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A jam submission

The Count is DownView game page

The Count has taken ill and it is your job to take over his affairs and responsibilities

Submitted by HoboBunnie, RandomArtist1264 — 1 hour, 42 minutes before the deadline

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Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Narrative	#4750	2.404	2.889
Audio	#7016	2.219	2.667
Creativity	#7943	2.496	3.000
Artwork	#8129	2.219	2.667
Enjoyment	#9596	1.757	2.111

Ranked from 9 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?
2 Ways. First a play on the theme name Count Down with The Count is Down as in has fallen ill. Second is that the days count down until the Count has recovered and you must navigate the regions politics and policies and hope you don't destroy the region in the process.

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
The music and sound effects were all obtained from Pixabay from the following people:
The_Mountain
freesound_community
Universfield

(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
HoboBunnie and Random Artist

Comments

Luke the HumanSubmitted37 days ago

Like others getting a bit stuck. I'll try to document to help you resolve it:

Knocks at door during tutorial documents. Unsure what to do. Keep working through papers.
One paper asks me to say I know how to open the door, without really helping me figure it out.
Eventually try pressing Esc twice. The first Esc just gets me out of fullscreen, the second one takes me out of the desk view. In other words I can't leave desk view using the Esc key while remaining in fullscreen.
Answer door to a tutorial man telling me about answering the door!
Seems to maybe me okay if I stay in windowed mode, but each time I attempt, somewhere along the way I end up with a really low approval rating and get the Bad Ending and return to the start.
At this point, it's not obvious to me why my approval rating is going low.

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Sour Tin Racing

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TrustSubmitted38 days ago

I LOVE THE WORD PLAY!!
Although the game was a bit confusing, and some mechanics are perhaps broken? I'm not quite sure myself.

This was incredibly creative.

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Sewer Sam

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CattusdevSubmitted39 days ago

I laughed at the opening part. nice rhyme there. I am still confused as to how to answer to the knock though... the game does not progress for me

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Astraptes

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HoboBunnieDeveloper39 days ago

I think I know what's happening I went back and relooked through the tutorial and noticed I forgot to take out the part about the there being an icon at the door. By chance were you waiting for that before clicking on the door? Otherwise if you click on the door and there's no more visitors and you've finished the papers you can use the bell on your desk to move on to the next day.

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GalaretegSubmitted39 days ago

I think the game is broken, I couldn't get any visitors to come in. Interesting idea, but it's hard to judge in current state

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Radiation Fever

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HoboBunnieDeveloper39 days ago

If it's not too much trouble can you tell me where exactly you got stuck or what may have not been made clear enough that I can improve on.

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