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Candy, Costumes, & Canines?!?'s itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Halloween Themed | #46 | 4.320 | 4.667 |
Sound Effects | #46 | 4.012 | 4.333 |
Character Designs | #48 | 4.629 | 5.000 |
Log Line | #63 | 4.166 | 4.500 |
Accessibility | #72 | 4.012 | 4.333 |
Music | #75 | 4.012 | 4.333 |
User Interface Design | #100 | 3.703 | 4.000 |
Story | #105 | 3.858 | 4.167 |
Overall | #110 | 3.703 | 4.000 |
Game Graphic & Logo Design | #112 | 3.703 | 4.000 |
Voice Acting | #122 | 1.852 | 2.000 |
Game Page Design | #126 | 3.086 | 3.333 |
Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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The title and logo piqued my interest, and I think it met my expectations.
Some feedback related to “individual” rating categories (conflating some):
Story and theme: I think this was a good story (well, I guess I’m saying that about a lot of entries, but I guess that just means there’s plenty of good competition). And you managed to make it scary, cute and Halloween-related all at once!
Audio: I think this is the second entry with voice acting I play, even if the VA in this one is just a scream. And I like the other sounds too (including the “mic” sound). The music seems goes well with the story too, and you even use silence well.
Art and characters: the art is cute like the story, just like I guessed and hoped for when I saw the game’s title.
UI and Accessibility: I don’t know how hard it is to make a UI like this in TyranoBuilder, but I think it’s pretty good. If I had to nitpick on something it would be the buttons using a light font on a dark background when the textbox does it the other way around. You seem to have most of the accessibility features I look for (though I don’t see a font size setting… and between its speed and the background, the credits roll might be a bit hard to read).
Marketing: First, I think the Spooktober logo was just meant to be in the game: you don’t need to also put it on the game page (though I guess that’s still better than slapping it in the game logo like a small number of entries seem to have done). It seems to take up quite a bit of space on the game page, which otherwise just shows one paragraph of text and the credits. I think adding screenshots there would probably have looked better. The logo seems pretty good, and together with the log line it got me to play this game so I guess those two things you did pretty well.
Nice little mystery with cute doggos. Unfortunately it stalled at the credits but got to see the story so I'm happy :)