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Olaf the Boozer (GGO 2024)View game page

Ever woke up after a legendary night out with absolutely no memory of what happened?

Submitted by vmikhav (@vmikhav) — 31 minutes, 16 seconds before the deadline

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Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Innovation	#31	3.818	3.818
Gameplay	#37	3.727	3.727
Overall	#60	3.727	3.727
Audio	#84	3.455	3.455
Graphics	#112	3.636	3.636
Theme interpretation	#236	2.818	2.818

Ranked from 11 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

GitHub repository URL
https://github.com/vmikhav/olafTheBoozer-ggo2024

Game description
Ever woke up after a legendary night out with absolutely no memory of what happened? Well, meet Olaf - a dwarf who's taking "booze-induced blackout" to a whole new level.

Think "The Hangover" meets classic puzzle adventure games in this journey through the consequences of one dwarf's epic pub crawl.

Theme interpretation
We made a plot around mystery of the forgotten evening and morning's consequences

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tmachineSubmitted1 year ago (1 edit) (+1)

I couldn't get past the first level, the top right corner just seemed to randomly box me in, and it was just trial and error of every possible movement in the hope something might work. I couldn't understand what was going on so after a lot of restarts gave up. I think with a tutorial that explains the mechanics this could work great, but at the moment I'm too lost. Really like the art style and sound though. (I had a similar problem with my own game - without an explicit tutorial it didn't make sense to a lot of people, argh)

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ShadowLink Command

vmikhavDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

Hi! I'm sorry you had bad experience with the first level. Try to pull a barrel out of the room (you need to step on a barrel first to repair it) and place it where is a shadow of a barrel

tmachineSubmitted1 year ago

Thanks! that worked, I got the hang of it now. But this is very un-obvious, really needs some explanation in-game I think for others :).

brprice42Submitted1 year ago

The puzzles in this game are super fun and well designed. I also really like the story and humor and piecing together a hangover is a fun interpretation of the theme.

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alag00Submitted1 year ago (1 edit)

A challenging yet fun experience. It was polished to the point where no bugs were encountered, except for the music audio lag which started to appear after a while. Good consistent Art with the Audio matching, created an immersion that were never broken during my playtime. While the difficulty throughout game was inconsistent, I never felt that the game was too easy, even the easiest level required some level of thoughts. A solid game for sure!

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Between The Signals

vmikhavDeveloper1 year ago

could you add more details about music audio lag?

alag00Submitted1 year ago

Tested and I managed to get it again. On level 3, play the level but don't finish it, after a couple of minutes the background music will start to lag. Might have something to do with allocated memory.

Grizzly7Submitted1 year ago

A very fun puzzle game (Even managed to learn to get a golden beer on stage 2) with humor that's very similar to my own. People around him may be sick of him, but I love Olaf the oaf. Also dwarves are great. The artwork is very charming. It must have been a nightmare to collect all the sounds for the different things you can fix. I noticed you have an option for adding buttons to the screen, maybe as some sort of mobile gaming lead in, and that's a great idea. After playing for about 30 minutes though I wish you had a button to turn off his hiccups though haha. Thanks for the game!

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Build-A-Trocity

M3t4lp0w3rSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Great game!!! I like the art and music, also the puzzles are quite challenging! Well done :)

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Museum Servivit

bartalomewSubmitted1 year ago

with a tutorial for the barrel movement or at least controlls description on the itch page this could be such a great game, but after I got stuck at multiple levels it bace a bit frustrating to play. but the art style is amazing, the dialogue system as well, it's great to have multiple options and directions to go and play.

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vmikhavDeveloper1 year ago

Hi! Thank you for feedback! I added a note to the game's description

Navigation - arrow buttons (also you can turn on on-screen buttons is settings)

Hint: Olaf will pull barrel or crate if he's standing on empty tile. To stop pulling you need to change direction. Red silhouette of a barrel/crate marks a place where object of that type should be placed.

vmikhavDeveloper1 year ago

would it be less frustrating for you with ability to cancel last step?

bartalomewSubmitted1 year ago

it works for me now with the description, thanks for that! defo makes the game more enjoyable!

pterafierSubmitted1 year ago

Was pleasantly surprised at this game's quality. I definitely got stuck in the cellar level, i was so close so many times but the barrels move unexpectedly. It took me a while to figure out how they worked and even then I would be surprised when they move. Maybe some sort of indicator that Olaf is connected to/will pull a barrel would make things a little easier. Overall a very good game! The style is awesome and the clear progression is great, the dialogue was short but detailed, a nice balance.

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vmikhavDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

Thank you! At first I designed that puzzle from cellar for the first level in tavern, but with chairs. Then I decided that using chairs for that might be even more confusing, so I left only barrels and boxes, and put one barrel into kitchen as a tutorial.