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1-BIT HALLOWEEN

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Intro:

1-Bit Halloween focuses on a home visit that a priest makes to a family. The game is in a single map with all the rooms of the house being visible to the player (like Dogville movie, in which you could see everything that happened in different places at once).

This is a short game made for a GameJam.


Story:

You play as Father Kirk, who was invited to coffee by a church goer. A visit that can quickly reveal the will of a family to be together and an evil entity that wants to exploit those feelings.


Gameplay:

As the focus is more on the Visual Novel side, the game focus is on conversations and environmental storytelling. Different answers can lead to different endings. There are 8 endings in total, only 1 being the "Good Ending".


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Short game with 8 endings. Explore the dialogue and story yourself but if you want to read about the endings, here's the spoiler warning.

1. Ending 1 - The Bad Guest (leave right away when you can right after the dialogue ends, confirm to leave)
2. Ending 2 - Unhelpful spiritual guide (not sure why spiritual guide is not capital like Bad Guest is, but there's multiple ways to get this ending, by basically answering in a non-caring manner)
3. Ending 3 - Blindness (choose "Just kids stuff..." when ask what her son said)
4. Ending 4 - Abandoned (leave the house once the boy disappears, basically it's a big NOOOPE)
5. Ending 5 - Into the Rain (multiple ways to trigger it, as long as you leave once you start talking to one of the 3 possessed people or after reading only one of the letters)
6. Ending 6 - Coward (Leave after reading the two letters)
7. Ending 7 - Taken by Darkness (Do nothing after reading the letters or say no at the end)
8. Ending 8 - The Faithful (Keep praying at the end)

I really love you 2-bit Adventure Game, so I decided to see what else you got. Of you did not disappoint, good work as usual, and I can see that you improved from there.

Very disturbing... and I love it! Very original too.

Decent little short story game! In general the game feels well-made and polished, and I like the way it's all presented like a play where it's all on one screen with all rooms and elements visible: makes for some fun moments like seeing the kid interact with Eyezy while you're occupied talking with the mother still. Some of the visuals and interactions are quite creepy too.

I gotta admit, however, that I found the story rather unsatisfying. Once I got past all of the ways you can get kicked out before the story even starts by saying some rather innocuous things, it just didn't lead to a good payoff. It was also annoying for replays that you have the correct answer to the child's intro question about the rain as the second response: this means that, despite being able to mash through every other response to get back to where you were, you have to slow down there lest you get an immediate game over and start all over again. As a huge fan of CYOA books who enjoys finding all of the unique endings, this felt like a quantity over quality situation where all the bad endings are just insubstantial, purposeless filler and even the good ending fails to satisfy, so much that I wouldn't even be sure if it was the good ending despite it being the case.

Jogo incrível, história bem feita e ainda tem opção de português? Favorito instantâneo! Meu primeiro final foi o 7, mas eu com certeza vou voltar pra tentar outros! ❤

Fiddleling responds:

Olá! Fico feliz que tenha gostado! Estou considerando fazer uma tradução também do meu outro jogo aqui, o 1-BIT EXPLORER para português. Dá trabalho, mas essa acessibilidade vale a pena :)

Credits & Info

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Faves:
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Votes
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Score
3.34 / 5.00

Uploaded
Oct 24, 2023
8:57 AM EDT
Genre
Visual Novel