I love it. A hilarious, spoopy little Halloween game. I kinda wish I could've finished out the skill tree before the end, but that's fine, too. Better than not having and ending, like many other clicker games, tbh.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #1 | 3.993 | 3.993 |
| Theme | #2 | 4.707 | 4.707 |
| Audio | #4 | 3.829 | 3.829 |
| Fun | #5 | 3.854 | 3.854 |
| Originality | #5 | 4.244 | 4.244 |
| Accessibility | #5 | 3.561 | 3.561 |
| Graphics | #9 | 4.220 | 4.220 |
| Controls | #13 | 3.537 | 3.537 |
Ranked from 41 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
4.5.1
Wildcards Used
Never Stop Learning
Put a skill tree in your game
The Friendly Ghost
Include a monster that's helpful to the player
Game Description
An incremental clicker. you'll pull off one mask after another in a frantic race to one million. Upgrade your power, hire helpers, and invest in strange items to speed up your progress. What lies at the bottom of this endless facade? Estimated play time: 10-15 mins
How does your game tie into the theme?
Our game is a literal interpretation of the theme Masks, challenging the player to unmask a mysterious figure
Source(s)
N/A
Discord Username(s)
jackvanderkolk, kleenixwright, noble_rosethorn, ille1
Participation Level (GWJ Only)
Orphic Dreaming: 4, Brandon Scione: 4, Raphael Rosa Leal: 1, iLLe: 6
Comments
163 days ago(+1)
Pleased to hear it made you smile :D
i was responsible for the lighting/lightning. its a canvasshader and its opensource. i made it last year and didnt have the chance back then to use it for something other than the example. This year i really wanted to use it and i have do admit i have no clue what i was thinking last year when coding that abomination.
its a convoluted mess and drove me mad cause it was very hard to use and i will rewrite it at one point, but if you are interested this is the shader https://godotshaders.com/shader/dynamic-glow/
This is the room in its full glory btw without the shader applied.
Ahh what the heck you made that shader? I was literally looking at this yesterday wondering how I could use it in future projects, that's so cool! I have never used shaders before and would like to learn how to.
It's so impressive you actually made one (and such a cool looking one too)!! My level of Godot / dev skill is super basic rn so making a shader of my own is just a dream for now - I gotta figure out how to use them and a lot more first.
I love the art of the room without the shader but wow with the shader it completely transforms how the room feels, and takes it from cozy and cute to spooky and mysterious! It's really amazing how lighting can make such a difference and props to you for having so many different skillsets to be able to achieve that!
thanks :D the shader is a modification of https://godotshaders.com/shader/fireball-fire-ball-with-light/ and was mostly a happy accident. and i dont understand its workings fully thats why i had a tough time using it.
163 days ago(+1)
Awesome thats exactly what we were going for, thats one of the gigaupgrades :D
We added a few upgrades that 10x (and even more mult) the progress pretty much for the sake of having a short game for the jam.
Just so people dont have to play through an endless incremental and then lose interest before the fun begins :D
This way the upgrade feels ridicolously overpowered which i think is really cool.
If you imagine the upgradetree as 3 branches the left branch is masks, the right branch is items and the top branch is clicking.
The last leafs of these 3 branches are the overpowered upgrades.
The click CD one was definitely a giga-upgrade! I felt like I was unlocking the turbo clicker on my own mouse. It gave me access to physical hardware which was a huge dopamine spike.
It's real smart to tone down the values and compact the gameplay for a jam, allowing players to get to those really cool upgrades quickly.
Thank you for the kind words :D
if the ending felt a bit anticlimactic its because we had no time sadly to make a super interesting reveal in the likes of bioshock :D. One idea was to have the players itch avatar as last face, but that was such a huge implementation burden with using itch oauth applications/api, to make requests on the behalf of the user and such and a lot of other hurdles. but i think that could have been a pleasant suprise reveal.
Another idea was to zoom in into the face and somehow zoom that far in (maybe into the reflection of the eye) that in the end its the same room again and it starts from the beginning with a prestige system like other incrementals have.
But it was simply too complicated to realize with only 24h left.
Maybe one day :D who knows.
Oh yea and i really need to learn how to code a good audiomanager lol :D and learn from some other games that have so much spam happening. sorry about that, i did the same.
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