Next Year It Will Be Better
A downloadable game for Windows
You're hosting a party on Christmas day! Mingle with your guests, listen to carols and bask in the holiday spirit!
Made for the RPG Maker Horror Game Jam #1, hosted by Beregon.
This game includes instances of flashing lights, loud noises, swearing, heavy alcohol drinking and suicidal thoughts, and one instance of a car accident.
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Install instructions
After extraction, get in the folder and open the file called "Game".
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Beregon noted on the discord that someone played this! So I thought I'd share here too incase you didn't see.
Delivery! It's a good game and the only things I find flawed I did comment in the VOD highlight!
(a little note for those reading this all my streams are marked 18+ due to my audience so it's best to avoid watching the vods if under 18.)
LINK (should be somewhere around the 1 hour 36 minute mark) : https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2029967506
The YT version will probably be up at some point if YT isn't wack.
(Also funny thing I must have fumbled saying something at the first few minutes. I was suppose to say 'I'm rating based on story'. I don't rate by default assets. I don't know how that slipped off from my mind. I was probably braining thinking.)
wow thank you so much for streaming my game!! didn't expect in a million years a video of a thing i made would be on the internet :>
i'm glad you found the story interesting! tbh it's the part of the game i found most fun in developing, trying to come up with a twisted version of a christmas miracle and the story behind someone wishing for something going horribly wrong. the narrative came first in my eyes and i'm happy to hear you liked it!
with that said, sorry to hear you thought the game was boring. i do kinda feel i went overboard with the dialogue and the ending, maybe a part of me wanted to make the game longer so it wouldn't last 20 minutes. but yeah i'll try to tone the length of certain aspects down for my next projects so they're not as slow to get through. also ngl, i really like writing lots of dialogue and making long moody scenes lmao, but i'll still keep in mind your criticism.
finally, i know i should feel bad, but the bathtub drawing was friggin hilarious XD.
thank you for trying the game and for your feedback!
It's not a problem! I am awfully blunt with my criticisms in games but don't feel bad! It's something that is pretty much subjective. Others might see it differently. Though yeah, I think if you want to make it longer, it has to be reasonable in story wise to justify the slowness! I like slowness if the story is captivating enough and it does not have fillers.
I'm sorry that I made you laugh with that bathtub imagery but I swear I couldn't give up that idea when I thought of it so deeply by logic.
I hope next time your stories would be improving as it goes on! I enjoyed it quite much.
don't worry, i'm always open to criticism! and yeah i'll try to keep improving with my following projects :D