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Game Off 2024

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A jam submission

Secret KeeperView game page

A twist on tower defense. Can you keep the skeletons in the closet?
Submitted by GreatBlueHeron — 16 hours, 54 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme interpretation#443.8573.857
Innovation#543.5713.571
Overall#1593.2863.286
Gameplay#1593.0003.000
Audio#2282.7142.714
Graphics#2842.7142.714

Ranked from 7 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

GitHub repository URL
https://github.com/bradley326/Secret-Keeper-v1

Game description
You are the Secret Keeper. People enter your establishment to unload their secrets and transfer skeletons from their closet to yours. Each night, the skeletons try to escape. Can you hold back the ever-growing tide of skeletons and keep the town's secrets safely stored?

- Decide which secrets to accept. The more severe, the more skeletons to deal with!

- Use multiple tools to prevent skeletons from escaping.

- Upgrade your tools to improve their efficiency and effectiveness.

Theme interpretation
As soon as I read "secrets" the phrase "skeletons in your closet" popped into my head. I began brainstorming how that idea could be turned into a game.

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masarapmabuhaySubmitted64 days ago

I survived up until Day 4! 

This screenshot is my favorite, because that's when I thought that I've figured out how to use the items in the game! Cheers!

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Blue Sapphire Galaxy
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IPSO FACTOSubmitted84 days ago

This one was fun- I liked the day/night dynamic where you have to take responsibility for the secrets that you keep locked up. A fun concept and some nice humor in there too. Great job!

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World Breaker
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DouglasOrrSubmitted85 days ago

This was mildly-infuriatingly hard, but good fun trying to work out what combination of upgrades would be most efficient - thanks for creating & sharing it!

I guess mechanically I was expecting a sort of "take risks early to give yourself a better chance later" kindof thing, but I wasn't sure that was the play in the end, rather than just taking the minimum secrets at each step.

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C-crits
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MamiDevSubmitted94 days ago

Some things that need to be fixed, like the lock still being repairable even when its health is full, and after losing the game once, you have to refresh the page to start again. After all, a game with potential—keep it up.

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Death List
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GreatBlueHeronDeveloper94 days ago(+1)

Thanks! There are a lot of little things I'd like to fix, but I ran out of time. This was the first full game I've completed, so it has been a good learning experience. I'm excited to carry those lessons on to my next project.

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AkaruiSubmitted95 days ago

Interesting game, I like the concept of being able to pick your difficulty by accepting more skeletons.
A tutorial is strongly suggested, with the tools you can buy and how to use them. I didn't even notice that you could purchase things until the second time I played.

Best of luck on your gamedev journey

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Dreamers Wake
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GreatBlueHeronDeveloper94 days ago

Thanks for the feedback!

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