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A jam submission

Halloween RushView game page

Survive your shift at the candy shop!
Submitted by BrandonC — 9 hours, 11 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Aesthetics#184.5054.505
Sound Design#273.9513.951
Enjoyment (Best Game)#543.7573.757
Creativity#1713.5633.563
Story#3862.1652.165
Horror#5231.9611.961

Ranked from 103 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)

Awesome game, it looks amazing, has nice animations, smooth gameplay, and everything fits together nicely, nice job on this one! Added this to my collection to play again later :)

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing my game!

Submitted(+1)

I feel like i did pretty well for my first shift!

This game was super charming and had bundles of polish. The art of was top tier and felt such a joy to interact with. It was very well implemented and the world felt full and rich and the interaction prompts etc felt coherant with the rest of the game. I especially loved little touched like the candy raining down on the complete screen. 

The ghosts, the sweets and the main character were all burtsting with personality and I wanted to know more. the music  added to the sort of intrguing charm of it all.

Everything worked well and the gameplay loop was fairly simple but elevated with all the polish. If there was a little more complexity i could see this being a really charming little time killer i came back to (especially around haloween).

Congrats on making such a well rounded polished final product for a game jam! its a great entry and im glad i got to play! thanks!

Developer(+1)

that is a great score! Thank you so much for your kind words and for playing my game!!!!

Submitted(+1)

Here's my playthrough of your game at the 4:47 mark of this video! 

Developer(+1)

Thank you for playing my game!!!!

Submitted(+1)

Very Cute Simple and fun to play, Good Job!

Developer(+1)

Thank you for playing my game!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Extremely cute, lovely and polished game. Small but with a big heart! Best game I played yet 🖤

Lovely Heimerdinger

Developer

Thank you for playing my game!

Submitted(+1)

Cute, simple and fun to play. I like how you actually don't need the guide you can tell the combo candies' ingredients by looking at their sprite.

I'm pretty sure there was an old Flash game that played similarly, but I can't recall its name or theme at all.

Developer

Thank you so much for playing my game! 

Submitted(+1)

Love the music choice, love the art, simple concept but truly fun. Well done :)

Developer

Thank you for playing my game^-^

Submitted(+1)

Great music, sound design and art style, simple game concept executed well!

Developer

Thank you  for playing

Submitted(+1)

Funky and intuitive, I liked the music; it really fit the gameplay, it's simple, and I loved that the recipes made sense. This could easily be expanded by maybe adding more customers or things to do at one time, making it multitasable would be a nice touch for the late game, so replayability increases. Very well done! :)

Developer

Thank you so much for playing my game!!!

Submitted(+1)

Charming little game, although the gameplay is very barebones. I feel it would make more sense to have two clients at the same time instead of just one at a time, unless I'm missing something. Got 21 score.

Developer

hey thats a pretty good score.! yeah the game itself is really simple and not to crazy my last two jams i bit off more than i could chew so i really wanted to focus on just making something super small and polished this time. next one ill try adding some more stuff. Thank you for playing my game!!

Submitted(+1)

This is a very well-polished game. The art, VFX, feedback, and core gameplay are all excellent. For a little extra challenge, you might consider increasing the candy combinations to three or more, haha. But overall, everything is already executed beautifully.

P.S. If you get a chance, don't forget to check out my game too!"

Developer

Thank you for playign my game!!! yeah i had hoped to make it get harder with more crazy combinations but ultimately ran out of time and settled to polish up what i had . in hind sight i should plan out the coding a little better for future jams, i spent to much time on art x_x

Submitted(+1)

Such a cute premise! I really love the art style and the music! It's so whimsical and reminds me of web games i played as a little kid. The music fits the vibe so well, and i did not get tired of listening to it on loop. I will say the browser version is a little slow to run full screen, the frame rate drops a lot. Also the direction where the candy needs to be served i think should be telegraphed a little better, because i didn't know what to make and who to serve at first. The button configuration is also not the most comfortable, and would have benefited from arrow key formation for movement, so the controls are more natural. Doing everything with one hand really stifles the speed, and especially since its the key to winning the game. Another thing is that the game feels a little too slow. I feel like the amount of customers and their patience should be a little less forgiving, and the player character speed would need to be a little faster. The shifts also feel a too long, i think one minute shift is much more exciting and gives higher stakes. It would also be nice to have a drop/discard the ingredient option, as there were many times i've mis-clicked and picked up the wrong ingredient.  

 Overall, looooove this cute little game, good job!

Developer

Thanks so much for playing my game! yeah i guess i am really comfortable with WASD from fps games will keep using arrow keys in mind for future jams. Thats the first ive heard about fps issues, i tried to keep everything running as smooth as possible ill look into it, maybe it was itch having problems?  yeah the candy direction and order icon was an oversight i needed to have it more visible at all times for players something to definitely take note of for future games. Yeah i had originally wanted the player to be able to pick up and throw ingredients around but just never go to that point. again thank you for your feedback and thank you for playing my game! 

Submitted(+1)

I love the art and how simple the game is. It was easy to tell what stuff I need to mix without having to look up the recipe book all the time. Excellent jam submission! 

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much for playing my game i am glad you enjoyed it! 

Submitted(+1)

This was lovely, great visuals,  fun arcade style gameplay, the only thing is I wish you got more points and time for brewed candies, other than that I would love if this game had an endless mode

Developer(+1)

Yeah that is definitely a good idea the balancing is  a little wack at the moment.  Thank you for playing my game!

Submitted(+1)

Clear instructions, pretty graphics and animations, good music :) awesome

Developer

Thank you for playing my game!!

Submitted(+1)

The design of the sweets is extremely good, I didn't even have to open the recipe book once.

Developer

Thank you so much for playing my game!

Submitted(+1)

Such a simple, yet stunning game! Visuals and art is amazing, from font, animations, characters, music. I really enjoyed playing it <3

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much for the kind words!! and thank you for playing my game

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Very fun and cute entry. The gameplay loop was very satisfying. Good game, not as scary though. Make sure to check out my game. It seems like most people can't understand the ending, can you?

Developer

Thanks for playing my game!

Submitted(+1)

Really fun game, I honestly didn’t find any downsides! Just a small personal suggestion — it would be cool if, at the end of the game (win or lose), you could pop the falling candies for some extra fun :3 I actually tried to click them thinking they were interactive, haha. It could be a nice little touch to extend the playtime :3

Developer(+1)

I like that idea! that would make it more fun!!! thank you for playing my game and for the kind words!!!

Submitted(+1)

Visuals look very nice and polished! Fun game to play. Good job

Developer

Thank you very much!!

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