Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD58 → Gibberwave
By Ciphereo, yiwai, Sonnie Sun, krisss and NeoChen
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 303 | 3.62 | 99 | |
| Fun | 514 | 3.16 | 99 | |
| Innovation | 146 | 3.68 | 100 | |
| Theme | 589 | 3.31 | 99 | |
| Graphics | 143 | 4.22 | 101 | |
| Audio | 220 | 3.59 | 96 | |
| Humor | 256 | 3.35 | 96 | |
| Mood | 250 | 3.77 | 99 |
FYI, it looks like your text assets might not have made it into the game! All text boxes are just showing text keys
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I didn't leave a rating, because it wouldn't be fair to rate you without any text! I just wanted to give you a heads up! I'll try to remember to come back and check things out again later though - I really like the art! :)
I want to play, but the download link shows “Not Found,” and I can't access the web version either.
@koolruz We already fixed it :P
@moonblast I just checked, and the link is still valid. Maybe you can try again or use it online (https://itch.io/embed-upload/15173822?color=000000)
太好了，我想我可以玩了 有种电波系的感觉，各种胡言乱语非常可爱
VERY COOL VISUAL!! AAA!😳❤️
Nice work,Congratulations！
psychedelic visual and an interesting gameplay idea. Identifying weird "alien" things people say among other small talks proves to be more of a challenge than I initially thought. Great work!
I like the overall concept! It's unique and the art make the whole vibe and atmosphere solid too! I think maybe a little info about the character would be nice to make it easier (or at least have escalated difficulties) but overall I really enjoyed my gameplay!
Would love to know more about the lore and worldbuilding! I think it have a potential in that direction Great job!
@deathandrepublic Thank you for your feedback and support!Sometimes you have to imagine yourself as an alien hah(゜▽゜*)♪
@n90w Glad you like it❤!
@yibirabbit007 thank you(*^v^*)！
@marcherin Thank you for playing! Your suggestions are really valuable. Due to time constraints, we overlooked these aspects:( this is indeed an incredibly useful proposal！ Once again, thank you for your appreciation and support*^v^*！！
Interesting concept. I dont really feel the tutorial explains what dialog to pick. Also proce is not really a word used in english, I had to look up what it meant and even then it didn't really fit.
Really nice chill mood. The character art is fantastic. I think the timing was kinda harsh, sometimes i had to just quickly guess a text since i did not have time to read all and were quite many times left confused.
@trusty Just choose the option that differs from all the other dialogues:) Apologies, as there are no native English speakers on our team, we relied on translation software orz
@prunus-padis Thank you for playing! That's an excellent point. We should definitely implement localized timing rules for different language versions (ㄒoㄒ)~~
Love the concept! The experience was really immersive with strong story, music, and phenomenal art,, hand a great time! Amazing work!
@jawdan Thank you so much for your kind words and thoughtful feedback! We're thrilled to hear that you felt immersed in the game world｡ﾟ( ﾟ^∀^)ﾟ｡!!!!!
好有趣的设定，想玩更多！要是能增加更多游戏内容就好了！美术好牛，要是在选择的时候多一些提示或者选项就好了，倒计时开始手忙脚乱的做出选择/(ㄒoㄒ)/第三章好难！很有挑战性！特别厉害的一个团体！一开始有bug反馈后维修很快很给力。再夸一夸美术，仅凭一人就完成ui主视图和人物设计的全部创作非常厉害！！期待玩到更多你们的游戏！
Great visuals and atmosphere!
Wow the game is beautiful! Impressive to make all this art in 3 days!
Finished the game. Timer sometimes felt a little too short to read all the options. It was easy for kids, but there was this phylosopher that I managed to do exactly 0 clues on time. Others I just recognized patterns and was clicking those without thinking. Other than that - quite an interesting entry with nice characters!
有趣很的游戏和面画。难很想象作著在三天里画了么多那西东，我玩到了后最，还看到那个了“不起玩”的“摧毁”按纽哈哈哈哈。个提小建议，可用点九图的割切来处UI理。未来还会善完吗？待期本完版
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A bit hard for non native speaker to read that fast, but I like the original concept. In the end, I almost always chose the answer with the most text and it worked. The Proce time part was a bit more confusing cause I could not pick one good answer when all seem to fit.
Loved the artstyle!
Beautifully drawn graphics! Gameplay, though, is a bit too simplistic, however, an ability to comment / ask question is a nice touch. I fully completed the game and the third area was quite challenging with those complex phrases.
非常萌游戏，但尝试分析了一会也没能理解每个角色的喜恶的依据，所以一直卡在第一个区域了，请问有提示吗？
Fun concept! Got quite hard at the end and took some time, but I beat it eventually. ^^
@kkritikov Thank you very much(✧ω✧)!!
@blatalzar Thank you for your recognition(¯︶¯)!！！
like this concept design of world. The character design is also awesome.
Great job for a 72-hour game! I really enjoyed my time with it.”
@batisdark Thank you very much for your feedback! We will later create a simple mini-guide and extend the countdown timer in the English version. I'll let you know when the update is live (if you want to try again٩(◕‿◕)۶)
好强，难以想象居然是game jam做出来的，很有意思，人物立绘也很棒
A lot of work done in such a short time, well done!
The art and music are great! I also found it a bit too hard towards the end, but it was possible to pull off. Some of the texts I found a bit confusing and I also think the tutorial could have explained things a bit better, but to be expected if English is not your first language. Great job for 3 days of work!
谢感您的玩游！术美(Ciphereo)三天爆肝了(๑˃ᴗ˂)ﻭ！建谢谢议，后之会短简攻略发布，绍介一下各职业种，补锅，于关本完版，海狮个一未知数~次再谢感的您待期！
@vpro Apologies! We'll extend the countdown timer in the English version later. As for how to choose the correct options, I'll put together a simple guide and let you know when it's ready (just pretend you're an alien too 😄).
@radiorat Thank you(b ᵔ▽ᵔ)b!!
@keyjale Thank you for playing! If we develop a full version in the future (though it's still uncertain), we'll definitely enrich the gameplay (^‿^)!
@nekobones 我稍晚一点会写一个简易的小功略来判断如何选出正确的答案( ´ ▽ ` )，有时候你只需要假装自己也是外星人，和它们对上电波👽
@bacontree Thank you for playing and sharing your feedback. Glad you enjoyed it(⁀ᗢ⁀)
@tangling Thank you so much for your kind words👽!!
@jasminej2003 Glad you enjoyed the game(„• ֊ •„)!!
@kafuuchino 感谢老大游玩！谢谢喜欢(ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟ~
@kagegona Thank you verrrry much:) !!
@wearesuccess 感谢游玩！！我之后会写一个简易的小功略介绍一下npc职业，或许会好判断一点( ˙꒳˙ )~ {同意，我也要夸一下程序(@sonnie-sun)和美术老师(@ciphereo）真的超级厉害👍👍👍}
@klausklapper Thank you for playing and for your understanding! Your suggestions are very helpful to us(*꒦ິ꒳꒦ີ)
很有感觉的游戏,还带着一股淡淡的诗意,有很多深挖的潜力,只是我在选择文本的时候刚开始没有get到你们的逻辑,希望有个指引,我好喜欢主角的立绘还有怪物的小表情,希望可以做完,蹲蹲
@trusty We noticed this issue—it turns out we misspelled "probe time" as "proce time"😂. We'll fix it shortly. Thanks for pointing it out!
@aoao 感谢游玩和喜欢！我们之后（或许明天）会在游戏之外写一个简短的小功略，帮助理解如何根据对话判断职业和正确选项( ´ ▽ ` )
cool visual
太酷了！
I liked the game. The idea is very interesting. I could play this all day long
i like it. Thank you for your efforts
It was a bit hard to understand what exactly was expected of me at first, and I had a tough time getting through all the dialogue options to know which one to pick. It might have been a bit more intuitive if they were simple two to three word thoughts, but I understand that will also make the game a lot easier. Right now, the game felt pretty punishing to me, a lazy gamer who never reads anything presented to me on screen :P
The art was amazing though, I was very pleasantly surprised with the look and feel of the game, and your take on collecting was very original. All in all, very good submission!
Very cool graphics and interesting concept!
玩法很有意思！美术也非常漂亮！！我非常喜欢这个作品！！！好有趣的设定，不过有一些npc我找不到正确答案是什么，完全没有线索...不过我靠与其他npc对话还是通关了！！ 1121231.PNG
脑子好像逐渐同步了奇怪的话但又好像没对上（）玩下来感觉每次净化一个区域所需要的时间有点太长了，导致后续体验有点枯燥。美术风格相当不错，短时间内画三个背景和多个人物以及其他素材太强了。
odd idea of scattering dialogue options all over the screen, makes the reading process uncomfortable
wow在小红书上看到了这个游戏 画风好棒
Very impressive gibberish! Finding the odd ones out was fun and the difficulty was good. Making a game requiring nuanced like that AND putting it in two languages is quite the accomplishment. Really nice job and I just love all the characters!
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Nice Art !!
非常有意思的设计，我花了很长时间来玩这个游戏，有些选项比较迷惑，但是大部分还是很合理的，创意非常的棒，三天内能肝出这么多的内容真的很棒，期待能有一个更完整的版本出来，五星
Really beautiful art! Overall, the game was poetic and fun to play
I really like the atmosphere and art style of your game! It’d be even better if the dialogues didn’t repeat. The current gameplay flow feels a bit long. You’re also very welcome to come try out our game!
The graphics, sound and mood was really something else!
I'm not sure I got the game though.. maybe it's because English and Chinese are not my first language - I felt like I don't have time to read the texts, and I didn't always got what an answer was correct. I also didn't got the proce time at all :(
It's a shame because it's seem like it's a really nice game, and I would like to experience more of it
First of all - this game is gorgeous. Every art asset is lovingly crafted, and there was not a single one that didn't wow me with it's creativity and professional execution. Some of my stand-out favorites: * The wispy cat in the game-over screen - I feel like I could get that tattooed! * The cat-like red-gradient entity - so gorgeous to look at, I clicked on it whenever I could just to see it more * The dark skinned dancer in the neighborhood - all the humans were great, but I loved them the most
To add to that - there is some great mechanics here. The premise was a joy to figure out, and the proc forcing you to swap from "which is the weirdest" to "let me lean into the weirdness" was a great touch. Plus, it makes you pay attention to every click. The pacing felt great, and the difficulty was just right.
On top of that all magnificence - the writing was groundbreaking! I continually thought: "Oh - what a clever way to highlight an oddity that people actually say!" I kept thinking you were going to 'run out' of convincing statements that were clearly 'logical phrases' but that toed the line with gibberish. But not only did you have plenty to keep me guessing, they actually got _more_ difficult with the later levels! I can't emphasize how impressive this is - I'd find it near impossible to find a few of these 'simultaniously odd but also convincing' phrases, but you wrote a trove of them, that fit the theme of each character, and got more challenging!
Just to highlight my favorite: "why can planes fly if I can't" - this is a perfect example. It smacks of gibberish at first glance, but is a real question I've heard kids ask! At has the exact 'kind' of non-logic that is real in a young persons mind, whereas the 'true gibberish' (my knife sings lullabies) is discernable because it bears no relationship to the way people think. "The sound of wood is warm" is another jaw-droppingly accurate example, one that I've actually heard from carpenters, but that a non-wood-worker might balk-at at first-blush.
I actually wish I could go back and just explore around the neighborhood more, just to make sure I got to see every line.
Truly stellar art, design, and writing. I'm thoroughly impressed. You should all be very proud.
very cool style!
the art is insanely good! and the concept is nice! i wish purifying one area didn''t take this much time tho, getting a little boring(
I very liked the aesthetics of photographic background and hand painted foreground elements! About gameplay:
- I think the timer here is too harsh. Maybe the game doesn't need it at all, or it should be much slower. I don't know if there's enough time to read bubbles in Chinese, but in English there's a lot of text and for foreigners (for whom English is the second language) it can be quite challenging.
Anyway, thanks a lot for your game! I really liked reading the bubbles (whichever I had enough time to read) :eyes:
So much art, this is really cool! I liked the surreal wrong dialog, without it being scary, it's a rare combination. My only complaint would be that it takes rather long to clear a screen and purify everyone. Otherwise, great job!
The artwork is incredible, I felt like I was playing a DSM-5 test or something like it. The situations and dialog were very peculiar as I understand that's the point!
Really unique entry, glad to see it!
The production team seems really professional, and the overall completion of the game is quite high. The visuals are a point I particularly like, so I’d give it a pretty high rating.
A lot of time was spent on the art and it shows. The gameplay may have been a bit simplistic but that is to be expected from jam games. Probably the most unique take on the theme in terms of story and world.
The person who is responsible for character design deserves a little kiss on the head! I love it fr
The art is nice, but it was rather difficult for me to read all the options before the time running out, especially the ones that had much more words then the others, but they seemed to get shorter with time, overall it was very confusing when I was getting things right or wrong.
A very unusual and fun concept! My English isn’t very strong, so I stopped after finishing the first area, but the idea is genuinely interesting. The graphics are unique and stylish, and the background music is really pleasant too. Like!
@zelew @roumo1025 @elmalach @decemberby @redphoenix2412 @mokukeki @andy-wang @xichan-zheng @kseon @jpgfg @sylviachord @ira-baciu @6knowledge Glad you like it, thank you for playing! Hope you have a nice day:)
@livingipod Thank you for your feedback! We've updated a simplified version on itch, with a slightly longer countdown. Anyway, thank you for liking it:D
@nno1 @umc049 @olddog 感谢老大们的游玩和反馈！!！很有帮助！！我们在itch上完善了一下教学关的对话并缩短了游戏流程(ง๑ •̀_•́)ง
@amiuke Thank you for the feedback! Due to the limited time, the character dialogues can only be randomly selected from the pre-written language library for now, so repeated content is unavoidable temporarily. T^T Anyway, thank you for liking ours!
@atsh @uniowl @psevdonim Thank you so much for playing! Due to our limited language proficiency, we haven’t really considered non-native speakers of Chinese and English for the time being. These suggestions are really helpful to us. (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧
@ugly-robot OMGGG!! Thank you for such a thoughtful review! We’re thrilled that you like our game’s style—it really touches us. We wrote 100 lines of dialogue for each character, and finding the balance between nonsense and poetic lines was so much fun. Thank you again for your support!
@eklbirifine @ranarh @ellaris Thank you for the feedback! It’s really helpful! We’ve shortened the game process in the version on Itch and also added a simplified version (with a longer countdown).٩(๑•̀ω•́๑)۶
I didn't pass the square. Children are easy to spot, but flower girl and postman… Well, Almost all times I didn't spot the difference. And I didn't understood how I must "solve" the "probe" dialogs: if I go in their way, I lose, if I contradict I lose… :sweat_smile: And besides, when I lose I have nothing else to do than reload the web page, as there's apprently no way to restart ingame (and by the way, if I could I rather wish not having to redo the intro/tutorial and dirctly start in the square). All of that being said, I like the innovative idea, the awesome arts (graphics and music), and the global mood of this game, good job!
Really cool idea and beautiful art, the timer is really fast though! It can be hard to read all the bubbles in time. What does "proce time" mean, I looked up the word "proce" and it doesn't seem to exist, am I supposed to call the alien out or comfort them?
This was a truly unique experience :heart:
I really enjoyed that game! The art is so beautiful, nice music, and, of course, unusual idea and gameplay! The sentences are well-composed and I was struggling in the beginning because as English is not my first language I would recognise the correct sentence structure but it would take slightly longer to understand that it doesn't make any sense haha The time pressure was high, but I made it after all!
@katastudios Actually, that was a typo for "probe time", haha. We've already fixed this issue in the new version released the day before yesterday. Please try on itch or download version 1.2, which features a longer countdown timer:)
@lereveur You can check the "Tips" might help you understand how to make choices, like selecting "the flower basket sings a lullaby." Actually, you can skip the tutorial by clicking "Skip" in the upper right corner. Also, there's no real "failure" in our game☺️. If you're referring to purification failures, don't worry—you just get less energy, but you can still continue playing :D Anyway, thank you! Hope you have a nice day🥰!
@tardis2snej Thank you for playing! We're thrilled to hear you enjoyed the game. Perhaps we should consider creating a version without the timer for players who are non-native speakers of Chinese and English🤔
@lereveur Thank you for your time and experience :) Actually it is a little bit hard to distinguish the difference of sentences of flower girl and postman. For me, I also mixed them up at first during test😂. But that's also one of the challenging points, which I think makes me want to play more. Moreover, there is a "skip" button on the top right corner during the tutorial, which can make you go direct to the square. Hope you have fun playing and enjoy exploring more, :P
Very charming style and lovely characters! Great work, always kept me tight on timings.
玩起来节奏有点太慢了，区域做了很多，而且通关一个区域的时间太长，玩起来后面会比较枯燥。但是美术真的做了很多工作。另外切场景结束的时候，外星人会突然刷出来？这很奇怪，大概做成切之前刷出来会比较好。
我的天好强的制作！！巨量美术资源，完全是肝帝来的，整体风格和氛围非常棒，会有正式版吗，超级期待
Great mood and visuals. I just had an issue with the layout as i'm on a widescreen monitor but that's ok ! also after a failed purification i was stuck and had to restart. Overall cool game !
@furisubi Thank you for your feedback! I'm the programmer on this team, and honestly, I'm new to Unity and not very familiar with UI solutions for different resolutions. Our game is primarily designed for 16:9 resolution. Should I force the game to run in a windowed mode? Or is there a better solution? Also, we haven't encountered this bug yet and haven't been able to reproduce it. I hope we can fix the problem soon. :)
@yiwai & @krisss: well, I think either I had a bug with the itch.io web version and/or my config, as when losing I didn't was able to continue (I clicked randomly around but didn't managed to get nothing else than freezed screen while music continues), either it was a PEBKAC issue… But I will give it another try later, and if it's still doesn't work I will try the exe version.
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**没有人类了**
玩的1.1的版本，对游戏的整个情绪的理解偏黑色幽默。一开始还以为是不是玩了什么英文梗结果切到英文一样，还是有点太对电波了hh
不是哥们这美术是jam能享受的牛大了
@lereveur @furisubi The freeze problem has been fixed. It was a new bug introduced when we optimized the failure punishment. Lol, my bad
This game stands out visually, the art is stunning. I'd love to see the full version, amazing work!
Thank you for such a great gaming experience! I fell in love with your art <3
@sonnie-sun honestly I have no dea for the widescreen problem, it happens all the time with 2d games. The fix I always see is that the game is forced in a specific aspect ratio (often 16:9) and on the rest of the screen I have black bars, which is fine.
really liked the artstyle! also the fact that you need to pick the odd one out of the phrases is a pretty good idea, i would've liked if the phrases collected could've been used for something in the gameplay, but overall nice game!
@furisubi Based on the solution you mentioned, I think I figured out how to solve this problem! I tested it on a Macbook with a 16:10 screen, but unfortunately I don't have a widescreen. I've put this change in v1.2 build. It's always fun to learn new things. Thank you for your help!
太令人震撼了！在短时间内做出如此之大的美术和文本工作量，尤其是美术，看起来全部都是手绘的，深深敬佩呀！很美丽美好的一款游戏，并且还能提供中英文两种选项（策划也辛苦了！），唯一的建议就是希望净化一个区域不要花费太长的时间，容易失去耐心，哈哈哈
@sonnie-sun: thank you, now I managed to finish! However I didn't encounter the ghost, so I will retry soon
Very pretty and complex! The nuances in the phrases are sometimes so small it was pretty hard to figure it out, but i managed in the end!
Sorry I'm late to playing your project, today was the first day I could get back on the computer, but I'm here now so let's go!
Beautiful aesthetics, but even more so quite the clever and original idea. I really enjoyed what I saw, and I think I can understand why people say the timing is a bit tight, but I feel like it's close to perfect. There's just a ton of polish here and it's clear the team put tons of effort into the project! Great work all around.
Really great game! I really enjoyed the puzzle aspect, and the phrases were really well chosen - most of the characters I was able to guess what their role was before purifying them, which made it feel even more satisfying. Towards the end it did start to feel a little repetitive; I got the ghost 4 times in a row before getting the other two characters in the final area, I think I would have enjoyed it more if you just did each character once before moving on, but I still had a great time playing. Nice job!
@t90 @feodor @dumchevdev @pancu @thadev @pancu： Thank you for playing and feedback ! We're verrry thrilled that you enjoyed the game:D!
@eggnisi 感谢游玩和反馈！抱歉orz，我们在itch的版本缩短了游戏流程
@anima-animus049 感谢老大的游玩和喜欢！正式版还是个未知数...
@akuta-zehy 感谢老大游玩！策划的英语水平还未达到输出英文梗的水平orz只先好出输胡言乱语了👽
@maxiney 谢谢老大支持！！数值设计的有点烂orz 会在下一次更新时再次缩短流程(๑•̀ㅂ•́)و
@threeli Glad that you enjoyed the gameplay！！ Since there are no native English speakers on the team, we had a bit of trouble getting the countdown timing just right(〒︿〒)Thank you for your understanding and patience!
@adam-gallina Thank you for your suggestion! It’s really helpful. Due to time constraints, we temporarily used a fully random mode for now. If we move forward with developing the full version later, we will definitely incorporate your proposed solution(ง๑ •̀_•́)ง
Today I came to play it again. Is this game made after eating too many inspiration mushrooms? lol
When I previously played the English version, as expected, switching to Chinese made me understand a lot of hidden jokes. I love watching this when I'm out and about.
Really cool idea for a game! I definitely had some trouble detecting the correct choices in the final area but once I understood the rules it made sense. Great work on this!
It's a very unique and clever take on the theme. I liked the art and the music fits the content quite well.
I noticed that I got often repeating choices during the "dialogues" (even within the same dialogue) which made some conversations easier than the others. The gameplay idea is interesting, but the timer and the repeating choices (based on character) are probably hard to tweak.
The LD version didn't work for me - I used the one on itch.io.
I enjoyed the playthrough - very good entry, congrats!
Very nice idea! The graphics are also really nice. Unfortunately, I had a lot of trouble finding the right choices to pick, but I wonder how much of it is due to the translation. It also felt quite long to complete areas, I believe shortening the amount of purification to complete an area would improve this version.
But overall, there's a very strong idea and foundation here, congrats!
@yibirabbit007 Hah thanks for playing again! We're thrilled that you like this game^^inspiration mushrooms are delicious
@linky439 Thank you very much for your tolerance and understanding! Your suggestion is very useful to us, and this is indeed an issue worth noting!
@marudziik Thanks for playing! Since we are currently using a completely random appearance method, this may lead to some repetitions. We will definitely improve this if we make the full version in the future:)
@matthewdrake Thank you for playing! Glad you like this game :D!!!
I really liked the game's graphics and music.
However, there were often confusions related to the characters' lines, especially when choosing from three lines. We usually had to click randomly because the lines didn't make much sense, or the one that seemed the most appropriate/most absurd turned out to be incorrect.