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A jam submission

99% of squirrels misunderstand COUNTDOWNView game page

A COUNTDOWN parody
Submitted by dutchlish — 4 hours, 1 minute before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Narrative#16013.2033.333
Creativity#21933.7633.917
Enjoyment#37003.1223.250
Audio#48092.7222.833
Artwork#77012.3222.417

Ranked from 12 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 is a parody of the UK TV show COUNTDOWN

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
All sounds from freesound.org under CCL

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Comments

Submitted

It's giving me strong WarioWare vibes! I love the chaos! As a math nerd the game got me coming back to keep trying to improve my score on the loops minigame hahahha I would just suggest to change the letters and the numbers sum for the following rounds, as it would massively increase replayability. Good game! 

Submitted

Very fun concept, and I would love to see an expanded version with more games. I really liked the numbers game, and the spelling game was fun the first time, but could have benefited from different letters round 2

Submitted

You definitely get points for extreme weirdness. It put me in mind of some of the more surreal Mitchell and Webb skits (Remain Indoors, Numberwang). Graphics and audio work perfectly for the style intended.

Unfortunately, the gameplay is a bit janky. I had a very hard time solving the number challenges: I was 100% certain that I had closed the loop, again and again, but the game wouldn't recognize the first 5 or 6 times.

Submitted

Genius. Loved the banter between the squirrel and Barry XD

Great jam entry!

Developer

Thanks for playing! 

Submitted

I really liked the ending! The counting minigame was my favorite out of the two.

Developer

thanks!

Submitted

A truly bizarre fever dream. I mean that as a compliment!

How did you determine what is a valid word? I had some words like NE that were accepted and I did not expect to work. Really a fun concept though and it was very unique!

Developer

glad you liked it!

All words are valid English words! For example:

"Ne" most commonly stands for northeast, Nebraska, or the chemical symbol for neon. 

That’s how scrabble champions win, they know all the 2 letter words! 

Thanks for playing! 

Submitted

Very creative and funny; my highest score was 229. 

Developer

good job! Thanks for playing