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A jam submission

Why the Wrong Face?View game page

A game jam point and click adventure game about disguises and treasure.
Submitted by SpringStreetOnline (@playkolaqueen) — 39 minutes, 35 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Visuals#15.0005.000
Audio#33.6673.667
Funness#54.0004.000
Overall#63.9443.944
Puzzle Design#63.6673.667
Characters#73.6673.667
Story#83.6673.667

Ranked from 3 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Judge feedback

Judge feedback is anonymous and shown in a random order.

  • I very much liked this, especially with the style and the face-changing mechanic, as well as the multiple endings! More please!
  • The game looks great and the disguise mechanic is really cool. Just wish there was more to the game so there was more opportunity to use that mechanic in interesting ways.
  • An impressive love letter to the classic point'n'click era. Graphic is great, and the story short but fun. Nice to have two different endings.

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Comments

Submitted (3 edits)

Very cool concept and mechanics.  I liked the art especially the station wagon pulling away from the classic corner bar. I also really liked the characters, but the story would benefit with some refinement in some places. I didn't understand clearly how she got her targets or some of the dialog at the end suggesting the victim knows her or just caught on?

Submitted

Great game! I love the art style and humor. The disguise puzzles are clever and fun. I’d definitely play if you made a longer version. Good job!

Submitted

It's a short, but very charming adventure game. It made me laugh and the disguise mechanic blew my mind at the same time. I don't want to spoiler, but this game has some of the best lines and some characters are too funny. I'd love to see more games like this! 

Submitted

The disguise mechanic is so clever! It's a really cool idea and perfect for the jam theme. Also, I loved all the "special" scenes with the close-ups (inside the car, at the bar, etc). Things like these always show the extra effort put into the game.

Developer(+1)

Thanks!  Initially I thought "cutscenes" would be too complicated because I didn't want to have to redraw them x number if times but then I realized that I already knew what the answer would be so I would only have to do it once.  And then I went wild.  I used to be anti-closeup because I wanted the player to do their own imagining of what the character looks like.  That's because when I first played The Secret of Monkey Island it was jarring to me to see a closeup of Guybrush because I had already developed an idea of what he looked like.  So, my solution here was to simply begin with a partially obscured close-up to split the difference, I guess.  At any rate, thanks for playing and thanks for the kind words and good luck to us all in the judgement!!

Submitted

Really nestalgic graphics! Nice!

Developer

Thanks!  I just love EGA and I can't seem to escape it.

Submitted

Really cool mechanics. I think the idea has legs. Nice to have multiple endings, too (I played both). Good job :)

Developer

Thanks for playing! 

Submitted

You nailed the vibe of the era for sure. I think you are spot on with the theme of the jam as well.

Developer

Hey thanks!  I just love EGA and it really tickles me to make something aesthetically pleasing out of such a strange assortment of super saturation and weirdness.

Great art. I'd pay for a full length heist or spy game in this style :)

I liked that the game mechanics was unclear. Not knowing what the possibilities are is a way to makes puzzles interesting.

Anyway, one thing was a bit confusing. I found two endings, none of them felt like a win, and the game does not tell you if there is a better ending. Is there one? :)

Developer

No, that's all of them.  I intended them to be different kinds of ambiguous.  After some similar feedback however I did make the "rain ending" animation a bit more upbeat but I think now that maybe I should have done a bit more lol.  But thanks for the kind words!  Maybe I will flesh out the mechanic a bit.  If you saw the EGA FaceMaker 3000 (also on my page) there's a ton more "compatible" art that I could use in a larger project.  Thanks again!

Submitted

Very fun concept and great art! Not sure why clicking your face makes it vanish haha but for a short game I enjoyed it a lot :)

Developer(+1)

Oh no that was a debugging trick that I was using to try to get the "stacking" correct that I forgot to remove.  So, Easter egg!