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A jam submission

Down CounterView game page

Submitted by ma43210 — 2 days, 18 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity#54883.0693.069
Audio#65442.3452.345
Narrative#87381.6901.690
Enjoyment#88352.0002.000
Artwork#102201.3791.379

Ranked from 29 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?
You find things that relate to the word down, and the game counts them.

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Music by ItsOlie

(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
ma43210

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

fun game! You have some really cool meta puzzles in there. I managed to find 10 downs so far and I'm stuck on the "at end of days." puzzle. But I had fun solving the ones I have so far

Submitted(+1)

Clever use of the theme and a good little puzzle game. obviously the presentation could use some polish, but overall really good work. well done.

Submitted

It's a bit vague and could do with some cleaner visuals, but it's an interesting take on the theme that kept me trapped for a few minutes

Submitted(+1)

It could use a bit more polish (maybe scale everything up). Even a minimalist style can work for this kind of game. But I like out of the box puzzles so plus points for creativity. 

Submitted

I think it's hard to grasp the concept of how this works, but it might be my small brain.

Submitted

Interesting concept. I would love to see a small tutorial to better understand the rules.

Congratulations on your submission !

Submitted

Cool idea! However I think it's quite hard to really understand what is asked here... I didn't find a word yet.

Developer

There is a hint doc in the description if you need help

Submitted

A clever way to interpret the theme. That said, I'm personally not good at cryptic crosswords I find. I did manage to get 5 downs so far, but I suspect they are the easier to get ones. I only was able to solve one of the three parts of the first puzzle segment.

But that is a personal skill issue in general. Some clarity of instructions in the game itself might be nice, but I was able to read the description in the page to get that information. I do hope you get some better feedback from people who are better at that style of puzzles. It seems like a fun concept.

Developer

thanks for the feedback!

Developer

I have just updated the hint document; it now has hints and solutions for every level. Just wanted to let you know incase you wanted to have another go at it.

Submitted

I didn't quite get what I was supposed to do here... then again I'm playing this directly after the jam :)

Developer (1 edit)

how many Downs have you found so far?

Submitted(+1)

Hey. Just gave it another try. I got 9 Downs so far, and I did referred to the walkthrough.

Interesting information about Australia there. I still wasn't able to clear level 1 though; the second half is pretty cryptic, even in the walkthrough. I typed the given words into the single box, which didn't do anything...

Lastly, Level 3 was clever, but I seem to be unable to re-access it if I click away (I decided to return to level 1 after getting level 3, but I forgot to interact with the text box that appeared, which then seems to be locked out).

Pretty interesting way to interpret the jam theme, literally counting all the downs :)