I love it, such a fun twist. The drawn characters were not bad at all, good job. The music set the mood for me properly, and I laughed at first when realizing what was happening, thanks. =]
Nice twist on a dating sim. Super creepy atmosphere throughout! User interface could have been worked on a little but it wasn't too off putting in the overall scheme of things. Artwork was attractive too.
I would love to see a proper walktrough. I didn' really undersatnd mechanics and would kill guys after one dialog line or be busted. Besides my incompetence the vibe of this game is my jam, and maybe i'm a psycho but I would love to see surgeon minigame here.
Wow that's pretty intense!! super creepy ,dude that room...Great work though, lovely style could definitely see something like this being pretty popular, not sure why though... people are strange:) Here's my entry if you'd care to have a go?https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/spacescape
Hey, great job with this! I love the deliciously dark twist - it's surprising that there aren't other dating sims that follow the same sort of idea (at least, none that I've heard of).
I would say that perhaps the 'secret' was unveiled a little quickly, and that the main character is a bit too clumsy about hiding her true intentions, but I think it worked really well: it added just a little bit of humour to what would otherwise be a very heavy game. Plus, it was made in 72 hours... No-one could reasonably expect you to go for the slow reveal, right?
All in all, fantastic work! Such an unsettling look into the mind of a murderer.
I really like your version of a murder dating simulator, fun twist and overall a creepy mood. Some of the dialog options are hilarious but I find it kind of hard to predict the implication of my choices. It always seemed like I picked the "wrong" choice and something unpredictable happened.
You have done a good job writing all the dialog, it takes a lot of time especially when branching the dialog with multiple choices. We did it in our adventure game to and it was a lot of work.
Creepy! This certainly is one of the better games in the theme category. The horror atmosphere (especially by the use of the ambient audio) is really good. The dating sim comes a little short in my opinion. I did expect less linearity and more options in the dialogs. I only played it once but it didn't feel that the few choices I could make would have made a difference. As I understood, in the end they are all dead, anyway. Or have I just been lucky? :)
PROS: Characters' art style is great. Silly in a good way.
CONS: Controls weren't all that intuitive. Dialogue could use some cleaning up
OVERALL: Doing a jam game with story and dialogue is a tough business! If the dialogue choices were more meaningful and it were a little easier to use, players would have an easier time connecting to your interesting concept. Nice work.
Interesting setup. I didn't understood clearly where to go, how to meet victims so i clicked on random buttons and at a moment a victim appeared but i have no idea why. Giving clear goals and the way to achieve them is something to improve. Keep working on games ;)
Good job with the sound design and environments. I would have liked to see what she ended up doing with the parts though. I played the game like 7 times to get to the end, mostly because i kept checking the options and getting game over on purpose, but the end screen was a bit disappointing after my play through.
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Artwork was attractive too.
Feel free to check out my game :) : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/harvest-doom
I'm not fan of dating sims, but I think that the idea is good.
I would say that perhaps the 'secret' was unveiled a little quickly, and that the main character is a bit too clumsy about hiding her true intentions, but I think it worked really well: it added just a little bit of humour to what would otherwise be a very heavy game. Plus, it was made in 72 hours... No-one could reasonably expect you to go for the slow reveal, right?
All in all, fantastic work! Such an unsettling look into the mind of a murderer.
You have done a good job writing all the dialog, it takes a lot of time especially when branching the dialog with multiple choices. We did it in our adventure game to and it was a lot of work.
The horror atmosphere (especially by the use of the ambient audio) is really good. The dating sim comes a little short in my opinion. I did expect less linearity and more options in the dialogs. I only played it once but it didn't feel that the few choices I could make would have made a difference. As I understood, in the end they are all dead, anyway. Or have I just been lucky? :)
Characters' art style is great.
Silly in a good way.
CONS:
Controls weren't all that intuitive.
Dialogue could use some cleaning up
OVERALL:
Doing a jam game with story and dialogue is a tough business! If the dialogue choices were more meaningful and it were a little easier to use, players would have an easier time connecting to your interesting concept. Nice work.
Keep working on games ;)
Controls weren't really intuitive to me and a little buggy on restart (no character images or textboxes). Also there is quite a number of typos.
The graphics are really good and music sets the mood pretty good.
Overall a pretty solid entry. Well done.
And what a creepy story...
The not so pretty UI with the text destroys a little bit the rest of the graphics.
And the controls weren't intuitive for me.
Well done!
I left my rating of your game, if you can leave your feedback in our game, Witch's Escape.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/witchs-escape