Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD60 → cassette 1998

cassette 1998

By alexandru-barbanoua, hidezen and gami-kot

🤖 AI-Assisted

Percentile
CategoryRankScoreCountLD60Ever
Overall27
Fun27
Innovation27
Theme27
Graphics27
Audio27
Mood27

Comments

seyoke 2026-10-19 23:04 ♥ 2

Gooooooood 2d, 3d and game mechanics<3

danwhiffing 2026-10-20 17:25 ♥ 1

Interesting concept, I do love a good mystery! I spent awhile listening, rewinding and looking at the sketchbook, but nothing jumped out to me as an obvious lead for any of the four words. I imagine one of them as something to do with the door. Alas, I was unable to solve it, but I was intrigued! Nice work

alexandru-barbanoua 2026-10-21 07:46 ♥ 0

@danwhiffing Thanks a lot for playing and for your feedback! We'll definitely work on making the clues clearer so it's easier to figure out the correct words. We'd love for you to give it another try and see if you can solve the mystery! :D

Also, I really liked your cassette store game! Great work!

richard8 2026-10-21 13:24 ♥ 1

Fellow Moldovans, great game! It was a bit challenging, but I eventually got it. At first, i didn't even notice the sketchbook. Overall, really cool game, and I'm happy to see local developers here! Keep up the good work!

the-fazzo 2026-10-21 15:05 ♥ 0

Love it! Using pencil and cassette to solve the mystery was a really cool idea and its well implemented. Also RE vibes. Congrats!

emaigualmc2-art 2026-10-21 16:50 ♥ 0

The game's premise reminded me of the series "13 Reasons Why", I found the mechanics and the way the mystery unfolds to be excellent. The 3D art, with its Resident Evil 2 style textures, is beautiful, and really helps create a more somber depressing atmosphere. The voice acting and sound effects are fantastic! a crucial element for the game's mechanics. Great work, congratulations! xD

dvan1337 2026-10-24 10:22 ♥ 1

This game probably quite an uncut diamond but the puzzle is a bit confusing, but i put max grade on everything cuz VIBES

voxivale 2026-10-24 11:01 ♥ 1

The gameplay is quite meditative, but honestly, it’s just not for me. It’s a solid piece of work, and I like the visual style, but I would have preferred more activity or freedom of action.

prunus-padis 2026-10-24 15:33 ♥ 1

Really nice exection on bringing the mood felt really polished for a jam game. I loved the skecth book!

On the game play i had to give up sadly since I feel the possibility space is too large even though i kinda understand what i was suposed to do? Maybe? The door something? But she talks of cafe picture but there is no door and the door sketch is different? Its also unclear if you have some sort of playback system witch detect that you actually listen to voice or not witch feels like maybe i need to actually play the sounds before i can not it or maybe not? This made it even more unsure if i am even on right track.

kedikat 2026-10-24 22:52 ♥ 1

This game is beautiful! I love the mood. Great Job.

ty-victorson 2026-10-25 04:15 ♥ 0

Took me a while to figure out what to do but I managed to get the ending! Are there multiple endings? Either way once I figured out what to do, I was able to solve it relatively quick!

One thing I would say is the note makes it seem you are looking for a single word based on the button even though there was some instruction that it could be a phrase as well.

I won't give anything away but it took me a bit before trying multiple words!

Overall though I enjoyed the puzzle and the audio / graphics were great, nice work!

oller125 2026-10-25 11:26 ♥ 0

Love the atmosphere and the aesthetics of the game and an interesting way of integrating old tech into a puzzle.

hd408 2026-10-25 18:30 ♥ 1

Listened to the audio several times, didn't get a clue what to do. The toy doesn't seem to respond to the button presses. Wha...?

alexandru-barbanoua 2026-10-25 23:21 ♥ 1

@hd408 @seyoke @kedikat @oller125 @dvan1337 @richard8 @voxivale @the-fazzo Thank you all so much for playing our game and sharing your feedback! We're really happy that some of you managed to solve the mystery, and we totally understand those who got stuck or couldn't figure out what to do.

We realize that some gameplay elements don't work as well as they should, and that's definitely a problem with our game design. Some parts of the puzzle are just too confusing, and we could've done a better job guiding players.

But that's exactly why game jams are such a great experience! We've learned a lot from this project and your feedback, and we'll definitely use that experience to improve our future games.

Thanks again for all the kind words, honest criticism, and support. It really means a lot to us!

anima-animus049 2026-10-26 01:52 ♥ 0

Unique art style and brilliant puzzle design!!!

telkan 2026-10-26 09:33 ♥ 2

Fantastic game, the art was sooo good and the puzzle design was really nice! Great entry!

anku 2026-10-26 11:34 ♥ 2

An immersive 3D game with great graphics on top of that? That's pretty much a miracle for a three-day game jam!

dreamerkaj 2026-10-26 12:02 ♥ 2

Such an atmospheric art style!

alexandru-barbanoua 2026-10-26 14:28 ♥ 2

@anima_animus049 @telkan @anku @dreamerkaj Thank you all so much for playing and for the kind words! We're really happy you enjoyed the art style, atmosphere, and puzzle design. It means a lot to us. Thanks again for the support! ❤️📼

rekk1d 2026-10-26 16:34 ♥ 2

Really interesting art and visuals, that PSX look fits the story so well. It was a great experience to play, nice work!

alexandru-barbanoua 2026-10-26 16:39 ♥ 2

@rekk1d Thank you so much for playing and for the kind words! Really happy you enjoyed the experience. We put a lot of effort into creating that PSX-style atmosphere, so it's great to hear that it worked well with the story. Thanks again for the support!

mobiledev 2026-10-26 18:41 ♥ 2

Great concept, loved the graphics and audio design. You guys did a great job!

wanabi 2026-10-26 19:57 ♥ 2

Cool game; I liked the graphics. Found a cursor on drawings bt thats not a problem, rlly good game. Screenshot 2026-10-26 205158.png

alexandru-barbanoua 2026-10-26 23:03 ♥ 2

@wanabi Thanks a lot for playing! Yeah, that's actually the cursor from our artist's notebook. The sketchbook images are real photos of her hand-drawn artwork, and we accidentally left the cursor visible in one of them. Glad you enjoyed the game and its graphics!

rend 2026-10-27 21:42 ♥ 1

Impressive production value, I really like the art direction on your entry. The mood is really well designed and fits the story perfectly. The pencil rewinding mechanic is a clever choice, it prevents the game from being "just" a point & click. Nice job!

alexandru-barbanoua 2026-10-28 08:03 ♥ 0

@rend Thanks a lot for the kind words! Really happy you enjoyed the atmosphere and art style. We put a lot of effort into creating that mood, so it means a lot to hear this! Also glad you liked the pencil rewinding mechanic, we wanted to make the cassette feel like more than just a simple audio player. Thanks again for playing and sharing your thoughts!

unpronounceable 2026-10-28 17:28 ♥ 0

Had fun with this. Graphics and audio are really impressive. The only tripping point was when I needed to enter multiple words instead of just the one. Liked that there was some mild misdirection with the bit about the door drawing and the Tamagotchi being able to bracket numbers.