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Pickles is really excited about all the positive comments <3 :D","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":851617,"author_name":"Linnea Isaac","author_uid":"linnea-isaac","epoch":1664857774,"text":"Of course, you didn't get to get the whole system out, but by the end I was starting to realize a little how the memory system worked. I liked the fmv \/ rotoscope style and a game like that with movement (even not truly free movement, but point and click style scrolling) would be pretty cool\n\nAnd I loved the song :)\n\nYou dreamed big but also put something out. It would be interesting to seeing iterations on some of these ideas","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":855566,"author_name":"okshirl","author_uid":"okshirl","epoch":1664888084,"text":"This was such a unique idea, please keep working on it! I didn't really understand what the placeholders were supposed to be, but it made the game more mysterious. I liked how the filter made the game more stylistically similar to those telltale games, but in some scenes it was getting a bit too dark, not sure if that's adjustable. Pickles was so cute! please give pickles lots of treats and love.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":860176,"author_name":"Coderah","author_uid":"coderah","epoch":1664912269,"text":"Thank you so much for the kind words and feedback everyone! <3\n\nWanted to note that the PLACEHOLDER text showing up on memories was an unfortunate bug, when I ran the final release I had incorrectly copied the spreadsheet into a data file and it didn't load right! Whoops :D it is now resolved though!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":862742,"author_name":"shogeku","author_uid":"shogeku","epoch":1664929505,"text":"This was super nice to experience. I'd absolutely love to play a longer version of this game! The song at the end was beautiful. I'd love to have more environmental sounds in the game. maybe use audio only queues in leu of us having smellivision? The memory system linking to your choices was nice.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":880625,"author_name":"tetrapteryx","author_uid":"tetrapteryx","epoch":1665260111,"text":"The visual style is SO cool, I would love to play a full length game like this! Losing memories is a really interesting way to handle the theme. I hope you continue with this!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":884726,"author_name":"Cookie_CHR","author_uid":"cookie-chr","epoch":1665440512,"text":"Like every good demos, It made me want to play the full game. Keep up the good work! I have the eerie feeling I shouldn't have chosen to forget about the neighbor...","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":885824,"author_name":"Misfire_dev","author_uid":"misfire-dev","epoch":1665518125,"text":"the effects on the footage is a really nice touch, this is gonna be a really good game when fleshed out. I really enjoyed my short time in it","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":892377,"author_name":"LDJam user 278918","author_uid":"278918","epoch":1666274321,"text":"Really interesting idea! It reminded me a lot of Sam Barlow's games, like Her Story and Immortality. And tell Pickles he did a great job, much act very wow.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld51\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/saynothingandleave.com\/eucalyptus\/index.html","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"84496","g_author":"1299644","g_event":"LD51","g_eventkey":"114","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"393024","g_title":"Eucalyptus","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"446","g_commentcount":"12","g_site2_node_id":"300132","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"300132","n_urlkey":"393024","n_parent":"296586","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/51\/eucalyptus","n_slug":"eucalyptus","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"299644","n_created":"1664305057","n_modified":"1778425719","n_version":"955850","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD51","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":2,"author":299644,"body":"# Eucalyptus is a sad game about dogs, moms, and memory. \ud83e\udd72\n\nFor this theme, rather than introduce an element every 10 seconds, we thought it would be fun to make a player *lose* something every 10 seconds. In Eucalyptus, your character loses memories 10 seconds after she gains them, though scent can help her retain memories for longer.\n\nThe version we\u2019re sharing here is a demo - we designed 7 days of gameplay & only successfully built a single half day \ud83d\ude02 We plan to continue building out the full version soon.\n\n![pickles snoot.png](\/\/\/raw\/c72\/94\/z\/51b74.png)\n\n# Team:\n\n1. **Alex!** Tech + UX\/UI\n\n*Technical wizardry up the wazoo, a walking talking coding bonanza, got a little too lost in his homebrew scripting system that we didn't actually end up needing lol oops*\n\n2. **Ellie!** Creative + Gameplay Design\n\n*Endless fountain of stories, terrifying wielder of whiteboards, spent too much time wandering around the neighborhood with a camera and not enough time writing dialogue*\n\n3. **Pickles!** Dog\n\n*He has the best snoot*\n\n# Concepts:\n\n- Memory as inventory\n- Node graphs for memory mapping\n- Branching dialogue with memory contingencies\n- (eventually) Open world exploration\n- (eventually) Path-dependent endings\n\n# Full Version - Ending:\n\nIn our full concept for the game, the goal is to find out as much as you can about why the character is losing her memory by the end of 7 days. 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