Bind Off by dumplingsquid

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made by dumplingsquid for Ludum Dare 47 (JAM)

A bitsy poem about knitting, mistakes, and the pieces of yourself you leave in things you make. Thanks for playing!

Ratings

Overall 469th 3.737⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1097th 3.079⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 123th 4⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 821th 3.605⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 495th 3.895⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 311th 3.763⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 166th 4.026⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 23🗳️ 4🗨️

Feedback

funemaker
05. Oct 2020 · 15:53 UTC
This was so creative in artsy, I loved it! The graphics and music were really nice too.
Josh Roby
05. Oct 2020 · 15:54 UTC
Absolutely marvellous. Thoroughly enjoyed this!
yangying
05. Oct 2020 · 15:56 UTC
Great art! I love the design of this knit. But this game is really unfriendly to people with bad eyes lol.
PixelMoose Studio
05. Oct 2020 · 15:57 UTC
This was really creative and I loved the music
Loig
05. Oct 2020 · 15:59 UTC
I very much liked the mood of this game. And the idea is quite original.

Sometimes it is quite difficult to find the mistake in a legit way, at one level I finally just tested all the possible spots.
mathemagician
05. Oct 2020 · 21:03 UTC
A nice little piece of interactive fiction, I really like the idea here. A few small quibbles though:
- it took me most of the game to realize that certain pixels would prompt monologue, instead of it just being random after so many steps or something. That could maybe be a bit more obvious?
- Related to that, since hitting any key will advance monologue as well as move, I found myself accidentally skipping text pretty frequently.

I loved the bits of story and the knit design, but I admit I did end up testing every square to find out where the "mistakes" were.
a4x8e6
06. Oct 2020 · 21:54 UTC
The poetry and design was lovely. Some of the mistakes were hard to find, I think if they had been a little bit easier the flow would between sections would have been smoother, but thats just being picky :) I really enjoyed it
complexitydata
08. Oct 2020 · 04:09 UTC
This is so well-conceived and beautifully written. I love how all of it comes together -- the mechanics, the music, the visuals. Amazing work on this!
Zhanna
09. Oct 2020 · 19:09 UTC
Love the idea, visuals and music are nice as well
Virtual Turtle Studio
11. Oct 2020 · 07:23 UTC
That's a cool little concept you got right here. I love how the gameplay compliments the story of this old superstition, that's pretty neat (or should I say pretty knit)! I liked that it was pretty short, perfect for a jam game imo. It was also pretty hard to spot the mistakes sometimes, but also fun to track them down. I was a little confused by the speech bubble pixels as first, as I thought they were the mistakes, but then they disappeared. One minor tip: I think having the same interaction buttons (space and arrows) to skip through the text makes it so that people skip a lot of the text by accident, because they were just walking around. I definitely skipped a few by accident! Woops. Anyway, good job on this game, love the idea and execution!
Bellivit
16. Oct 2020 · 22:04 UTC
Very creative style! Fun game, quite hard to spot the "mistakes" sometimes. Sometimes i wished the text would not go away just because i moved, but maybe i did something wrong. Good job!
ruthiepee
16. Oct 2020 · 22:54 UTC
I just started knitting this fall and I found this game to be a completely lovely experience. On top of the nice poem's sentiment around making mistakes, the gameplay is relaxing and fun. Though if I'm being completely honest I couldn't find the mistake in the reindeer level so I button-mashed through it. The music is so perfect too. Really creative use of Bitsy.
TheCrittersCove
19. Oct 2020 · 16:50 UTC
Simple, but very endearing game. Really unique idea. It's like an interactive poem with a bit of pattern recognition. I guess the only criticism I'd have is it's so short. Would love to see more levels added.