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The game is a cross-platform WebXR application made primarily with the A-Frame platform.\nIt is played with a VR headset, without a need for hand controls.

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This is a parody of the game “Papers, Please”.

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The player finds out that he has died, and that he has been transported into the afterlife, which is modeled after the religious Ancient Egyptian view. He is greeted by the High god Amun-Ra, who makes him the new God of Death.\nAs The God of Death, the player receives instructions from Amun-Ra in the beginning of each round, which explain which human deserves to go on to Heaven, or be eaten by the monster alligator chimera Ammet.

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To send a person on to Heaven, the green button on the right must be pressed, and to send the person to Hell, the red button must be pressed.

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In each round, there are only 3 wrong-attempts before the game fails the player.

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There are a total of 10 rounds in the game.

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just white screen. Tried in edge and chrome\nConsole:Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()

\n","games":["Death or Gloria"]},{"at":316151112,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"

Unfortunately the javascript is not loading.

\n","games":["Planet B"]},{"at":316261298,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"

It didn’t work in FF, I got\n->Loading module from “https://play.js13kgames.com/assets/index.2cb874db.js” was blocked because of a disallowed MIME type (“text/html”). papyrus-please

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In Chrome, I got\nGET https://play.js13kgames.com/assets/index.e3b0c442.css net::ERR_ABORTED 404\n-> GET https://play.js13kgames.com/assets/index.2cb874db.js net::ERR_ABORTED 404

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It seems the URL for the css and js shouldn’t have the leading “/”

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The github repo is missing, so can’t look any further.

\n","games":["Bee Kind"]},{"at":316486582,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"

Does not load on VR or PC browser.

\n","games":["Soul Jumper"]},{"at":316499944,"author":"Tiago Correia","login":"dosaki","gh":1957450,"url":"https://dosaki.net/","text":"

Doesn’t appear to be working :( but the concept looks pretty cool.

\n","games":["Hell Inc."]},{"at":316531910,"author":"John Edvard","login":"johnedvard","gh":656024,"url":"https://reitgames.com","twitter":"ReitGames","text":"

I couldn’t play this game unfortunately. It doesn’t seem to start in my browser.

\n","games":["Hang by a thread"]},{"typ":2,"at":316649783,"author":"Marc Neuhoff","url":"https://constructarcade.com","twitter":"MCHoff1","text":"

How well was the topic of death integrated into the game?\nI like the idea of taking the role of Osiris and judging.\nThe effects of my actions on me, on the people I judge, and on the God-world are unclear.\nHow well was the game optimized for 13 kilobytes?\nGitHub repo is private.\nThe submission to JS13K references self-hosted JS, that is not available.\nHow well was the game adapted for WebXR?\nOn the desktop, I could move the screen around by moving the mouse and the objects adjusted to my viewing angle.\nThere is no VR or AR mode.\nHow is the design of the game?\nThe color scheme matches the Egyptian theme.\nThe game makes little use of the potential enabled by 3D,VR and AR. The pillars give the appearance of being an object in the room instead of a 2D image as well as the figures are positioned in the room.\nHow is the game interface (intuitive)?\nDue to the clear number of click options, the choices are obvious. It is also understandable that people come through a gate and I should judge by red (bad) and green (good).\nThe game limits itself to a very simple user interface. That leaves only a few possibilities for the player to decide for himself. This method has advantages and disadvantages and should be applied according to the scenario.\nHow is the game experience, getting started, understanding, fun?\nThe storytelling is really good. I, as a player, am very well picked up and brought into the scenario.\nToo many questions remain unanswered or are not clearly communicated to me. What is red and green? Yes, I know red=bad and green=good, but is that always and clear to everyone and shouldn’t the simplest and most self-explanatory game mechanics be mentioned at least briefly? What is the overall goal?\nGames that the user experiences alone the first time, no knowledge, in any form can be assumed. A usually good way is to literally take the user by the hand and walk them through each step, always with the option for the player to speed up or skip.\nThe game ends in “undefined”.

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Doesn’t work. 404 on js13k’s servers, github repo is also removed.

\n"},{"typ":2,"at":316932376,"author":"Josh Marinacci","login":"joshmarinacci","gh":276938,"url":"http://joshondesign.com/","text":"

I couldn’t get the game to load in either my VR headset or desktop browser (Safari and Chrome) so I couldn’t review it properly.

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Only got a white screen, github repo is not found, can’t try to clone project to run game

\n","games":["Tindeath"]},{"typ":2,"at":317228431,"author":"Joao Ruschel","login":"jpauloruschel","gh":6392953,"url":"https://medium.com/@joao.ruschel","twitter":"dejohn_paul","text":"

Unfortunately, I could not load and play this game - although I’m very much curious about it. The usage of the theme, and linking it to Ancient Egyptian religion is quite interesting and unique.

\n"},{"typ":2,"at":317295064,"author":"Fernando Serrano Garcia","login":"fernandojsg","gh":782511,"url":"http://fernandojsg.com","twitter":"fernandojsg","text":"

Sadly it doesn’t seem to work here, I just get erors

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It is unfortunately a 404 on my side :-( and the Github repo seems private preventing to run or look at the code.

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