Game released and postmortem


Hello, this is Saitoki

This is a small project released for  Interactive Story  Jam #2 . It's  quite unexpected  and a last-minute  project for me, as I found it out quite late, around  a week before  the Jam ended.

I was lucky I already had this idea flying around in my head for a while, and it combined perfectly  with the format and function  the Spinoff  app offers, so Offline Meeting was created.

There's definitely  some trippy problems in the development  progress. For one, iOS  is not an easy place to manage assets. My PNG artworks must be added one by one from Google drive  because  that is how Apple works. And I struggled  to find a native app that could read my simple  .txt script ( spoiler: Apple note and Google  docs doesn't work). Downloaded ogg doesn't  work with iOS, and getting music file recognized in Apple library  is such a nightmare that I ended  up using a BGM available  in the App ( I'm glad it was there as a choice).

There weren't as many characters  arts in game as I hoped for because  of the time limit, and most of the time was spent  on designing  the interactive  elements  and rendering  special  scenes for the characters. Here is an unfinished  art I didn't  manage to finish  on time to put in the game ( I wanted both Collin and Rai to have their own unique  profile picture)

The week was a crunching  hell with many night of lost sleep, but I'm glad the project went well and turned out almost as I expected.  I finished it 45 minutes  before the Jam which was quite a close call. 

 I will make an update to fix some typos and a few kinks in the game after rating period end.

If you played and enjoyed the game, please vote if possible.  That would be much appreciated!

Files

Offline Meeting.html Play in browser
Oct 01, 2022

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Hi Saitoki, this is Will from the Spinoff team.

First of all, thank you for participating in the jam. Your game was one of the team's favorites. I played it several times and was excited to see all four endings. Also, thank you for the postmortem and valuable feedback.

Spinoff is a new platform released just a few months ago, and we plan to update it rapidly. Perhaps the most significant feature we are working on relevant to your postmortem is the import from the Google Sheets feature. It will enable you to work on scripts and basic game structure on the Google Sheets document, then import it to the game. Initial implementation is almost complete; we just need to integrate it with the app. Works are progressing in many other areas, including design customization options and more streamlined audio support.

Let's keep in touch. Again, thank you!

Hi, thank you for commenting. It's good to know that those new features  are being implemented, it would help creating in Spinoff much easier. Look forward to it :)