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A jam submission

HickoryView game page

Repair the clocktower. Get rid of the pests.
Submitted by Daniel Graves (@nulled_wine), Lichajen, lifes30daytrial, koko, Desolo Zantas (@Desolo_Zantas), ThePatientHusky — 2 hours, 30 minutes before the deadline
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CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#34.6114.611
Artwork#104.8364.836
Narrative#554.3694.369
Creativity#4494.2364.236
Enjoyment#5343.9653.965

Ranked from 1135 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
In Hickory, time slows down as the clock counts down and you must complete tasks to prevent the slowing of time. Also, the game takes place in a clocktower!

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
See description for full credits

(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Second Fiddle Studio

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Submitted (3 edits) (+2)

Incredibly well polished game, congrats to the team ! The music is absolutly stunning, I stayed longer on the menu than on the game lol XD
Very beautiful artwork, the whole presentation is amazing.

The gameplay is fun, altough a bit hard for me on the third mini game while having so little time, and also those damn rats are hard to catch ^^

Developer

Thank you so much for playing and the kind words!! Artists and musicians carried haha, I think my personal favourite part is the storybook intro. Gameplay was quite tricky to balance but I'm glad to see it's mostly in our favour, I'll take some time to adjust it more in the future though :) 

Submitted(+2)

ART IS AWESOME

Submitted(+2)

Absolutely stunning work, it was a short and sweet adventure!! The graphics are amazing, the boss fight is also very interesting!

Developer

Bosses are my bread and butter, sadly I couldn't explore more with it because of how much focus we put into game feel and other aspects. Perhaps the rat king will return one day...

Thank you for playing and the kind words, I'm so happy you enjoyed! 

Submitted (1 edit) (+2)

Amazing game with fantastic art and sound! Really clear on how to play and the little map showing which floor to go to is super helpful. Great work!!

*edit: miss-spelt floor :P

Developer(+1)

Funny story that the map actually had an issue where it can confuse you on whether broken machines were on either the left or right side of the floor, and it only got fixed in the last few hours. So glad I fixed it though, thank you for the compliment and so glad you had a good time!!

Submitted(+2)

Jam games like these are crazy to me. How did you guys do so much so quickly?? Very amazing!

Developer

To be fair we had some very late nights together haha, we just like giving it our all in things! Thank you for playing and the kind words :)

Submitted(+2)

An extremely impressive effort! Very fun jam game.

However, on one of the wiggly gears debris levels, I removed all the debris but nothing happened afterward and I was stuck on that screen until I lost :(

Beautiful game nonetheless!

Developer

Thank you so much! This is the first I've been made aware of this, I'm wondering if possibly a debris was just difficult to see? Either way I'll be testing this thoroughly afterwards. Thank you so much for playing and enjoying our game!

Submitted(+1)

Honestly, I replayed it a few times (which was a joy anyway!) and didn't encounter the bug again. It might've just been my sleep-deprived brain missing a piece of debris, or a cosmic ray bit flip xD

Developer

We like to flag bugs and errors in our jam page so that players know what to expect. Could you walk us through what exactly happened?

Submitted(+2)

soundtrack goes very hard

Submitted(+1)

Wow the art and audio on this one are so well integrated

Submitted(+2)

Truly impressive that this was only built in the jam's 96 hours. Your team should be proud of how quickly you turned around such a well-polished game!

Developer(+1)

Thank you for the kind words!! We're all so incredibly exhausted but it was so fun throughout :)

Submitted(+2)

Amazing, it really felt like a complete game!! The minigames are fun and the time slowing effect is really graphically/aurally interesting! One thing is the time slowing makes it almost impossible to recover, so there doesn't necessarily feel like there's "comeback" potential. Maybe for a short game that's ok since you can start a new run! :)

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much, I'm really happy that's how you felt! The time slowing mechanic was so difficult to balance, there were some design choices that had improved it a lot from how it used to feel but there's still much left to be desired. Always room to improve for us :)

Developer(+1)

This was definitely one of our big design struggles! We were hoping to make more minigames that had time-based components that way the time slowing could be used to help make certain minigames easier. It ended up being a bit out of scope but its definitely something we want to spend some time exploring post-jam!

Submitted(+3)

Such a beautiful game! I’m so impressed by what you achieved in 4 days

Submitted(+4)

This is the best game I've played so far from this Jam, utterly brilliant.

Submitted(+3)

Wow, this is so cool. I wish I could do art and music as good as this.

Submitted(+2)

I'm legit impressed. Out of words, even. This is one of the most polished games I've ever played in a Jam. I "feel" like game feel is the one aspect that tends to suffer the most in Jams (and rightfully so since you can only do so much in such a limited time) yet yours is so polished that it could literally be sold tomorrow if it were longer. Amazing.

Developer

We are so so picky about game feel that I began to worry I would be too exhausted to catch other big issues haha. We're honoured to be the most polished you've played, and thank you for the kind words!!

Submitted(+2)

Extremely polished with nice mechanics, and the audio design is impeccable. Quick to learn and fun to master

Developer(+1)

I saw your game's progress on the discord and I can't wait to check it out soon!! Thanks for stopping by and for your kind words, I'm so happy you had a good time !

Submitted(+2)

Wow. Absolutely incredible what you can get done with a team in such a short amount of time. The atmosphere, music, seriously top tier!

Developer(+1)

I saw your game in the GMTK discord! Gonna rest up a bit before I dive into yours and a bunch of other games.

You're too kind, thank you and I'm so happy you had a good experience :)

(1 edit) (+2)

Incredible art and music but I found the steam plug mini game didn't give extra time so I couldn't get past the second round. Great looking game and very cute idea though

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Lead developer Mr Daniel Graves is checking on this now! Thanks for bringing it up!

Developer(+1)

Tested it as soon as I read your comment, it seems to be working as intended though perhaps it was a little weak in how much extra time it gave you, so sorry about that! Thank you for playing and the kind words :)

Submitted(+2)

Great game, very well done!

Submitted(+2)

Long live the rat king!

Developer(+1)
Long live the rat king!

(or not? he is breaking the clocktower)

Submitted(+2)

Wow, such a nice and polished game, I liked the gear pulling mechanic, never seen it done like that before! Good job! 

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much!! We're really passionate about creating game feel, I'm so happy the jammed gear mechanic was fun for you.

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