This is insane.

Absolutely amazing game. There were obviously very minor parts that could use some work such as the dialogue (mainly the UI), but this was extremely well executed!

Incredible work for a 4-day jam. Quite short and simple but the FMV adds so much life to the game, and everything is so polished.

(Except the green arrow which is so comically crude compared to literally everything else in the entire game.)

Whoa! Very Neverhood and/or Myst vibes with this one! Cool concept! Neat filming! Great job!

A beautiful game with clean FMV and really evokes the feel of a classic 90's point-and-click adventure, even down to playing some esoteric card game lol, well done!

My goodness! I see an FMV game, I click. The execution here was gorgeous; the quality is way higher than I ever anticipated from a jam game. Fantastic work! One of my top contenders for sure.

I was not expecting a FMV game for a jam! Increbile aesthetic and style!
Puzzle wise perhaps I would have liked a bit more puzzles, but we all know how jam deadlines are. :)

It’s a very pretty game! The scale for a game jam of this size is impressive. I got the one clue from the song puzzle and then beat the card game puzzle. From the one clue I figured out that cryptic icons correspond to icons shown on the dial in the intro. I’m guessing there’s ways to find other clues, but the only other thing I saw was a “darkness” cutscene. I’m also impressed you used a no-code engine, it seems to be a good fit for the kind of content you folks are making.

This is incredibly impressive!! I've never seen anyone make something like this for a jam game, really well done! Also great marketing for your other project(s), because I definitely want to see what you've been up to now! Keep up the good work!!

Love me a good FMV point and click. The production quality is top notch. Great job!

Wow! I should've known some team was going to make an FMV game for the jam. That was exceedingly charming! I like the photorealistic yet fantastical art direction. I like the puzzles, especially how they all tied into the theme of scales and the opposite ends of things.

The film is also quite competent. I didn't notice a lot of rough edges and awkward transitions I usually see in indie FMV projects; it was seamless. I particularly liked the scene with the snail in the background; it's an inspired choice.

It's a little buggy in spots; clicking one too many times on an object or dialogue tended to get me soft-locked. Although, for a point-in-click made in 96 hours, it has less bugs than can be expected (except in Grimblestone, of course).

It was a smart decision for the game jam to have the more explicit hint system, but I also appreciate that the final puzzle wasn't too hand-holding; it left a couple of things unsaid.

I was not ready for the ending. How charming!

So, about the "purple dot" glitch. The first time I loaded up the game, a bunch of the dial textures in the first puzzle didn't load in, being a default magenta.

I assumed that this was a Firefox problem and switched to Chrome, but then it didn't happen on Firefox again. So, I started the game on a private tab, and then it happened again. It seems to happen at random on first playthroughs on any browser, when the game has to load and cache the assets.

Here's a general sample of the errors I get in browser:

Note that this happens with random graphic files, not specifically Ivy.png. "Idle" and "Snow" also popped up a lot.

I use GDevelop and I've never had this problem. However, I have worked with how finicky RPG Maker MV's on-play asset loading is, and I suspect that this might be a problem with GDevelop interfacing with Itch.io while loading the rest of the graphics in the background during play. I'm not even sure if the main problem is GDevelop, Itch.io, or just the inherently finicky nature of web connections. I don't know what a good solution would be, since I usually just make my games load all assets before starting, and that might not be practical for a much larger web project.

All-in-all, fantastic! Great work!

Amazing game!

I can't believe you made this in 4 days! Extremely impressive, so nice to play, I not only wanna return to this game after the jam but 100% will be following what y'all do outside of this. Wonderful game.

Very unique art style i really love how this game looks with the mix of 2d graphics and irl shots!

wow the mixed media is amazing, the game has so much charm already and feels like it's based on a book or something. really great stuff. 

unfortunately i also had the purple dot bug so i was not able to go that far, but great job on the videography! 

This is such a cool and original idea!  I was enjoying it, but couldn't finish unfortunately due to a bug where instead of rendering certain cards, it shows a purple dot (circled in the screenshot below - I censored out the spoilers ;) ).  Great job though!  I'd love to revisit it if you update it later.

Super impressive game! Great use of video and thought the graphics and everything fit very well. 

Mustic was great, cute little mini games, awesome job!

"Wow!" Was my first reaction when I saw this come up on the feed. I was really surprised to see an FMV game (which I absolutely love as a genre) in the jam. Needless to say I was not disappointed. This game was awesome and every part felt really well crafted! The camerawork and acting was all stellar and it's extremely impressive that all this was made in under 4 days! Excellent work and I can't wait to see what else you make in future!

Wow, so cinematic. Really interesting experience.

I could only joking about FMV game for a jam, but this id real, well done!