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Pirate Software - Game Jam 14

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A jam submission

Ick!View game page

Submitted by Shane Gadsby, Saryah — 2 minutes, 24 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Playability#1004.0004.000
Theme#1044.0004.000
Cleverness#4233.0003.000
Artistic Style#4693.0003.000

Ranked from 1 rating. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Judge feedback

Judge feedback is anonymous.

  • Using both WASD and the arrows to control both your movement and camera angle was a little rough at the beginning, but it wasn't super hard to control as I moved along the space given

Did you include your Game Design Document in your downloadable files?
Yes

Tell us about your game!
WASD + mouse + E + space

Did you remember to include your Game Design Document?
YES

Is your game set to Public so we can see it?
Yes

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Comments

ThePropagationSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

I LOVE THIS. This has so much potential! Please add to this, it is the best implementation of the theme I've played, great work!

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Paintocalypse
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Shane GadsbyDeveloper1 year ago

We really wanted to try and find a unique way to interpret the theme, so we really appreciate hearing that!

We've definitely got a list of things that got cut for time, so it's likely we'll add them at some point!

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PhaneronicSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

It's gross. And that's cool!

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Mushroom Moonrise
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SaryahDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

Sometimes, you just wanna make a mess.

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gigglebiscuitsSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

This game is one of the best usages of the theme I've seen. Good controls and really fun presentation. Only issue I had was I couldn't figure out what the squelch was about. My ick just did a little movement and nothing else. Not sure why I would want to do that gameplay wise. Also I think I found a bug where I got under someone's foot my first round, and then on the second round their feet were still dirty.

Even still I thought getting people's feet dirty and having them spread it for you was a cool mechanic. Would love to see more from this.

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Isle of Expansia
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SaryahDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

We did find that occasionally that the "E" squelch feature had trouble "find a landing spot" in certain places. It's suppose to "ascend" you to the above "floor" TOTK-style. The reset feet bug is a known issue we didn't have time to fix but defs planning on it post-jam. Thanks for your kind review. :)

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TehryanSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Found some gamer strats, I icked the people's feet to help spread faster lmao!
Would have been awesome to see my score / icked % live update in-game, otherwise very fun!

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Shade Strider
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SaryahDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

Yup, that's a great strat for sure. XD
As Shane said in another comment, -- the last minute technical issues made it difficult to show the score real-time, and so opted to just push it to the end screen.  But, defs looking to get that going post-game. Thanks for your kind review! :)

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gramozilhoSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Fun game, very moist, ick-y sound for the character moving ahah I found the controls a bit wobbly but it ends up making the game more challenging :)

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Team Building Tarot
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SaryahDeveloper1 year ago(+2)

Thanks for your review!  Shane put in the squishy sounds for our game and I agree it's the mostest moistest! XD

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SlyPuffinSubmitted1 year ago(+2)

This is a really good take on the theme. Very fun idea, delightfully gross presentation down to the itch.io page. Very cool!

The main movement mechanics work pretty well, and I found things generally intuitive. For the future, it'd be nice to have more clear motivations--more score visualizations or more of a premise with goals.

Nice job--the visual execution was top notch!

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maru
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Shane GadsbyDeveloper1 year ago

I absolutely agree with you, unfortunately we had some last minute technical issues that made it difficult to show the score real-time, and so opted to just push it to the end screen.

We'd also thought to have missions/challenges (ick all chairs/ ick as much floor without icking an npc, etc), which would also have given more clear goals, but again, ran out of time.

Thank you so much for your review!

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SaryahDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

Thanks for your kind review! Yes as Shane said, tech issues with the real-time score, and definitely had a lot of "beyond/nice to haves" that we didn't get time to implement, to give more motivation. One of those being a cleaner "antagonist" that you would be trying to win against while he tries to clean your ick up. 

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