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A jam submission

The Case of the Stolen SnacksView game page

When someones lunch gets stolen, you have to be the one to solve the mystery.
Submitted by MustardBad, VanLou — 12 hours, 13 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Jam Theme#84.2504.250
General Enjoyment#94.1254.125
Puzzle Fairness#94.1254.125
Innovative Gameplay#133.5003.500
Immersive Atmosphere#143.8753.875
Overall#143.7193.719
Logical Consistency#143.8753.875
Satisfying Answers#153.3753.375
Emotional Depth#312.6252.625

Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

What makes your game a Mystery Game?
You play as a detective trying to solve the mystery of a kindergardener's missing lunch

How does your game integrate the jam's theme "Last Message"?
At the scene of the crime, the perpetrator left an indecipherable message that you need to figure out

Does your game use generative AI? And if so, in what way?
No

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Comments

Submitted

A cute little game that is programmed well, I liked it! Cute premise, cute style. I had two major feedback notes while playing:

I had a little issue opening and closing menus at times, they don't close if you try to change areas with them still open and sometimes don't let you switch areas, just little bugs like that that probably aren't hard to remove

For the mystery, fundamentally you only really need the classroom note to solve it, because only one character has an "E" as the second letter in their name, revealing who signed the note by just that; more similarly named characters would alleviate that. It would be more engaging if the miscellaneous clues added to the mystery, but I did like the robot sidequest, it was cute :)

Submitted

Cool game. I like how you turned a plot so simple into an actual mystery, and I enjoyed playing it all the way. I guess once you find the culprit it becomes sort of obvious but maybe it would be good to add a short explanation at the end. Overall it was a fun experience, though. Thanks very much!

Submitted

Very cute mystery. I especially liked the little touches of sound effects added when you interacted with certain things - it made the world feel very lived in, which supported the art style and general vibe. The music was solid as well! My one complaint is that some of the clues were a little opaque, for me at least; I was able to decipher the message with normal cryptography, so it didn't really matter, but the pictures didn't make a lot of sense to me just the same. But overall, you guys did a really nice job on this one!