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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #29 | 3.596 | 4.100 |
| Originality | #40 | 3.245 | 3.700 |
| Audio | #74 | 2.368 | 2.700 |
| Overall | #81 | 2.431 | 2.771 |
| Graphics | #82 | 2.543 | 2.900 |
| Fun | #94 | 1.842 | 2.100 |
| Accessibilty | #98 | 1.579 | 1.800 |
| Controls | #100 | 1.842 | 2.100 |
Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
4.3
Wildcards Used
N/A
Game Description
Hire Ghosts, Haunt Residences and try to harvest Spooks & Souls
How does your game tie into the theme?
Player takes over a haunting business operation, haunting houses to earn spooks.
Source(s)
N/A
Discord Username(s)
josephkhland, .ariathea
Participation Level (GWJ Only)
josephkhland 7th , .ariathea 1st
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5/5 originality. this submission just delivers in this respect.
Unfortunately the game broke for me. The residents info table would not close and I could not continue with the game because I was unable to take any actions (placing employees in slots)
So I will leave it at approx. 2k spooks and call it a day :)
Btw: I didn't understand "build". no idea what it actually does. and murder does not have any obvious effect. or did I miss it?
Sadly we overscoped and the game ended up with a bunch of features that we didn't manage to get in time and obviously no time for polishing. As such in the current version, there is the bug you encountered - The resident info table opens up - but if you click at a house while it's up, it's gonna get stuck there - and if you open up the actions menu in a building with no residents, you'd have no way of closing down the table- which will get you locked in that state- Good news is that I have already fixed this bug for the post-jam version.
You didn't miss anything. The build and murder buttons have no effect in the current version of the game. Didn't manage to implement them in time. We are planning for a post-jam update where all these issues are fixed, so stay tuned!
Thank you for playing and taking the time to leave a comment too!
I really like the idea of this game, I always appreciate when people try to implement the theme in an unexpected genre and this is it. I know there are a lot of features not finished, like murder, building, neighborhoods and investigation does not seem to yield any information on residents, but honestly, these just piqued my curiosity, so let me know if you intend to work on the game after the jam, I would definitely like to check the full version as you intended.
Yeah we sort of overscoped for the final version and I should have hidden several buttons to prevent confusion with the not yet implemented features.
We definitely wanna get the game to be closer to our initial vision for it. I have already managed to find the bug in investigate. Fixed the issue with the resident information panel staying up indefinitely. Made the employee select go with click instead of drag and drop. So I hope that by the time the rating period is over, we'd have an updated more complete version!
I love the concept! Didn't feel very finished though - it might be better to hide the unfinished parts to avoid confusion