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Curtain Call

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness357
Humor893.67
Innovation1383.59
Theme1493.89
Mood1603.53
Overall2503.42
Audio2663.15
Fun3613.17
Graphics3653.28

Comments

amras0000 2015-08-24 02:41

Had a good laugh throughout; the music gets a bit grating but hey.

dollarone 2015-08-24 03:01

Wow, so much graphic. Awesome work, I struggle to get a single animation done. Cool interpretation of the theme. I liked the paper at the end, will have to go back and replay for better reviews ;)

yellowlime 2015-08-24 03:03

Great entry, nice in all aspects, especially innovation. Music was also nice. I'm curious to whether it was computer-generated, but anyway, great job!

rob 2015-08-24 03:29

@YellowLime I did the music in Ableton in the last hour.

alarisilver 2015-08-24 03:39

Awesome! Only two issues that I saw:

-Once when crossing between rooms, the rooms flickered.

-The stage manager isn't wearing his blacks!

gafblizzard 2015-08-24 04:19

"September Cancelled", hahaha.

The play was very slow but I suppose that was the idea. Very funny and neat idea with the realtime events.

Nice job with all the graphics and interactions in 48 hours!

kcaze 2015-08-24 04:25

I didn't actually find this to be very humorous and the dialogue got kind of boring. But I think this is a very interesting way of telling a story in a game, by actually having events happen in real time; this provided a significant more amount of interactivity than your average visual novel for example.

peterthehe 2015-08-24 11:10

Nice, great graphics. The music was really nice too.

gaga 2015-08-24 11:17

They didn't like my performance...
(But I liked the game)

terop 2015-08-24 11:43

this was pretty nice.

mrpiglet 2015-08-24 12:33

This is super good, thanks!

cultofmonkey 2015-08-24 13:13

I am a terrible actor :(

tomboogaart 2015-08-24 13:19

this is cool

lastleaf 2015-08-24 13:19

hahaha great humor!

chromebookbob 2015-08-24 13:22

I liked the music, sometimes walking through areas is a bit janky

gravitygames 2015-08-24 13:25

I really liked the way that the real time was implemented, it added a cool layer of detail to the whole game. The music, while I liked it, got old after a while. Overall a good job, though I do think it would have been cool to have the music change for different areas. If you do a post compo version, could you make it so that the rest of the theater uses the existing music, and the stage music changes according to what happens during the play?

sirspiderlot 2015-08-24 13:31

A very interesting and innovative concept for sure. However, the music did get a little repetitive and annoying. Also I sometimes had trouble getting into rooms, as it kept flickering back and forth when in a doorway. Good entry!

pavel_insight 2015-08-24 13:40

Really like the concept of real time. Was it hard to implement?
P.S. Anton Chekhov, not Chekov. :)

rob 2015-08-24 13:53

@Gravity Games good idea re. music. I wanted to do a longer piece but ran out of time so ended up with 2 minutes of music repeated ad nausaeum. Several shorter pieces depending on area is a great idea and I didn't even think of it.

@pavel_insight thanks for the correction! Yeah the time stuff took a bit of thought but it wasn't too bad. I ended up writing things like NPC positions as a function of time, then abstracting over that with little go-here, do-this scripts, if that makes sense. Not having an engine to fight against definitely helped.

manou 2015-08-24 14:30

Love the art style, mood and the realtime clock. Nice story.

bombjack 2015-08-24 16:46

it reminds me of some adventure games of the 80s

bodsey 2015-08-24 18:17

Haha awesome take on the theme. Great job!

karai17 2015-08-25 11:32

Great concept, the live time reminded me of Majora's Mask. Some more content would make the game a lot more fun though!

gnuwilliam 2015-08-25 17:47

Fun game!

toni343 2015-08-25 20:00

Unbelivabley awesome in every aspect

lynx 2015-08-26 02:01

This is an impressive level of action adventure game with a great narrative and right level of exploration, freedom, and humor! You are going to go far in game dev with work like this!!! Great to see a wonderful example of an older genre.

mantis 2015-08-27 10:49

Cool game! Love adventure game entries :)

vikpek 2015-08-30 12:43

Quite funny! Didn't have any idea what I'm actually supposed to do... But I didn't wait unitl 6pm ... therefore I probably missed the show :)

franklins-ghost 2015-09-01 11:25

Funny entry, was well done. Liked the different newspaper endings. I left the theater which turns out wasn't the right move and then I completed the play but kept appearing at random which also didn't go down well. Cleverly done entry with the real time aspect.

cambrian_era 2015-09-02 01:58

Loved it. Music and art worked great. While I'm sure there were silly things to discover, the play stuff worked really well.