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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Best Audio | #1 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Best Abstract Game | #1 | 4.667 | 4.667 |
| Grand Prize | #3 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Judge's Choice | #3 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Overall | #3 | 3.889 | 3.889 |
| Best Design | #4 | 3.833 | 3.833 |
| Best Art | #11 | 2.833 | 2.833 |
Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Judge feedback
Judge feedback is anonymous and shown in a random order.
This is a really neat idea, and I weirdly love the main character.
It does feel like there's a whole lot of unnecessary content for the fact you're really only listening for 2 clues in a lot of data. Didn't feel like there was a lot of functional gameplay.
That said it was really inventive and very different for a game jam game. Good work!
A really strong little game! I suppose I only really encountered two puzzles but they were solid and dripping with theme. I think you guys did a really fun little job making a tiny almost ARG style game. Top marks, good voice-acting and fun use of assets.
My favorite element was how you used the game's "dead ends" to provide little jokes and characterization for the game's narrative. Good stuff!
Description
Solve puzzles before Blanche exacts revenge.
Full Description
PC: Run `blanche.exe`
Mac: Run `blanche` (macOS Mojave user? See below.)**
Keyboard only.
+ Press ESC or BACKSPACE to go back.
+ "Shutdown" exits the game.
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Blanche is a puzzle-solving adventure. The player responsibly washes Blanche, a child's plush squirrel doll, in the washing machine. This proves disastrous for Blanche, who vows revenge.
Unique Features:
+ Written in Rust using the ggez game library. To display video, it uses mpv (and the mpv Rust library).
+ Utilizes video and photography to tell a story as the player explores and solves puzzles on Blanche's cell phone.
Team:
Dan Wilhelm - https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielwilhelm/
John Grace - https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-grace/
Aries Serrano - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aries-serrano-1783a713b/
Assets:
+ All video, photography, images, and voices are original.
+ Blanche is a dog squeaky toy created by BarkShop (purchased during the game jam).
+ Boom sound: https://freesound.org/people/bareform/sounds/218721/
+ All music by Kevin MacLeod:
Professor Umlaut, Not As it Seems, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
* If videos do not auto-play, they are viewable in `resources/videos`.
** macOS Mojave users - See a black window when the game starts up? Please move the window slightly to display the game. The latest version of SDL (2.0.8) contains a bug that prevents initial rendering in macOS Mojave. (We included a custom build of SDL that may prevent this problem.)
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