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A jam submission

Epic GazetteView game page

A game about the epic crime saves an unknown hero did
Submitted by umaarvore — 2 hours, 42 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Use of the chosen theme#44.3534.353
Aesthetics (Art or music)#83.7653.765
Overall#83.5593.559
Innovation#103.0593.059
Your personal opinion#113.0593.059

Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Theme its based on
Crime-Stoppers

Any pre-made / AI assets used (if applicable)
Music came from a bundle obtained in Humble Bundle. SFX came from royalty free sfx

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Comments

Submitted

Cute art, really fun idea, and I think these sort of "figure out what to click" games have a lot of potential. The theme makes me imagine I have some sort of limited reality-manipulation powers and need to figure out what will work which is a cool fantasy.

My only gripe are the controls - if I don't guess where I'm supposed to put the object (and it really is guessing) or misclick, I then have to wait a second or two until I can click again, and the audio cues make it feel kinda unresponsive, or at least confusing. I would've skipped the mechanic of object slowly falling back to place and just make it immediately clickable again. I think that would be an easier change than adding more objects or hovering, and that way clicking around and looking for interactive elements would be more fun.

Submitted(+1)

Nice Concept But not many levels

Submitted(+1)

cool concept! wish there were more levels

Developer(+1)

Thank you! We might eventually continue this project and do some more levels.

HostSubmitted(+1)

Great use of the theme! Really like the art style , especially that each screen was a different hue. 'What's with all the crime?' is a great newspaper headline. Nice job

Developer

Thank you very much! Yeah we wanted each screen to have it's own "personality"!

Submitted(+1)

Small but great. I knew I had that hero spirit inside me

Developer(+1)

thank you!

Submitted

Adorable art and concept! If you do plan on expanding this after the jam, my main suggestion would be to make interactable objects stand out more! You don't want it to be too obvious of course, but maybe something subtle like the cursor changing when you hover over something you can move. And you could go even further with that by adding interactable objects that don't actually have to do with the solution, giving more chances for the player to try different things. Great work! I really really like the monochrome colors for each level :)

Developer

Thank you very much for the feedback and we are glad you liked our game! We actually thought on adding those ideas during the jam but then couldn't do them on time. We will add them if we continue with the project though!

Submitted(+1)

Quite fun, good job. Loved the gameplay.

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted(+1)

Really great art, and fun to think about solutions!!! It makes me want to play more levels :) Nice job!

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much!  We might continue this project and add more levels.

Submitted(+1)

You used this theme very well in this game and the art looks very nice! The gameplay reminded me a bit of something you'd see in a WarioWare game. Overall, great work!

Developer

Thank you very much!