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How does the game fit the theme?
The player works at a shop where any of the customers could be a shoplifter
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
2 fonts
How many people worked on the game?4
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Stressful? yes. Enjoyable? yes. On theme? yes. can see this being a nice little game like that one with passport checking (forgot its name) but game needs some balance to feel less oppressive
So glad you enjoyed and saw our inspo coming through (Papers please!) appreciate the feedback! Thanks!
ngl the timers stressed me out so I couldn't play it well. The idea is good, and the the art and audio are great.
haha thanks for playing! I'm the artist but I also struggle with very stressful time-based games so I understand, if we do a post-jam update we're looking to have the speed and amount of timers become more gradual on a per-day basis :)
I think the environment art and grocery art added a lot in terms of interest and visual story telling, leaving interpretation up to the player rather than the game explaining it, which I much prefer.
For gameplay, it initially seemed like a lot at once but then I figured out I didn't need to do anything other than "inspect for shoplifting". There didn't seem to be any incentive to helping the customer, keeping an eye on the store inventory, or inspecting customer carts. And as far as I could tell after completing day 3, gameplay did not change from day to day.
Thanks so much for the detailed feedback! Our original scope had a lot more going on- such as calling for the manager, police, and even storylines as to why certain customers may be stealing, but unfortunately for time we had to scope down so final gameplay is more monotonous than we'd hoped for.
Hopefully we can organise a post-jam update with the team to resolve some of these ^^ :)
I enjoyed the game a lot even though I got robbed so hard lol. The concept is very interesting and I like the art style too. Great work :)
Thankyou! Glad you enjoyed :D
The art is amazing and the music is very up beat and silly! love it! I have been having trouble knowing if someone is shoplifting or not though, so you know half of my shop was stolen from qwq
Thanks so much for playing!
This is sick art is very good! I wish there was a bit easier of a difficulty curve though.
Thanks! And noted! Hopefully we can sort a bot of a balance patch soon :)
The ingredients are a bit creepy, but I like it.
Thanks for playing!
I love the style of your game! The art looks amazing! At first, I wasn’t sure how to dsitinct if someone had stolen something because every time I checked their pockets, they seemed empty. But then I figured out how it works. It was really fun!
I'm glad you liked it! Thanks so much for playing, we'll see if we can make the tells a little more obvious post-jam :D
This game is very fun but also very stressing! I also like the visuals a lot.
Thanks so much for playing!
Really fun concept! The artstyle and music work very well here and I like this take on the theme.
I did struggle with the fast pace of the game. A slower start would help here because I got stressed out very quickly.
Overall nice work!
Thanks so much! We've already made note to do a patch with scaling timer speeds as days progress so hopefully should be a bit easier to pick up after that! :D
Ngl this game had me stressing trying to keep an eye on everyone at once 😭 I really liked how the “trust no one” theme naturally turns into a deduction mechanic instead of just being part of the story. The pressure from juggling customers while looking for shoplifters was really fun too. Great job y’all!
Thanks so much! Really appreciate you giving our game a try :D
The game is really fun! I hope we can play together and rate each other's performance!
Thanks so much! That's a really nice idea, I'll pass onto devs about maybe getting a scoreboard system or something similar! :D
Loved the music and the art! Reminded me to go to the grocery store fyi lol. Great job!
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Thanks so much! Will do :D
Love the theme!! Catching the shoplifters always had me panicking and trying to watch everything at once xD The music was also super catchy and fit the whole store atmosphere really well. Super charming game, I had a great time with it!
Ah thank you so much! So glad you enjoyed <3
i absolutely adored the art and music, and i think it simulated the experience of running a shop pretty well, since sometimes when there were multiple customers and with the pressure of the bar, was quite hard to do everything properly leaving me to fumble. Overall great game! (I'll come back and play a bit more and give it a rating once submissions open!)
Thanks so much for the feedback! I'ts really great to hear :D