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The bugs happened because I was dumb and didn't make a good universal event manager and rather worked out the state based off a million if statements. ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":633633,"author_name":"muzakefron","author_uid":"muzakefron","epoch":1619483190,"text":"cool game! there are a lot of bugs tho so it was a bit hard for me to tell if i needed to advance in a certain way or if i just couldn't advance because of a bug. but i enjoyed the dialogue & i loved the character art!!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":633727,"author_name":"nate_wec","author_uid":"nate-wec","epoch":1619483623,"text":"@muzakefron Thank you so much! I am aware of the bugs and if I had time would have completely redid the event manager to make everything much smoother and simpler.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":635127,"author_name":"Jason Wilson","author_uid":"jason-wilson","epoch":1619488890,"text":"Pixel art was great and well animated. A couple of times I got stuck in a conversation loop where I would try to end the conversation by pressing E and it would just start the conversation again. I also got stuck in the bedroom with the doors closed and had no idea what happened and couldn't figure out how to advance.\n\nDefinitely has some potential to be a fun adventure game if you worked out the bugs. Great job.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":637617,"author_name":"ProdigalSon","author_uid":"prodigalson","epoch":1619497859,"text":"Points for taking a unique interpretation on the theme and for adding unexpected humor. Some of the text scrolled too fast at some points which made it so that I either did not know what I was chose, chose the wrong thing, or just missed out on dialog which made me go \"Wait, where did he go? Why did he go?\" :P I like the concept and would to soo more of of this game polished out with sounds and music. I like to get the full picture of the story you made. Great job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":647241,"author_name":"Foursay","author_uid":"foursay","epoch":1619539236,"text":"not a common engine chose for this game but the gameplay is rather good. Nice Job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":647409,"author_name":"silkworm_sweatshop","author_uid":"silkworm-sweatshop","epoch":1619539863,"text":"A lot of charm in this, but yeah it's buggy. I guess the order you do things in might break the game. Can not figure out how to give Dave his damn lemons. Got a couple endings at least :). Definitely wish there was some party music to go with the mood.   ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":647427,"author_name":"Srynetix","author_uid":"srynetix","epoch":1619539925,"text":"Fun game! I really like the humor and the art style. After talking to everybody I was finally stuck in a dark room with doors closed so I could not go very far in the game, but the multiple endings is a cool touch (I immediately went back to the car at the beginning :smile:).","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":669171,"author_name":"nate_wec","author_uid":"nate-wec","epoch":1619660353,"text":"@jason-wilson Thank you so much! Game jams and bugs go together like strawberries and cream :p ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":669181,"author_name":"nate_wec","author_uid":"nate-wec","epoch":1619660449,"text":"@prodigalson Thanks! I didn't wanna just do the \"going further down\" premise I figured everyone else would be taking. I wasn't 100% on my own dialog system worked due to making it in a midnight stuppor so it resulted in it not working someitmes. I hope to polish this up a bit once I get the time ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":669187,"author_name":"nate_wec","author_uid":"nate-wec","epoch":1619660519,"text":"@foursay It's an oldie but a goodie ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":669193,"author_name":"nate_wec","author_uid":"nate-wec","epoch":1619660571,"text":"@silkworm-sweatshop Glad you liked it~ Dave and his lemons worked at one point... about 14 hours and 7 characters before the build your playing however.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":669199,"author_name":"nate_wec","author_uid":"nate-wec","epoch":1619660686,"text":"@srynetix Glad you liked the two things I focused on! Glad you explored a couple options! ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":704186,"author_name":"Ty Victorson","author_uid":"ty-victorson","epoch":1621154139,"text":"nice job! I loved the humor here! 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