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A jam submission

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Escape from the cave before its too late. Something is Watching you.
Submitted by Rotten_Apple_Dev — 6 hours, 53 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Interpretation of the Secondary Theme#1683.6744.500
Soundtrack/SFX#1873.0623.750
Overall#2592.8993.550
Graphics#2832.8583.500
Gameplay#2842.3472.875
Gameboy Soul#3302.5523.125

Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game meet GBJam's theme?
GB Style Game. 4 colors used to convey the dark environments you are in. Correct Aspect Ratio Used. Enjoy the Game!!!

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Comments

Submitted

Very scary!! Incredibly spooky! Excellent sound design. I got 4/5 chests.

Submitted(+1)

Aight, u got me scared xD really cool animations and sound, and the concept of the "creature" is clean and scary

I invite you to play my game and give me some feedback as well ^^

Developer

Thanks you! Will definitely check your game out! Thanks for playing!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Nice scares! I found the monster very effective, but very fair. It made me scramble a bit whenever I saw it, but it never felt like an instant-lose scenario where I couldn't do anything. I also found that it showed up just enough to build tension without becoming silly. Very well executed on the horror front.

One critique I have is that I found that there were maybe one too many chests. At the end I found myself looping around the same spots trying to find the one last chest, and the tension was bordering on becoming annoyance, but I don't think it ever actually reached that point.

I'm gonna echo the comment that said to avoid installers. A game this small doesn't need to create star menu items, desktop shortcuts or a user-space data folder. It's an extra step that may cause less people to play your game than otherwise would.

Great job overall!

Developer

Thank you so much for the feedback and for playing! 

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

You really went hard on the horror, with a great jumpscare. I am the last person that will have a problem with that. The whole cave thing builds a great atmosphere. Loved it, well done! Just don't use an installer for your game for the jam, an executable is much preferred to speed things up.

Developer(+1)

Thank you for the advice! Glad you enjoyed it!!!

Submitted(+1)

That was cool! The art and monster design is charming. I like the concept, but it's a bit difficult to react to the monster appearing.

The sound effects and jumpscares are a smidgen loud. Did you make all of the sound effects? They're quite neat!

All-in-all, good work!

Developer(+1)

Thank you for the feedback! The sounds are a bit too loud, so I’ll definitely make sure I get that right next time. As for the sounds, some were made in chrome lab. I don’t know much about making sounds so I’ll have to learn that too. Thanks for playing!!!

(+1)

Nice Game it scared me 

Developer

:)

Submitted(+2)

very spooky!

Developer(+1)

Thanks! Glad you liked it :0