The results are out, and the scores for Landscaped Confinement are quite an improvement over my first LD entry. Due to the new rules set in place that are designed to offset biases with regards to assets made before the 48-/72-hour periods, I wisely removed the audio category from my voting canvas due to my use of a Japanese royalty-free background song for the entry.

To the guy who suggested to ignore the rankings and look instead at the actual scores, kudos to you. There were more participants in this iteration of the Dare, anyway. As for the highest-scored categories, namely the mood and theme categories, I truly did my best in sticking to the literal and metaphorical interpretations of season 31’s theme, as stated in the read-me file of the game package.

As for the lowest-scored categories, you should understand that not all visual novels need to have choices as a mandatory mechanic. There is a subset of visual novels called kinetic novels, which follow a truly-linear story structure. Have you tried Planetarian on Steam? This title, from the makers of Clannad, is an excellent example of the kinetic novel and is undoubtedly one of my inspirations for making visual novels in the first place.

With that, I am looking forward to Global Game Jam, my first major event for 2015. And if you like my two LD contributions, help me fuel my future creations by supporting me on Patreon.

Happy New Year, everyone.

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