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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #61 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Sound | #68 | 3.600 | 3.600 |
| Fun | #111 | 3.760 | 3.760 |
| Story | #184 | 2.960 | 2.960 |
| Aesthetics | #227 | 3.640 | 3.640 |
| Music | #247 | 3.280 | 3.280 |
| Mechanics | #361 | 2.920 | 2.920 |
Ranked from 25 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How many people worked on this game total?
1
Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
None used
Link to your source?
https://github.com/Jamblefoot/Dead-With-Friends
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Interesting game! Needs some polishing, sometimes possessing people and going into car just doesn't work, and driving is a little difficult. But overall is really good! Nice aesthetics, nice music, and definitely super original mechanics!
Well done!
Thank you! And thanks for the feedback! Working on polishing things out for a post-jam update and I'll see if I can make things a bit more functional. Thanks again!
A great game to play after a few beers I reckon.
One word came to mind when playing - wacky!
I reckon so. Thanks for playing!
I love how the graphics look and I love the controls. But I dont love how the ghosts can physically block the player and the car. It seems like I was battling the horde surrounding my ghost. And a few bugs but honestly made the experience more funny, like the ghost I played as was on fire so it spread to every person I inhabited.
Honestly it was a lot of fun. Cant wait to see more games by you!
Thanks a ton for playing and for the feedback! I agree with you on all accounts. I've been refining some things and am still trying to figure out what I wanna do about the ghost pileup. I like being able to interact with them, but the crowding is the least enjoyable form of that. Anyway, thanks again and I'm glad you had fun!
Great aesthetics, atmosphere and chill vibe, but the camera shake while driving the car made me a lil sick
Thanks for playing and for the feedback. I'm glad you enjoyed some of it. Been working on resolving some interpolation mismatch to smooth the camera, but the cars are particularly rough. Square wheels was a... choice
What a fun little town! I made all the friends and we all went on an underwater journey of exploration :)
That sounds like a most pleasant afternoon. Thanks for playing!
bit nuts this game, but i Like it :P
Well done on creating so much in such a short space of time!
Good Job!
Thank you for playing! I'm glad you like it.
This was super fun and cute! So much detail with the visuals and the sound. I had trouble controlling the car with so many ghost friends crashing into me but I think that added to the comedy value, and the AI cars were just as bad at driving as me 🤣 Very nice job on this submission!
Thank you! All those friends can definitely be a little less than helpful, but I'm glad you found the comedy in it. Thank you so much for playing and for your kind words!
Well that was adorable fun, AND I learned about clouds! Super solo work to make all those assets too, great job!
Lol thank you so much! I'm glad you had fun, and tons of thanks for playing!
Great work with this. Great idea.
Thank you, and thanks for playing!
OMG! you've done it. This game is basically perfect for a 10 day game jam. I had so much fun. There were such good tiny details like the gas tanks exploding and people drowning. It seems like it took a lot of work. Great job!
Thank you, that means a lot! It was fun making it, and I'm really happy you had fun playing. I really liked the 10 day time frame, so much more room to breathe, refine, and try things than 48 hours.
doesnt feel like you did this alone. really funny game :)
Just me and my ghost friends. Thank you for playing, I'm really glad you had fun!
I love this game aesthetic. Great music choice too. Really incongruous which made it more fun. I won't spoil the ending, but I really did think it was a nice touch. Also, I'll just say that the environment is larger than it might first appear.
Thank you so much. That means a lot, and I'm really glad you found the ending. It was a pretty last minute addition, but I think would be a great way to transition to a new level if/when I expand on this. Thank you so much for playing and for your kind words.
The WebGL version doesn't appear to be working for me.
Oh no, like not at all? Is it trying to load in, at least? Tbh I'm really not sure where to even begin diagnosing what could be going wrong.
Any chance you could try the Windows build?
The car NPCs are hilarious to watch! They were making my friends for me. At first I didn't realize I needed to die, but once I did it was even more fun.
Thanks for playing! I'm glad you enjoyed it. If I add achievements, I'd add one for completing a level without doing anything and just letting the car guys do all the work
Funny game:D I want to make more friends:3
I'm really glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for playing!
This game is honestly quite fun, we laughed a lot while playing it and it was impishly entertaining to find ways to "make more friends" xD The ghosties also have cute faces, it was fun looking at them! The physics of their bodies also looked nice, with the "cloth" feel to them. The menu had a lot of options for tweaking everything which was really good as well!
The only issues we noticed in our playthrough were the citizens catching on fire just by possessing them, we fell in the water and we had to find a way up (but we don't think it was intended to happen) and when there's a lot of ghosts, not only does it become much harder to walk/drive but if you get close to the wall of a house, you get stuck there because they surround you and you can't move anymore. If people die inside houses, some ghosts get stuck in there unless you approach them and they start following you. Not a big deal but thought it was good to mention it.
Hopefully this can help you indentify the bugs! Good luck on your future endavours! o/
Thank you, I'm really glad you enjoyed it! For the ghosts, I modeled their shapes in Blender (basically a sphere with one end blown out), then used Unity's Cloth component to handle all the animation. I spent about a day implementing the menu stuff, just trying to figure out how complete I could make the game.
Thank you so much for your feedback. Some things were bugs I shrugged and made features, like fire-by-possession. I went back and forth on letting the ghosts pile up on you and how to handle that, but left it as I felt it created a sort of challenge to keep moving, and they don't follow you until your first death, so the longer you survive, the longer you can keep them from crowding you. Exploring underwater was something I always wanted the ghosts to do, but I need to refine the movement so it's a bit easer to move vertically.
Thanks again, and good luck to you as well!
Nice Idea! very funny. I made a lot of new friends ;) But why square tires :D its funny but i want to make more friends with cars!
Thank you so much! Honestly I just thought the square tires were funny. The guys were low poly, so I decided all their stuff should be low poly and blocky, and when I got the cars working with doofy square tires and it even gave it that bouncy jank while moving, i was just like good enough and kept moving. Really impacts ramming speed, thoug
the square tires are funny! :D
Spoopy!
Thanks for playing!
It took me a while to die in the beginning, in the end I went with crashing my car in to the water. I didn't feel like I had much influence over getting the living to do, not sure if I was supposed to?
I loved the floaty cloth effect, like a sheet over a helium balloon.
Maybe I'm just bad at the game but there were 16 still living by the time I was bored of floating around making people go "wah" and looking for ghosts
Hey, thank you so much for playing! I'm really glad you liked the cloth ghost effect.
I don't think you're bad at the game. I did a bad job explaining the point. Sounds like some tutorial prompts would have been a good thing to add. Next time.
The goal is really to make all the people into ghosts. The drivers will help out a bit, but after you become a ghost, you can go around possessing people with the space key and using them to run people down, collide with propane tanks, set them on fire, and generally causing a little mayhem.
Thanks again for playing and for your great feedback. Have a great day!
I forgot about possessing people, I was just floating around my with ghost posse! I'll have another go. In game hints would be good!
Funny ghost simulator.
I liked the "wah" little screams of the people when they get scared. Also the explosions.
I wish there was some kind of goal though.
Thanks so much for giving it a play, I'm really glad you liked it.
Thanks for the feedback, I could definitely have made it more clear. The goal is to make all the ghost friends you can as quickly as possible.
but really it's just to have fun