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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Best Audio | #1 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Best Abstract Game | #1 | 4.667 | 4.667 |
| Grand Prize | #3 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Judge's Choice | #3 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Overall | #3 | 3.889 | 3.889 |
| Best Design | #4 | 3.833 | 3.833 |
| Best Art | #11 | 2.833 | 2.833 |
Ranked from 6 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.
A really strong little game! I suppose I only really encountered two puzzles but they were solid and dripping with theme. I think you guys did a really fun little job making a tiny almost ARG style game. Top marks, good voice-acting and fun use of assets.
My favorite element was how you used the game's "dead ends" to provide little jokes and characterization for the game's narrative. Good stuff!This is a really neat idea, and I weirdly love the main character.
It does feel like there's a whole lot of unnecessary content for the fact you're really only listening for 2 clues in a lot of data. Didn't feel like there was a lot of functional gameplay.
That said it was really inventive and very different for a game jam game. Good work!
Description
Solve puzzles before Blanche exacts revenge.
Full Description
PC: Run `blanche.exe`
Mac: Run `blanche` (macOS Mojave user? See below.)**
Keyboard only.
+ Press ESC or BACKSPACE to go back.
+ "Shutdown" exits the game.
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Blanche is a puzzle-solving adventure. The player responsibly washes Blanche, a child's plush squirrel doll, in the washing machine. This proves disastrous for Blanche, who vows revenge.
Unique Features:
+ Written in Rust using the ggez game library. To display video, it uses mpv (and the mpv Rust library).
+ Utilizes video and photography to tell a story as the player explores and solves puzzles on Blanche's cell phone.
Team:
Dan Wilhelm - https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielwilhelm/
John Grace - https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-grace/
Aries Serrano - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aries-serrano-1783a713b/
Assets:
+ All video, photography, images, and voices are original.
+ Blanche is a dog squeaky toy created by BarkShop (purchased during the game jam).
+ Boom sound: https://freesound.org/people/bareform/sounds/218721/
+ All music by Kevin MacLeod:
Professor Umlaut, Not As it Seems, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
* If videos do not auto-play, they are viewable in `resources/videos`.
** macOS Mojave users - See a black window when the game starts up? Please move the window slightly to display the game. The latest version of SDL (2.0.8) contains a bug that prevents initial rendering in macOS Mojave. (We included a custom build of SDL that may prevent this problem.)
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