Skip to main content

On Sale: GamesAssetsToolsTabletopComics
Indie game storeFree gamesFun gamesHorror games
Game developmentAssetsComics
SalesBundles
Jobs
TagsGame Engines
A jam submission

Take Care, Washbear!View game page

Come relax on laundry day and let us wash your worries away!
Submitted by Allyn, vinzelsior, Newtype, Tschabi185 — 7 hours, 4 minutes before the deadline
Add to collection

Play game

Take Care, Washbear!'s itch.io page

Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Functionality#24.3224.533
Engagement#24.2594.467
Gameplay#24.2594.467
Visual Design#24.5134.733
Overall#34.3484.560
Representation of Theme#54.3864.600

Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Judge feedback

Judge feedback is anonymous and shown in a random order.

  • At first I was like "oh no, no music", then found the radio. LOVE IT! But it stopped playing eventually and I couldn't get it to restart. Also, it wasn't immediately clear that I couldn't take an action while I was holding something else. The key indicator still came up, so it took me a minute to figure it out. Great visuals! Great SFX! Loved the music and the gameplay! I'd love to see more levels!
  • I REALLY enjoyed this! Strong visual theme, and well-executed set of features. I loved the various ways you could interact with things, especially having the hang up to dry option. Could do a little more with diegetically communicating the progress of the various bits. Could also go with a bar or timer, but I think it would be cool to have the machines themselves communicate their progress more clearly. Sink takes a little long... but the customers have fair wait times. Love the shredder thrown in there. My only issue is that sometimes you end up with a wet item in hand and you want to switch to do something else, you don't really have any way to put something down. Maybe that's ultimately a part of the challenge. Though if you wanted to allow for a "pile" that you could put something down on which has a short timer before it becomes soiled again, that could be a direction. Again, well done all! Love that it was limited to side scroll too, means you can raise the task complexity without having to mitigate the navigation complexity.
  • This game definitely shows huge potential for expansion. The mechanics are already so nicely polished. The interactivity feedback is spot-on. The set of tasks to be done are basic but interesting and the multi-object containers make for interesting potential ways for the player to mess up. This was a great vertical slice showing the darker directions and more complex tasks the game might eventually offer. There are a lot of nice world-building details. Overall extremely impressive showing!
  • Solid gameplay, excellent graphics and sounds, unique take on the theme. There's a few bugs and some elements missing player feedback, but these are really minor issues.

Leave a comment

Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.

Comments

Submitted

Wow! This is incredibly polished for a jam game! I am absolutely in love with the art style! The high resolution pixel art and vibrant colors are so nice to look at! And these character designs are absolutely top tier! The way the characters are rigged as well gives them a unique style! It definitely gives me Night in the Woods vibes! I loved being able to shred everything XD Amazing work!

Submitted

I like the variety in the representation of erasing, such as cleaning laundry and getting rid of dirty laundry.  Very pleasant game to play.  Wish it was longer as well as the music.  Overall great design choices. 

Jam Host

Really enjoyed this one.  Would love to play more levels!

Submitted(+1)

Extremely strong submission, nice work! Good music, art, concept, execution. Honestly the only thing I didn't like was that you couldn't undo a mis-click (that I could figure out) and that there didn't seem to be any closure to completing the tasks, so no incentive to do the job/make money. Shredding everything was just as good as doing it right.

Developer(+1)

Thank you lots for playing! Totally fair about the fact that the customers don't express Fail/Success yet. For our final submission we didn't quite have time but there are scripts , monologues and sounds to weave together that are almost ready! After review is over, we'll post any updates/fixes to the game we implement.

Submitted(+1)

Nice and simple game, and I did enjoy the music. It is quite funny you can shred clothes and wash evidence. I'm really curious where the story would go from here

(1 edit) (+1)

Loved it, really fun and engaging with doing "the laundry" in different ways. After a couple of minutes the music stopped, maybe doing a loop or having a couple of different tracks playing on the radio would be great.

Developer (2 edits) (+1)

thanks so much! The radio cutoff bug is known, it happens when the sink audio plays.  If you want to listen feel free to sit in the closed store and unmute the radio.  Here is the album page https://newtypefuture.bandcamp.com/album/take-care-washbear

Submitted(+1)

Really awesome game! The art is really good and the gameplay is solid and simple! Fantastic job!

(+1)

Really good game with simple controls. If I submitted my project in time and was able to rate, I would give it a 5/5.