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A jam submission

The Search for the Secret SapphireView game page

Submitted by Conor Wilson — 2 hours, 14 minutes before the deadline
Rated by 5 people so far
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GitHub repository URL
https://github.com/conor-wilson/gameoff2024

Game description
The Search for the Secret Sapphire

A point-and-click adventure puzzle game (with a twist)... Lost in a haunted mansion without a hope of escape, the only way out is in. Will you find the Secret Sapphire and cure the curse?

DEV'S NOTE: The above assumes that you are able to start the game. If the start-button breaks, the HELP BOT should be able to assist you. That shouldn't happen though. Probably.

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The point-and-click adventure actually takes place inside of the menu of "The Search for the Secret Sapphire". Your goal is to fix the start button and finally get to play the game.

Theme interpretation
The game is actually a secret game within the menu of another game. Additionally, you need to solve puzzles and find all of the secrets within the menu maze to get the pieces of the START button back together and play the game!

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Developer

Fixed the following bugs since they were game-breaking and seriously damaging to the player experience for some players: 

  • Some users have reported that the desktop section freezes up and becomes non-interactable. (Fixed!)
  • Clicking on the Cave of Secrets while it is thanking you for giving it a secret results in it interrupting itself, which stops it from being able to give you the hidden letter. (Fixed!)
  • MacOS users cannot use CTRL+Click to pan the camera. (Fixed!)
Developer (1 edit)

Hint for the Password Puzzle:

A few people have had a hard time figuring out the password puzzle, so here's some hints to get you past it:

  1. There might be a useful TOOL in the menu somewhere that could help you find a clue for the password.
  2. Once you've found the hint, you might find some more information if you CLICK on everything, be it moving or STATIC.

I'll add some better in-game hints for this once I have some spare time. Right now I'm too busy thinking about turtles. Such majestic creatures. Can't get enough of them.

Submitted(+1)

fun game and cool graphics. I always love the kind of games that turn the main menu into the game. I just had trouble figuring out the password. I messed around and tried some things but just couldn't seem to get it though

Developer (2 edits) (+1)

Thanks for playing! You're not the first person to have trouble with it so it's definitely a bit too hard for an early-game puzzle. Here's some hints:

  1. There might be a useful TOOL in the menu somewhere that could help you find a hint for the password. 
  2. Once you've found the hint, you might find some more information if you CLICK on everything, be it moving or STATIC.

I'll add some better in-game hints for this once I have some spare time. Right now I'm too busy thinking about turtles. Such majestic creatures. Can't get enough of them.

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Fun game! I liked the meta-ness and solving some of the puzzles.

I also resorted to source code for the password puzzle ty @Grubwall. I couldn't get hammerman to exit the desktop just out of his window but solved some of the other problems. restarted a few times because of the buggy desktop.

Very amusing and clever. Feel like a genius when I solve a puzzle but and idiot when I get stuck!

Submitted(+2)

What an amazing game! The puzzles were really intriguing and the jokes were hilarious! I don't know if I solved the "password" puzzle correctly, did you intend the player to dig through the source code on git-hub? That's what I ended up doing after running out of ideas. XD

Such a great game, I had a lot of fun with it. I loved finding the secret sapphire XD 

Developer (19 edits) (+1)

List of Known Bugs (!SPOILER WARNING!): 

Hey guys, thanks for checking out my game! I'll be using this comment to keep track of any bugs that people come across. If they feel game-breaking enough, I'll try to fixing during the jam, otherwise I'll get to the more minor ones in the post-jam version.

Major Bugs:

  • Some users have reported that the desktop section freezes up and becomes non-interactable. This is very game-breaking so will have to be fixed mid-jam. (FIXED!)
  • Clicking on the Cave of Secrets while it is thanking you for giving it a secret results in it interrupting itself, which stops it from being able to give you the hidden letter. This is game-breaking so I will fix this ASAP. (FIXED!)
  • MacOS users cannot use CTRL+Click to pan the camera. (FIXED!)

Less-Major Bugs:

  • The desktop's drag-drop functionality is generally a bit buggy.
  • HammerMan can be generally glitchy at times, particularly when interacting with the desktop. If you find that he's bugging out too-much, you can reset him by closing his window and reopening it.
  • Some find the password puzzle very difficult, to the point of looking at the source code. I think the solution to this is some better clues from the HELP BOT (that will have to wait for the post-jam build). In the meantime, I'll add some hints to the puzzles in the game's description.
  • Very rarely, items can glitch out of the menu screens and fall into the void.
  • The click-point of certain items while you're holding them is sometimes unintuitive.
  • The Play Again and Main Menu buttons at the end of the game are generally a bit glitchy.
  • The game gives the wrong instructions for the camera-pan functionality if you activate it using the toggle button. (FIXED!)
  • While Ctrl+Clicking to pan the camera, you can still interact with the environment, which causes weird behavior (particularly in the desktop)
  • Some grammatical errors.

If you encounter any bugs that are not mentioned in the list above, let me know in a comment and I'll add it to the list!