Please, Move To The Circle

"Perhaps instead of one long routine a shorter routine could be repeated for a few days before an unexpected breakout. " My idea with this was mostly to experience a full day until sleeping time while making a narrative ellipse on how time passes. But yes, it probably would have been better if it could have been set deeper.

Gotta say I wanted the escape part to be much longer, but unfortunately that was out of reach in terms of scope, so I opted for a shorter act.

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Glad you had fun with the objects :p

Not sure what you mean by making the legs maching up with the floor though? (if we're talking about adjusting running speed depending on animation, I think I'd mostly either adapt the speed manually to match more or change the image speed itself)

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It's inteded to be that, a Milgram experiment (didn't know it had a name though). I take my inspiration from The Stanley Parable and Bioshock.

My intend was to make the disobedience an actual possible path to follow. Unfortunately, I lacked time and couldn't add much to encourage you to disobey, aside the alternative dialogs. The top exit was supposed to lead to an alternate ending. (and for the jam version I had the BRILLIANT idea to let it open, making the game close.)

I wanted to make it more complex, but I poorly managed my time. I will eventually release a version of the game with what I intended (aside an action phase that I intended but won't add in). It's only an alternate ending though, to fit the right scope.

This game is the base for an idea it gave me though, I'll probably make a game revolving around all of that (probably horror or something like this)

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Ah, didn't quite notice the movement wasn't sync to the animation, thanks for pointing that out!

I wanted to give the player more options for disobeying but unfortunately i didn't got that time. I also wanted the shooting phase to be much longer, not just one guard :p

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That's exactly the feel I wanted to make the player feel!

Well, be glad I have fading transition cause I currently hav 0 idea how to make other types of :p I'll eventually learn that, but obviously in a game jam it might not be the right setting, especially with the clock ticking!

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My initial intend with the gun WAS to have a bigger section with guards actually trying to stop you :p Sadly, I didn't get enough time, so I had to keep it in a Minimum Viable Product kind of scopes. I'm not that slow with art, so to be honest, that's far from what took the most time. Building the dialogues and countdown interactions is what took the most, not being myself an incredible coder. Ran into some errors and puzzles to solve xD

Yes, there was a joke with the guard, but you gotta see the guard. My mistake was to have the pace a bit too slow AND letting the player go fast to the exit, while the dialogue can't keep up. You can play the game again to find that joke with my update where I'm controling the pace a bit better ;D

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Thank you for the feedback! Why did you want to mute the sound? All of the sound effects+voice? Just the voices? Did they sound bad? Or do you just prefer to be able to remove them? Note that I'm adding the option to cut out the voice in the updated version! :] Not sure I'd get rid of the rest though, or not yet.

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Thank you for playing :D

I agree with your complaints! The main isssue is the pace while the top path trouble is a... stupid thing from me to let there. Or I could say it was intended since you were warned (in all seriousness, this was supposed to serve as the alternate ending but obviously, it's not there. it will be there in my second update of the game though, as the first update takes care of everything "wrong" with the game aside 2-3 things) Also it's not your fault if you got caught by the top path issue. You're not expected to read descriptions before playing.

Personally, my favourite moment is the guard unexpected issue :p

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Yes, considering the game had a relatively busy workflow, I had to keep the scope rather low. I planned it a bit longer but I had to make it finish rather quick because of the deadline. What took the most time was recording all of the dialogue an setting the countdown/"quest" system.

Thank you for playing! Maybe you could also play the first update to have slight improvments and a commentary mode :p

Yes but as you can see the game is not exactly finished although it has an ending :p

The treats were rewards you get to encourage you to follow orders. Just like you would give treats to dogs to educate them and make them sit for example. At this point you get two treats because you were not given an order and you got on the circle by reflex. So you get double rewarded.

Gameplay-wise, the points of the treats is to serve as health points in the second part of the game.

Initially, I wanted the number of treats at the end of the game to trigger a different ending. For example, if you have the maximum number of treats, you get some kind of different ending or something. But I didn't get the time to add that.

Anyway, thanks for playing :)

Hey, thanks for the feedback! Yes, the gameplay is too slow. I did fix this first when I was working on the first update. :3

Thank you!

Yes, cause sometimes I may suck at it :p

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Well, you know how scopes are in game jams :p I was close to implement evrything I wanted, so I don't think I could have made it longer. Thanks for your feedback!

Hello, thank you for the feedback!

Obviously, you didn't find the "bad" side of the game where the "unintended path" closes the game on you at the wrong time ;D

Glad you liked it! I definitely wouldn't call it perfect, since by spending just a bit of time on an update (unreleased yet), I was able to fix most issues (pace, wrong path not being blocked, a way to restart at the level 2 instead of restarting over again and other miscellaneous things)

Thank you for your involvment on me! I'm from Switzerland. :)

EDIT/REPLY to the other edit: how can you recognize a "swiss" accent? xD it's a french accent at most (Though you could recognize a swiss accent if i were to speak french, but not in english)

Thank you for your feedback! I am aware the game is boring :D

Thaaaanks :D

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I am glad you purposely checked on the diverse "disobey" texts, even though it's a hassle to trigger since the countdown is slow! I might make the countdown be 3 on my hotfix, or only allow 1 error (or both) Sadly, the game is too tedious for that, as it is so slow!

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It's okay, I totally understand. This is kind of a dumb decision of me to let that path free and you shouldn't require to read the description to play the game.

You missed on a "kinda more interesting gameplay part" (but not that much), but that's on me! Working on a hotfix that will make the game a tad less tedious :p

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Thank you for your feedback!

I am not sure what you mean by layer issues with the hair?

• Is this what you are referring to? Including the gun always being displayed on top? If yes, that's because I couldn't figure out a depth system and since my game relies only lightly on depth (cause there aren't many moving objects) I didn't tick that as a priority. As a result, it's a bit... unmastered. Fixing it would require me to build a depth system and I am unfortunately not skilled enough for that yet.
• If this is not what you are referring to, I'd like some more precision!

Also, yes, the game lacks actual gameplay (but how can it be "super cool" if the lack of gameplay is what made you stop?)

(in case restarting the game made you stop because it is too tedious to restart, I am working on a fix that will make it a bit better - just a bit though; not a version to rate, but in case you didn't make it to the end...)