Tentaculord: The horniest game of Strawberry Jam 8

I am honored that my fellow developers in Strawberry Jam 8 voted my game Tentaculord into 1st place among 76 in both the categories "Horny" and "Harmony", making it officially the horniest game of the jam.

Further, the game also ranked #4 in the category "Kink". Which is rather impressive, considering that one part of the prompt for the jam was "Show us your weird kink". And many of the other participants really took that to heart. I am also proud of Tentaculord's abysmal rating in the "Stealth" category, where it ranked 5th to last place. Because Tentaculord is anything but coy about its depraved nature, and proudly so.

I was a bit surprised that the game didn't do too well in the "Narrative" category, considering that many of my fellow participants complimented the way I wrote the character monologue and the dynamic between her and the player/monster. But on the other hand I do have to admit that Tentaculord is really just porn without plot. There is no setup, no worldbuilding, no buildup to the action and only two characters with one of them not even having a name and the other being mute. Nothing compared to what the top games delivered in this category.

Overall I have to say that I am pretty satisfied with the way the game turned out. Sure, I didn't get around to do everything I had planned during the jam time limit, but overall I completed all the major development goals. And the performance with the general itch.io population was pretty decent as well. In the 15 days since the release it was downloaded 720 times, played 9119 times in the browser and got added to 160 personal collections. Which are all already slightly higher numbers than my last game Fling League, which is out for over half a year. 

But most importantly, I had a great time creating it. And that's what game jams are all about. And I definitely plan to participate again in next year's Strawberry Jam.