Jezebel and the Flame

by francisco-caal

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.50

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.72

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.84

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.82

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.92

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.25

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.89

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.54

When her potion for a witch goes dangerously wrong, local medicine woman Jezebel has to keep her husband Terrence alive as he's been transformed into a flame. Since they don't have much money nor wood, Jezebel has to go ask her neighbours for it. Secrets are revealed and sins are committed. How far are you willing to go to keep your love alive?

Programming, art and design: Francisco Cañete

Design and dialog: Aneesha Rai

Sound: Adrian Cañete

Updates

Patch 1.3

Fixed a bug that made the first conversation with Terrence repeat every time you entered the house.

Patch 1.2

Restart music & background sound effects on game over.

Adjusted dialog sound (blip) volume.

Fixed position when entering leaving rooms, restart all positions to default on game over.

Fixed bug the caused to play dialog blip on loop when clicking on the flame during the opening.

Fix bug that allowed you to feed the fire without getting close.

Patch 1.1

Fixed a bug that affected dialog display after restarting the game.

Tags: #female protagonist, #pixel art

Genres: interactive fiction, visual novel

Tools: GameMaker

Comments16

Fireshake21 Apr 2020, 14:29

I really enjoyed the story and the graphics although it was a bit weird that the flame dies in a house made out of wood^^

petrifiedapple21 Apr 2020, 14:36

@fireshake lmfao

Sthealthinator21 Apr 2020, 14:43

How did you pull that off in 3 days?

arcayn21 Apr 2020, 14:45

Really nice graphics, rich storyline! I did feel like I made the wrong decision at every turn but that's the way it goes I guess...

z4v021 Apr 2020, 14:45

that was a little bit suspicious XD

Arden21 Apr 2020, 14:53

All I gotta say is...
I feel sick after that interaction with the mayor.

TechnoGoth21 Apr 2020, 15:39

A nice little point and click adventure game. Good graphics and story. Not sure why everyone in the village was such a jerk about lending you a piece of wood but a good time none the less.

JackZeta21 Apr 2020, 15:45

well pixel art, i like it, but a lot bit bug I found, double click on the fire out of the text box, the texting sound effect haven't stop in first scene.

Yeti Kid22 Apr 2020, 19:10

Really well made and put together, very polished in all aspects! Great Game well done!!

Kyrio23 Apr 2020, 14:09

The graphics and animation were a lot polished, I'm impressed you had time to make all this during the jam. The lipsync is also a nice touch. I must say the atmosphere is a bit harrowing, I think Jezebel should move out ASAP! I didn't manage to save Terrence even after finding all characters that are willing to give you wood, but I suspect I shouldn't have turned down the mayor. Gotta stick to your principles!

thomasward23 Apr 2020, 17:53

Yay, I saved Terrence! Yet the story was lacking and, well, the game was plainly too simple. Unfortunately I didn't like the whole idea too. Why there was no choice to talk to the Major that some crazy-ass witch changed a village member to a bloody flame? I would have loved to grab a pitchfork and kill her.

Okay, jokes aside, the story wasn't bad, was just not enough for an adventure game. All the other things (graphics, sound etc.) were great.

boboman23 Apr 2020, 21:46

Really loved the pixel art, a little bouncy during idle. The dialog effect was great, and appreciate the fact that I could 'autocomplete'/skip to a finished paragraph. Sound effects were on point though the dialog beeping was a bit loud. Level design was great, popping in and out of peoples' houses. Mechanic was intuitive too with every person you talk to causing progression. The story was good and got me curious about the mayor, Terrence being such a hated mooch, and what Jez did to deserve being called a harlot. I played through a few times to see what dialog I could uncover and was not disappointed.

Potential Bugs: When you restart the game and leave your house you will spawn at the last house visited in the previous playthrough, win or lose. You can spam logs into terrence before jez starts moving to him.

Great work!

Francisco_caalauthor25 Apr 2020, 13:00

@fireshake I think I was too sleepy when doing those graphics hahaha
@boboman @thomasward @jackzeta thank you all for your feedback, I've fixed the bugs you reported and uploaded a new version.

LairinLair25 Apr 2020, 16:27

Loved the mood and the music. Good work!

niceden26 Apr 2020, 18:09

The mood is excellent, the graphics are very good too :) Congrats !

Epono1 May 2020, 13:57

Well that's depressing. Good game but depressing atmosphere ^^