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Mandy J Watson [email redacted for safety purposes]
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This is a 72-hour entry that's eligible for: Overall Winner, Hobbyist, Diversity, Best Art, Technical Excellence, Best Narrative, and Best Humour.
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Really interesting story with a surprise ending. Really love the narrative journey and love to see this idea expanded on!
Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it! I feel as if I told the story that I had intended to tell, albeit in a very concentrated jam way. What would you want to see expanded?
Great story and aesthetic! I love how much you did with an 8-bit style
Thank you! Some people do not appreciate the aesthetic (and the limitations it and Bitsy, specifically, create, which can be very difficult to work with) it but it's always great to hear from the people who do.
Really enjoyed the story and vibes, managed to set a really good tone with the art and great colour choice
Thank you!
This my favorite type of monster story.. stories about the selfish and over privileged. This was a really good one :)
Yeah. It's easy (and fun) to write stories about beasts that you can other but if you look around at the real world right now it's full of monsters - they're in the headlines every day - who selfishly wield their privilege on purpose to make life horrible for everyone else. Thank you for playing and the kind comment.
Great short story!
A lot of mood was set with such simple environments, love it.
Thanks!
i was not expecting to be so pulled into the narrative as much as i was. genuinely great writing!
I'm so glad you were! Thank you.
It’s crazy what you achieved with so little pixels. Really well done, the writing was also very sharp and witty.
Thank you!
Very nice narrative, I could tell it would be just from the name. i do think audio would’ve helped set the mood, and the ending would’ve been cool with some audio, but regardless it was a great example of dark humour! Good job.
The name... damn. I think I only got it in the last hour (aiming for the 6pm "you're supposed to be finished" deadline) and it was so stressful because I couldn't set up the itch page properly until I knew what it was called. Nothing came into my head for the three days I was working on this and eventually I went through all the text I had written to see if there were any phrases I had used that would work and eventually saw two different bits that I realised would work together and it's also very on brand for me if you look at the titles of some of my other games.
As I mentioned elsewhere, in an ideal world I would have composed at least one track and added some sound effects but time didn't allow for it. A lot of Bitsy games also don't have it so it's not unusual for a Bitsy game, at least.
I'm so happy to hear that you enjoyed the humour, especially because I know it's not for everyone!
Why is it always a "Thomas" in these indie stories?!
Great job! At first, the lack of audio annoyed me a bit, but the more I played the more the silence actually lent to the atmosphere of the game.
Simple but effective art sets a nice stage with an awesome little Frankenstein story.
Is it? In my defence, I've never used the name before in any of my projects. I also just went with the first name I could think of that seemed old-timey enough without being stodgy. I was also tempted to make some sort of pun related to "Thomas Was Alone" to name the game but I couldn't think of one.
Bitsy has built-in support for audio but it has technical limitations that can be irritating for players and it's also very jarring chiptune, which is great for some games but wasn't appropriate for this one. I had intended to compose something separately so that there would be an ambient background theme but I didn't have time, nor have I tested the hack you have to use to get it to work and that would have been asking for trouble. So, sadly, no audio. Plus, as you note, the quiet does work for this game.
I'm glad you enjoyed the story though.
Big props for this 🙌 fantastic lofi pixel art and the story kept me engaged until the end 👏
Thanks. man! That means a lot, coming from you. I haven't played your game yet but I looked at the page a few days ago and I was gawking at your
dinosaurkaiju sprite's walk cycle.gripping narrative, and the callousness of the protagonist at the end was excellent!
Thank you! That was the entire point I was working to so I'm glad it came across well.
the story is beautiful, i love your writing and descriptions.
Thank you. It really makes me happy to hear when someone has enjoyed my work.
Welp that was dark... on another note! I loved the narrative and the game was very well thought out which made it easier to experience.
I was hoping I would be able to make a comedy game and then they announced the theme so the best I could do was dark humour. Thank you for playing.