{"id":1918,"edition":10,"categories":3,"features":0,"size":12434,"name":"I've Been Ghosting","authors":[{"name":"Lance Ewing","url":"https://lanceewing.github.io/","twitter":"lance_ewing","login":"lanceewing","gh":8688804}],"description":"

“I’ve Been Ghosting” is a point and click animated adventure game.

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You control a ghost who doesn’t know her name, or how she died, but who offers to help a visitor called Pip to learn more about DEATH as part of his research for building a js13kgames entry. Soon the ghost realises it is Pip that is helping her to remember something.

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Control the ghost by using the Float to, Look at, Listen to, Touch, and Whisper to icons at the bottom of the screen.

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Float to: Used for moving around, but you can only walk 1 metre from your urn!!

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Look at: Used for examining an item or something in the current scene.

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Listen to: Used for listening to an item or something in the current scene.

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Whisper to: Used for talking to other characters in the game, although your voice may need a little electronic help.

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Game is stuck on the play button…

\n","games":["Echoes of Depth"]},{"at":315886612,"author":"Mark Racette","login":"mracette","gh":8781763,"url":"https://markracette.com","twitter":"markracette","text":"

Really unique experience, very cool. I think it would have been nice not to reset the selected “click type” after clicking on something.

\n","games":["Bardo"]},{"at":316204785,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"

Gotta love a nice point & click story.\nThe graphics are so well executed that I didn’t even notice they were emoji at first. Amazing use of the limited resources. Unfortunately some emoji were missing on my font, like the urn.\nThe clicking was a little bit glitchy, or maybe it’s the deformations in the image that cause it. Basically clicking on certain objects would sometimes click on other things, or on the character. It would have been nice if the objects would get a highlight on hover, but I guess the subtitle already helps a bit.\nThe sound effects were nice, though the wind sounds had breaks.\nI didn’t have time to finish the story, but will try to return later. Great job.

\n","games":["Planet B"]},{"at":316204996,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"

Nice idea, good use of emojis and a cool blured look to the game, felt ghostly.

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The action buttons kept changing which made clicking on everything harder than it should have been.

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Nice music.

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Played quite a while but didnt get anywhere, any tips?

\n","games":["Soul Jumper"]},{"at":316254483,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"

Quite impressive, I don’t recall seeing a point and click like this before.

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Was the beating sound, the heartbeat of pip?

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Got a little frustrating that the control kept changing to float, I wanted to change it to look, so I could look around, but each click reverted back to float.

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I’m afraid I couldn’t work out how to progress. I couldn’t move from the fire, I tried all the interactions with as many things as I could and didn’t make any positive progress.

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Perhaps an easier introduction area to understand the concepts would be good.

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I did play again, and got the sprit box on and talked to it as far as getting pip to move to the door, but then got stuck again.

\n","games":["Bee Kind"]},{"at":316327384,"author":"Michael M.","login":"Schnark","gh":17846729,"url":"https://schnark.github.io","text":"

I found navigation a bit tedious. I managed to leave the first room, but gave up soon after. Still, an interesting game.

\n","games":["Yellow and Blue"]},{"at":316354075,"author":"Jerome Lecomte","login":"herebefrogs","gh":1383818,"url":"herebefrogs.com","text":"

Graphic style is very unique, and the actions by proxy of Pip very clever. Quite a moving story!

\n","games":["Stand By Me"]},{"at":316480665,"author":"Tiago Correia","login":"dosaki","gh":1957450,"url":"https://dosaki.net/","text":"

Looks squashed on mobile. Can’t read the text :(

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Will try again later on pc

\n","games":["Hell Inc."]},{"at":316675322,"author":"Thiago Romão Barcala","login":"thiagorb","gh":821208,"text":"

nice idea of an escape game. I found the control a bit confusing, as it was always switching back to ¨float to“ instead of staying in my last selection. Maybe too many unnecessary actions available, like interacting with objects that don´t do anything during the whole game. All in all a very cool entry, played till the end :)

\n","games":["Death Tournament"]},{"at":316759577,"author":"Rob Louie","login":"roblouie","gh":5448110,"url":"roblouie.com","twitter":"rob_louie","text":"

Really cool graphics and I love the idea behind it. It’s clear a lot of attention went into the game world. Unfortunately the controls as so tedious I gave up on the second screen. If performing actions wasn’t a six step process I definitely would have kept playing, as it looks so cool and the idea is great!

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Here are some suggestions from my point of view:

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  1. Once I get Pip to pick up the spirit box, just let me talk to him. Do not make me click whisper then spirit box then a thing.
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  2. Once I get Pip to pick up the urn, just let me do things and and have Pip follow me. Do not make me click whisper then spirit box then pip then vase then touch then vase, etc.
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If you made these changes I would LOVE to play again and go farther! I really do love the idea it just needs to be a bit more user friendly. Your concept and the world you create are super intriguing!

\n","games":["Charon Jr."]},{"typ":2,"at":316843329,"author":"Paweł Skierczyński","login":"kesipyc","gh":1681481,"twitter":"kesipyc","text":"

I don’t think I saw the point and click here before. Nicely done!

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The graphics are well executed. The story is well thought out.

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You could focus now on improving ergonomics. You could use some shortcuts after the player discovers how to do some things. So they don’t need to repeat the same steps over and over again.

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As a thought experiment, what if you could just use left-click (move), or right-click (use)? How differently you would design the logic of a game?

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I’m not sure how to proceed to the next level. I listened, touched, and whispered to everything around me, but I never understood how to continue. Maybe the characters could give some helpful hints? At least in the beginning. Maybe I just missed them. The idea is good, the animation of the main character is nice, and the atmosphere is creepy (good thing given the theme.)

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Good use of emoji. I wish I didn’t have to click the “point”-action after every time I pointed at something.

\n","games":["Hang by a thread"]},{"at":316964163,"author":"Matthew Diamant","login":"matthewdiamant","gh":806338,"text":"

Really cool idea. I got a little ways, but couldn’t figure out how to get Pip to pick up the urn. From reading other comments, looks like people were able to do it. All the same, I did enjoy it. All the graphics made sense, good point and click adventure mechanics. Felt really thought out. Wish I could have seen all the content!

\n","games":["There Can Be Only Death"]},{"typ":2,"at":317016655,"author":"Richard Davey","login":"photonstorm","gh":164476,"url":"www.photonstorm.com","twitter":"photonstorm","text":"

It’s extremely rare to have a point-and-click adventure as a js13k entry, but I’ve Been Ghosting manages it with style!

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You take on the role of a ghost who must help a visitor called Pip learn more about death. You can float around, although not too far from your urn, and either interact or get Pip to interact with the various objects you find. You can use the spirit box to allow Pip to hear you, and once you have convinced him to carry your urn, you’re free to explore the rest of the house.

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The puzzles are mostly straightforward, although you do have to do things in a specific order sometimes, and it helps to remember that you are a ghost and not everything in a haunted house makes sense.

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I loved the use of emojis for lots of the graphics and the atmospheric sound effects that thrums like a heartbeat. I managed to get through several rooms and will happily return to this to see if I can complete it fully. It’s great to see an adventure game for an entry and even better to see one so perfectly on theme, too.

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Cool idea! I would work on polishing the UX, clicking on the verbs was a bit tedious. Also, I’d tone down the difficulty, at least on the beginning. I couldn’t figure out how to progress from the start.

\n","games":["Deathwish"]},{"typ":2,"at":317189300,"author":"Matt Hackett","login":"richtaur","gh":24601,"url":"https://valadria.com","twitter":"richtaur","text":"

Very impressive for 13k! Plenty of visuals and the the warped camera effect is cool. I“d love some niceties like tooltips and hints, but otherwise well done.

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Great idea! Great use of the theme. Love the fact that I was playing the player through the ghost. Music is good, ghostly like the game.

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