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Brackeys Game Jam 2026.2

Hosted by Brackeys, AquaXV, Yasahiro, Duxez · #BrackeysGameJam
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A jam submission

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Five neighbours. One of them is not a person. All you have is a tabloid and a window.
Submitted by Shantanu Bhatt — 3 hours, 17 minutes before the deadline
Rated by 3 people so far
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How does the game fit the theme?
You can't trust your neighbours, you can't trust the paper that tells you how to read them, and you can't trust the notes you kept while you were looking the other way

What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
The animation for the npcs

How many people worked on the game?
2

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BagueaverSubmitted1 day ago (1 edit)

Cool game that fit the theme perfectly, but I felt it went on for a bit too long. By the 6th time of scrolling back and forth on the map it gets  a bit dull. I think if there was more to the binoculars section it would fix that, like maybe you could have the player avoid being caught spying? Besides that I really liked the mystery solving aspect,  it was fun!

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Detective Space-Crawler
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JDSubmitted2 days ago

I'm not sure if I got it right, but I did reach day 5. I'm sure I picked the correct one, but now rereading the description to look how they walk... yeah now i'm not sure. I did really like this, noting down their destinations and using those to pin them in the pinboard, very nice! 

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Loots & Liars
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Shantanu BhattDeveloper1 day ago

Thank you playing! It was really fun to make! I was trying to get some kind of hinting system to nudge the players to get the actual tells, but couldn't really think of a way to implement it. The best I could do was try to add a last minute  notes log, but I am thinking of a way to get a hint system going for later on.

Thank you for the feedback!

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Pontax2 days ago(+1)

I love it. It's really cute. its very self explanatory but i wish the neighbors had the numbers on them on their pictures its kinda hard to remember their colors. Great theme interpretation. expand this by pigeons and the bourgeoisie

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Shantanu BhattDeveloper1 day ago(+1)

Thank you playing! This was my first attempt at any kind of art, and the neighbour animations are sadly the thing I had to practically colour over. I tried to make the portraits as innocent looking as possible, I hope it came through!

Don't trust the pigeons, they are government drones!

Thank you for the feedback hahaha!

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