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A jam submission

House SittingView game page

'Cozy, Relaxing and Fun'
Submitted by SmoothTrooper — 18 hours, 22 minutes before the deadline
Rated by 32 people so far
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How does the game fit the theme?
You work for a house sitting company whose motto is 'Nothing Can Go Wrong'... thing's go wrong...

What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
Music

How many people worked on the game?
3

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Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

What is with Beth's house? Both her light bulbs spoil every day! No wonder she needed to buy 40! And she changes her password remotely every day? That's one paranoid lady! XD

Anyway, here are my thoughts in order as I played:

  • Voice acting is very well-done!
  • "Found you on the new website nothing-can-go-wrong.com", that was super funny!
  • Game has intuitive controls, and nice highlighting of something interactable!
  • For the toilet scenario, the bottom is cropped off, so I didn't know the plunger itself had to go "off-screen" for it to count. It stopped my progression a bit but not an issue nonetheless as I was able to figure it out.
  • Password hint: Literally the password, HAHA! LOVE IT
  • Some scenarios are a bit repetitive. (eg logging in multiple times a day)
  • The toilet one definitely appears too much. I was expecting some tasks like changing bulbs/fish feeding to be limited to once per day, so the game can "move on" a bit faster. (eg I didn't want to have to feed the fish multiple times a day, every day after the first time, which made the game feel a bit long).
  • I thought I threw out the food in the fridge already, but it needed me to do it twice on the same food on the same day.
  • I also got other scenarios twice in a row while I'm in the same room.
  • I get that the intent is to make it like so much is wrong with the house, and invoke a sense of frantic, but I think it ended up being a bit too repetitive.
    • Edit: Maybe on this point, a timer could be introduced, so it's less based on repetition and more on like "Okay I gotta try to do this in-time or I don't meet a quota" rather than doing it again and again. Then maybe based on the player's performance, it affects the ending review?

LOVED the ending though!! It was super funny and very well concluded HAHA.

If there was a humor category, I'd rate it 5 stars in that haha.

Overall, I liked that each minigame is very intuitive to do. And side point, you can play this game with just one hand so I could eat and play :D

Well done!

Developer

thanks so much for the indepth review!

I did spend a little time (literally on sunday morning) trying to implement exactly that timing system but I decided it would be a world of pain and if I broke the game in the process I wouldn't forgive myself ahahahaha

Thanks again! <3

Submitted

Haha true dat, glad to see you already thought of it!

And yea fully understand it might not be worth it if it means risking breaking the game that close to the deadline!

Submitted(+1)

Really cool game !

A little bit too much things to deal with at the end.

But definitely worth a shot !

(Got 4 stars !)

Developer

Yay! Thank you!!!

Submitted(+1)

Might be one of the best games I've played so far. Great job, the toilet part cracked me up. And the art is so smooooth

Developer

Thats so sweet thank you so much! We're very proud of it

Submitted(+1)

Such a lovely game! The voice acting is spot on, the moments in between chores are filled very well with the voice messages, and every chore felt unique and fun.

Developer

Yay! Thank you for playing!

Submitted(+1)

Plunging the toilet was my favorite mini-chore! Loved it!

Developer

Mine too ngl ahahah

Submitted(+1)

I thought all the management stress during the game jam was over. I guess it was not. I got a 10/10 review on my first week though B)

The game has a nice build up where you can scroll through the rooms to see what’s going on. At first I didn’t know how to get into the house, so I restarted the game only to realise I had to open the phone and listen to the message first. Perhaps, it was me, perhaps it should’ve been clearer, or both. It’s not a difficult game in terms of mechanics but it did got me hooked. I wanted to perform well even though this so-called Beth was telling me here smoke alarm went off. Made me unsure whether I was doing well, but in the end I did apparently!

Great game, well done you guys! Enjoyed it a lot. Also, those fish eat a lot, wow.

Developer (1 edit)

The fish yearn for the flakes...

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