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A jam submission

Caper Under CandlelightView game page

Game made for the 2023 49er Kickoff Game Jam
Submitted by wolfy411, rcochr15, Jimerswagger — 3 hours, 6 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Best Art#33.6673.667
Best Overall#42.7502.750
Best Sound#52.4172.417
Most Fun#72.2502.250
Best Mechanic#82.0832.083

Ranked from 12 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Submitted (2 edits) (+1)

Overall the game's really good, but the one thing I still don't quite get is the layout of the house, particularly when it comes to the [redacted] coming down from upstairs. It made me get 13/14 my first two attempts, lol. Was the butler's room supposed to be on the second floor? And are the stairs south of the dining hall entrance?

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Deleted 1 year ago
(+1)

A fun mystery. This game kept me engaged throughout (though you are dangerously close to visual novel territory). The art was nice, and the writing was well done. I have some minor critiques regarding stuff that needed to be polished, but that’s typical for any jam game:

- text needs to scroll from left to right. When it’s centered like that I can’t read it until the entire line is finished scrolling

- dialogue font looks squished. Difficult to read. Would definitely have chosen a different font

- Uncle puzzle had a weird thing where after solving it it didn’t do anything for a bit and somehow I ended up back in the foyer. Definitely needs smoothing out

- accuse screen needs to save previous selections so you can fill it in over time – had to go check a couple things and wound up refilling the whole form, which is tedious

- final scene auto scrolls faster than I can read

- the [REDACTED] may have confessed, but I still think it’s the cat

Overall, super well done. Congrats to you all!

Developer

Yooo thanks for the feedback Mist, greatly appreciated! Yeah for sure, this has been a learning experience for all of us and I'm personally surprised we were able to submit it in time! I hope you had a good time making your game and thank you for teaching me what pretentious meant.