Super well crafted game, from story to coherent art to good writing to nice music! Impressive to read that it was made in 2 weeks. Seems to me that you built a proper scifi world for this game, with interesting backstories and tangents, that is also easy to understand by a casual player but deep enough to be entertaining and actually make you think a bit.
I'm super glad it was free because I only stumbled on it by randomly browsing free games. But that being said, I hope you are able to sell some games cause you are good at making them! Congrats and thanks for sharing this game!
Thank you very much for the nice feedback, happy you liked it! Although I should say only the demo was made in two weeks, it took about six more weeks after that to finish the game ;).
...And another comment about your game making in general...
Nitter stopped working again. Elon Musk is doing what he can to stop people from using his toy. Anyway I remember that you already have a Mastodon profile, but didn't update it regularly. Could you please consider doing so, for the sake of Twitter-account-non-owners, who are now locked out of using Twitter "passively", as I call it.
...And it would be great if you updated a bit about how is "The Witch's Lullaby" remake going...
love the story, love the music, love the art. and as a crazy person who loves clicking every single thing they see i think i got the true ending on my playthrough which was v exciting!! lovely lil game
Really great little game. Particularly loved the humour in this one and thought it blended perfectly with the story and world. The puzzles were just at the right level too. Look forward to more!
It looks interesting and I really want to try it! But I'm unable to run it on Linux... After I set the 'execute' permission, it fails with the message: "Shards of God/data/ags64: Permission denied", and I can't figure out what permission it needs.
Pretty good little game although I did have some excessive trouble figuring out what was next. Partly because I would get distracted during the 2 hour conversations and miss something important.
Sure, thanks for giving it a try! I wish there were actually 2 hour conversations, then I could sell it as a full length game ;)... but I get it, as point and clicks go it’s on the dialogue-driven side, and the final suspects-gather-in-the-library scene is bound to test your patience if you’re not that much into the story.
Oh God, I loved your game ! And I had the biggest gaming laugh of my whole life with the "puzzle" joke at the end xD But can't find the secret ending, damn !
This bug should be fixed in version 1.1 (I just tried in Windows and couldn't get rid of the shard) which was uploaded 24 days ago - is it possible you downloaded before that?
And thank you, happy you're enjoying the game! Do you want a hint for the secret ending or do you want to figure it out on your own?
this was one of the most fun and engaging point and click mystery games i've ever played. Loved the entire setting and world of this one , and the writing was sooo good. i'm very excited to see the next game from this creator <3
Thank you very much, I'm flattered! I'm currently working on a full length version of my previous jam game, The Witch's Lullaby - you can find some screenshots and updates here: https://twitter.com/hnzvavra
I rated this game very high (5*), because of the atmosphere, brilliant dialogues, classic whodunit (with the all-people-in-a-room ending) and social commentary. But I forgot about the graphics, which are simply superb. This is a commercial game, period. Great, great work.
Thank you very much! I'm really happy that you appreciate the story and especially the whodunnit elements - trying to do justice to the classic Christie format was one of the main goals with this game.
Great little game! Especially loved the atmosphere and the accessibility of the puzzles, which is definitely a sore point in old-school games likes this most of the time.
This could really work out well in a more extended form: it already has all the content to make a bigger game (especially expanding the last part), and the kind of ending is really worth a longer experience!
Great graphics, I love the good old low resolution. But I also have nothing against pixel art in somewhat higher resolution (especially since the first version of "The Witch's Lullaby" was, unfortunately, rather blurry). ;) It would be great if you went back to posting some updates from that game's remake too...
I loved playing this game for about an hour; however, I must be stupid because I seem to be the only commenter to have found the game difficult! It has great atmosphere and music and animations. I just dont know what the heck Im doing other than bothering about lol.
No worries! Oldchool point and clicks have a specific logic to them. I think the game is easy for people who have played a few of these (like the first three Monkey Islands, Day of the Tentacle, Deponia, etc.), but if you’re not used to the way these games work, I can easily see you scratching your head about what the game wants you to do.
If you let me know what you’ve done so far, I’ll be happy to nudge you in the right direction :).
Thanks for your reply. I forgot to respond to it. By playing around a bit I was able to move past where I was stuck and then enjoyed the rest of the game play. I especially liked the endings and the world-building. Good stuff.
It is supposed beeing of a far greater difficulty being old-school, he still adapted it to the "modern" players to admirable extent, knowing this thou haebbe no reason complaining.
I really liked this game - well done! I think the story structure and the twists worked really well, and the artwork and animations were excellent!
If I had a suggestion, I would just want to advocate for being able to control the music audio level. I definitely enjoyed the music, but some of the violin during Act III was really loud in my ears.
Ha, I'm *just* watching the loud music part of your playthrough as I'm reading this :). Thanks for the feedback, I agree a volume controller would be nice, but I haven't done one in AGS yet and handling sound in this game was already so finicky that I'm afraid I'd break something if I tried to implement it now ;). Will try with the next one!
Všechna čest za tvoji práci. Jsem rád, že tu vidím i nějaké české tvůrce her a mohu jej podpořit. Hra byla naprosto skvělá, jak grafika tak příběh. Fakt jsem se bavil. Jen tak dál 👍
Honza, this is amazing! Your best yet! I'm in awe! I loved the setup and world building from the demo, but you doubled down on everything, it just all works so well. Truly masterful plotting. It was just so satisfying to get to the resolution, have all those pieces fit together so wonderfully. And god, that music and sound design is supurb, really stand-out stuff. You've gotta make a commercial game. If you made something this quality, two or three times the length with VO, you'd be topping GOTY lists for sure. You're all just too damn talented! :D
This is really awesome. It was graphically very pretty (reminded me of Gemini Rue), with great soundtrack. And the story with the twist at the end was perfect. Keep on with it!
Hey Shards of God team! We're both retro streamers and we decided to record a YouTube video for our channel playing this game. If you'd like to take a look at how we're enjoying it, here is the link:
Btw, Honza = Jan, they’re two versions of the same name, like William/Bill. Except here the short one, Jan, is the formal one… don’t ask why, it’s a Czech thing :).
Enjoyable. It really captures that feeling of 90s point-and-click adventure games except the puzzles weren't too obtuse. I think I'll check out your other games.
Thanks a lot, this was a great game, super mood! Fun humour! By the way, do you plan to translate this or your future games into other languages? Even with hobby translators? ^^
Thanks right back at ya! Your rating made my day, the game giving off ancient history documentaries/Planescape: Torment vibes is all I could have hoped for. Translations... maybe? Are you a hobby translator :)?
Yes, mainly for Hungarian. There is a nice community here who'd love the game, I'm sure. I can't PM you on Twitter, so maybe best if you have a look here (desktop advised) and feel free to get in touch if you are interested to make Shards of God accessible for more great folks. ;-)
Ok, thank you for the offer! I might still make some edits to the game's text, but once I'm 100% sure everything is set in stone and start considering translations, I will let you know :).
Can't believe you actually finished it this fast! I'm gonna take my sweet time with this version, and I do remember your hint about the shards and the scale.
I would never pay for a video game. People better make it out of passion and love or not at all, with money, bad people get the idea of well living by simply doing what sells.
Great work as always! The graphics are amazing, the puzzles are good and sensible and the story is epic. The resolution is satisfying and it's worth trying multiple things to get all three of the endings.
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Super well crafted game, from story to coherent art to good writing to nice music! Impressive to read that it was made in 2 weeks. Seems to me that you built a proper scifi world for this game, with interesting backstories and tangents, that is also easy to understand by a casual player but deep enough to be entertaining and actually make you think a bit.
I'm super glad it was free because I only stumbled on it by randomly browsing free games. But that being said, I hope you are able to sell some games cause you are good at making them! Congrats and thanks for sharing this game!
Thank you very much for the nice feedback, happy you liked it! Although I should say only the demo was made in two weeks, it took about six more weeks after that to finish the game ;).
...And another comment about your game making in general...
Nitter stopped working again. Elon Musk is doing what he can to stop people from using his toy. Anyway I remember that you already have a Mastodon profile, but didn't update it regularly. Could you please consider doing so, for the sake of Twitter-account-non-owners, who are now locked out of using Twitter "passively", as I call it.
...And it would be great if you updated a bit about how is "The Witch's Lullaby" remake going...
Who is Elon Musk?
A ridiculously stupid joke set up by the U.S. intelligence community?
A bum who has absolutely nothing in his head?
I already messaged you on the AGS forum when you asked before. Let's only discuss Shards of God here.
love the story, love the music, love the art. and as a crazy person who loves clicking every single thing they see i think i got the true ending on my playthrough which was v exciting!! lovely lil game
Oh, that's great! It's actually signposted pretty heavily if you click on stuff at the right time :). Glad you enjoyed the game!
Really great little game. Particularly loved the humour in this one and thought it blended perfectly with the story and world. The puzzles were just at the right level too. Look forward to more!
Thank you! :)
Hated humour.
Sure it might not be for everyone, but it’s hardly at the level of needing to individually dispute other people’s positive reviews.
Suits the character.
It looks interesting and I really want to try it! But I'm unable to run it on Linux... After I set the 'execute' permission, it fails with the message: "Shards of God/data/ags64: Permission denied", and I can't figure out what permission it needs.
I tried to fix the issue and I've uploaded a new version - can you please let me know if it works now?
Thanks! I tried just now but it is the same: $ ./ShardsofGod
./ShardsofGod: 17: /home/gdwarf/Games/Shards_of_God_Linux_v1.1/Shards of God/data/ags64: Permission denied
Oof, ok, can you try now please?
Wow it works perfectly, thank you so much!
Phew, great! :)
Pretty good little game although I did have some excessive trouble figuring out what was next. Partly because I would get distracted during the 2 hour conversations and miss something important.
Sure, thanks for giving it a try! I wish there were actually 2 hour conversations, then I could sell it as a full length game ;)... but I get it, as point and clicks go it’s on the dialogue-driven side, and the final suspects-gather-in-the-library scene is bound to test your patience if you’re not that much into the story.
In truth, even the length of conversation wouldn't have bothered me if it was possible to pause or rewind/review the conversation.
Either way, I liked the concept and mechanics so I did enjoy it, I just didn't get to experience all of it. So thank you!
Ic share the point.
Oh God, I loved your game !
And I had the biggest gaming laugh of my whole life with the "puzzle" joke at the end xD
But can't find the secret ending, damn !
Oh, I think I found a bug !
Minor spoiler below :
At the end, if you put the ceramic shard out of the little window, it disapears and it seems you're completely stuck !
This bug should be fixed in version 1.1 (I just tried in Windows and couldn't get rid of the shard) which was uploaded 24 days ago - is it possible you downloaded before that?
And thank you, happy you're enjoying the game! Do you want a hint for the secret ending or do you want to figure it out on your own?
I'd welcome a hint because I had no idea there is another ending...
Ok, HEAVY SPOILERS:
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There is something you can do at the very end, just before you enter the secret chamber to vote.
Ah ah xD
I saved over my only save after entering the room ! On to a second playthrough \o/
Got to the third ending !
Truly, a wisely devised game <3
Thanks for creating it !
Pretty sure I played the last version, downloaded it today !
Hmmm, that’s really strange. The Windows one? I couldn’t replicate the bug.
this was one of the most fun and engaging point and click mystery games i've ever played. Loved the entire setting and world of this one , and the writing was sooo good. i'm very excited to see the next game from this creator <3
Thank you very much, I'm flattered! I'm currently working on a full length version of my previous jam game, The Witch's Lullaby - you can find some screenshots and updates here: https://twitter.com/hnzvavra
I rated this game very high (5*), because of the atmosphere, brilliant dialogues, classic whodunit (with the all-people-in-a-room ending) and social commentary. But I forgot about the graphics, which are simply superb. This is a commercial game, period. Great, great work.
Thank you very much! I'm really happy that you appreciate the story and especially the whodunnit elements - trying to do justice to the classic Christie format was one of the main goals with this game.
Great little game! Especially loved the atmosphere and the accessibility of the puzzles, which is definitely a sore point in old-school games likes this most of the time.
This could really work out well in a more extended form: it already has all the content to make a bigger game (especially expanding the last part), and the kind of ending is really worth a longer experience!
Thank you! I'm working on another bigger game at the moment, but who knows - maybe Ava and Tiabata will return in a longer story one day.
Ic thinkes and wanteth the same.
Great graphics, I love the good old low resolution. But I also have nothing against pixel art in somewhat higher resolution (especially since the first version of "The Witch's Lullaby" was, unfortunately, rather blurry). ;) It would be great if you went back to posting some updates from that game's remake too...
I loved playing this game for about an hour; however, I must be stupid because I seem to be the only commenter to have found the game difficult! It has great atmosphere and music and animations. I just dont know what the heck Im doing other than bothering about lol.
No worries! Oldchool point and clicks have a specific logic to them. I think the game is easy for people who have played a few of these (like the first three Monkey Islands, Day of the Tentacle, Deponia, etc.), but if you’re not used to the way these games work, I can easily see you scratching your head about what the game wants you to do.
If you let me know what you’ve done so far, I’ll be happy to nudge you in the right direction :).
Thanks for your reply. I forgot to respond to it. By playing around a bit I was able to move past where I was stuck and then enjoyed the rest of the game play. I especially liked the endings and the world-building. Good stuff.
It is supposed beeing of a far greater difficulty being old-school, he still adapted it to the "modern" players to admirable extent, knowing this thou haebbe no reason complaining.
I loved the game, the puzzles were made perfectly without any annoying obscure solutions. The ending was pretty okay aswell.
Thanks!
The game was a delight! You should be really proud of your work
Thank you!
I really liked this game - well done! I think the story structure and the twists worked really well, and the artwork and animations were excellent!
If I had a suggestion, I would just want to advocate for being able to control the music audio level. I definitely enjoyed the music, but some of the violin during Act III was really loud in my ears.
Ha, I'm *just* watching the loud music part of your playthrough as I'm reading this :). Thanks for the feedback, I agree a volume controller would be nice, but I haven't done one in AGS yet and handling sound in this game was already so finicky that I'm afraid I'd break something if I tried to implement it now ;). Will try with the next one!
Great piece of work! Amazinig art and elaborated story! I really enjoyed the plot twist and there was some extra fun with the endings.
Thanks, happy you enjoyed it!
This was a lot of fun. The character animation was amazing!
Thank you! :)
This was really good! Well done!
Thanks!
Wow, an absolute gem. Big congrats! Secret ending was perfect 👍
Thanks, happy it's not *too* secret and some people get to see it! :)
I cried at the end, thank you ❤️
Hope it was the good kind of crying! Glad you enjoyed it, thank you for playing.
Oh that was brilliant! The mystery, the pixel art, the music, loved it!
Thanks, happy you liked it!
wow just played through all of this and i thought it was amazing. fantastic work guys
Thank you!
Love the game. The story is interesting, and the pixel art is perfect. I especially love the wide eyes of shock as it reminds me of Polda 1.
Thank you, happy you like it! I should finally play Polda one day, somehow never got to that one. Donkey Island & Dračí historie rule though!
This game is amazing.
Všechna čest za tvoji práci. Jsem rád, že tu vidím i nějaké české tvůrce her a mohu jej podpořit. Hra byla naprosto skvělá, jak grafika tak příběh. Fakt jsem se bavil. Jen tak dál 👍
Děkuji
Díky moc, jsem rád že se líbilo! Děkuju za podporu, budu se snažit na itchi nadále plnit vlasteneckou povinnost a reprezentovat :).
Absolutely loved this little bite-sized adventure. Great writing, fantastic graphics, fitting music. I want more! :D
Thank you very much!
This game is very good.
Blends really well the serious and humorous bits. I really recommend it to lovers of the genre and of stories.
Thank you for the nice comment, and also for the feedback in your rating! Much appreciated.
Incredible completed work. Even better than I expected from the jam demo. Also I did guess a certain plot point correct.
Happy you liked it, and congrats on the guess, but can you please edit your post to avoid spoilers? Thanks!
What an absolute gem! Top notch writing, graphics, music, and puzzle design!
Thank you!
Honza, this is amazing! Your best yet! I'm in awe! I loved the setup and world building from the demo, but you doubled down on everything, it just all works so well. Truly masterful plotting. It was just so satisfying to get to the resolution, have all those pieces fit together so wonderfully. And god, that music and sound design is supurb, really stand-out stuff. You've gotta make a commercial game. If you made something this quality, two or three times the length with VO, you'd be topping GOTY lists for sure. You're all just too damn talented! :D
Thank you so much Dave, I'm very flattered! And, well, yeah, a commercial game is the dream :).
This is really awesome. It was graphically very pretty (reminded me of Gemini Rue), with great soundtrack. And the story with the twist at the end was perfect. Keep on with it!
Thank you, will do!
This concept is so good.
- Art is on point great retro pixel art
- The story has me hooked!!!
- A mystery set in a Dune-esque world? Sign me in!!!
Thanks, glad you're having a good time!
Hey Shards of God team! We're both retro streamers and we decided to record a YouTube video for our channel playing this game. If you'd like to take a look at how we're enjoying it, here is the link:
Nice, looking forward to the next one!
Btw, Honza = Jan, they’re two versions of the same name, like William/Bill. Except here the short one, Jan, is the formal one… don’t ask why, it’s a Czech thing :).
Enjoyable. It really captures that feeling of 90s point-and-click adventure games except the puzzles weren't too obtuse. I think I'll check out your other games.
Thanks, hope you enjoy those too!
Thanks a lot, this was a great game, super mood! Fun humour! By the way, do you plan to translate this or your future games into other languages? Even with hobby translators? ^^
Thanks right back at ya! Your rating made my day, the game giving off ancient history documentaries/Planescape: Torment vibes is all I could have hoped for. Translations... maybe? Are you a hobby translator :)?
Yes, mainly for Hungarian. There is a nice community here who'd love the game, I'm sure. I can't PM you on Twitter, so maybe best if you have a look here (desktop advised) and feel free to get in touch if you are interested to make Shards of God accessible for more great folks. ;-)
Ok, thank you for the offer! I might still make some edits to the game's text, but once I'm 100% sure everything is set in stone and start considering translations, I will let you know :).
Great game! The final version was worth the wait. Great endings (love a secret ending)
Thanks, Emma! :)
There is no ending to thine sentence.
Can't believe you actually finished it this fast! I'm gonna take my sweet time with this version, and I do remember your hint about the shards and the scale.
Take all the time you need, and get some sleep :)!
A magnificent job both in the graphic aspect and in the soundtrack.
The animations are great, and the story is exciting.
Don't stop contributing with some money to the creators because it's worth every penny.
Congratulations.
Gracias Tranqui!
Thank you :)!
I would never pay for a video game. People better make it out of passion and love or not at all, with money, bad people get the idea of well living by simply doing what sells.
Thanks to everyone for the kind words. Here is the OST for your aural pleasure: https://soundcloud.com/pacodiago/sets/shards-of-god
Great work as always! The graphics are amazing, the puzzles are good and sensible and the story is epic. The resolution is satisfying and it's worth trying multiple things to get all three of the endings.
Thank you, Steven!