Njuma

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"Njuma" is a very badly made 2D retro pixel "narrative adventure" where you move a pixel blob around a JRPG looking game with themes of death and the afterlife. It wasn't sincerely made, it's game jam drivel, slapped together quickly in a weekend. Just like you can drive a car using only your feet, you can slap together a game in the space of a weekend at a game jam... and it's going to end in disaster. Yes, game jams do make amateur developers who can't get a job as real game developers feel good about themselves. But they don't produce professionally made games of high quality... we have to remember the gaming industry must be about the gamers, not amateur developers. It doesn't help the industry at all for all these low quality products to be published in places where sincerely made, full, high quality games are. But amateur developers almost never consider what's good for you, the gamer. This features really godawful, lazy pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that t…

very short and sweet game! only made sense to me in the secret modes though!

Interesting but short, and cute graphics. I liked the two modes revealed at the end scene :)

Well, that's one way to process a child dying in a car accident...

Short, neat, and mysterious