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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Artwork | #1193 | 3.963 | 3.963 |
| Narrative | #1255 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
| Enjoyment | #1340 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Creativity | #1424 | 3.926 | 3.926 |
| Audio | #1724 | 3.370 | 3.370 |
Ranked from 27 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Reuben, Jett and Mila the Doggy
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This game was way more fun than I thought it would be haha. I had a blast with this one and there were a lot of funny elements mixed in with it. Good job! I did in fact become a Certified Dignified Doggy
CONGRADULATIONS!
You have the highest Degree of Doggy Dignifiednesss!!
Thank you so much for playing and commenting!!!
I hope you have wonderful day :3
Maybe I'm a bit biased because I love dachshunds, but honestly a solid game. I had a great time! Great vibes and just makes you smile.
Broo who doesn't, MILA IS SO CUTEE T-T
I appreciate your feedback so muh! Thank you so so so much for playing!!! :D
such a cute and adorable gameeeee !! good job at making this much content in really few days, it's honestly impressive !
OMG THANK YOU T-T
I we were working NON STOP EVERY SINGLE DAY. the 2 of us thought at many more than one point we were not going to be able to deliver something good enough, I definitely did anyway, I really appreciate you acknowledging the work we put in c:
THANK YOU FOR PLAYING!!
Amazing game, really cute and well made, really liked how each flavour had a different launch minigame, however wish it was a bit more explained early on
Thank YouuuU!1!!!!!1
DEFINATLY changing that in the next iteration of the game!!
Thank you SO MUCH For playing! :3
This is such a fun and precious game! Mila is the cutest dog ever 🥹 The gameplay's really fun too, though I'll admit it's not always obvious what's clickable, it took me a few tries to figure out what I could actually interact with. Still adorable though, love this!
She is the cutest little baby in the whole worldd T-T
We will defiantly be working on that.. thank you for spending the time to figure it out!! It makes me so happy to hear you enjoyed the game!!! :3
This game is sooo cute and funny haha! I love that you used real photos of your dog and of food, and it's really satisfying to see all the food pop up when it's being counted. I was also a bit confused about the bottle flying part, so I think it would've been helpful to have instructions show up before it starts :0 I also like that your dog speaks wisdom to us to support our bottle endeavors :)
Yesssss broooooo!!!!
We really have to work on the first few minutes of gameplay so its not so confusing, Thank you SO SO MUCHHHH for playing it means so much to us!!!!
I hope the wisdom that was said will help you through the rest of your life, Dignified Doggy Wisdom is genuinely some of the most PEAK wisdom known to man!
This was such an adorable game! Loved the vocie acting that has been done especially. There was some initial UI figuring out for me that took time but totally enjoyed the experience! Also the Attachments menu section! :D
That loading time for the game though having a beautiful art was still quite time taking. Love the intro cutscene here though oooof!
It took me time to understand on first playthrough what exactly was happening after the popping bubbles in the countdown timer section but I got it in my second run and then kept going for the items to upgrade and keep messing around - it was a lot of fun to play and honestly the voice acting and the artworks were so damn beautiful that made me be in the game! Also loved how changing the can changes the countdown gameplay - that was brilliant! And I got stuck on trying to do one objective that I literally "sucked at" for not being able to do it lol. Was a lot of fun replaying many times and yeep it was sooo beautiful. Didnt get to reach the flag in my playthrough yet but hopefully if I try again later on will try to. Also on repeat playthrough with considerable time before playing each run in between would be nice to see it save my upgrades for the run for later tries XD
YESS Bro, we will work on saves, rehauling the ENTIRE UI, and heaps more content when we keep working on it!!
For the mini game go backwards and stay at the wall to complete that one, YOU GOT THIS!! Also strat is staying with orange and getting most the upgrades until they cost over like 10000 the dw about them, once you got most the upgrades smack on grape and its an INSTA WIN.
YOU CAN BECOME A DIGNIFIED DOGGY I BELIEVE IN YOUUU!!!!!
Also thank you SO MUCH for playing!!!!!
I was a bit frustrated at first, after some freezes and hard to understand UI (at first, then it was clear as watermelon). I've now been playing the game for 1h, and got everything ( I think) that was in. I loved it !
The most useful instruction is A and D to move I'd say, I don't think you need a lot more, the rest is quickly understandable. Just the UI that made it a bit confusing because it was hard to read / decypher at first.
Loved the goofyness, the voice acting, the god damn DOG, lots of love to Mila <3 and good job to you !
YOU HAVE BEEN PLAYING FOR AN HOUR??!??!??
Thats some dedication bro thank you SO much!!
I wanted to make like the first few seconds of gameplay clear guidelines, just helping the player through their first upgrade and getting their first unlock-able flavour, Do you think that would be too much guidance?
If we keep working on SodaPop! then we will optimise the game WAY more and so there are no freezes, also I'll be completely overhauling the entire shop design, adding sfx and heaps more - I think the game has a lot more potential if we work on it.
Tank you so much for playing and it makes me so happy to know you had fun and PLAYED FOR AN HOUR?? Thank you for the support!!! and I hope you have an AWESOME day!!
I found that it was too much information before even launching the game, it was hard to get the point. I think it was part of the fun to discover the different bottle effects etc.
But in a jam context it makes sense. maybe ? But directly in the game it would cut on the mood I think. But I'm no game designer, it was just a quick thought.
Have a great day too, and a nice jam play test week ! Cheers
Thank you so much for the feedback bro, Really appreciate it, Are you talking about the little part at the start where mila is talking to you?
Yeah trying to get reviewing as many games as I can when I get the time, bro some people are honestly making some CRAZY games, like there was one diving one that I was playing for hours and some others are just visually STUNNING, its my first jam so i'm just BLOWN AWAY from all the tallent.
I was mainly thinking about another comment saying that it would have been nice to have more instructions before the mini games I think, and I think it would maybe be a bit too much adding the instructions that you wrote in the description into the game and breaking the discovery. A UI that's a bit clearer / readable would be more effective and funny than reading instructions (but that may just be me, I hate reading instructions ahah).
I made my girlfriend play your game yesterday (not a huge gamer) and she loved it !
Yeah some games are juste crazy and so polished, it's insane. It's my first jam and I'm loving discovering all the other games !
Really went for a ride with the watermelon. Mila is best dog.
Hahaha you getting that MEGA Luck? I had some crazy luck with watermellon and DAMN it is cracked if you do... but its genuine garbage if luck is out the window.
Mila IS The best dog!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PLAYING!!!
cute dog, fun art. found that the orange and watermelon sodas seemed to be just worse than the base one which felt odd and a bit disappointing. the game also consistently froze for a few seconds at every scene transition, which was annoying especially as the game doesn't seem complex or resource intensive enough to be demanding significant loading times. game definitely needs some optimization work.
core gameplay is pretty fun though, learn to fly clones are a solid formula. i liked the upgrade descriptions changing with each level, made the exponential price scaling feel earned much more than just a numeric upgrade would. though i ended up finishing the game before getting a chance to buy the last couple of them
Gosh DAMN you have given so much feed back THANK YOU!!!
I did my first playtest 1 hour before submission and then we had to ballance all the flavours and transitions last minute, we DEFINATLY agree with the optimisation, Reuben (The coder) said its a dumpster fire of code, the freezing was me not watching the end scene before submitting and having the keyframe drag on slightly too long.
Yeah the learn to fly concept is pretty solid.
We appreciate your feedback so so so much!!! If we end up improving on the game we will definatly fix soda being cracked, also Orange has a money boost what makes it slightly better than Soda and also I find that minigame to be the most fun but its not really said anywhere besides the description so....
Have an awesome day and THANK YOU SO MUCH for leaving such a detailed review!!!
Very chaotic, very cool, very avant garde. I had fun playing this! The audio is so funny lol. I couldn't make it passed the orange soda part but the power ups were cool. Loved the concept :)
Thank you so much for playingggg!!!!
Yeah we really need to add some more clear instructions.... Have a wonderful day and thank you again!!!!
It's really cool to see how simple ideas can be executed so creatively. Great job!
Yeah tis pretty goofy huh :3
Thank you for commenting!!!!
god this was so funny, was not expecting that voice acting in the beginning. i think there could be a bit more instructions on what to do, but it was pretty easy to get a hang of eventually. everything about the game was just so goofy and unique, i love it!
T-T THANK YOU SO MUCHHHH, I 100% agree, the instructions... well what instructions XD
Your feedback and love is so so so appreciated!
Great concept, some really wild ideas. I gotta say it took me a minute to even understand what I was doing, but I appreciated the fun tight game loop once I did.
Lovely artwork and voice acting as I’m sure you’ve been told already.
YOU FINNISHED IT?? Thank you so so much, hoestly its hard to believe we even completed a game at all. I appreciate you completing it so much, the ending is my favorite part because it makes it into a complete super goofy story, It was my first time drawing for something like this and it was super stressful to learn everything and apply while maintinging some level of quality, so alot of assets have a big quality level depending on when they were made haha... and no actually your the first person to comment on the voice acting that I do not know!
Again, thank you SO MUCHH for playing!!! It made me so happy to read your comment and to know you FINNISHED THE GAME!!!
Sending Reuben to do that RIGHT NOW. or Mila, she has stinky breath
DUDE! I love DD The artstyle was really well done and I enjoyed it a lot.
For feedback I would recommend some sort of transition between scenes so the game feels more fluid.,
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PLAYING!!! Bro I wish we had the time to work on transitions, some sort of tutorial or something, and a more fleshed out experience. I'll check your game out it a bit I'm just going to get some MEGA sleep because I gor 4 hours and then worked on assets for the itch page allllll day hahaha
I really appreciate the feedback because I didn't even think of transitions hahah
Also did you get to the end? The ending is my fav part of the game
Very fun! I like the little minigames you have to do before launching. Music is really good too. THE DOG!!!! THE DOG IS AWESOME! The voice acting is really fun too!
I can see the soul poured into this game by everyone who worked on it! I hope you all had lots of fun making this game because you absolutely should have. I'd love to see this game get some more updates in the future so I can come back to it.
"Hak... Baka... Baka...." - SodaPop! Dog
Yeah the minigames are pretty nice, Ethan absolutly COOKED on the music and YOU CAN'T HAVE OUR DOG!!! he is not even ours hahaha, I was looking after a friends dog while they were in brisbane and well, he became the centre of our world for a little while..
Making the game was an absolute rollercoaster, there was times it was genuinly the best thing in the world, others when have to LOCK IN SO HARD, like one of the days I spent almost 13 hours straight drawing, and honestly mila probably boosted moral so much and we didnt even notice.
We want to update the game and genuinly there is SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO much we can do, I have many ideas and concepts I would love to try out and the game actually needs so much more polish and player guidance its not even funny, and some pannels I would like to draw again because I strung them together at 1 hour before the end of the Jam XD
Anyway, Right now I might focous on making other small projects because my coding skills are lacking and I think refreshing with new projects and making new things is the best way to learn! or a good one at that, though if this game does really well and enough people like it than we will definatly work on it more, we were honestly thinking of making a steam page for it and spending another month polishing and building out the story etc, HEAPS of more unlockable content and quests etc, Though seeing how many amazing games other people put out is kind of scary how compeditive this feild is....
Anyway I'll stop telling you my life sttory haha
If we get a lot of good feedback we will probably continue development!
Thank you so much for playing!!!
and you have a wonderful rest of the Jam!!!!
Okay, so) Obviously, as a Dog owner, I can say It's a piece of art and love)
Buuuuut, Firs thing you do, when you make a game - Audio volume slider :D
TO MAKE THEM SOUNDS LOUDER ofcourse, what did you think.
BRO YOUR SO RIGHTTTT!! If only I didn't do the first playtest this morning at 2am T-T
As I sad! Piece of art! <3
Dogo is indeed dignified and deserves 97% of game's revenue
Your my goat!! we love you FOREVER!!!
Also did you finish the game and get the DD certificate?
100% voice acted, 5 stars. This is so fun. The voice acting makes it.
THANK YOUUUUUU!!!
Honestly when making it we COULD NOT stop laughing at basically everything, its so goofy XD
You have made my day PinkLemonade1!!!! Thank youu
Pretty chaotic but very charming!
hehehe, yeah its held together by hopes and dreams but honestly we are really proud of our first game