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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Quirkiness | #6 | 4.375 | 4.375 |
| Graphics | #67 | 4.250 | 4.250 |
| Soundtrack/SFX | #80 | 3.812 | 3.812 |
| Overall | #106 | 3.677 | 3.677 |
| Secondary Theme Interpretation | #136 | 3.438 | 3.438 |
| Gameplay | #184 | 3.312 | 3.312 |
| Gameboy Soul | #412 | 2.875 | 2.875 |
Ranked from 16 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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In this game, you play as a detective for hire. Your newest job: Finding the long lost sequel to the hit game from the early 90’s, “Rubber Soles.” Not long ago, it surfaced on the web, and your contractor is paying you a wholesome sum of cash to go pick it up from a location they provided. Upon arriving at your destination you soon discover this artifact (or our game's 'old gold') has been entombed in a chamber of a man’s life, and some things are better off left buried.
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Absolutely loving the rancid vibes 💚 Very fleshed out, characterful, and charming!
I accidentally got stuck here after turning at the same time as being got by the triangle maze entity, so I was at a 45 degree angle no matter how I turned and couldn't enter the doors.
All-in-all, fantastic!! Great work!
You found and idea and stuck to it really well, gotta give you that. While I’m not fan of these kind of exploration/point and click kinda games I had fun for a bit, but I got stuck after the guy just said no. Not sure where could else go, nor do I know why slenderman came into the house, I hope he plays rent.
Graphics wise the game looks okay, web is suffering from lagspikes upon first room inspections, and the text is too fast/sometimes hard to read, but otherwise it conveys the eerie vibe.
Music and sfx were okay, liked the little bitcrushed lines you had sprinkled in there.
Overall a unique concept, well done!
I'm all to slow when it comes to detective games, although you guys nailed the unnerving vibe for this game. That one escape game really had me freak out and panic lol. Really adore games where a menu is really important for a gameplay
This may be a game I'd like to play, but not with the obviously on-the-fly-downscaled graphics. I really couldn't get too far because of the performance issues (and this is not an old computer), and it really didn't feel like a Gameboy game despite the four-color graphics. I'd like to try it again after it's been optimized a little (a lot) better.... and with the original graphics rather than the Gameboy filter.
Thanks for playing. I wish we had spent time optimizing performance in retrospect, and it will certainly be the first thing we tackle when we return to this project. As for the graphics, I felt it was worth saying that they were not downscaled on the fly. The filters were put in on the first day of development, and I was consistently tweaking the environment to make it more readable and visually up to our standards. It would look bad without the filters because it was not made to be played like that.
I swear I did not know where to find the favorite figurine, I could not get past the majority of the game :(
This is immaculate. Favorite game of the jam (so far). I was hoping to find a use for the toilet rubba, but I'm still glad I carried him with me to the end.
I highly recommend playing this in the dark with the volume up.
Really nice. I especially enjoyed spending time with Robert. I was hoping he would offer to smoke me out, but that's ok. Great atmosphere, disorienting, mysterious, freaky. Nice storytelling through the found items. Two thumbs up from this true rub lover.
That's awesome, you got a good sense of his character! In the original intro I wrote for him he said something implying he is stoned out of his mind but we cut it because we decided to introduce him via the battle system instead
wow, this is seriously impressive, quirkiest game ive played so far :0
Ridiculously impressive for the time span and a super fun play through (Although I'll admit, I guessed the lock code right away and never looked in the dark room, so I definitely missed some stuff. Might come back if I feel up to it.) Naturally this could never be a real gameboy game though lmao.
Thanks for playing! That's wild that you guessed the code, there's something like 80 different pre-determined strings that get randomly chosen from on startup lol so I'm curious which one it was
Oh is there? It was 'Rub' which has to be the easiest one lmao. Crazy that I got it in one.
Yeah that one might be a little too obvious lol, good to know for future builds!
Okay, admittedly when I signed up for the jam this year, I went and checked out a few games from GBJAM 13. Lifelik was my favorite one I played. So I was excited to see you back with another game. And I was not only not disappointed but blown away! This is really good! This is seriously impressive stuff. It's out there aesthetically, but this is the best game I've played in the jam so far. This could be a real, released game though obviously for anything but the Gameboy.
Oh man that means a lot to hear. Seriously made my day. So happy you enjoyed this and lifelik! After the jam the team is planning on taking another pass at this game to fix performance, expand the resolution, add some more colors, etc. so stay tuned!
cool concept but my pc couldn't handle the game so couldn't play it. the music was too loud.
Thanks for playing! The performance was something we unfortunately didn't get around to fixing before it was time to submit, and it is very important (3 minute load time on web is definitely not ideal). After the jam I'd like to fix this so it is accessible to more people.
Obviously clickbait, but actually pretty fun.
The game is well-made, but I couldn't play for long. My laptop decided it was an airplane—it started roaring, and the browser froze completely. Thanks :'3
Yeah unfortunately the performance was not something we got around to optimizing before it was time to submit. Thanks for playing!
The graphics are so cool! It looks like the motion sequences are downscaled video? Very cool! Also, the premise is great, the characters are hilarious, and WOW the brother is terrifying. Awesome submission!
Very cool game! I loved all the little details hidden in the rooms and on items. My favorite part was talking to the people in and around the house.
awesome game, it can be a little hard to read at times but the attention to detail is really sick. i twisted my ankle and then died.