This was fun! I liked the handling of the awkward “you think I’m funny, right?” conversations in the early game. I think everyone’s been in a situation like that at some point, I would have honestly loved to have inhabited that particular headspace a little longer.
Yay thank you for reading! Mm yeah meandering prose is a thing I often fall into - hopefully post-jam with some editing/cutting I can get a better sense of where it’s going across. Thanks for your feedback!
I played a session of this, and was really delighted at the way the prompts and domino-draws combined to create increasingly knotty connections between people’s lives. I could imagine doing this on a larger scale for the imaginary residents of an apartment building and getting a lovely, interconnected mess of affairs and secrets. Also the Hopper painting fits so well!
Wow this is good, wow wow. Obsessed with the description of the Meadow Reek as “pompous.” (Also I love the Invisible Cities connection!! The vibe really comes across here, I would absolutely love to see more of these)
This is such a frustrating thing to have happen, oh my god. That aside though, this is a gorgeously put together zine! (I’m really amazed at the wonderful things you have made with Decker!!)
Thank you so much! I’m a little in love with the way the 1-bit patterns in Decker, they feel like old-school aquatints. Thank YOU for running the jam! I’m really keen to check other people’s zines out too!
Oh my gosh thank you for your kind words! And thank YOU for hosting this jam, I had an absolute blast making something for it and playing everyone’s submissions!
I love this so much, especially the procedural snail names and colours. I don’t know that I’d personally need gambling elements/any kind of player control to enjoy this more–it’s just really nice to watch these little guys go for gold!
This is great–I hadn’t read noticed the theme it was based on when I played it the first time, so got caught off guard when I collected a daisy, jumped and immediately flew out into the abyss. I kind of love it when game power-ups secretly disadvantage the player, so I loved this!
The inverted controls are a little tough to get used to, but they do make trying to drill holes and set up furniture hilariously disorienting. I just want this lil’ drillbug to have a nice home, but I put way too many holes in the wall!
I sort of like this throws you in the deep end right from the start–I had a fun time dashing around trying to save babies. The character art is really, really charming! I love the arms-raised crying animation when your character is idle, and the little grave and ghost that appears when they die.
Thank you! I had a lot of fun with those backgrounds, although didn’t leave myself much time for other assets. I’m so grateful to Hypertelex for the music, and happy that people enjoyed it!
This has so much personality, I really like the fish designs and the little defeated image that flashes up when you lose a catch. I had a great time puttering around the archipelago and fishing!
Ooh I really like how tactile the UI for this is. I didn’t entirely understand what I was doing–my shift slowly drifted out of sight, and I’m not 100% sure if my missiles hit anything–but I had a lot of fun twiddling with all the levers and dials! Great use of the theme!
Thank you! I got a little bit too into drawing those murals haha. The locations are based on half-remembered places around the town I grew up in. Although the real-life underpass I based that one on doesn’t have an yu-gi-oh! art, sadly
Thank you so much! Ooh, I appreciate you letting me know about the volume too. I code on a pretty old laptop with quiet speakers, so my baselines for quiet/loud audio are probably way off. Definitely something I’ll aim to fix after the jam!
