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A jam submission

Watchful PawsView game page

You are a guide dog! Guide your human through a marathon
Submitted by Tiago Gazzola, BlueGirlDev, Allan_vs, Anakin_Wurdel — 13 hours, 43 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#4623.2863.286
Enjoyment#5633.3573.357
Visuals#5823.5003.500
Theme#6703.1433.143
Overall#7633.0713.071
Gameplay#8442.8572.857
Innovation#13212.2862.286

Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does the game fit the theme?
We incorporated the theme by designing a game where you play as a dog, avoiding obstacles and protecting your owner from objects on the sidewalk. Neither you nor your owner can collide with anything in the game.

What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
Only SFX e ST

How many people worked on the game?
4

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Comments

Submitted

OMG XD, i was going so fast i was starting to get dizzy. Love the game, the music fit so well with the scenario. Good job!

I hope you can try our game too! :)

Submitted

The visuals and music are simply stunning! I think it would be cooler to bark at grandpa for dashing up/down rather than dog jump, that is not very useful. Anyway, RUN GRANDPA, RUN!!!

Submitted(+1)

Very nice visuals and solid gameplay! I would have loved to see a deeper exploration of the dog and owner being separate entities. Perhaps and obstacle that the dog can only jump over but the owner can go through, or even an obstacle the owner can go through but the dog can't at all. Overall, well done!

Developer

Thank u so much <3

Submitted(+1)

Great job! The visuals look really good and the concept is wholesome! Maybe you could add more variety of obstacles.

Developer

thanks! and i love your pfp <3

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Neat game. I have pretty much the same feedback as other comments. It could use a little more variety in the obstacles and the later part of the level gave me a bit of motion sickness. The low poly art and music were nice though.

Developer

thank u for the feedback <3

Submitted(+1)

Great job ! The low poly design is cool, miss a bit of content and to bounce a bit with someone else comment, i think the delay with the owner following the dog could have been the mechanic that makes it original. I think it lacks others traps that can happen in the street like a manhole cover, guys with a plexiglass or other non lethal obstacle like a banana that slip the controls, a bypasser (moving) and after that you can increase the difficulty and diminish the speed increase to avoid the motion sickness of the player (or make it later at least).

Still funny to think the blind guy has a thermonuclear engine for running at such speed x)

Super great job, i repeat !

Developer

Thaanks <3

Submitted(+1)

Made it to 114! Very simple, but not bad for a typical endless runner. I think it could have been a bit more interesting if the old man lagged behind the dog a bit, that way you had to move in advance. Not bad!

Developer

oh, nice idea! thanks <3

Submitted(+1)

I love the idea about playing as a guiding dog.

Gameplay is simple but well done. Movement is smooth and navigating between obstacles was fun for a while.

The fact that dog owner moves exactly where dog does instantly, felt a little bit "unnatural". Some small delay or even momentum might make it more "interesting", but maybe it would make the game unplayable.

On higher speed, I was experiencing some motion sickness (I had to focus my eyesight to dog and his owner and feel the obstacles only in peripheral sight) , but it might be subjective for each palyer.

Visually - I like the low poly models and pastel color pallete. Music is chosen well.

Overall great job!

Developer

thanks for the feedback!

Submitted(+1)

Cute game with a unique spin on the endless runner genre. Great job yall!!!

Developer

thanks <3

Submitted(+1)

This is very cute. I like the characters and I love the music. It took me a few rounds before I realized I could jump. My best score was 62M.

Developer

yay ! good score <3 thanks for the feedback

Submitted(+1)

This is very cute. I like the characters and I love the music. It took me a few rounds before I realized I could jump. My best score was 62M.

Submitted(+1)

Super cute runner game,  love the interpretation of the theme! I'm also a fan of the silly dog. Great game :)

Developer

thaanks! <3

Submitted(+2)

cool game! Good art! was starting to get dizzy with how fast it was going lol

Developer

haha thaanks for the feedback! maybe we will reduce the speed

Submitted(+2)

Fun game !  The old man was moslty outside the screen so I had quite the trouble keeping it alive but it was overall fun !

Developer

Thanks! yeah, we see this bug, i think we will release a update after the jam <3