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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #7 | 4.169 | 4.169 |
| Innovation | #51 | 3.692 | 3.692 |
| Theme | #62 | 3.969 | 3.969 |
| Overall | #63 | 3.662 | 3.662 |
| Fun | #99 | 3.569 | 3.569 |
| Game Design | #126 | 3.492 | 3.492 |
| Graphics | #322 | 3.077 | 3.077 |
Ranked from 65 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
The game is about a guy called Andrew who is desperately trying to get through his front door to meet his date.
Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
All the code was written from scratch. The assets were partially made from scratch, and otherwise sourced from sketchfab and epidemic sound.
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I really enjoyed it. My son actually tried the game and found a 'secret room' as he said it, in the downstairs bathroom. It's kind of funny chasing the door and fridge. I had fun playing your game. All in all, it's a nice game.
If I want to comment a bit, probably you should fix the door LOD and maybe add a center mark to know when I should be pointing my mouse at.
Thanks to you and your son for playing - I'm happy you enjoyed :) I'm glad that your son found the secret room that we very intentionally created and definitely knew to exist.
Yeah, not sure what is causing the LOD bug on the door - will look into that. And the center mark is a good idea!
Really enjoyed this! You were right. Our games do touch on some similar territory! Yours definitely reminded me of my friend's game The Static Speaks My Name and some other things - I'm assuming Stanley Parable was an inspiration as well. Loved the voice acting and the core concept too!
Thanks again for checking out Untangled. And congrats on finishing the jam!
Thanks for playing and the kind words!! Ohh your friend's game something part of this jam or available somewhere else? I love Stanley parable- even though I can't say it was a conscious influence, I'm sure it was an indirect one. :)
The Static Speaks My Name was originally a Ludum Dare game that was expanded. I believe it's still free on Steam if you want to check it out! Now I'm curious. What would you say your direct influences were? :) And seriously, great job with the VO!
Oh sweet, I’ll check it out then - thanks for letting me know about it. :) Hmm, well when we had decided on the premise of ‘a door running away from the player’, I remembered a chase scene from the end of this indie game “Gravity Bone” that I always found simple yet very fun. Otherwise, I’ve been watching BoJack Horseman lately (not yet done with it though!) - I think it’s great at showing something comedic and entertaining but then switching to a darker tone, hitting you with something ‘real’. I guess that’s what I was going for in the writing as well where it’s sorta funny that this weird door is running away from you until you slowly discover there’s a serious and personal reason for it. For the music, I was referencing BoJack and The Curse (Nathan Fielder’s new show) - they both have these interesting synth/electronic tracks that give you this ambiguous feeling, and I was looking for something similar. But yeah- those are the conscious influences, but the games I love most (What Remains of Edith Finch, The Beginner’s Guide, Stanley Parable, Dr. Langeskov, Firewatch, etc.) are all certainly indirect influences too. :)
And thank you, the VO/writing was personally my favourite part of the process. :)
That's awesome and makes total sense! Those influences come across very strongly. Nice work! And Bojack is a fave of mine as well. Enjoy! Haven't started The Curse, but I need to.
Interesting game! However, sometimes it's not clear enough what to do to progress. Also, some of the collisions weird and I was able to get stuck behind the lying fridge
Yeah, definitely need to add a few more clues in & fix the collisions - thanks for letting us know!
Great take on the team, unfortunately trying to close doors made the game freeze.
This should be fixed in the web player (but the download link runs much smoother in general, so we recommend that) in case you wanna give it another try. Thanks for the feedback tho! :)
Did not except that! Really fun spin on the concept and a good story! well done!
Thank you!!!
The game looks very interesting, but fore some reason it crashed multiple times so I couldn't complete it. Also you can clip through wall in the bathroom between the toilet and the washing machine
An option to adjust mouse sensitivity would be great
Thanks for the feedback!! We addressed some of the things causing crashes & added a download link (which runs more smoothly) in case you want to try again. :)
🧃 Beautiful work 🏵️
Thank you!!
Incredible! Didn't expect this but it was really fun and wholesome. I like the twist that the door is just the character's manifestation of their own thoughts. I mean the voices were clearly the same but still, it was cool. I felt like I was playing one of those narrative games like Gone Home, a style of game that I really like.
The voice acting and editing was on point. It felt real and really well done. I enjoyed a lot running around trying to catch up to the door. The BoJack Horseman bit was hilarious, I stayed a while listening to it and I loved it!
I guess the only thing that I could say is that all of the walls being exactly the same color turned a little dizzying/disorientating.
That's a great comparison, wow, thank you (I love Gone Home)! :D Very glad you enjoyed the voice acting and the bojack bit (which was very fun to record). Hmm yeah - good to know about the walls. Hopefully putting in some actual lighting too will help.
Thanks for all the feedback :)
This looks and sounds fun, but like a couple of other people are mentioning, the game just froze after the "it's me, god!" line, and I can't seem to get it past that! Well done with the voice acting in this though, I can feel this main character's pain
Hahah thank you!! And ahh, that's annoying. We did some bug fixes to the web player & added a download link (which we recommend) if you wanted to give it another try. :)
the game froze when I went back to the front door. Unique idea!
Thanks! We added some bug fixes in the web player (& a download link we recommend, much smoother) in case you wanted to give it another try! :)
Really funny and interesting game. I really liked running around the house searching for the door. i accountered some bug though, door spinning, me getting trapped with the door in the bathroom, the game crashing when I clicked on the door before the exit door and some lag. If you improved the visual a little bit an changed some stuff, I am sure you could get some people to buy this
Thank you for the feedback :D There are definitely lots of bugs to address and the visuals are currently the bare minimum haha - thanks for letting us know!
This was really awesome! I was captured by the story and the humour had me laughing the whole time! The fake Bojack and online gaming lobby were very funny. Huge shot out to the voice actors they went nuts and killed it. 10/10
Thank you, I really appreciate this!! I'm glad you enjoyed the online gaming lobby & Bojack, recording those was probably one of my favourite parts of making this lolol
honestly a beautiful game with outstanding writing and voice acting. easy 5 stars on Theme/Innovaiton. i laughed at some bits of it as well :)
the only part that could really use some work is the graphics, since right now the assets arent that consistent in style and there doesnt seem to be any postprocessing or shadows
Ahhhh thank you, this means a lot :) really glad you had a good experience with it!
Yeah, definitely agree in terms of the graphics! This was our first Godot game & I was having trouble figuring out the post processing stuff for the compatibility renderer & then we just ran out of time - and shouldn’t have left lighting till the last minute, there was basically none loool. Thank you for your feedback and the kind words!!
I absolutely thought this was a horror game :))))))))))). But it turned out it was actually just a silly game XD. Great job!
silly little door slips away moment xd
thanks!!
Cool take on the theme, love it!
Spoilers below:
I hit a black screen when closing the door into the mudroom after the front door disappeared, seemed like a crash?
Thanks!!
ahh damn, seems like you’re not the only one experiencing these crashes. We will try troubleshooting it and hopefully release a fix at some point. Sorry to hear that though & thank you for the feedback!
This should be fixed now! We also added a download link that runs much smoother - in case you wanted to give it another try. :)
Absolutely brilliant voice acting and capturing the game feel. I had the freezing issue someone else mentioned, but i can see this being a fun mind bender to play.
this is too kind, thank you!! Ah damn, it’s a shame. We will look into it - do you remember at what point it froze?
it happened when I went back at the entrance door a second time after it disappeared.
Alright - this should be fixed now (& we also added a download link which we recommend, runs much smoother) in case you wanted to give it another try. Thanks again for letting us know!
Nice design! I'd add some dot or something to know where you are aiming. I tried a couple of times. The first time I got stuck and had to read the hint. Maybe it was too difficult (at least for me). Then after the door moved and disappeared, I went to the entrance and the game froze. I tried that one more time just in case it was a one-time thing, but it froze again.
Nice game and as many others commented, nice voice acting!
I’m sorry to hear you experienced multiple crashes - we’re gonna look into it and see what we can do. Thanks for the feedback, we rly appreciate it :):)
We fixed several of the things causing crashes & added a download link (which we recommend since it runs much smoother in general) if you wanna give it another try! :)
I tried it again and finished it! And I'm glad I did. It was fun! I liked the ending. A short but nice story
strange game! I like it very much. the voice acting is amazing
thank you, glad you liked it! :D
Love the voice acting!
thanks!!!
Really liked it! The story was very captivating and the performances were incredible! Good job!
Thank you!! I’m happy to hear that, we really wanted to focus on story/performance, so this means a lot. :)