Congrats on your submission! I found my four friends and THAT WAS NOT COOL!!! Took me about 6 or 7 tries to find them. I didn't understand the Listen thing at first. I thought those lines were from me waving around the flashlight. Never found the shovel, I didn't know which rock was happy and I did find an axe but I couldn't pick it up.
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Hey thanks for playing through to the bad ending! You're so right about the listening mechanic. It's not intuitive or obvious enough given how important it is to evading the creature and finding the kids. Looking back, the vfx could have used more polish and maybe it shouldn't be restricted to holding still.
As far as the secret ending goes, the shovel is found in the garden and it's much easier to find when the rain washed the dirt away. The happy rock is revealed by the tree struck by lightning. However, the dig location is also given away by the theme :)
Thanks to you and your team for giving my mess more time than it deserved! We should have fought harder to get fresh eyes on our project leading up to release. Some tweaks to the time limit and how things are found could have given more players an opportunity to see it through to the end.