Personality test by kanity
This time I wanted to make something cute and girly, but it turned out as always - with a dash of horror (still very girly though, I swear!)
A tip: If you can't find a code... check the furniture! Notice something off?
PLOT: You found a book with an unusual personality test. WHICH TINY CREATURE ARE YOU? Let's find out!
IMPORTANT: The game is just for fun, like any other personality test, so don't take it too seriously. Don't forget to adjust audio volume and autorun in the Options.
CONTROLS: Move with arrow keys and interact with Enter. You can also use your mouse, but this method is less reliable.
CREDIT: Everything is done by me, Kanity. Art and music is all mine, I drew my own tileset, item icons, etc. Story and poetry, and voice acting - that's all me! The only melody I didn't write is in the labyrinth - I have recorded my music box in a form of Nutcracker that I bought once on a Christmas market ^v^/
ENDINGS: There are 72 different creatures, but the ending is ALWAYS THE SAME with only ONE exception - the secret ending! The idea is to give you more result options so more people can get different creatures as their "tiny creature" and we can have fun sharing our results! <3
Try delicious desserts
Listen to poetry
Uncover WHICH tiny creature are YOU! (out of 72!)
~I've only tested the game on Windows~ ~Please report bugs if you find any; thank you!~
Developer playthrough with commentary:
https://youtu.be/j7E9s24wLMk?si=NPTm2rmnIXY-8Lgg
Play in HTML on itch.io: https://kanity.itch.io/personality-test
(!) HTML version is now updated. Please note it was done after the jam. Jam version is still available to download, however the changes are all technical and don’t change the game itself.
UPDATED VERSION:
-Fixed a typo
-Fixed animation
-Added subtitles in the end
-Added an original icon for the message window instead of RPG Maker’s white triangle
Ratings
| Overall | 538th | 3.565⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 603th | 3.326⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 463th | 3.402⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 632th | 3.578⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 529th | 3.691⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 191th | 3.777⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 577th | 2.977⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 223th | 3.924⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 40🗳️ | 82🗨️ |
The beginning was a point / click adventure-like game. I like how you made lots of interactable objects. The real purpose of the game was a bidden yet. The personality test was fun to do, lots of little tasks to do. I was expecting a quiz-like experience, but this was more than that.
At the end I realized that the tiny critters that were scattered all around the book-store most likely were other nosy people who did the test?
My personality: Smilecute :-)
~~Question: what game engine / editor did you use?~~ Nevermind, you put it on the titlescreen in the biggest font imaginealble :sweat_smile:
And i think there is a mistake in the script ?
@mitsukoy I am glad it was fun! And that's my voice, I kinda wanted it to be weird so I added a "robot" filter on it as it gave it more other-worldly feeling that I was going for :') Can you please elaborate on the mistake? I am not seeing it, but I am not a native English speaker so maybe I am missing something? EDIT: I was told directly about the mistake and gosh I was reading the whole word and didn't see that AT ALL. How embarrassing! ;_;
Here's my result:
And I think what @mitsukoy meant was that it was supposed to be "insect" ;)
Would have been cool if the last voiceover would also have been accompanied by subtitles.
All in all, a different take on the theme that I really enjoyed!
The visual parts of the game are good too, considering it was created by you. My game doesn't even have any music to begin with, so it's another plus points for managing to add some tunes to your game.
I think more "test" should be like this. Put the person into situations and consider their actions instead of just taking their responses as a source of truth.
In the very end, it looks like there is no subtitles for the final speech. All other parts of the game had the subtitles so I was caught off-guard. :D
Upd. I've read the comments and it's insane that those insects were humans. Makes me kinda sad. We've done nothing wrong. :'(
I am glad you enjoyed, and yeah I probably should have added subtitles in the end, didn't think about it as it was nearing the end of the jam ^^' Maybe I should post the full poem here at least for reference.
Also, you got one of my faves! Thank you for sharing your result <3
@quasilyte Thank you :) I hoped to make more mini-games (like treasure hunt instead of just choosing the chest) but art really did take such a huge chunk of time! The idea was exactly to "game-ify" personality tests :)
And really can recommend beepbox for making simple tunes pretty fast! (I spent more time recording voice over in the end than making my tunes ^^')
Sorry about no subtitles in the end... I was kinda in a rush already and didn't think about it at all ;v; I'll add them to the polished version >_<
And about the story: yeah the thing is the "villain" behind that, bookshop owner who made that book, sincerely believes that people would *want* to become magical insects and thinks they would love it; there is only 1 good ending for Mausu (Main Character) in this game that you can get with a chance of 1 out of 72 where (spoiler I suppose!) she stays human.
Also, you got a nice result! :) It makes me happy to see results shared <3
also i found it very cool that you took time to add many hidden infos on objects of the first "level", made me want to interact with every object, well done!
I'm glad you put the text for the final poem on itch because I found that part hard to understand clearly.
A lovely jam entry and well made!
Edit: I got the shellshock (oh no ive forgotten the name already im so sorry! I know its something like that!)
@svenerik thank you, adding poetry was a spontaneous decision, glad it worked out ^v^
@balimaarthebassfish ohh you got one of the funny ones! I love it xD Shockshell - you got it pretty much right :)
i was not unhappy with the first one, i just wanted to see more haha and the second one was so cool that i stopped there lol
here was the first one:
I also noticed one text box said incest instead of insect, oops. But that's just a tiny thing :D
Hand-drawn art is very cool and a great fit. 72 creatures is extremely impressive!
I loved the fourth wall breaks and the breadcrumbs in the level that hinted at what was to come! Attention to detail is always fun.
The music also reminded me of this from Kings Quest 7! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Tq0y-PZkY If you play this at 1.25X speed, it sounds kinda similar :P Fun!
@historymaker118 Ah I think you mentioned on stream you got Dustbug! It's one of my favs too, so cozy ^v^ And thank you for your sweet words <3
@fabula-rasa Your words made me really happy! Thank you for always playing my games and glad you enjoy my interpretation <3
Gosh, I just saw I didn't click "follow" on your page and I was wondering why I didn't get notification of your game published and had to look for it... I thought I was following already 3_3
Also, love your result! First green creature I see someone get, too! ^v^/
@langotriel Hehe you got a cutie as your creature ^v^ I didn't play Kings Quest 7 but I like this melody so I'll take it as a compliment >:) I suspect you reference music that plays in Main menu and some of the rooms. I wrote a super quick melody on the fly in BeepBox that has just 1 instrument and is quite short, but I was happy with it as music is the hardest part for me :3
I had a lot o fun on stream watching @burchyn plays and then speed-running your game to find my own spirit-bug.
I also would like to thank you as part of the community, when writing my feedback on multiple games today, I saw that you posted a detailed feedback on many of them, if I could give you a gold-pin award I would!
Thanks a lot for making this quiz and being wholesome!
@andreia I am glad I got the creepy vibes across and that you liked the game, thank you! <3 I spent all three days working on it nonstop ^^
Love it :smiley:
@ecaterina Thank you for such a sweet review and for sharing your result <3 You got one of rare kitties!
Tbh, I am not even sure *what* genre it is myself, to be honest... but I am glad you enjoyed it :)
@xparker Good result, hope you like to sing? x)
@vipaka Thanks :) If I understand you correctly: it's only unskippable in the intro and outro because I wanted audio to be synchronized and play out with text, then you can click through dialogue pretty fast. And if you mean "skip automatically" like in RenPy, I don't think it's needed here as it's not a visual novel and you are only meant to play through it once :)
I love your games Kanity, please never stop making games! :heart:
You did a really good job on the mood this time, the poems, voice acting and music+sound effects really gave off this eery vibe.
And ahh thank you I absolutely won't stop, I love the process so much and then people playing and enjoying the game I made makes me soooo happy! <3
@fupi yay thank you, I am glad you got an eerie vibe and love your result, I made most of the creatures cute but some are more "funny" or even "eerie" =P
@pearstar37 thank you, glad you liked the art ^^
I love that you made so many tiny creatures; scrolling through the comments is very satisfying. I regret not screenshotting my Interitty.
I did find the choices a bit confusing, though. I would have liked an "are you sure?" confirmation when choosing between boxes or desserts or such.
Nice work on the voiceover. It's so rare to have that in Jams, and it's a really neat texture.
Great stuff. Looking forward to your next one!
What a lovely little game. I found the description funnily accurate as I make games for retro platforms. :D
**(You appreciate neutrality in everything, but don’t enjoy others invading your personal space. You always make sure to consider all the opportunities.)**
@itsboats Ohh you got a dragonfly creature! Lucky x) I kinda started making encyclopedia but at the same time I think it's kinda cool that you can see other creatures through looking at results of others x)
@samuli Wow that's cool that the result fits! x3
P.S. My favourite "retro platform" is MS-DOS ^v^
I guess the main thing is seeing all the different creatures (funny to see a poké ball in one of the chests as a nod to that) but of course there's more here in terms of the story, with the intro, the background information, the poems, and whatever mystery is going on here… I feel silly for not realising before reading Wouter's comment that the creatures jumping around at the beginning must've been previous visitors. Pondering the poetry too, and whether there's a meaning beyond the game. Obviously there was some meta stuff referring to the jam, but… :p
Moody and creepy, has a similar vibe to your last game. Great work on the audio, my only complaint would be that the audio levels were a bit unbalanced (e.g. saving sound was quite loud).
Cool stuff. Once again you've left me thinking… 🤔 Will try to see more of the creatures.
anyone like mine?
I'm genuinely thrilled that I returned to find this game—it's truly something special.
You can definitely notice the personal touch, with the dialogues, the sounds, and the texts. It's all really well done.
By the way, it doesn't say at the beginning, but I think, like in every RPG Maker game, you can move by clicking on things with the left mouse button. This might actually be a faster way to interact with objects.
There *is* a story behind the game. I wonder if you have a theory? ;D
Thank you for the note about audio levels! I noticed myself that poetry seems quiet. I'll try work it out better next time, still new to audio design after all, so to say x)
Also, glad you found it creepy and it left you thinking as well. Thank you for such a sweet and detailed comment! <3 It makes me so happy when people genuienly enjoy the game ^v^
About the mouse - yeah, I think so, though there is a moment that for example, people would click on the book itself in the book shop and get no result as you need to interact with the lower "tile" and might get confused as what to do 3_3
Also based on the hint you gave on the twitch stream I was able to find the combination for the secret ending :). Even knowing the first 2 it still took me 3 tries to get it right. Very neat!
@jkyd Aw thank you! I had fun drawing all the desserts >:)
