#rorojam

WE MADE A ROBOKO GAME 🔌⚡

This is a work of interactive fiction about the value of emotional connection as a fundamental aspect of a relationship. Safe for work. Estimated play time is around 50 minutes. made over a couple months for the Robotic Romance Jam!

playable only on full-width browser, not mobile friendly sorry...!! dev/art/story by itpuddle ft. writing by raikonos

The Robotic Romance Jam is LIVE!!!!!

make a comic! a short story! a game! a digital toy! a zine! Make something cute, dark, erotic or obtuse! Whatever you want! Just show us that you love robots and have fun doing it!!!

Good luck everybody! 🔌🤍⚡️

happy to share that i released a vn with my friend 23noko. i had the honor of doing the illustrations! ukagakas. love. and robots. check it out!

I PUBLISHED IT

GO READ NOW NOW NOW (if you wantt)

[NEW VN]

Our new Robot Romance Visual novel [RETURN Machine.Love()] is out now!

3 Stories about machines finding love in a dreadful world

Killer Robot x Fungal Hivemind yuri

Scavenger x Metal Wanderer yaoi

Post-Apoc Robot x Weapons Satellite Yuri

[Upcoming VN] "RETURN Machine.Love()" is an upcoming Visual Novel made for the Robotic Romance Jam!

3 Short stories of mechanical beings finding love in a dreadful world!

Each story made by humans, for humans.

i love a girl is listed as a "Comic". Is it actually a comic? I could get all Scott McCloud on this question. But surely I'm overthinking it; it's probably just listed as such because Itch doesn't have a visual art category besides "Game assets".

I'm a big fan of collage and mixed media. I find myself really drawn to pieces of art where you can see the physical texture of the materials used. Including the zoom screen on the right is really great for being able to see those details. I could explore it for like an hour. My one complaint isn't really your fault and it's that itch's navigation buttons in the top right obstruct the zoom screen a bit.

The poem itself is very sweet. And there's actual blood on there. Awesome.

Flat Galaxy is a one-button arcade game which was submitted to 4 different jams and doesn't fit the theme all that well. The main character's a robot, there's not much story besides a little blurb before each level. It is not a romance story, at least not as far as I got.

The soundtrack is nice! It's not stock music. The pieces of text are flavorful, if scant. The thick lines on the vector graphics make the character hard to read sometimes.

Let's talk about the gameplay.

It's a good arcade formula, a very simple setup with a looping level made of blocks that you're slowly plummeting into, and you have to laser away the blocks before you crash into them. You can get a good idea of what it's like from the youtube channel.

I found it frustrating at times, as my reaction times aren't the best, and the levels seem to have a very tight tolerance for how many mistakes you can make, even the early ones. When you miss a pillar that you know is going to be too high the next time around but still have to go through the whole thing, it feels bad. I wish there was some way to regain height. I think maybe you do when you laser a block that's close enough underneath you? I'm not sure, it plays a different sound effect but if it does gain you height it's subtle enough that it's hard to tell and it definitely doesn't make enough of a difference to save you in such a scenario.

Later levels increase the number of blocks you laser at once, but I wish there was more gameplay variation. Maybe special blocks that give you some sort of powerup? IDK