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A jam submission

Puppet QuestView game page

Control a puppeteer cross brace and drag your hero to victory.
Submitted by EricFreeman (@_ericfreeman) — 10 hours, 58 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Originality#784.2504.250
Overall#2183.9293.929
Presentation#3814.0194.019
Fun#6203.5193.519

Ranked from 52 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
You control a puppeteer cross brace joined to the hero and drag them around instead of controlling the hero directly. The hero can't move directly on their own.

Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?

Yes

We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam

Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?

Yes

We created the vast majority of the music during the game jam

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Submitted (1 edit)

Short but sweet! Crate Job with this one!

Submitted

This was super cute! Brought a smile to my face as soon as I figured out the control scheme. I think one thing that would have been nice is some more vertical freedom of motion, though, as I kept trying to make exaggerated puppet walks and just sort of bounced the knights butt on the ground instead. That's a small nitpick, though - this was short, sweet, and funny. Nice work!

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

It used to be unconstrained vertical movement as well but then you could sequence break the game by flying over all the gates, crates, and goblins and head straight to the final boss, haha. If I ever do a full release, vertical movement will be unconstrained as well and the environment will make sure the player can't escape. Then I can do things like spike pits and sawblades to dodge to help break up the story/combat.

But thank you so much for playing and I'm glad you liked it!

Submitted

The hilarious narrative was amazing XD. The game reminds me of the Stanley Parable(one of my most favorite games).  Although the gameplay was shallow, I enjoyed the extremely catchy music. 

Submitted

This was epic. Such a great game!

Submitted

All stars from me! Good job! Very short but so fun. I’d love to see this idea extended in to a full game.

Submitted

I like this style of submission. It was a really well executed concept and full marks for originality. No real challenge to speak of, but hey, its a game jam, and this was a fun experience I'd never seen before, so I'm leaving happy. :)

Submitted

Three cheers for our capsular hero, and the hero dev behind it! Seriously impressive entry man, I loved the tounge in cheek humor throughout, the whole presentation was fantastic! I made sure to thank my bus driver after too ;) Great work!

Submitted

Probably one of the most polished and most comedic submissions I've seen, and that was a very cool take on the jam's theme! The cardboard cutouts is a really funny and cute artstyle (Gives me some Legend of Bumbo vibes), and I absolutely love the dialogue and narration. You had such a good use of audio, and the gameplay though simple was quite fun accompanied with the narrative.

Only thing I would suggest would be that the character felt a little bit stiff, and it would be really funny to add in more physics-y movement to it. Though, I do understand that there was a jam time restraint.

I genuinely want to see this developed and released, adding more stories to it and I think people would get really entertained. I love this one, probably my most favourite by far! 

Submitted

Haha this was great! I haven't played a game with a funny narrator in a while. Also it's really cool to see something different like this in a game jam. Great job! 

Submitted

Humorous game, I like the visuals, gives off some theater vibes, I enjoyed it, nice work!

Submitted

Nice little game, really liked how objects moved around the scene. Got some Getting Over It vibes from the narrator. But I wish there was more gameplay and something challenging.

Submitted

Very funny game with a well put together art style

Submitted

This was great! The presentation here is 10/10 really, I love the badly drawn cardboard obstacles! Very charming game.

Submitted

Very cute and funny little game. I loved the narration and using the puppet to fight. I'd love to see more ways of using the puppet if you took this further. A very fun experience.

Submitted

Hahah- a joyful time that made me chuckle.

Initially I thought it was moving a bit slow, but all in all it was short and sweet and I had fun janking my puppet around waiting to be told I could move left/right :)

Submitted

@EricFreeman very good game, the audio quality was top-notch, Mouse controls were very smooth, good job man :D

Submitted

Great, funny jam submission. Just whacking this puppet against things felt great to do. I wish that the goblins/the boss felt somewhat threatening, they definitely just felt like bigger crates. It's a real breath of fresh air, though.

Submitted (1 edit)

I really liked the idea, the funny narration and controlling the puppet is fun. Good job!

Submitted

Original, funny, and honestly really charming! I'd love to see more from you!

Submitted

Such a clever art style, it makes it feel super polished and non-Jam'y without any super detailed assets that would've taken too long. Got a good chuckle out of the narration too, definitely haven't played another game like this in this Jam.

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