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A jam submission

Countdown or Count Down!View game page

Submission to GMTK Game Jam 2026 - a thinly veiled excuse to draw pictures of Count Draclia.
Submitted by Rob_work — 1 minute, 38 seconds before the deadline
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Countdown or Count Down!'s itch.io page

Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Artwork#23473.6003.600
Narrative#23522.9502.950
Creativity#31703.5503.550
Audio#51042.6502.650
Enjoyment#56852.7002.700

Ranked from 20 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?
it's about countdowns and Count Down

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Comments

Submitted

It was pretty fun, but who is count Draclia? It also lost me points when i put "count down" for garlic, even though that was in the tutorial...

Submitted

Interesting game. A bit confusing, but started to get the hang of it. Beautiful art design -- well done!

Submitted

Nice little game, I just can't remember what is what :D

Also I had a issue where one of the buttons (I think it was "Count Down") disappears and only the other 2 where visible. 

Submitted

Nice game!! Despite being short, it was a lot of fun, I laughed out loud with the stake card lol!!

Submitted (1 edit)

+ 

  • Good visuals
  • Runs well in linux + firefox
  • Fun idea to play with words meaning.

-

  • Hard for a non native speaker to process card meaning and analyse the grammar category in such a short time. Maybe you could add a time setting option?
  • Once it started, the 3rd choice was pushed off screen by the points display, there was just a little line remaining to click on.
Submitted

good start. art is nice 

Submitted

I enjoyed playing this, the art was very cute and its a very simple game. Can easily be expanded upon as well, so theres potential for more!

Submitted

Fun concept! It's a pretty funny joke, and the art are cute. ^^

I would've liked a bit more time. Fifteen seconds feels a bit too short.

Developer

I was going to draw a bunch more Count Draclias but had to do some gardening instead. The game idea was pinched from 'The Greatest Generation Podcast' https://greatestgen.fandom.com/wiki/Polo,_Polo,_or_Pollo%3F which seems equally frivolous and pointless

Submitted

Im on mobile but how am i supposed to play? The game seems nice, please explain how to run it. I am using an android phone.

Developer

sorry I thought I could just bundle the stuff into an itchio project link tot he index.html and it'd run in the browser, I think I've done that before... but but I left it a bit late.
To be fair you aren't missing anything :)

Developer(+1)

fixed it so it opens, but I'm not smart enough to get the screen resolution right, and it doesn't seem to want to close .. I'd avoid it if I were you. I used to have bad dreams about apps I could never close.

Submitted

Nice now i played it on mobile without any problems, i love the illustrations and the wordplays!