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Bind Off

By dumplingsquid

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall4693.7321
Fun10973.0721
Innovation1234.0021
Theme8213.6021
Graphics4953.8921
Audio3113.7621
Mood1664.0221

Comments

funemaker 2020-10-05 15:53

This was so creative in artsy, I loved it! The graphics and music were really nice too.

josh-roby 2020-10-05 15:54

Absolutely marvellous. Thoroughly enjoyed this!

yangying 2020-10-05 15:56

Great art! I love the design of this knit. But this game is really unfriendly to people with bad eyes lol.

pixelmoose-studio 2020-10-05 15:57

This was really creative and I loved the music

loig 2020-10-05 15:59

I very much liked the mood of this game. And the idea is quite original.

Sometimes it is quite difficult to find the mistake in a legit way, at one level I finally just tested all the possible spots.

mathemagician 2020-10-05 21:03

A nice little piece of interactive fiction, I really like the idea here. A few small quibbles though: - it took me most of the game to realize that certain pixels would prompt monologue, instead of it just being random after so many steps or something. That could maybe be a bit more obvious? - Related to that, since hitting any key will advance monologue as well as move, I found myself accidentally skipping text pretty frequently.

I loved the bits of story and the knit design, but I admit I did end up testing every square to find out where the "mistakes" were.

a4x8e6 2020-10-06 21:54

The poetry and design was lovely. Some of the mistakes were hard to find, I think if they had been a little bit easier the flow would between sections would have been smoother, but thats just being picky :) I really enjoyed it

complexitydata 2020-10-08 04:09

This is so well-conceived and beautifully written. I love how all of it comes together -- the mechanics, the music, the visuals. Amazing work on this!

zhanna 2020-10-09 19:09

Love the idea, visuals and music are nice as well

virtual-turtle-studio 2020-10-11 07:23

That's a cool little concept you got right here. I love how the gameplay compliments the story of this old superstition, that's pretty neat (or should I say pretty knit)! I liked that it was pretty short, perfect for a jam game imo. It was also pretty hard to spot the mistakes sometimes, but also fun to track them down. I was a little confused by the speech bubble pixels as first, as I thought they were the mistakes, but then they disappeared. One minor tip: I think having the same interaction buttons (space and arrows) to skip through the text makes it so that people skip a lot of the text by accident, because they were just walking around. I definitely skipped a few by accident! Woops. Anyway, good job on this game, love the idea and execution!

bellivit 2020-10-16 22:04

Very creative style! Fun game, quite hard to spot the "mistakes" sometimes. Sometimes i wished the text would not go away just because i moved, but maybe i did something wrong. Good job!

ruthiepee 2020-10-16 22:54

I just started knitting this fall and I found this game to be a completely lovely experience. On top of the nice poem's sentiment around making mistakes, the gameplay is relaxing and fun. Though if I'm being completely honest I couldn't find the mistake in the reindeer level so I button-mashed through it. The music is so perfect too. Really creative use of Bitsy.

thecritterscove 2020-10-19 16:50

Simple, but very endearing game. Really unique idea. It's like an interactive poem with a bit of pattern recognition. I guess the only criticism I'd have is it's so short. Would love to see more levels added.