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It's Just a Burning Memory

By kent-reese

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall17963.2455
Fun22252.7255
Innovation19062.9255
Theme20163.2154
Graphics10093.7755
Audio2.376
Mood1564.1355

Comments

collin-thompson 2020-04-20 19:22

I admittedly jumped during my first playthrough. Has a really great creepy tone, great job!

locksmitharmy 2020-04-20 19:26

could be cool. need more stuff to do. his impatience really raised the stress level.

chrisevry 2020-04-20 19:37

Love the music and tone of the game!

fabien-parisot 2020-04-20 23:45

Nice concept ! good luck bro !

nick-rasmussen 2020-04-21 02:58

Deeply disturbing. I love it.

2020-04-21 06:06

> Music by Leyland Kirby

You should disable (OPT-OUT) the "Audio" categories, if you use 3rd party audio

dmitry-kaidash 2020-04-21 06:34

Amazing atmosphere and soundtrack! I liked the element of surprise when you do the wrong thing :)) Good job!

sausty 2020-04-21 08:32

Music is really loud, and WASD doesn't work well for my european AZERTY keyboard :p great game tho!

kent-reese 2020-04-21 14:07

@sausty huh, I thought I had made it keyboard agnostic by using GetAxis instead of strict GetInput, thanks for letting me know!

hawkeb 2020-04-21 16:46

I immediately got chills down my spine when I heared the Caretaker's music.... Perfect soundtrack for the mood of the game! Really well done.

marxy-37 2020-04-21 17:21

At first i tought i had to put the wine on the glass, so maybe be more clear with the player (or add some sort of objective list)... What else can i say??? Oh, yes, the atmosphere was good and well made!!!

harry-alissavakis 2020-04-21 21:38

Creepy and disturbing, you managed to create such an eerie atmosphere just with that one guy and the great writing. Nice job!!

lakrits 2020-04-22 06:09

Spooky. Needs a fullscreen button. Initial text moves too fast. Also found it a little difficult to pick up the cigarette, perhaps a larger collider would be good?

enya454 2020-04-22 06:15

Pretty fun game, web versions controls were a bit finicky but I'm pretty sure that was out of your control. The mood was great and I felt on edge through out.

aj-jones 2020-04-22 06:16

I really like the flat shading and the grain! Completely broke when I died, maybe take a look at how you are reloading the scene?

dovahkciin 2020-04-22 09:00

So creeppy bro, i would never play game like that after (but it is such a nice game :) )

hiremedeveloper 2020-04-22 10:42

wow that was really creepy, didnt know what to expect and kinda had me on edge the whole time. great job :)

kent-reese 2020-04-22 14:41

@lakrits yeah I had trouble with it in testing and gave it a ridiculously large collider, but it didn't seem to help, if I had more time I would have tried finding out what the issue was.

niels 2020-04-23 00:11

I was creeped out the first time he came after me haha, But really man! nice style, nice music, and nice mood! had some buggy experiences with stuff disappearing but still, nice experience :)

johannimations 2020-04-23 00:14

Shouldn't have playedthis before going to bed XD, really great game. My winner for mood so far, such a creepy eperiance and his look and the music and what he says it all just felt so scary, just didn't get the theme connection. Could have been a great VR experience. What a pitty that i can't rate audio

kent-reese 2020-04-23 00:17

@johannimations it's an admittedly obtuse connection to the theme but the whole sense of you're doing this ghost's? man's? thing's? wishes to regain a sense of the past and "keep it alive"

triggthediscovery 2020-04-23 00:20

I really liked the atmosphere, I would love to see a horror game with this vibe!

xpost2000 2020-04-23 00:20

I very much like the ambience / atmosphere this game gives. Although the lack of lighting kind of kills it for me unfortunately, otherwise I really liked this entry short as it was :)

mrchippy 2020-04-23 00:25

Defenitally had a creepy atmosphere to it. The impations made it feel a bit anxious too. Good job!

uberardy 2020-04-23 00:27

I really liked the art style and sound design! Would be nice to have linux builds and/or enable the fullscreen option on itch.io

kent-reese 2020-04-23 00:31

@uberardy yeah I'm not sure *why* the web build can't be fullscreened, I never explicitly disallowed it, as far as Linux builds go, I can upload one tonight, only reason I didn't in the first place is that my internet is super slow so it's hard to upload anything.

cronobreak 2020-04-23 03:35

Genuinely got chills. Nice atmosphere and experience. Thanks :D

risist 2020-04-23 10:16

Interesting attempt to visuals. And mood also was great. There are two things i strougled through. Font was hard to read and i couldnt get what am i supposed to do to pickup an item. It somehow happened but i still dont know how

wakobu 2020-04-23 10:37

Congratulations for making this game ! Good graphics, good ambiance but lacks of gameplay and interesting mechanics...

achiru 2020-04-23 10:44

Great mood, the ambiance was pretty creepy. Not sure if I played the same version as other comments, but I did not find it especially stressful. The text could be on screen a bit longer, but overhaul nice experience. Too bad the gameplay falls short.

zyllen 2020-04-23 14:14

Like the atmosphere in the game. A little bit creepy guy there, which is tense. Nice work!

whitefox 2020-04-23 20:21

Very dark atmosphere. Gave me the creeps when I had a hard time finding the cigarettes the first time. I needed the text to update a little bit slower, to keep up with what was written, because because of its unusual font (although I really liked it). It would be interesting to learn a little bit more about the weird guy's backstory. Nice game!

amazura 2020-04-24 04:52

damn, that was creepy one. the audio really lift up the atmosphere. good job!

marcusnystrand 2020-04-26 16:28

Nice aesthetics! The game was short but it was nice walking around in this room. The ending scared the sh*t out of me.

Music was very loud for me but other than that it was very good!

Well done!

dkviplounge 2020-04-30 15:36

Music real nice and authentic feeling. Neat minimalist art style, though could've used more than 1 tone per object so they don't look flat. The writing worked well to both convey character and inform as what to do as player. The browser player was appreciated too for convenience.

pspkins 2020-04-30 20:53

I like the distourbing gloomy mood. Feels like you getting insane looking in this dead man eyes. Well done!

eran-haas 2020-05-01 23:20

This was the first game of the jam that actually managed to give me a good scare.

Great spooky mood! Audio was fantastic, and I loved the minimalist art style.

quadtree 2020-05-10 18:36

Really liked the distinct art style. It could have been a bit longer, but overall I liked it.