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A jam submission

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Switch between a puppy and an old dog in order to find clues and get home safe!
Submitted by Cookie Box Games, Meeka (@MeekaTime), Kirk Tiller (@kirktillermusic) — 1 hour, 35 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#22.3572.500
Originality#23.3003.500
Presentation#23.3003.500

Ranked from 4 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

(+1)

The lovely old slow doggo and his rapid pupper chum that can do a 720 in mid-air have an adventure around the city looking for toys and treats

A cute 3rd person doggo collect-a-thon that just goes to show what can happen when the young and old work together with a sweet real time switching mechanic.

A nice adventure from Cookie Box Games, some serious thought and effort was put into this, and the audiovisual juxtaposition between the old and slow and young and fast was a really creative idea.    

Stuff I liked:

  • Mechanically solid, very quick to pick up
  • Great animation work on the dogs in a short space of time
  • Thematically on point
  • Very cute theme song - I absolutely loved how the same song changed between the dogs!
  • The low poly 3D choice was decently executed and ambitious for a short jam!
  • Felt like a dog frolicking simulator, lots of room for other things! I would like to have seen what you could do with some more time.

Improvements for next time:

  • "Fiddliness" / bugfixes 
    • I couldn't seem to get the traffic lights to activate to get the old dog to cross the road after the first time
    • Whilst messing around doing mid-air 720s with the puppy, I somehow managed to get my controls completely misaligned so that W (forward) was sending me right
  • An in game tutorial would've been a nice touch
  • A personal preference, but I would've liked it if both dogs were faster! The game was a little slow paced at time
  • The range of the sniff seemed like it could have been bigger, whilst there's a fun element to the exploration, I genuinely started to feel like a lost puppy at times
  • Some kind of extra reward or acknowledgement when I collected all of the Collect-kibbles would've been cool

Great job team, looking forward to  more!

Submitted(+2)

doggo

Developer(+1)

pupper