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A jam submission

Slicing Spider SpecialtyView game page

An endless, point-and-click, horror game that allows you to kill and eat spiders.
Submitted by Darkxception — 1 day, 20 hours before the deadline

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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Visuals#412.9622.962
Theme#422.6922.692
Genre Incompatibility#432.8082.808
Audio#452.6542.654
Overall#512.6542.654
Cohesion#622.3852.385

Ranked from 26 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Chosen genres
Endless; Point-And-Click; Psychological Horror

What was the size of your team?
Solo

How did you incorporate the theme?
The knife can be fixed and reused. It is possible to simply get a new knife but that would cost 5 points.

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

I couldn't get the eating mechanic to work, and the gameplay is a bit confusing.

Submitted(+1)

There's a lot of things going on here but thankfully they all work well! I don't often play clicker games and sadly this one does fall into the same trap; after playing for a while there's not enough new things happening to keep you engaged.

There were two difficulties but maybe you should try increasing the difficulty over time, or perhaps even a shop to buy more powerful knives and such; at least this would provide a clear goal to work towards. I noted that you referred to this as a "Psychological Horror". Perhaps I missed something, or I'm just not scared enough of spiders to understand it, because I was not at all scared when playing.

The audio was decent and did indeed fit the retro graphics style you chose, but it did seem to loop a bit too fast. Besides that, I thought that the thumbs down/thumbs up system was a really good idea as some reflex based gameplay was enough to keep me interested enough in playing until I died. There's a good use of the theme "reusable" too, but I think you could do without being able to buy a new knife; it sort of makes the ability to fix the knife less important.

Even though the game had no tutorial, I understood the instructions on the game page well enough to work out what I was doing. I've learned one thing from this game about killing spiders, eating spiders and fixing knives: it's a process.

Nice game, and I'll surely play again if you choose to update it in the future.

Developer

Thank you for your feedback! I'll let you know if/when the game receives an update!

Submitted(+1)

Creative idea! I really like the vintage graphics

Submitted(+1)

I think this is nice idea and you have a great base for a post jam version doing some polishing. Congrats!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

the game's controls are confusing, so couldnt really get that horror feel as i was just trying to figure out what to do and was too focused on the thumbs up and down icon but at least i ate a spider xD

Submitted(+1)

This feels like a game I would've played on floppy disc at the library in 1988. I really like the concept. Other people have said they were confused, but I read your directions you posted below the 'run game' area and understood just fine :) 

I found the combination of the music & sound effects to be a bit difficult to enjoy. 

I think you have a very interesting idea here, that with some polish could be quite enjoyable. If you continue work on it, I look forward to seeing it.

Submitted(+1)

Controls are very obtuse like most have said. I have no idea what I'm doing. Point and clicks and horror kinda go hand in hand too. If there was a simple tutorial, I'd probably rate it higher.

Submitted(+1)

I have no idea what I am doing, I am clicking things and animations and sounds are playing, send help X D

Developer

Exactly XD! (Yeah you have to send a spider and hit when the thumbs up are showing)

Submitted(+1)

I'm no idea what I'm doing or why, but I ate the spider :)

Developer(+1)

They are nutritional and give you health, so that's a plus! Also you have to send a spider, kill, eat, repeat. You know, life.

Submitted(+1)

I was confused xD took me a while to find the send button. I would say its a great game for arachnophobes but then you went and put a ‘eat’ button… imagine the Psychological Horror you’ve caused :P

Developer(+1)

I didn't have time to make an eating animation xD

Submitted(+1)

It's hard to tell if I'm doing well or not.  Other than that it's great.

Submitted(+1)

To Horror for me

Submitted(+2)

I’m not quite sure if I played it correctly, I don’t know if that’s with me or with the way feedback is structured

Submitted(+1)

the visual are so great that my eyes are burning :D

69/10

Submitted(+3)

the entire time I was waiting for a jumpscare because it said horror. it truly is a psvchological horror game. interesting concept though. graphics are simple yet pleasing. the main thing I wish it had is more touch feedback because I often got confused if the button worked and if im doing it correctly.

Submitted(+1)

What an awesomely weird concept! :D  I like the design and the graphics too!  great job! :D