plastic coquina
plastic coquina is a narrative dress-up game about reassembling yourself alongside a doll
Made for the DOLL & KIGU Jam
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Made by broken rotten
Bluzo: Art + Writing (website, bsky)
Goblincat: Art (website, bsky)
Jemi: Music (bandcamp, nina)
Zeno: Programming (itch.io)
SFX Used:
Atelier Magicae
MattRuthSound
Soundque Productions
Kenney
Sadiquecat
Yuval
Development log
- Plastic Coquina Tech Discussion17 days ago
- Writing and general development19 days ago
- Bug Fix Update22 days ago
Comments
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What a delightful game! Here's my doll, I named her Half-Moon Solstice~~
Wow this was soooo beautiful! I absolutely adored this game and it really made me feel warm and safe :) I swear I could listen to the music forever ad live in the visuals. I made two dolls one with items I wanted and one with whatever items I touched first and that was so fun!!
this game was so adorable and charming and really brought a smile to my face!!
i played again to see more of the options and here's the second doll :)
BEHOLD!!! (also the music in this game is so good)
This was wonderful. You were able to get so much personality and life out of the belongings the main character owned and what they meant to them and it's so cool seeing everyone's dolls in these comments and seeing what that meant that people prioritised for the character they were making in how they played the game?? Also just beautiful. You guys always make the coolest stuff.
This was so lovely! I love little rituals to ground myself in a new place or in unsure times, so this hit just right.
Amazing game!
Omg this looks so adorable
Such a beautiful game!! It's so dreamlike... I had so much fun making my girl ;w;
this was enchanting, i loved the whole process (and i love this doll so much)
ended up playing again and got this!! i love her too
Cute
Surprising
awesome game, really lovely execution, and seriously charming!! ended up super engrossed in the layout of the NDS-like interface and the room itself. LOVE the details it oozes, will be thinking about this a while.
lovely. Loved the variety!
really cool game!! the music and writing are effective and the designs for the mazes were so unique!!
i love my doll think she came out very cute!!
thaank yoou!! amet really did an amazing job with the maze designs + art, they look so stunning and are also so relaxing to move through... happy you enjoyed!
What a beautiful, lovely, sweet, outstanding game. I cannot stress enough how touching this is.
Each moving piece to this creation works with each other perfectly. Nothing felt out of place-- I can tell that everyone involved really put their best foot forward and connected to create something so touching. The desk growing cluttered with dolly materials was awfully familiar hehe...
I will be playing this over and over again to see what combinations I may end up with, but attached is my first :,3 Thank you all for creating something so spectacular, and thank you so very much for participating in the jam!!!
pilot T_T thank you for organizing such a wonderful jam!!! it's been so fun to make something for it, and i'm happy you felt so touched by what we all put together <3 and i love your doll, this is one of my favorite heads...
this is such a freaking cool concept with such attention to detail packed into something so short! honestly so impressed, and i love how everyone is sharing what they got!! great work :D
thank you!! and yes we're all over the moon so many people are sharing their dolls, we really love seeing them (and with that finding out which items spoke the most to people)... <33
What a sweet game! The art and music and dreamy feeling of the prose all add such a lovely depth to the game, and I love how it's up to the player to choose the items they want to keep, however they want to interpret the items! I also really love the old Nintendo DS feeling of the UI, it's so charming and nostalgic! Thank you for creating and sharing such a cute and lovely game~!
thank you so much for such kind and lovely words :,) adding in the music really felt like the special glue to tie together the game, jemi did a wonderful job
OMG this was so cool!!! I love the music and artstyle and just how much is implied with the changing layout of your room and the tiny descriptions of the pieces you collect. This is the first game I’ve tried from the doll+kigu jam and it’s setting a high bar ^^ I had a great time with this
thanks for playing!! we are in very very good company in this jam, pilot's really organized something incredible. i hope you enjoy the other entries :)
Wow this was such a cute little game! I liked the different little sections between the narrative, the tiny search and find, and then the maze to pick out your pieces for the doll. I just went with what I liked, but I'd be very curious to see what all the different combos could be!
Question - were you supposed to be able to retry any section for a new part? I only got the option to take or leave a piece starting with the hair, so my head and body were already locked in
Hi Jay, thanks so much for playing our game, cute doll!
The game doesn't have any kind of "retry for a different piece" within a single game session, but it's hopefully short enough that if you wanted to try for something different you could replay it sometime :)
Lovely little game, thank you much for making it.
this game was so cute and really fun!!
So cute!!!
played again to see more options :3
very cool concept for a dress up game! would love to see what outputs all the combinations have.
also minor bug report: combining the scales + button made the doll disappear!
Hi, thanks for playing our game and I'm glad you enjoyed it.
If you have the time and wouldn't mind helping me track down that bug, would you be able to provide some more details around what happened? I'm guessing you were combining the blue sequins and the brown button when making the doll's eyes, and that made the doll disappear from the main area? Did it come back afterwards or did it stay missing?
Any extra info helps, but totally optional. Thanks again!
i think for the first stage i had the flower ring + fang. i don't remember the second stage unfortunately, but after the third stage when i combined the blue sequins and the brown button, the resulting area where the doll would've been was empty, even when back at the desk area. i refreshed the page after that however, so im not sure if it stayed missing. thanks for the reply!
Thanks for the additional detail, I'll look into it!
It was such a tender experience to build the doll while the room came together. Every element of this game was so intricate and shiny and elegant without being superfluous... Really looking forward to anything this team cooks up next. Go make some dolls!!
your doll turned out so lovely... !! and thank you so much from the kind words, it means a lot coming from you :,) let's all go make dolls
BEYOND charming and BEYOND beautiful. I am reverent.
thank you so much for playing, so happy you enjoyed!!
Really beautiful writing and loved the artstyle. A super interesting concept for a dress up game. I totally look forward to seeing more from the creator!
Omg what a matchy doll!! Thank you for playing!!
wowww i adore this look!! and thank you for the lovely comment!
hooray for playing dolls ^_^
YIPPEE DOLLS!!
ty for playing!!
first attempt was sorta like.. trying to make a character? finding a theming and trying to stick with it. i think i did well enough!! second attempt is what spoke to me personally and i'm much more fond of it.. <3 what a delightful game i had so much fun playing (and will do a few more attempts of once i post this, hehe) i absolutely love this gameplay it's so. unique? or unfamiliar to me at least. but it scratched a very specific itch in my brain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WAAA i love them both!! It's super interesting to see the differences :0 thank you for playing!!
i felt like i was in a daze when played this. it was a great experience, thank you for creating it!
Thank you for playing and showing us your doll!!
she's so cute I want to make dolls now
yayyy I hope u do, dollmaking is so fun both irl and digitally haha. thank u for playing!
Cute <3
thank u for playing and for showing us ur doll!!
I love my totally normal doll #mydoll
thank u for playing!!
This was super charming! It took me a few moments to figure out how the maze worked (I thought that I had to select items before I started walking), but I really enjoyed the presentation. The unpacking of the boxes over the days told a nice story.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!! Drawing all the box bgs was a lot of work haha but I think it was worth. Thank you for playing!!
I ended up with a very nautical doll! Makes sense with all the sea themed items I chose. The descriptions for each item were very lovely; they were very personal yet they also sounded like something that I would own (like the museum pamphlet). The minigame to pick which items to make the doll was cute. I was stumped at times because each item, despite the short descriptions and time I owned them, were hard to part with.
"despite the short descriptions and time I owned them, were hard to part with." <- this is soooo sweet :') Thank you for your kind words and for showing us your doll!
really so, so happy to hear this... thank you so much for playing and for leaving such a kind comment <3
This was such a well-designed game! I loved how it took me back playing on the DS, how I wished I had a stylus when selecting on the all the pieces and guiding the doll through the beautiful labyrinths. I also rly enjoyed just how charming the writing was, detailing our player's life, giving hints to their outside world while finding a comfort in dollmaking/past while navigating a new place.
My doll turned out really cute, and I can't wait to replay see the other combinations <3
omg yes, we were inspired by the DS and I'm so happy you saw our vision haha. thank you for playing!!