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A jam submission

Main Character IslandView game page

Experience the hectic behind-the-scenes of a "cozy" village sim.
Submitted by sarathi — 2 hours, 5 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity#9573.7743.774
Overall#13953.4733.473
Enjoyment#16483.1943.194
Presentation#17543.4523.452

Ranked from 31 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 play as a typical NPC in an Animal Crossing-like village sim. Turns out it's not so relaxing on the other side...

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?

No

We used pre-existing audio

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Comments

Submitted

Funny idea for a game, I loved the music too.

Submitted

Played on stream! See the video for timestamp.

Submitted

Really great idea! Definitely could have benefitted from more dialogue possibilities. I was excited to see what the animals would talk about. 

I was a bit confused though because I would go grab what the villager wanted from someone, chill (as instructed) and then when they came to come get it i would offer it to them and it wouldn't be in my inventory? No idea why that was happening. :(

Submitted

Liked the concept, fun take on a popular idea! Seeing this expanded with more dialogue would be really fun!

Submitted

Nice and funny quest game.  Cute graphics too! 

How many items does he need? At this rate, the island will become empty :D 

Submitted

This is a great concept, and you present it exceptionally well. I was a little confused about how the gameplay loop was supposed to work because I was playing in full screen, and I think my ultra wide monitor was cutting off essential UI elements. Once I realized where I could see what the villager wants  without him asking for it, it all clicked. Great job!

Submitted

I don’t know why, but this has to gotta be one of the funniest games I have ever played in the GMTK jam submissions.

Just the fact that you have to both escape the villager and running around finding other animals hoping that they would give you whatever the villager want is both funny and terrifying at the same time. It makes you go, “Where the frick is that one thing that the villager is looking for!?” I don’t know man, it’s just so funny to me.

My only complaint would be that the dialogue is too slow, and I wish there’s an option to skip the dialogue, but other than that, great game and great execution!

Submitted

I never thought the playable character from animal crossing would become so scary

Submitted

Took  me a bit to make sense of the mechanics, once I did I was sprinting nonstop around the island.

Submitted

This was a cool and fun concept! Seeing the villager's need then racing to whoever had the resource. My only critique is not knowing if there's an end state if you get enough things for the villager and keep them happy. I liked the speed up and slow down of the music, good vibes.

Submitted

This game was really creative and funny. The dynamic music was a nice touch. Some of the gameplay could have been polished, such as the game over screen, or character sprites flipping out when colliding with stuff. Overall, fun creative game. Good job!

Submitted

Good concept with really good execution! The art was very nice and I like how the mechanics connect to the concept. Having to slow down near the player to act chill and having to avoid the player (making them an obstacle) but only until you have the required item (switching them to not be an obstacle) is really clever. Although it wasn't intended, I like how the characters' sprites flip out when they collide with a tree or something- really made me feel the "cozy game on the brink of collapsing" theme. My only suggestion is that maybe there can be a few randomized pieces of dialogue so that there are more than just one or two pieces of dialogue that have to be read over and over. Really cute and funny game overall, good job and good luck with the jam results! :)

Submitted

Cute and fits the jam theme well!

Submitted

Hehe this is fun... maybe even more interesting than being the human!

Submitted(+1)

This game was pretty funny ngl, I had fun!

Submitted(+1)

Very silly!

Submitted(+1)

I love the premise! I couldn't find bananas in time, I'm a terrible NPC

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