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A jam submission

Van Gold's Birthday PartyView game page

A game about cleaning the ocean floor and preparing the best birthday party for your brother. <3
Submitted by rawmeal1026, JEK (@soundbyjek), Rompolitos, Galaxus, Dimana239 (@Dimana239) — 2 hours, 18 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Smoothness / Polish#33.3333.333
Music/Sfx#43.1333.133
Overall#53.2193.219
Upliftment Factor#63.1333.133
Gameplay/Fun#73.1333.133
Theme#103.6673.667
Creativity / Innovation#112.8672.867
Visuals / Art#123.2673.267

Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

how the game fits the uplifting theme?
The game focuses on family bond, a reason for us to view the sky.

how the game fits the ocean theme?
The game's settings are in the ocean floor, where what we consider as wastes, are called stars.

please If you used any per-made assets or AI generated content credit them
All assets that are not made by our team are credited in the description.

Can you vote for other entries during the voting period? How many?
Of course, but my PC is kinda terrible. I'll try to play ém all.

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Awesome game. Loved it. Though collecting so much trash felt a little bit of chore but still awesome

Submitted(+1)

this is my fav game so far

Submitted

Its so cool

Developer

Thank you for your support!!! :D

Submitted

Wow. Absolutely blew my socks off! The dialogue was funny and delightful, and I loved the art, MUSIC, and sound effects! I loved choosing the dialogue. The variety of goals was very engaging. I think it would be fun if when you receive a resource that it appears above your head briefly to know when you are doing it (but I did have UI hidden by accident the whole time). In the beginning with the dialogue, the text moved on whenever I pressed any button on my keyboard including my sound button and when I tried to scroll it skipped the entire dialogue at the speed of light >o< haha

I think this is a winner! It reminded me of "Later Alligator". I love how funny and complete this game is. Good job guys :)

Developer(+1)

OMG, thank you for this! We've spent sleepless nights on it, and I'm glad you liked it. It's not perfect for the moment, and we're looking forward to develop it more thanks to everyone's feedback. The resource appearing on the player's head is genuinely a very creative idea, and we didn't think of it in the time of the development of the game. It will be implemented in the future, I'll let the team know about this.

Submitted

Your game is the DEFINITION of polish it's real great tho i still have no idea how to get the shells lol.

Developer(+1)

Thank you for the feedback! :) We're reconsidering the use of UI switching, and adding a tutorial scene to the game. We had to cut some features in the development of the jam entry to emphasize the personalities of the NPCs without breaking immersion, but we didn't realize it would lead to falling short on gameplay direction. Thanks for letting us know!

HostSubmitted (4 edits)

Love the art style. The music. The story. The only thing is it took me some time to figure out how to fill things with trash but once I did boy was it fun to pick stuff up :D. This is one of my favorite entries so far.

Developer(+1)

Thank you for hosting this game jam! If it weren't for you, our team won't be formed. We added a dialog reference in the game for appreciation, which was the "dark bear plushie on sale" dialog option. We're looking forward to add more as we expand the game even further.  I'm happy you liked our entry. :>

Developer

If you ever got stuck and don't know what to do, the gameplay loop is you're supposed to interact with Mon Whale, pick up the bags he spawned, collect wastes by moving to them while carrying the bag, bring the bag with stars to Mikoi Angelo, and convert it to shells from Leon Octo.

Submitted

I love the artstyle and how responsive movement felt :) Instantly filling up my bag with trash was very satisfying. 

Make sure to talk to the whale guy on the right to get a trash bag first.

I feel uplifted <3

Developer

Thank you, troutmaster. This is the first game jam entry of our team. I'd love to credit our sound designer for that, soundbyJEK, because he made those phenomenal trash collection sounds. :D Thanks to him, we made our vision of a satisfying cleaning game possible. You can check out his creations here: https://soundbyjek.github.io/portfolio/