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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #104 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Artistic Style | #109 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Cleverness | #423 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Playability | #487 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
Ranked from 1 rating. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Judge feedback
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- Pretty good although the lighting makes it really really difficult to properly view every room.
Did you include your Game Design Document in your downloadable files?
Yes
Tell us about your game!
You arrive home to find your house in a state of disarray: plates, mugs, and candles everywhere! Your parents are coming home tomorrow morning, and you need to clean up, but The house has other ideas! Race against the house to clean up! Or face the wrath of the house spirit!!
Goals:
You have 1 minute and 30 seconds to remember where the items, such as bowl, plate, pencil, etc, are in each room. After that, the cursed item will start to duplicate itself. Now, you must find the original cursed item and throw it (drop it) into the fire!
Controls:
wasd to move
Left Mouse click to pickup items
Left Mouse Click to drop items
E to interact with light switches and doors
left-ctrl (or c) to crouch
F for flashlight
space to jump
Esc to Pause
Hope you enjoy!!
Did you remember to include your Game Design Document?
Yes see above
Is your game set to Public so we can see it?
Yes
Extra Notes
This is our first game, so thank you for setting up this game jam as motivation to get started and learn!
We all learned a lot and have more specific learning goals.
Just Thank you!
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Comments
This was a very fun submission! The music and the atmosphere were great! Once the duplication started things got so intense. I hope you guys stick with this and make a much bigger project out of this!
Thanks we plan too!
Interesting! I liked the level of detail in the environment, and the cursed music that seemed to become more ominous. I think perhaps I never found the true object though. Well done!
Thank you for giving the game a play! It can be hard - we are thinking about adding some experiments to the game to give the player new ways to find the true object :)
Really well put together game, loved playing through it and figuring out what to do when I found 50 tissue boxes in the living room hahahaha.
Only thing I will say is I want more! Really great base for a game and hope y'all work on it more.
Thank you! And thanks for playing our game on stream as well as all the other great games. I love seeing them all and hanging out.
We do plan on working on it more :)
I'm not sure how much of the lighting system was stuff that just exists in Unreal, and how much of it you had to build, but that was a really fascinating looking set of lights. The flashlight ended up feeling oppressive sometimes, in a good way, it ratcheted up tension. That first 30 seconds after duplication begins of trying to find what item it even is... When I realized it was pencils, I started jumping at every new pencil. There were a couple items that spawned in areas I couldn't reach, I assume that meant I didn't have to worry about them, cause they had to be duplicates, but still. Did the duplications happen based on how many duplicates there currently were? My actual biggest complaint was just that I didn't know you could open doors til I read the submission info more closely after playing, a prompt in game would have helped there. Very fascinating take, keep at it!
Thanks soo much for your comments :)
The lighting system is pretty much what exists in Unreal, which is really cool. I modified the basic settings :)
Yeah, I made it so only duplicates spawned in areas you cannot reach - hopefully. We had to make a last-minute change because we realized there was a spawn at the top of the bookshelves. Also, there has been some bad clipping that I am still investigating.
The duplicates have a chance to duplicate; it is smaller than the original item, but they still do. I am considering options for players to modify these values to customize the difficulty.
Oh no, about the doors! It is on our to-do list to show the key. Also, the outside doors can't open and I just realized there is no way you would know which doors go to the outside and which don't.
Thank you!!!