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A jam submission

Take Time!View game page

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Submitted by marco hu — 6 days, 3 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Music#4442.7892.789
Sound#5842.2112.211
Overall#7192.2112.211
Mechanics#7232.0532.053
Fun#7352.1582.158
Aesthetics#7812.1582.158
Story#8171.3681.368
Theme#9441.4741.474

Ranked from 19 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 in total?
1

Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
ZillaSlab-Regular, valak-demon.img, Dee Yan-Key - Chill Ou, mouseclick1, switch, typing-6458

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Comments

Submitted

Simple but works well, and had fun with it, nice job with the game!

Developer

thx buddy

Submitted(+1)

Is the jump scare if I miss the mark after 3 goes? Sounds like you got some great suggestions about how to make the jump scare scarier. I could also add, maybe luring people in with a few other simple minigames and showing signs of glitching as they proceed.

Developer

after 7 click. 

the first 2/3 you will learn that you can spam without consequences . the problem with this game is luck or skill. There are people who can won at first try  so they won't see the jumpscare or people surrend after 10 click . So 7 its the average. 

I just wanted start small for this GameJamnothing special ,  feel bad playing nice game like your and submit shitty game like this one 

Submitted(+1)

Uhm, so I won on my first try :)

Okay, but I played it again and saw the image and stuff. If that’s what you are going for, then you should lower the main music and maybe even use something slower. Try giving the image a zoom effect, even if it’s super light, that should give you a much better effect for what you are going! You could even flash it and stuff, but maybe that would be too much so probably don’t do that, at least not something you’d give in my hands to play :)

Developer(+1)

What you do you mean by "flash it and stuff" I very interesting about it. 

I making a Horror game but still the jumpscare s*ck and It is the main problem. 

I would like listen your idea and maybe, if you want, if you have free time, PLS  you can test my prototype horror :) 

Submitted(+1)

I mean, it’s not like I’m a horror expert. I actually try to avoid those for the most part (yes I’m weak, so I’d have to refuse the prototy, sorry).

All I can talk about it from a game dev perspective. In a horror game, imo you want to evoke a strong emotion in someone. Usually fear, but you can heighten that response with tricks. Like humans don’t like it when someone is jumping on them, that’s why I suggested a zoom in. The light flashing is also an attack on your eyes/brain and would be perceived as threat. All of these small things add up. However, some people will call that cheap, and it’s not like it’s the only thing. I assume a better way would be to prepare their subconscious by doing slight shifts of visual or music. Show them things that are out of place. Even if it’s subtle, players will pick it up subconsciously and will be on alert, which is what you want. You want to have a build up of tenseness, that you can then break it up with a jumpscare.

Again, I may seem like I know what I’m talking about, so take this with a grain of salt. I’m sure you can find better resources for this.

Developer

thx a lot, It's a shame you can't play my game :(

Submitted

Nice game! I liked the surprise haha

Developer

:)

Submitted

The game said space to start and then escape to pause, I initially was just doing that and then clicking try again.  Durp that it was just the space button to stop when I read the bottom.  The jump scare was funny

Developer

pause != stop  I think in English is like that ( not my main language)

Submitted(+1)

really cool game
stage 1 of playing: why am I not stopping on 10? Is it rigged?
stage 2 of playing: I wish I didn't stop on 10.
love the idea. simple and everything working. Congrats on the job well done.

Developer

:)

Submitted(+1)

This was interresting but not a chill game at all :D
If you have time, I would really like to hear your thoughts on our game and get your rating ;)

Developer

I made you think it was a chill game :3

Submitted

Took me a few goes getting 9.8 and 0 (and a few scares) but I finally got 10!

Developer

Damn HAHA You got it!! YOU ARE THE LAST that STAND.

Thx for playing xD 

Submitted(+1)

I got it wrong a few times and jumped off my chair

Developer

that was my purpose :) making you thinking it was a chill game 

Submitted(+1)

Nice presentation, love timing stuff, it'd be more fun if there were like differnt objectives and u need to make a combo (10 sec, 15sec, 20sec, etc) oh and tsting what happened when failing actually scared me lol

Developer

happy to troll people xD

Submitted(+1)

This is a whole lot of fun! I love games based around reaction timing, so I really enjoyed this. Keep making games!!

Developer

mate, your game is god made HAHA literally 

Submitted

The game is simple, but it is kinda cute and relaxing :)

Developer

super minimalist

Submitted(+1)

We were playing this when we were in school in somebody's digital watch. I felt myself as boomer lol.

Submitted(+1)

Hi there! I LOVE the music. This was actually just what I needed after a long day of work. It relaxed me. I couldn't really figure out how to get a lot of points. Probably because I just wasn't fast enough, lol. 

Developer(+1)

there is not point system in the game. the stats system is about the real life stats.  It like a game for training reaction skill and heart trauma.