F.O.U.R.

This was GREAT! I love the audio and presentation. A Very smooth entry indeed.
Also... LOVE the whataryabuying! reference :D Good work stranger!

That was a fun little adventure game, I really want to make one myself one day. I thought it was going to be about sacrificing your morals (which is also is, I guess) but it went a little darker than that :P. Took a little while before I discovered how to use the inventory but other than that it went pretty smooth.

Wow! Bravo. That was amazing. Loved all of it. In fact I didn't score any of it less than 4.5 :star: This deserves to do really well. Great presentation, great execution, and just the right amount of gameplay for a jam game. :8ball:

@designernap, @silkworm-sweatshop, @oddballdave:
Thank you all for playing and your kind words!

Super game here, like the dialogues and the little relaxing music

Cute, very specifically reminded me of old Flash adventure games. In a good way!

Thank you, @gaming-night and @caeonosphere! \o/

Some people have said that it would've been nice with a minimap, and I agree. Since I can't update the game, here's the next best thing in case you get really disoriented!

Loved the detective vibe going on, although it would have been cool to have more choices to deliberate over! Great take on the theme overall :thumbsup_tone1:

Just a side note, what is the "whataryabuying" reference? haha.

Thanks, @dbongames! It's from Resident Evil 4! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9l_XYNYczI

Finally got round to playing this! It's very good! Plenty of story and gameplay for a Ludum Dare game, and it's a good story too. I like the idea of someone sacrificing themselves to catch a serial killer. Didn't quite work when I tried it, I must have missed something regarding that security camera.

I like the graphics, especially after seeing your blog post about how you manipulated a single texture to paint every model. Very clever. The music got a bit repetitive and the inventory system was a little fiddly, but all in all, a very good entry!

Thanks for playing and commenting, @f1krazy!

I think you might be on the right track regarding what you missed, not to give away too much here in the comments for all to see, because that was probably the most difficult part. :p

Thanks for reading my blog thingy too! c:

@ava-skoog Ah, cool! Thanks for clearing that up :)

omg I scored it 5/5 on everything, because it's great. Thank you so much for the map, it was the only thing I was *kinda* (but not seriously) missing.

things I loved:
- the calm pace! I was actually reading an essay on "cozy games" by Dan C of Lost garden . This hit all the right spots!
- the sliiiightly oblique perspective, to show you're in a 3D world, but also arrow directions work 100% intuitively
- the lovely graphics and happy/ unsettling music
- that you play a woman, and she's a woman of color
- that I had a clear goal
- that I managed to beat it!

I hope you're proud Ava!

@christina-antoinette-neofotistou: Thank you so, so, so much!

Wonderful game here. I loved the feel and direction of the game. Nice aesthetic, and clever little puzzle. If anything I feel like the good ending of the game was a bit of a pulled punch and lacked satisfaction. Maybe a short dialogue/cut scene could really elevate it. Overall though one of my favourites! :grinning:

@haustgeirr: Thanks a lot for playing and commenting! I definitely agree on the ending, but unfortunately it was all I had time for in the final hours. 😅 Appreciate your kind words!

Great game! I really liked the minimalist aesthetic. The story was really interesting and developed given the time constraints. Kudos on a great game!

@ecmjohnson: Thank you!

I really like this! The world is very believeable despite the very simplistic and minimalistic graphics. The character interactions are really interesting, and I got really immersed in this.

I won't complain too much about the tiny flaws given the context, but things that could be improved upon in continued development would be making it a bit more clear that you can enter certain buildings, which took me a while, make it a bit more clear what calling Fourier on the phone does, and perhaps adding a map, but without all that hand-holding that modern AAA games are known for.

I rated this game a 4 overall. Good stuff. I'm impressed and hope to see you make something even better in April!

@wfmg: Thanks a bunch! 💃 Helpful criticisms! You're the first one to express confusion about entering buildings, so can I ask what was confusing and if you have any suggestions on how it could've been made clearer? e: Thanks!

Very good detective story, graphics also high grade. Really enjoyed playint it.

Nice consistent style of graphics, love the mood the music adds to it. Controls are intuitive or shown with button prompts, so that works well too. Dialogue could be expanded, but I understand that making a branching dialogue tree takes a lot of time as well. Everything just seems to work really well, the polish just gets you immersed in the game. This concept does fit the theme and I like the self-awareness in the opening dialogue ("I might just have to sacrifice myself..."). Overall a great experience, well done!

@cheetah & @hare-software: Thank you both! ⭐️

Very fun game! Adventure games are my favorite kind of games so it's great seeing this style of game done in the jam. I really liked the simple art style, the dialogs, and the puzzle for completing this game. Would be really happy to play a longer game done with this style!

A few things that bothered me:
1. Probably better not to map ESCAPE to anything important if you have a web version, since on web it's mapped to getting out of full screen. I had to press escape twice and then back to full screen every time I picked up a new inventory item :)
(I made the same mistake in my game by the way)

2. The town was pretty big - would be nice to have some kind of map feature to make it easier to navigate.

3. On my first play-through I somehow managed to get behind some buildings I probably wasn't supposed to, and eventually got stuck there and couldn't get back out (trees were blocking all ways back into the street). I don't remember exactly how I got there and couldn't reproduce this on my second playthough.

In any case, I had a lot of fun with this game, thank you for making it!

@matank: Thanks for playing and commenting! Ouch, hadn't thought about that with regards to the escape key. You can use alt instead tho, but of course that's not clear from the in-game UI, sorry about that. :(( Definitely agree on the map. And dang, I thought I hadn't placed any trees behind houses for precisely that reason, haha… Mistakes were made. Thanks for telling me! Great to hear you enjoyed it besides these little hiccoughs! \o/