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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Judge's Choice | #3 | n/a | n/a |
| Overall Enjoyment (Community Score) | #5 | 3.630 | 4.176 |
Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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WEB VERSION HERE! (not official submission): https://akatakprime.itch.io/a-helping-paw-web-version
For the submission version, there is a bug where each day you must complete the “Feed Dottie” task in the kitchen first or else you can’t advance in the game.
(controls also under project page)
A + D or arrow keys for movement, E to interact, click/space/E to progress dialogue
Shift to briefly sprint...
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Friend showed me this game and I really loved played it! The illustrations are beautiful and super heartfelt, the narrative of the story really hits home.
So good! I think there's a glitch on the web version, and it won't let me move to the room with the pictures :-( even if I also do the food task first or complete all the other tasks.
Edit: just had to stand in a specific spot and it worked
But absolutely GORGEOUS!! The music is so nice too and I love the little story details like Dotty being an ladybug. Can't rate but if I could I would give 5 stars
SUPER CHARMING!! Maybe I'm old...I had to do so many tries for the pills. The art is adorable and I love the story! I was also delighted by how many minigames you guys made...excellent work!
I loved the story line and how you tied it into the theme. The tasks were good amount of challenge (except the dishes on trackpad were like trying to play aimlabs with your fingers cut off)
Besides that, very heartwarming ending that Raspy came to visit. Glad there was no sequence of events that led to Raspy not visiting (or at least I didn't find any
This is such an adorable game. It feels so cohesive and put-together. I found that even though the tasks were challenging for me, it made sense, since I was playing a much older character. You all did so well!
The story really hits home for me (I cried lol) as this exact thing is happening to a very close relative of mine. I applaud everyone's work on this game. Great job! 👏
Thank you for the kind words! I’m glad it resonated with you <3
The art is awesome! The pillminigame was hard haha. Loved the atmosphere, and the story is so bittersweet
this is absolutely adorable, i love the artwork and music, it creates such a cute atmosphere
GRRRR I WISH I WAS ABLE TO RATE THIS SUBMISSION BUT IT’S NOT IN MY QUEUE EVEN AFTER CLEARING EVERYTHING
It might be because our official submission only has a Windows download version ;v; I think people have to set preferred platform to include Windows for it to show up in the rating queue (but note for fairness: the official Windows download version has an additional bug)
i cant for the life of me remember the sequences of the pills i almost killed her like twenty times and by the end of it i was tweaking so hard, and the game reminded me that i forgot to take my own pills so i went and took them, and then i had to do the dishes in game and i remembered i havent done the dishes irl so i played the game further to procrastinate, and then i sorted the laundry in game and looked at all my clothes that are on the ground in my room and felt really sad; good thing i didnt have pictures i needed to dust, nor a pet, nor a dead husband, nor an estranged child… oh wait, i am the estranged child….
Just as i thought the sweet release of death happen upon me, i was surprised to see that she managed to wake up the next morning despite being drugged with a heroic dose of random medicine the last day; then i struggled with the pills for another solid ten minutes; i started calling the brownish and yellowish stripy pill “germany” and the other stripy pill “sad germany”, and it helped; day 3 i was met with a gut punch as the number of pills i have to remember increased, but with my new naming scheme i was able to get through it under 10 trys. Despite ignoring my estranged child’s (wait i guess i do have an estranged child now) call and finishing all my tasks before picking he still insisted on helping out, which was really sweet, and i really miss home now,
anyways 10/10 also some feedback would be that the arrow in the kitchen doesn’t trigger sometimes, maybe have the player bumping into the edge of the screen as the trigger instead.
omg what an experience LOL glad you made it through in the end!! if I had a nickel for every time someone named the pill germany I'd have two nickels haha...
and yes hopefully we can fix the moving between screens bug later! for now if people are confused, you have to walk away from the arrow and back again :'D
pro cheese strat: Win + Shift + S
Take a screenshot of the pills
Then split screen when you need to do pill select.
No more sad germany
The art is so gorgeous and I found the minigames clever and fitting for the theme of old lady mouse daily tasks! The dialog is also hilarious and I liked the 911 easter egg :D
The quaint vibe you created with the art style and music is really fun! I realized my memory might be cooked after the pill game ;-;
Wow, the visuals and sound are beyond impressive! I also like how the theme of the jam was directly mentioned in the game as a name drop.
The game's art style is so cute! really fit's the cozy vibe well
cute art but this game is lowk insanely hard dottie is a beast for doing ts every day
Very cute game! All the art works really nicely together and the dialogue is very cheeky and funny