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Moonlight Kingdom

By lesinvisible

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall2833.3339
Fun4382.6739
Innovation3023.0939
Theme3193.1739
Graphics1143.7539
Audio463.8139
Humor2982.2937
Mood653.7939

Comments

gerugames 2019-10-08 20:31

Interesting story and nice voice acting. Good job!

shigor 2019-10-08 22:06

Strongly suggest, possible for the next time - use numericals for choices. While I'm giving you points for mood, I'm not sure if it qualifies as a game in my eyes. It's just a nihilistic shortstory with ability to look for more details on way - IF / Visual Novel equivalent of walking simulator

nachtwitch 2019-10-08 23:19

This game fits all of my interests, I love these kinds of f games and this one did not disappoint, good job, 10/10

porocyonak 2019-10-09 18:20

I like the artstyle!

lakrits 2019-10-09 18:25

Nice art, atmospheric.

You could have used WASD for the options, most of the time it's a direction you're heading anyway (W for forward, S for back and so on). Also QE if you need more than 4 alternatives.

gildar76 2019-10-09 18:33

Like the artstyle, mood and audio Nice job

grhyll 2019-10-09 18:34

Wow that was dark '_' But pretty cool. I hope it's not too much autobiographical (if it is, you should try to get help, you don't look to be in a good spot! Sorry if it is totally unrequested, I'm just a bit worried!). Very good atmosphere, we can sense the despair. Well done!

hare-software 2019-10-09 18:36

Good voiceacting, nice graphics and some lines that made me think about stuff for a bit, well done!

local-minimum 2019-10-09 18:50

I liked the art, the music and the voice acting was a rare touch very seldom seen in LD games!

wevel 2019-10-09 20:53

Cool game, with some nice art. But as others have said, it would have been nice to have slightly different keys for the options.

blaster391 2019-10-09 21:41

It was really surprising to hear voiceacting, especially pretty good ones at that. The artstyle and mood were really well put together, it draws you in to the strange, unsettling world you've created.

The writing was really good too, keeping you wondering just what is going on.

I'm not going to recommend any improvements as I see this as an art piece as much as a game. Good job!

p-r 2019-10-09 21:57

Love the atmosphere, the design, the audio, awesome

jam373 2019-10-09 22:36

Loooved the art and the music. There was so much passion in the writing and the voice-overs too. Really impressive and moody!

trusty 2019-10-10 00:09

Great art style and story. Might be neat to add some puzzles or consequences for the actions.

cirno 2019-10-10 01:58

Thank you for the great effort on the voice acting of several NPCs. All the game is surrounded in the mood of unspeakable chaos and nihilism。Just like @blaster391 said I'm also not going to recommend improvements on art or game style. But I would suggest trying more ways to show the idea of the story, for example, varying the structure of story (instead of just visiting a new place and meeting new people).

gamebuilder 2019-10-10 02:07

I've come back to this game more than once to hear the music and see the art. The latter is striking, I wish I could see more. Nice work compadre. Keep at it.

xephrys 2019-10-12 13:21

Wow! Voice acting!! Enjoyed the unintentional humor of stepping out right in the middle of everyones' evil monologues, and casually stepping over dying people to keep looking around. Enjoyed the unsettling art, the interesting symbolism and the metaphors speaking to you. But oh gosh voice acting in a compo jam game though!

uchiro 2019-10-13 06:13

Very nice art, music and voiceacting! Together it creates a cool atmosphere.

snesgaard 2019-10-13 16:28

Man that was trippy, kind off like an abstract painting coming to life! Pretty good job. Would prefer the interaction options bound to 1, 2, 3 instead of A, B,C, easier to find on the keyboard.

marcel-oyuela-bonzani 2019-10-14 01:12

Sick art

ogre 2019-10-14 05:04

Are you ok?

lesinvisible 2019-10-17 08:29

@gerugames, @gildar76, @p-r, @trusty, @uchiro, Thank you all for such warm replies! Honestly, I wasn't expecting such positive replies because as some of the commentators mentioned here, I agree that this game is "eh, experimental". I'm glad that you liked it.

lesinvisible 2019-10-17 08:33

@shigor, @wevel, @snesgaard, thank you for your replies. I was surprised that practically the only criticism by now mentions only different set of controls. I didn't thought to much of this aspect, be sure I will take it into consideration next time.

lesinvisible 2019-10-17 08:40

@porocyonak, @lakrits, @marcel-oyuela-bonzani, thank you for your replies. Again, kinda surprise of this praise of the art. As even the story goes I never positioned myself as a strong artist but it seems that my level of mastery can at least translate some ideas. You definitely inspired me to create more art-works.

lesinvisible 2019-10-17 08:41

@nachtwitch, thanks, great that you found everything you need)

lesinvisible 2019-10-17 08:47

@hare-software, @local-minimum, @blaster391, @jam373, @cirno, @xephrys, thank you for your replies! Even more surprising than art and overall game feel was to hear that you liked voice-acting. It wasn't easy to record all of this and make it sound some what legit in this short amount of time. Luckily, I could free some time by simplifying overall "gameplay". I also wanted to voice main hero in Sanitarium-like style but it came out too cringy even for me and my accent showed too much.

lesinvisible 2019-10-17 08:47

@gamebuilder, thank you, I'm glad that you found in it something to go back for.

lesinvisible 2019-10-17 08:56

@grhyll, @ogre, thanks for you concern but it's not so tragic. This game is mostly autobiographic but amplified compilation of the not so optimistic ideas and concepts I was thinking about lately. But I hope that it's not "need help" material. I would even say that making games likes this helps to relieve some of the tension and cope with some of my problems. And even more, I really liked that some of you found something fascinating in this game.