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A jam submission

Count Down, The Goose!View game page

Submission to the 2026 GMTK Game Jam, Try your best to get the highest score possible!
Submitted by CosmoBrain, Xu Xiaolan — 10 hours, 32 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity#69222.7502.750
Narrative#78411.8751.875
Artwork#89382.0002.000
Audio#91341.6251.625
Enjoyment#94291.8121.812

Ranked from 16 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?
there is a countdown while you prepare for Mother Goose's arrival. You collect down feathers as your in-game currency and watch the number of down feathers go down as you buy upgrades and towers.

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Digital-7 Font -- Sizenko Alexander, Style-7 -- https://www.dafont.com/digital-7.font & https://www.styleseven.com -- Created: Oct 7, 2008

"Feather" (https://skfb.ly/6Az98) by gongshu819 is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

See description for full credits.

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Love the goose and little ducks. Goose game.

Submitted(+1)

I like the idea of the upgrade system. 

It took me too long to figure out why I was dying though. Still not entirely sure. Is it because I hit a red duck, is it because a red duck hit me, or is it if any duck hits me? It's hard to gather feathers because it feels I am just randomly dying. It took me a few tries before I even noticed there is a difference between brown and red duck.

Developer

For some reason the visual effects that were put into the red goose when it dies (it explodes and damages you if you're nearby) just did not work in the web build, no idea why but yeah, red duck would explode and hurt you

ideally with more time this would've been polished with a menu showing details about different duck types, more tower types and more duck types as well.

Submitted(+1)

I like the concept and the vibes it gives :)

Submitted

I wasn't able to move, or really do anything except throw something and attack the ducks. I was a little bit confused on what was going on. Maybe further playtesting is required? It seemed like a really neat concept having a tower defense game for countdown tho, fun idea!

Submitted(+1)

Lovely purple sky, and the game made me think of orc must die btw, but with goose ^^

Developer

I actually referenced a game called "Sir, We have an orc problem" to my co dev while making this haha

Submitted

I unfortunately was unable to play the game due to look sensitivity being way, WAY too high. I even attempted to turn down the DPI of my mouse, as it was a problem I've seen in other games but it didn't really help. Apologies, the concept seemed interesting and I was looking forward to the boss fight! 

Developer

Im sorry to hear that, genuinely didn't realise it'd be an issue, I still don't see entirely where the issue is but this tells me I should add a sens option to my future games so thank you

Submitted

I think the game is broken? It's just rubber ducks going down a street??? Are there supposed to be more then that?

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Apologies but the game does not progress properly if you die, go back to main menu and then start again, you need to refresh the tab

But there is more! after the timer you fight the boss!

Submitted(+1)

we need more goose games!