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A jam submission

Judi's JourneyView game page

Just a dog looking for a toy
Submitted by yakob, Rob Ruana — 3 minutes, 38 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Overall#23.7523.752
Accessibility#33.3683.368
Audio#53.6323.632
Fun#63.8423.842
Graphics#74.0004.000
Controls#83.5263.526
Originality#84.0534.053
Theme#103.8423.842

Ranked from 19 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Godot Version
3.5

Wildcards Used
Crumbling Location, Do it for me

Game Description
Just a dog looking for her toy

How does your game tie into the theme?
Judi gets cursed in the cave and there's something spooky lurking in the depths below.

Source(s)
N/A

Discord Username(s)
yakobjorgensen, robruana

Participation Level (GWJ Only)
jacob: 0, rob: 2

My game has an export for Linux, Windows, & Mac and/or is playable through HTML5

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Very cute game! Everything felt really crisp. The curses were well implemented and I love the barking and digging. Really creative game. Great job on the submission!

Developer

Thank you for the kind words! Glad you enjoyed :)

Submitted(+1)

Just brilliant!  Brilliant graphics, animation, audio, curses, and controls.  Loved it all!  Amazing for a Jam.  Stunning!  I love it

Developer

thanks for the kind words! So happy you enjoyed the game!

Submitted(+1)

I must have sat there for a good couple of minutes just barking, I loved the animation of it!

My only complaint is that at the end I struggled to dig up and got boxed in, which didn’t feel very nice, as I tried to outrun it but was surrounded. Maybe some i-frames so you can damage boost through?

Very fun game, well done!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing! We actually did put about 1.5 seconds of iframes in after you get hit which makes it a little more manageable on the way out if you have the bones for it. It is definitely a lot more difficult to dig back up, partially by design, partially by not having the time to make it easier to jump up into one block wide holes. It’s also very subtle, but if you bark at the monster at the end, it slows down the growth by fractions of a second each bark. Glad you enjoyed it!

Submitted(+1)

I think my issue must have been that I kept trying to jump through it, so I just got knocked back and lost my iframes!

I’ll have to try again!

Developer

ohhh that makes sense, I forgot we put the knock back in there. Yeah maybe reducing knockback for the monster would be a good idea. Thanks for the feedback!!

Submitted(+1)

Wow, what a great game, loved everything about it, the concept, the doggy, the menus and UI, the difficulty, great job!

Submitted(+1)

Flappy ears, flappy ears, flappy ears!!! Loved Judy and her giant bark, very talented at digging too haha! Your game is so well polished, great audio, graphics, story, the curses UI was really nice too!! A very fun entry, congrats!!

Developer

Thanks for the compliments and for playing!! Glad you enjoyed it :)

Submitted(+1)

To be honest, I almost give up to find the toy ^^'
But I find it in the end and could bring back to the house. Beautiful game, congrats!

Developer

Congrats! Good job sticking through it and finding the toy! Judi thanks you!

Submitted(+1)

Very nice idea, great entry

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

This game is great  (idea , game play .........) ,  I like it 

(+1)

Awesome game, well put togheter and very fun, and it's quite polished too, with the animations and the well placed lighting.

Submitted

This game is great.  I managed to find the avocado but then had a tough time bringing it home because I made the rookie mistake of digging straight down.  The creepy tendril monster got me.

I really liked the little interaction if you go back into the kennel at the beginning.  Its a very cozy game that takes a turn.

Developer(+1)

Thanks! I hope the monster was a nice surprise, and don't worry, I got myself stuck in the "dig straight down" scenario many a time when playtesting.

Submitted(+1)

Judiiiiiiiiiii !! She's adorable! Controls are tight, especially on a controller! I love the pressure applied when you find Judi's toy. It's pretty cool. Superb entry!

Developer(+1)

八(^□^*) thank you! Judi is the absolute best :) Glad you enjoyed the controls (controller is definitely the way to go). 

Submitted(+2)

That was quite interesting and fun!

Really want to know how you did the curse effects, they really add to the game and the way they're versatile on either adding or interrupting the game is so nice.

Took me a few minutes to understand the menu and inputs, but the way the key mapping is displayed is so nice that got me jealous.

Nice job!

Developer (1 edit)

Yeah the menu and input mapping were kinda jammed in at the last second so they might be a little clunky, but glad you figured it out! A lot of the curse effects were actually pretty simple in terms of just modifying our character controller to swap around the horizontal movement vectors/changing the gravity scalar.  (hope that answers your question about how we did the curse effects :D) Glad you enjoyed it!

Submitted(+2)

Fun fact: Judi is amazing and I love her! Very fun little game, hard to work through it, but still very enjoyable!

Developer(+1)

Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for playing :)