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Okay Im going to have to be blunt here. Ive been reading this entry over and over and while I certainly enjoy one page RPGs, I don't quite understand the rules of this submission or what the aim of the game is. How would you want me to use these rules?

Edit: Just to be clear I don't necessarily hate the idea of lying in a circle playing a word associating game, I would just like some understanding of how a group would use these rules to tell a story or build a cosmology. I think a little more of that blank space could have been used for examples or to rewrite the rules in plainer English.

This is so gross its making me seriously consider it. The whole thing would end up looking like some kind of metal album cover.

An alternative thing I was considering was trying to explore the trope of evil darkness in JRPGs. Like trying to understand and deconstruct why this trope exsits and what it means.

That is a really cool one! Reminds me of the first Xenoblade game actually! It could be something I try to explore but I would need to remeber to make the setting my own. Plagurism would need to be something I need to keep in mind in that case. Like Id have to seriously consider how Id make it my own.

Approaching this idea, how would extracting resources from the god work? How would that affect the development of civilisation? Would the buildings be fleshy? Would the people bud off of the god's corpse like a cancer? Is this the only thing in the universe? How would other races react to discovering this? What killed the gods? (You can tell im good at asking questions, not so good at answering them.)

Okay so I thought it might be useful to start a thread as a way of bouncing ideas off of people. I know I could probabily start this discussion in the QQ Fanclub server too but its useful to have job stuff in its own little area.

For the most part, my experience of building cosmologies comes from the 2014 Dungeon Master's guide. Chapter 1 of that book lists out a lot of good ideas for cosmology. For example making the gods physical and walking the earth as opposed to being in an etheral relm. It also gives examples of domains, tight versus loose pantheons and a sample pantheon.

The thing is I know I want to make a non-traditional fantasy setting but Im not overly sure in what way I want to do it. Some ideas I have involve:

• All the gods being long dead.
• The whole relm being a ringworld.
• Some kind of sci-fi elements.

But most of it im currently unsure of. It would be nice to get someone's opinion and bounce further ideas off of them.

Riiight! I can work with that then!

Hey there @Pony Press! Firstly Id like to say thanks for organizing this jam! I was looking forward to writing an adventure in the world of Nobilis or something like that.

My only issue with this is that I dont quite understand the rules from a first read through. What exactly do you want us to make? A one page TTRPG? An overview of a setting with a complete pantheon and cosmology? Help me out here.

Why did itch bork up the formatting of my reply?

My apologies for being so blunt then! As a fan of the orgional game I assumed you were taking more creative liberties at first glance based on the weapon flint was holding. No problem though.

I seem to be having issue backing out of the item menu.

I think Flint holding the knife makes the battle make less sense. Like why aren't my attacks doing damage unless I use it from my inventory?

Unfortunately the game doesnt recognise when Im using a switch pro controller and thus button propmpts get muddled up.

Do you think you could put out a hotfix adressing this?

I think this is a really neat concept. The artsyle is quite simple but still very functional. I did feel that the player's aircontrol was very loose for the precise kind of platforming that's needed to scale the golem and some kind of grapping hook or surfaces you can climb would really help this gameplay.

I understand the focus on getting the game functional but I feel like more attention could have been given to the GDD.

I think this a super neat and endearing concept for a puzzler. But I fail to understand what it has to do with Shadows & Alchemy. I guess you decied you liked the concept enough you ingored the theme?

Edit: Nevermind Im a dumbass

Hey this is really charming. I should try something like this!

Okay so what we have here is PAC-MAN, but you can collect the pellets and cast spells to fight back against the ghosts and the maze occassionally goes dark.

All in all, a pretty good interprertation of the theme. From reading your design document I feel like more could have been done to explain how you interpreted the theme.

Overall I enjoyed my time with Alcherat. Good job.

A really cozy and promising demo. Initally I struggled to understand how the theme of shadows would fit into the game but from reading the GDD I think I have a much better grasp of what a more complete product would look like.

I think the primary gameplay loop is really strong and offers a lot of potential. It reminds me of Slime Rancher in that sense where you have a primary base, but are encouraged to venture further and further out in order to get the resources you need. I can also see a lot of potential for player expression with decorating your space alongside placing machines to automate the process of ore refinary if you want to go down more of a Factorio route for development.

The artsyle is really well realised for what you were able to do in the time. I think the player avatar is really cute! They remind me of Ralsei and I would be interested in seeing them developed as a character more if you are interested in making them more than a silent protagnoist. I also loved the choice of colour pallete you used for the enviroment; its saturated and vibrant but the use of purples and greens really sells it as an otherworldly enviroment.

Overall, even if the prototype is missing key features (I would have loved to know more about your plan for the shadow creature) I able to look past the lack of polish and see a lot of pontential in it. You've taken the theme and mixed it with a wide array of inspirations and created something that I would be interested in following further. Good job!

I HELPED MAKE THIS GAME
IM A FUCKING GAME DESIGNER NOW!

WOOOOOOO!

A novel concept and geuninely impressive how you are able to do so much with so few art assets. I also find it funny you named the bat Gregg and you can also buy coffee at Greggs.

Congrats on making the top ten dudes!

Acutally managed to fix it its okay now. I had hide any new releases checked.

Nope. That didnt do anything.

For reference here is the settings I have in the edit game tab.

Hi there. I created a new page for my game and uploaded the exe however for some reason the game currently is unavailable to download. I sorted out my payment infomation and set the game to free however this hasnt fixed the situation.

Is it 32x32 or is it 16x16?

What's the pixel density of this?

what is the pixel desity of these tiles?

I wondered what was up with the duo in costumes! I never expected them to be the parents. Now I'm more interested than ever....

Okay, this was definitely worth keeping an eye on the dev logs for.

First thing I've noticed that you didn't talk about was the personality system, what drove you to come up with that? (No offense intended, just curious as to your thinking behind it.) I also want to how it'll affect the game moving forwards.

Also, after the lawyer (I forget his name... Dripberg?) gives me my ship I get this error message;

############################################################################################
ERROR in
action number 1
of Draw Event
for object con_tutorial:

DoConv :1: illegal undefined/null use
at gml_Script_mapsectorjobs
############################################################################################
gml_Script_mapsectorjobs (line -1)
gml_Object_con_tutorial_Draw_0

Which forces me to crash the game and stop playing. What went wrong and do you think you could fix it? (I am using the 0.1.1 hot-fix, by the way.)

It's been three years since you promised a full release. Are you going to finish this?

My pleasure.

Okay, thanks for that. Now I can give some actual criticism now.

How I see it, ghost hospital is a wonderfully charming RPG with a memorable cast of characters. While the demo sees it lacking in a certain amount of need for strategy (often boiling down to a straight-up slug-fest between player and foe) it dose do one thing that I've only ever seen one other RPG to my knowledge do; weave a character's flaws in to the game-play itself. And I say kudos to that.  Although I'm a bit on the fence on the balancing of Robin's anxiety mechanic.

Now the writing, it's bloody good. Witty with a side of heart. The characters have an air of memorability about them outside of their looks, it's show with trousers. I do genuinely feel like I care about the ultimate outcome and it's often quite easy to follow.

Finally, I noticed that anxiety slowing the party's movement is a tad bugged. When I walk out of the northern suite having beaten Carna and walk back in, Robin slows down again and saving at the desk in front of Crana's office doesn't fix it like it did before. Although I'm sorry to offend you if that's intentional.

Overall, I feel like this is a game I will be keeping an eye on moving forward. I see great potential from ghost hospital and it's unlikely to disappoint. Now if only access to the discord wasn't pay walled so I could do so...

I'm not sure where to post this, but it isn't jumping out to me as obvious so here I go anyway. After fighting Carna and leaving her office, where am I supposed to go? I've been wandering around in circles for a fair bit now and the only walk-through I can find is for an old version of the demo.

I haven't finished the demo yet, but already I have a theory on this game I'd like to share. Maybe you could start a discord?

Wait, why is Nova wear trainers in the art and wellies in game?

Controls are a little iffy at first, but I found myself getting used to them quite quickly and was even starting to have fun by the third level, Unfortunately, the third level was the last level. I think with enough visual polish you might be onto something BMJ.

Also, was the choice to have upgrading the max health of the car not set the car's health to the new max a conscious one?

Hi, I just found this thing and was wondering if there's any plans to support earthbound beginnings. I'm a huge mother fan and would love to see that get a 3d remake.