Finally got around to playing the game about Slick Rick, also known as Ratatouille’s cooler cousin. The gameplay and the graphics pretty much speak for themselves - just absolute slickness. I’m just glad that thanks to this we might finally see the resurgence of rat-type games.
Play Sewer Slicks
Sewer Slicks - A Slick Rick Adventure's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #94 | 3.889 | 3.889 |
| Presentation | #208 | 3.630 | 3.630 |
| Originality | #212 | 3.556 | 3.556 |
| Fun | #250 | 3.148 | 3.148 |
Ranked from 54 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game represent "Slick"?
You play as a slick Rat (in the scummy sense) and hit sick skate tricks (in the smooth, clean way) in a sewer (which is slick)
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Slick! :3 gotta save up to dono for their kickstarter for an anime!
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Bullet Duck: A Quack in the IceI love the art style and the theming here. Very slick indeed! I felt that this game was a bit buggy but with some more time, I think this could be a very fun score attack game. Gave some Tony Hawk vibes of course, but the characters are really well designed. I think it's a very fun and slick concept! Also I gambled all my cheese, I love gambling :D
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Slide RideWhat a unique concept: Ratatouille's Remy as a gambling-addicted deadbeat dad with Tony Hawk skills. I'll have what the developer took to come up with this, please. Or maybe this is someone's elaborate way of remembering their 12-word Bitcoin key phrase?
The world-building is weird, done with a lot of "dirty" and "toilet" humor, but the visuals match that style completely. The characters are drawn with thick cell-shading, giving a nice cartoony feel. The music was funky, with an exceptional slapping bass.
The skating is fast and easy to pick up, and the skate park is nicely designed. My biggest suggestion would be a real tutorial area to learn the tricks, or to buy them one by one in the store. As amazingly fluid as the gameplay was, I had no idea what the hell I was doing or why it worked.
The other part was the gambling side, with a simple slot machine that has an extremely high chance of giving a return on investment. This makes it possible to buy everything in the store.
But you buy all that swag and then only see it when you go down the toilet or get shooshed away, not in-game or when you pay off your woman. Behind all that fuzz, it still mimics daily life for most people.
All you need to do now is commit to the visual style, add arenas, and create a bigger story about needing to pay off some criminal over an X amount of days to raise the stakes even more. Do I pay child support, the criminal, or gamble? Based on the feedback here, there should be massive potential.
We're glad you definitely noticed he was a scummy deadbeat father haha. The original idea cooked from one of our devs saying we had to make a game about a deadbeat father needing to pay child support from there everyone was on board to make it a reality.
Spookto and DNBaldwin definitely cooked with the visuals and audio!
We had the tutorial etched in to be done on the levels of the toilet/washbasin/toilet roll handle/floor but didn't get enough time after finally getting slope skating/grinding rails in sadly but this is planned for next release when uploads unlock again.
We wanted to have the win rates high for the jam but definitely agree that the values should be tuned down for release!
The swag not showing correctly was a bug because we originally didn't plan to have it in on jam close but one of the devs had 40 min to try to get it in and did 'good enough' to help get the idea across haha.
Thankyou for all the suggestions, most of these we have etched down and have planned to roll in but we will definitely add the extras we don't have! The initial pass was going to have several outfits, each day another illegitimate child would show up increasing the amount of child support you had to pay, you would eventually have to earn enough cheddar to pay a lawyer to sue baby mama so you could win the game. There are a lot more outrageous things we have on our whiteboard and we will start dropping the plans after the jam has finalized.
If you enjoyed the game and want to keep up with the updates then definitely make sure to add it to your collection!
slick rick is a slick bastard skating on thin ice and i hope his day never comes
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MOONLIGHT FIREGave this a good try, but it was really hard to get a feel for any of the tricks or tell if I was doing them or not.
I like the art style, I like the setup, the music was cool, the bird was really loud, and I feel like I only ever got my money back in the slot machine. I feel like trying to tackle such a complicated movement engine in the limited window of the jam was super ambitious and I feel like you definitely got the groundwork for something here for sure!
Thankyou for giving the game a go! Our team definitely appreciate the compliments and the fact that you took the time to provide some feedback!
We have some plans in the works to make it easier to perform tricks by introducing a "Bullet Time" mechanic when performing tricks so you have enough time to react to the inputs and we will be adding animations to the board for each of the tricks to be more representative of the actual real life trick.
We have tuned down Cool Canary so it isn't so painful (he is proximity based so if you are unfortunate enough to have your camera on top of him you will unfortunately be punished haha).
That was more the intention to the slot machine, I've seen a lot of people winning too much so it is kind of hard to tell if we should bump the chances up or down haha.
Thankyou, we had to re-write the movement logic 4 times and only just got what we had working about 8 hours before jam end for slopes and 3 hours before jam end for grinds.
If you really liked the game and want to see where it goes in the future then make sure to add it to your collection!
I love a good gambling element (too many hours in Luck Be A Landlord lmao), and I'd die for Mrs.Chonk & baby Rattus. Feel bad gambling away my child money, but I'm like "babe, promise I'll win this time!". Can totally see this being a full game in the future, looking forward to updates!
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Slickter's Snake Oil EmporiumThankyou for giving me a new game to play haha!
Mrs. Chonk & baby Rattus love you, mostly for that sweet cheddah though (even though clearly you gambled it all away like a true scumlord hahaha!)
If you enjoyed the game definitely add it to your collection so you can receive future updates, we have a lot in the works for the future!
Absolute Ratcinema
Memes aside, I love the dirty and dilapidated presentation of the game. Everything felt grungey in a good way. Also love the character designs in general
Been a while since I played a skateboarding game, but I think this is very solid for a week's worth of work, though it definitely needs some tuning. Pulling off tricks like ollies were doable and fun, but the bars to indicate rail grinding and doing a mono didn't really show how close you were to falling off well imo. I also thought the UI looked too similar to the one which shows how many tricks you'll be able to do in the air, so sometimes I thought I was doing a trick when I was grinding instead and vice versa.
I realise in the post you mentioned at the bottom of the game's page that you guys added grinding pretty late into development, but I think this is still worth noting none the less for the sake of readability.
I also think some sort of indicator for the timer when it's close to 0 would be helpful.
i.e maybe some sort of sound or music to indicate that you have 10 seconds left or something. Just to ensure that the transition to getting washed away doesn't feel like it just comes out of nowhere ( unless that was your intention )
I also think the child support payments should really increase in cost with each day or session because it got kinda monotonous with the current system. Basically it was pretty easy to afford child support, and fuel slick's gambling addiction. I think you could really do a lot with a gambling skateboarding game, so there's definitely some cool groundwork here.
All in all, this was definitely a pretty interesting game all things considered. Kudos to the whole team on getting this out
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ProtomousThis is amazing feedback Bad Piggy we really appreciate it, we had a discussion last night regarding the future of Sewer Slicks and have taken some of these notes down to improve it!
We agree with the need for tuning and definitely should've tried to tune it a lot earlier in the process but now we have time to master it! There have been thoughts about including a "bullet time" mechanic as you start the trick that allows you to properly follow up/complete the trick so you have more time to react to it. Thankyou for the feedback on the bars too, they were definitely a rush job to get it across the line and we would like to add a more granular slider approach alongside a change up of the UI to make different types of tricks distinguishable from one another.
This is a great point and several people have mentioned now that it feels very sudden, so the artist and composer have already started proposing solutions on really "dressing up" the timer to make it more obvious (and even more playful haha).
We felt that too regarding the child support it was supposed to be something that feels like it is constantly lingering over you forcing you to really decide if you were going to try to min/max your performance in the arena or if you were going to bet it all on slots in the hopes of pulling through so this is definitely a delicate line we need to skirt and balance.
Thanks again for the review Bad Piggy, if you really liked it then make sure to put it in your collection and watch out for future updates!
That's a pretty private bathroom as it's missing a door. The music slaps and the visual storytelling is great. The skateboarding mechanics have the right spirit, but doing tricks feels quite unconsistent. Also all the cosmetics disappeared when went skateboarding. Doing tricks was fun and the skatepark layout is really good. Kudos!
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Clean SweepThankyou for the feedback. We definitely rushed the scenes to get it ready and we were just like "Well he has his own toilet cubicle for now I guess." but yes it does ruin the immersion.
You can thank dnbaldwin, he did an amazing job slapping that music together. You can thank Spookto for the amazing visuals. The cinematics was a lovely touch of everyone in the team trying to figure out the right angles etc.
It is good that you noticed that so it isn't just us feeling that it was difficult, 2 solutions we are looking at bringing in are the tutorial skatepark in the toilet cubicle and a "bullet time" mechanic that allows you to see what is happening and give you time to react to perform the actions needed to complete the trick (as well as look slick at the same time).
Regarding cosmetics we sadly found that out too late to fix but there is a fix in the latest live build which should come once voting has finished.
I'm sure Dan would be happy to hear you liked his layout of the skatepark, he labored over that for a few hours.
If you really enjoyed the game and want to see where it goes then make sure to add it to your collection as we have been preparing to push the game further!
Had a lot of fun messing around with the skating mechanics, though I feel like the amount you have to pay the baby mama should scale up with longer playtime for more challenge. Slick!
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Getting out of HandDidn't think I would be seeing skateboarding and gambling mixed together, but here we are apparently! If this were a full game, I would be curious about how you would balance the two to make them blend in so much more, like would there be more of a benefit to skateboarding rather than just gambling all the time? But other than that curiosity, I think the hub area (on top of the toilet) could probably have been placed somewhere else in the bathroom like on the ground as it's very closed in and it feels strange that I can't just jump off of it. Was a nice little time overall, thanks for making this game!
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Shart CircuitThankyou for playing and thankyou for the feedback! We have a pretty big list of features and story arcs for all the characters that we will add in future updates but for now this is what we could fit in such a short time. It is good you mention the closed in space, we originally intended to have ramps everywhere with half pipes etc. leading to/from the floor so you could practice your tricks outside the timed arena and start from the top of the toilet so you would have this empowering feeling looking at the bathroom from above but ran out of time at the end and decided to close in the top for now.
Going out to get money then blowing it all on the slots? Real life simulator.
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Goon TrainerThis was such a fun game, extremely slick! Mixing gambling and skating, the two greatest pass times one could have.
If you could take a look at my submission and give me some tips on how I could improve, I would greatly appreciate it! Trying to get as much feedback as I can on how to improve on game jams.
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Orb Battlegroundsyou CANNOT stop me from max betting every time, hit the ciggy, then hit the cheese we are never loosing!
update… i lost it all ;-;
the rest of the game? theres more than gambling? lol it was really fun, took me a while to understand that holding space bar helped with more intricate tricks but once i got the hang of it i was cookin. I of course lost all my money so im not sure what the most of the clothing items do. It would be nice if they had a description while youre in the shop! Great game :p
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ONE NIGHT WINDOWIt surprises us how many avid gamblers there are in this community, but we were kind of 'betting' on that heh.
You only lost it all because you stopped before you won!
We are looking at adding the tutorial skatepark and a "Bullet Time" functionality for the tricks to help people ace their tricks in the future.
Thankyou for the suggestion of adding a description for the shop items we will add that to the list!
If you really enjoyed the game then make sure to add it to your collection for future updates!
Very rat like gambling and music experience! Definitely the best rat-like game I’ve played (and I, am a rat FIEND let me tell you)!!!
Can’t wait to see this game get crazier and bigger! We have a mastahpiece ladies and gents!
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ONE NIGHT WINDOW
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