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A jam submission

The Room of FoolsView game page

Try to Escape from these Rooms!
Submitted by blek — 1 hour, 3 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Graphics#1163.7863.786
Audio#1513.3393.339
Overall#1573.2413.241
Theme#1583.4293.429
Innovation#2732.8932.893
Game Design#2783.1253.125
Fun#3532.8752.875

Ranked from 56 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

First of all, you did a great job on the pixel art, I know how much work it is to animate a 8 directional character. I love the music and your game idea overall, definitely fits the theme, but I have to admit, that I did not manage to get through the treasure room. Here you have constructive feedback (like you wanted):

- diffrent kinds of gameplay elements would be great, like some interactables, for example buttons or swiches, that activate something. That would courage you to search for more then fake walls and spikes.

- checkpoints (I've read below why you could not inplement that)

Don't have anything else to say. great work :)                                                                                              

(a hint on the treasure room would be nice)

Developer(+1)

thanks you very much, I appreciate it a lot :D great idea with the buttons !

Submitted (3 edits) (+1)

I couldn't figure it out how to solve the treasure room, I tried to look at the walls but that didn't help.

EDIT: I got to the end with a little help from the developer and the last riddle was actually clever, hard but clever.

It's a bit frustrating that you have to start from the first room every time, I don't want to go through the same room that I've already solved every time.

Also the dialogue with the kidnapper pops up every time you're near him and in a game where you have to check everything in the room it's annoying.

Speaking of the music, it's Gymnopédie N. 1 from Eric Satie without the melody part, I love that chord progression but you could have come up with something original.

The sound fx sound good but they are out of place sometimes, the walking sound it's like a woman in high heels on a marble floor whereas the player looks barefoot, also the door sound triggers every time you reach the end of the level even if you collide with a human or the void.

I liked the pixel art, very solid.

Rated!

Developer

thanks for the honest review!

I understand that the treasure room where a bit too difficult. And this with the restart after every death wasnt my plan, I had planned to respawn in the current room but hadnt enought time cause a bluescreen. The better way to use the dialoge were: when klick on him then he speaks I know.

With the effects of the foodsteps I tried to immitade with barfoot to walk on hally stone or somesthing like that.

Thanks about the art :D

Developer(+1)

if you want that I spoiler you the treasure rooom so you can get to the end then whisper me if this is possible :d

Submitted

Yeah I am curious but I don't know how to write to you in private ahah

Developer

you have discord? then we can write there

Submitted(+1)

Yeah you can contact me here on Discord Abastefano#2621

Submitted(+1)

Yeah I know that most of the flaws here comes from the short development time, we barely had time to build our game.

If you could give our game a rate/review it would be awesome https://itch.io/jam/cgj/rate/477069

Developer

yeah sure

Submitted(+1)

The pixel graphics is neat, and the music is quite soothing too, pretty nice there! However I'm not sure what to do in the first room lol! 

Developer(+1)

you need to escape from this room to go to the next one. BUT it isnt what it looks like, the door isnt what it looklikes and the walls to :D was this a good tipp? thanks by the way

Submitted(+1)

Oh i got it, it was indeed a fool room :P 

Developer

;D

Submitted(+1)

Great game!

Developer

thanks :D

Submitted(+1)

I've been stucked on some rooms for a while, which was cool while trying to find the solution.

Nice job with the pixel art and the music too!

Developer

thanks appreciate it a lot :D

Submitted(+1)

Shoot! It's windows and I'm on OSX. It look super interesting though. 

Developer(+1)

its okey :D

Submitted(+1)

it's a cool game, rated!

Developer

thanks a lot :D

Submitted (1 edit)

This game is nice, well done (the chords are the same in the beggining of a music from zelda ^^ )

Developer

thanks by the way !😂

(+1)

that's some nice pixel graphics you got there.

Developer

thanks appreciate it a lot!

Submitted(+1)

Good game ... Art is real cool and so is the music ,,, Nice work.. Rated :)

But at restart its all way back....restarting from the same level would have been better :D

Check and rate my game too ..

Developer(+1)

Yeah your right, in the next update i will do that. thanks for the feedback! :)

Submitted

Yeah :)

Check and rate my game too if you haven't :)

Developer

done :D

Submitted

:)

Submitted(+1)

Small details are great (like footsteps and text sound, though text sound could be softer/quieter). Art is also very nice simple yet pleasing.

Developer

thanks! :)

Submitted(+1)

Really like the essence of the game, Love the footstep sound effects! the sound for the dialog text is a fine, I would recommend for later to use a little more calm sound for the dialog, Overall I like your game! The graphics reminded me of Pokemon :D

Developer

thanks! :)

Submitted(+1)

Really nice game. I love your graphics and music. Please consider checking out my game(played in browser), thank you very much

Developer

sure 

Submitted(+1)

Really cool tricky game, i felt trolled haha!  I never played point and click games much, but this was fun!  Also really awesome art style~ Great job!  Please try my entry when you have time, good day!

Developer

if you really did it to the end... wow thanks dude appreciade it a lot! of course I will have a look st your game.

Developer

actually I did it already lol 

Submitted(+1)

Great art

Submitted(+1)

I liked the art. Very consistent. The one exception was the menu and the semi transparent cursor. Very odd choice. I really liked the character's 8 different facing angles. Made the character feel alive.

Controls are fine for what the game is trying to do with one exception. When you have dialogue that appears over time, pressing Space should fill it in first, and then skip. Skipping right away leads players to miss possibly vital content.

Dialogue: you should run a spell check on it at least once before release. It's riddled with typos.

Music: loop is too short and becomes bothersome quickly.

Theme and Design: The theme has been hit quite well. Unfortunately, this is also one of the main reasons why the game is unenjoyable, from my perspective. It's the worst part of the old school point and click adventures: random detail hunting. I got to the third room, got bored, and quit. I think you could mitigate the problem a little by respawning the player in the current room, as opposed to the start.

Developer

Thanks a lot for your honesty! I will try improve myself and of course the game!

Submitted(+1)

Great game!

Developer

thanks, look what I wrote about your game in your comment section :d

Submitted(+1)

Thanks

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

liked the art. I have no idea how you have done so much art in a week


Pls rate me too

https://itch.io/jam/cgj/rate/476770

Submitted(+1)

Really cool. I loved the art.

Developer

thanks :D

Submitted(+1)

Great job, continue like that.

Developer

thanks man appreciate it a lot!

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