Ren'Py engine I can send you the files you need to create a Mac build.  Unfortunately I don't have access to a Mac machine, so I can't do it myself!

Let me know and I'll gladly send over the files and some instructions if needed.