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When the world goes to hell, I'll be here playing Video Games.

By will-walters

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall4713.2953
Fun6152.8453
Innovation2583.3553
Theme3863.5253
Audio3663.1052
Humor1223.3851
Mood1683.7052

Comments

lyon 2017-07-31 16:35

This was not what I expected to be at all, very cool. Really cute and thoughtful dialogue

tinykidtoo 2017-08-01 01:23

That was pretty unexpectedly depressing. Really great writing!

hs-dave 2017-08-01 01:25

it was cute! however for me whenever fresh dialog was being drawn it lagged out the whole game pretty bad (ryzen1700+gtx1080!) which kinda spoiled it a little for me :(

doc-ill 2017-08-01 01:31

I've gotta say, this is the first time I have ever seen a game like this. I usually try to give some constructive feedback in these comments, but there's not much to say for improvement. The game is short, and does what it intends to do. Nice job!

lovro-kalinovcic 2017-08-01 04:57

Wow! Very nice!

twainwright 2017-08-01 05:45

Man, there are so many good things to say about this game.

I really, really liked the story.

I liked how you had at least a little bit of gameplay to keep the player entertained, but didn't make it too distracting to keep the focus on the dialogue. Honestly, I think the game-within-a-game that you implemented was probably the perfect one to accomplish this balance.

The only constructive criticism I can really give is to use less well-known art in the future. I certainly don't have a problem with using art from the internet, but I feel like using someone as famous as Mokona takes away a little bit of the immersion in the game (not to mention that technically that Mokona sprite is probably not open source).

walterp 2017-08-01 07:22

Very interesting concept! Didn't expect to see something like this. Great dialogue and writing, would love to see something like this in the future! Keep up the good work :)

xero560 2017-08-01 07:39

I think your use of audio was great. Sometimes the game would seem to chug but maybe that's just accurate to playing games on a phone? lol

joemag 2017-08-01 08:03

Yeah this was really cool, certainly not what I was expecting. I also like the somewhat ambiguous ending. I also experienced a bunch of slowdown every time there was a new line, that was a little disruptive. Otherwise very cool, I liked the meta commentary.

elanya 2017-08-01 11:41

Small but nice game. The story really was unexpected and interesting but for me the pacing was a bit too slow. I'm very courious about the world and what happens next but unfortunately the ending let many questions I have unanswered.

elanya 2017-08-01 11:42

Small but nice game. The story really was unexpected and interesting but for me the pacing was a bit too slow. I'm very courious about the world and what happens next but unfortunately the ending let many questions I have unanswered.

squaredev 2017-08-01 12:52

Came for the anime girl, stayed for the story. Good job.

stubbyrogue46 2017-08-01 14:07

Having some trouble starting the game. But it's always nice to see a game made in something other than unity. Fun to see a language like python being used to make games. Log: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zyuxbf8x2uuu88r/log%402017-08-01%231602.txt?dl=0

mathiouza 2017-08-01 14:11

Cool story :) But I expected a better gameplay x) Cool graphics, musics/sounds are well done too. So, congratualation :) A sequel can be cool x)

wicked7000 2017-08-01 14:20

The story was really good, there is a couple bits of feedback I'd like to give: 1.) The dialogue seems to 'lag' out the game slightly. 2.) Maybe have the game have some influence on dialogue or ending? Other than these two points I thought the game was overall really well made , it had a good atmosphere to it especially near the end, I was actually kind of disappointed when it ended! It would of been nice to have a better understanding of the world but , the fact its left on a cliffhanger of sorts works to the games advantage.

Overall a solid game , with a few minor recommendations great job!

mrchippy 2017-08-01 14:38

Good job. The little phone game was a good idea and the dialog was good. It got a little confusing with what was going on near the end though.

daydreamerstudios 2017-08-01 17:14

The idea is great! The story is funny. The little talking charakter is cute. Overall a really good game.

james-dunlap 2017-08-01 17:35

Interesting game. The story was interesting, and not much else to say. I will add, though, that I did not notice the lag that others are talking about, and I do not have a beefy machine.

olowynd 2017-08-01 18:41

Woah, I got really surprised ! Nice twist. I didn't expected to be sad at the end of a cute looking game like this ahah. Also I haven't experienced any lags, works fine for me (and I don't have an awesome machine).

nbitsstudio 2017-08-01 23:15

That is something pretty different! The final twist is cool. I liked it!

will-walters 2017-08-02 01:07

@stubbyrogue46 I found this - might be relevant to that issue. https://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=27462

diptoman 2017-08-02 13:14

The game leaves too many questions unanswered. The dialogues are fun, but I'd have imagined to have some sort of choice so that we could get different endings.

fangzhangmnm 2017-08-03 07:05

672 coins get

这个游戏有毒……

Boring but feedbacktive minigame with anime girls with metagaming, you knows a lots of otaku subculture!

Audio builds up the atmosphere well

stubbyrogue46 2017-08-03 18:29

So turns out I could only start this game with speakers enabled and not headphones. The game in itself was quite nice, but the headphones problem is something that needs to be solved. I guess that's on the engine side though.

johnnwfs 2017-08-05 18:42

Pretty game and a lot of dialogue for a quick build. I gave up trying to get coins due to impatience with money collecting click games. However, I let the thing run through until the cell phone died. I have to say the ... uh ... monster voice? That was creepy at first, then repetitive and annoying. Either way, you had at least partial attention throughout the whole game :-D

mgpxl 2017-08-07 05:36

Well written, smart and funny dialogue and an interesting setting. I loved the ending as well.

toonteamj 2017-08-08 01:04

I found the gameplay to be a little repetitive, but other then that that it was alright.

tmpxyz 2017-08-08 08:16

A simple visual novel, it's interesting you put a minigame inside the visual novel.

It would be more interesting if the minigame makes some difference at all.

zenmumbler 2017-08-08 09:11

The pointlessness of it all (game, situation) was well conveyed. Nicely done.

n-feofentov 2017-08-08 11:29

It's a pity that one can't vote for narrative. Very good story! Thank you for such an experience.

nuthen 2017-08-08 15:18

Interesting story! For the minigame, I think it would have looked better if the coins were only drawn inside the screen. The game did well with the theme, it was a cool twist!

badly-drawn-rod 2017-08-09 19:27

Crikey, that was unexpectedly powerful. I nearly skipped over the game based on the screenshot but Mrs Columbo persuaded me to take another look and I'm glad that she did. One more thing... that ending was very good.

devastus 2017-08-11 01:41

I'm not an avid player of visual novels so I might not have the right mindset for it, but I was kinda bummed on how there wasn't any meaningful interaction between the player and the game.

Nice ending though. It's a pretty good narrative experience, so good job!

omiya-games 2017-08-11 20:20

Welp, when the world is dying, I guess rampant Capitalism is there to help us.

I actually did find the game quite entertaining, along with its self-deprecating awareness of how meaningless it all is. Was a bit disappointed that collecting coins while hiding under the bed didn't make the monsters notice my character. Those coin-collect sound effects should be loud enough for me to be eaten!

lamm 2017-08-14 01:19

You did a great game congratulations.

2020-09-20 18:25

Ok, I can't say that this is the best game that I have every played, but I really like it. This game make more than its appearance and this is the main thing that made me love it. The dialogue is very nice and the atmosphere makes me lay in bed and play it until the morning. This one, was my first game in this genre and I would like to find more. Usually I play Counter Strike Global Offensive and after 4-5 hours of playing, my brain is boiling and I want to play smth in order to relax. By the way, does anybody knows [how to sell csgo skins](https://skincashier.com/how-to-sell-csgo-skins) faster?