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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #395 | 3.167 | 3.167 |
| Creativity | #431 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
| Overall | #457 | 3.204 | 3.204 |
| Presentation | #523 | 3.111 | 3.111 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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# The Coffee Ducks
Needler Bonilla Serrano (nedboni)
Urias Ruiz Omar Ignacio (potter00)
Raúl Alberto Hidalgo Padilla (rayo6698)
Ángel Eduardo Jiménez Valverde (Honikal)
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Yes - I'm new to game jams!
How does your game fit the theme?
This is the story of a new intern at a stapler company who is told by his boss to JUST GET STARTED on a task. As he tries to complete this task, he keeps getting sidetracked by other jobs. In his attempt to finish the main mission, he ends up starting more and more tasks along the way.
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I loved all the mini games! This was a really fun little game that had me cracking up throughout. The story was really fun, and the ending was great, lol.
Haha thanks a lot! We’re super glad you had fun
We had a blast making all the mini games and wanted the ending to be some kind of joke/catharsis haha glad it worked!
I felt a little lost story wise despite the cutscenes being a bit too long. The little mini games were simple and charming and decently fun. Could have benefited from a bit more complexity and challenge, besides that pretty fun, good job.
Thank you very much, yeah, we tried to make it as easy as possible so people wouldn’t get stuck in a minigame and could try the next one (though I have to say, we are still thinking on adding another things after the gamejam, maybe a hardmode or something like that).
We really appreaciate that you enjoyed the minigames.
Very interesting but it seemed like the clicking i was doing was only adding more ads on the screen! I couldn't figure out how to not die haha but otherwise i loved the intro and the duck coffee brand XD
Yeaaah, I was actually insisting a little bit to my friend to maybe make the close button a little bigger to make it more easier, but he said it was part of the difficulty XD.
But we are happy that you really liked the intro and the duck coffee brand (we really need to practice for more duck puns).
Lots of cool minigames. This style of gameplay lends itself well to having a team to work with, I feel; clever. The art is visually appealing. The animations, while a bit slow, were entertaining, and the various minigames were pretty fun.
Cool submission.
Hey! Thank you very much. We are proud of our artist (though I have to say, we kind of almost exhaust him X’D), but I’m pretty sure he also appreaciates the comment.
Thank you very much for trying our game, and we hope you liked it.
Very fun game! ✨
Each minigame was unique and has their own type of challenge, I just wish the cutscenes were a bit more faster. The premise and story was pretty funny and quite relatable at times, toxic workplace is real haha, our poor guy had to do so much work. for the collecting paper minigame, I wish there was some type of indicator to communicate to the player how much paper we need, cause it was quite confusing at times.
Overall really enjoyed this one! you uys did an amazing job, as fellow newbie, congratulation on finishing your first game!! 🎉
Thank you soo much! We really appreaciate you enjoyed all the minigames.
Yeah, we wished were able to polish some of the minigames but we kind of run out of time, so we plan to release a version with some “quality of life” fixes.
From the entire team we say, thank you so much for trying the game.
Great game, mini games were really fun, artwork is spot on. You guys did a fantastic job!
Here’s ours,
/jam/shovel-jam-2025/rate/3738248
Our artist really appreciates the kind words! Coming from a game with such a great art style, that means a lot. The rest of the team sends a big thank you too!
I thought this was a really fun game! I was not expecting some of those mini games. Like him jumping down the stairs. I think finding the mice or the breaker were my favorite ones. Great job!
Hey, thanks a lot!
We're really glad you had fun with it! The stair jump gave us a good laugh while making them too.
Hey! Thank you so much for that! We are happy to hear that you enjoyed the game. :D I might say I’m also kind of afond on the mice minigame, though I have to say… I think most of the group also enjoyed the one jumping the stairs.
Was playing while watching the Shovel stream. Got distracted and got beat up. Clicked Restart, facepalmed, and let loose a FOWL stream of obscenities. Thought I could just WING it through this game. The HP bar was a bit confusing though, so maybe stick with the standard Green on full, Red on close to death and Black for the empty bar? Or explain it better? Just some thoughts from another game developer, you know us birds of a FEATHER have to stick together right?
If I wanted a copy of this game, could you just put it on my BILL? Thanks. Enjoy the duck puns.
Hey, thank you very much for your feedback! We’ll definetly take in consideration changing the way of the empty bar, and hopefully add like a 3 second timer between each minigame.
And also, really loved the Duck puns, I think I might PEAK some of those.
I had so much fun!!!
The mini games are great and loved the story))
It was even better since I am not so used to mouse so I learned to control it better)))
Great game, enjoyed it so much!
Hey, thank you very much, we liked to hear that you enjoyed the game.
Really fun mini-games. Great job!
Thank you!
There were a few times where.... i did not know what was going on. but that being said, super cute, super fun, i loved it :3
Hey! Thank you very much! We are happy to hear that you enjoyed it… And yeah, we also wished we could have give more feedback for the minigames XD.
Super cute! Really encapsulated the emotions of being an intern and the collection of minigames were all really intuitive and run
Had a bit of a hard time on the first game figuring out what to do and when getting to the "Try again" screen it was a bit hard because the state I was restarting to had almost no health, so would've been nice to regain a little big of health on retry. Really enjoyed it tho, thought it was super silly and fun :)
Heeeey! Thank you very much, we hoped you enjoyed the game.
Yeaah, we kind of messed up the difficulty with the first one, and I guess we kind of forgot that the health meter was low specifically at that minigame.
Great game, could've used explanations in some places and the cutscenes played a bit slow but other than that I really liked it
Thank you, yeaaah, we put some of the explanations almost at the end of the deadline, so we only got the chance to include the one at the beginning of the game. We are actually thinking on solving this issue on the future perhaps.
a bit hard to understand how to play, but i like it
Thank youu very much, we hoped you enjoyed it, we planned to add kind of a tutorial before every section, but we run out of time so we couldn’t add it.
I dream of hitting my boss in the face