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A jam submission

DOG GODView game page

it's a dog eat everything world...
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Gameplay#14.5004.500
Quirkiness#14.5834.583
Overall#24.3334.333
Graphics#54.7504.750
Soundtrack/SFX#64.4174.417
Secondary Theme Interpretation#303.9173.917
Gameboy Soul#1363.8333.833

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 meet GBJam's theme
Our protagonist is an old golden retriever.

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Submitted (2 edits) (+2)

A quite literally underrated game. (Thank you for publishing a web version by the way)

It is full of charm especially in Brioche's inner monologue, the overworld art, and the VGM. The bark button is peak sound design and UI/UX.

I also got stumped at "Can you see it?" but luckily saw a non-spoiler hint on Discord, and then I finally worked out what the objective was. I like the esoteric narrative framing of the puzzle gameplay, it would be perfect if taught the player a little more clearly without being too obvious. The puzzles got pretty challenging towards the end, and I liked the final puzzle a lot as you sort of develop a mental map as you retry it.

I also accidentally skipped a lot of dialogue, but it's not the end of the world (which I plan to replay to see). I just started rolling my own dialogue system and it's interesting to think about creative implementations for dialogue advancing. I made a crude prototype for normal/faster visible_characters reveal using tweens that doesn't seem like too messy of code.

Also very impressed to see a team of your size coordinate so well. Good job to you all!

Submitted(+2)

Just finished playing through! I am a puzzle lover, and I really had to think through some of these. Very well designed puzzles, and they don't get *too* out of hand.

Also, some of the best music I've heard all jam, bravo to your composer(s)! My *only* complaint here was in the final section the candle swaps got rid of the rock beat, so I spent a lot of time thinking in the teal dimension so I could hear it more. :)

I have one piece of minor feedback, which is the dialogue skipping with Z is something I expected to show the rest of the line instead of skip the line entirely. I am a masher when it comes to non-instant text so I found myself doing this a lot and missing some words.

Y'all are a talented group of people, well done on this one.

P.S. I chose to read the diary. :3

Submitted(+2)

I sadly got stuck at “can you see it” as I still had a sigil at the very end that doesn’t have any correlating tiles on the screen, so I’m not sure how you are supposed to deal with that. Other than that and maybe a redo instead of a reset is the two things that I wish would be more clear/implemented, otherwise the game is super neat, has a cool story ine, letsgo brioche, the all consuming!

Graphics wise the game juggles multiple palettes, has cool sprites and a lovely stage design, I do wish the “cracked from the side in the middle horizontally” tiles had bigger crack as they are not clear to be a non-walkable tile for me at first. Nothing gamebreaking though!

Music and sfx were neat, I really vibed whit that you have put down!

Overall a cool interpretation of the theme and a lovely puzzle game idea!

Developer(+2)

Hey everyone! We now have a web build for DOG GOD!

You can play it here: https://kiwimsy.itch.io/dog-god-web

Submitted(+2)

This was a great puzzle game! I'm so surprised this doesn't have more ratings! The soundtrack was great, the pixel art is amazing, and the puzzles were just right in difficulty. Amazing job!

Submitted(+2)

Amazing game, and surprisingly challenging! I think an undo button would have been a good quality of life functionality to have, unless I missed something (which is entirely possible, I don’t think I actually tried pressing all the buttons). I’m surprised a game of this quality was made in just 10 days, though. Great job!

I played it on stream today (recording here) in case you’re interested in seeing someone struggle to solve some puzzles.

Developer(+1)

OH MY GOSH THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PLAYING!!!! we're extremely flattered that u showcased this on stream HEHHEHE omg we rly didnt expect it!!!

the undo button is definitely something we're adding next update KWHSHSHW BUT STILL THANK YOU SO MUCH :DDDD

Submitted(+1)

Special thanks I can bark by button. Awesome and challenging puzzles. I absolutely loved this game. Thank you!

Submitted(+2)

I held off on this entry when I saw that it’s Windows only but I had to setup a virtual machine on my Mac when I found out you guys (or some) are Filipino!

First of all this is an underrated gem and more people need to see this game.

The graphics and art style is really beautiful and charming. As a dog owner myself, the dialog is hilarious and relatable. The puzzle mechanic is really simple and neat as well.

I need a criteria for “Has a Bark Button” which you would have gotten 6/5 for.

Finally, kudos to everyone on the team for pulling off this entry together in 10 days. I used to have a hard time dealing with 2-3 teammates in past jams, let alone almost a dozen!

Congratulations, and next time try not to submit 48 seconds before the deadline!

Developer

You set up a VM 🥺🥺🥺oh my gosh!!!!!1!
(also noted po HJHASHSJ)

Submitted(+2)

Actually Dog God in italian is a very bad swear word, but good job anyway

Developer

OH MY GOSH WE DIDNT KNOW T-T the name came because palindrome and our dog character is actually a god...

nonetheless thank u very much for playing!!!

Submitted(+3)

I don't even know what to say because this is a perfect game by any metric except for the use of the secondary theme.

The entry is really so good I have few words. The lore is entertaining. The puzzles are quite good. The presentation is awesome.

It's actually crazy to me that all you guys came together as a team to put together an experience of this quality in 10 days. Jeez. If they gave you a month we'd probably get GTA 6. Needless to say, fantastic job.

Developer

thank you so much!!! we can only dream of making gta6 AHAHAHA we're very glad you enjoyed :]

Developer

Thank you for the kind words 💖💖

Submitted(+3)

Super cute and fun!

Developer(+1)

thank you!!!!

Submitted(+3)

Que jogo incrível! O que eu mais gostei foi da trilha sonora, e os gráficos são muito fofos!

Developer(+1)

salamat po sa iyong magandang pagsusuri ng aming laro!