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The Count is Down!View game page

Timebased stealth arcade in Dracula's Castle

Submitted by blundstudios — 4 hours, 1 minute before the deadline

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Results

Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Artwork	#4465	3.091	3.091
Enjoyment	#4917	2.864	2.864
Narrative	#5984	2.182	2.182
Creativity	#6244	2.909	2.909
Audio	#9128	1.636	1.636

Ranked from 22 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?
The Count in the castle is asleep behind the counter, move against the countdown timer to steal as many potions as you can!

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Intro Music:

Ominous Ticking Clock by Ultra-Edward -- https://freesound.org/s/830480/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

ominous tone.wav by mderr -- https://freesound.org/s/403184/ -- License: Attribution 3.0

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

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Comments

LoveTheBlobSubmitted51 days ago

Nice work. The hide in the shadow mechanic is interesting. Would love to see more levels with different challenges

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Penguin Hero Will Attack With Bombs

OmonoBlueSubmitted52 days ago

This is great for a first solo game! Nice work, keep it up!

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LeSamSubmitted53 days ago

Congratulations on finishing your first game!

If you want to continue working on it, maybe make it remove a potion so that you can’t keep doing exactly the same route each time!

Good luck on the rest of your gamedev journey!

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Count Downcula (GMTKjam2026)

TrezarkSubmitted53 days ago

Nice game and congrats for your first one ! The Count is really cute :)

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Granny Fairy's Spell

blundstudiosDeveloper53 days ago

Thank you so much :D

Gordon QuickSubmitted53 days ago

pretty cool implementation of shadows and detection, reminds me a bit of how it works in splinter cell. Gameplay itself is pretty simple but can be quite tense so you gotta get locked in. GG overall :D

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blundstudiosDeveloper53 days ago

Thanks! :D

FlafySubmitted54 days ago

fun game! was it techinically challenging to perform the check of seeing the player not behind a shadow?

Also, does it count that I got 8 potions if I died getting the 9th??

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Until The Count Falls

blundstudiosDeveloper54 days ago

For me it was challenging haha.. I'm not a super-experienced coder but managed to get it working by using raycasts. The shadows themselves are not actually the ones protecting the player, it's colliders in the obstacles themselves.

Well done getting 8 potions, that's well above my own highscore. I'd say it "COUNTS" :D

Thank you for playing!

fy_fySubmitted54 days ago

Cool concept!

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blundstudiosDeveloper54 days ago

Thanks!

devSundaeSubmitted54 days ago

good job on your game! It could be interesting to remove spots where potions have been picked up so you have to go to different sections. I found I would creep up the right since he always started looking from the left

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blundstudiosDeveloper54 days ago

Thank you!

Yeah I had a bunch of ideas on how to improve it. That's a nice suggestion, thanks!

NeptunianEclipseSubmitted54 days ago (1 edit)

Great work on your first game! I enjoyed how the countdown varied to keep you on your toes. In my best run of 4 potions I had several very close calls which was exciting. If you kept working on the game, I agree with LostLlama that moving the statues would be a great way to add more variety. Hope to see you back for the next jam!

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blundstudiosDeveloper54 days ago

Thanks for the comment!

I'd like to keep working on the game, just to learn more. I have actually implemented a very simple mechanic now that moves the obstacles.

Likewise!

LostLlamaSubmitted54 days ago

Neat concept! Maybe the objects could move around or the scan could randomly go left->right or right->left for variety between runbacks

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blundstudiosDeveloper54 days ago

Thank you!

Yeah I thought the implementation of the scan was a bit hard, I should try to implement this feature to learn even more :D