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Loud audio. Mild jump scare at the end.
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My game is a bait and switch where the game of "Mama's Kitchen" fails to load, and you have to slog through several iterations of troubleshooting. Treble is a friendly bot who tries to help you, but his advice gradually destroys the game. You are only able to play the true "Mama's Kitchen" once his foolishness has destroyed the audio, graphics, and controls. The audio is overlapped many times, the graphics are ruined through various effects such as color inversion, overlayed static, and size distortion. By the end of the game, the controls switch every 45 seconds to random keys. It's terrible.
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I scored 6 and refuse to continue. I got jump scared when I lost the first time, i really liked that the game was broken at the beggining, it was really clever and fun! This part of dragging objects was a bit of a pain too go thru but that's part of the jam ig!
Well done!
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I scored 6 and refuse to continue. I got jump scared when I lost the first time, i really liked that the game was broken at the beggining, it was really clever and fun! This part of dragging objects was a bit of a pain too go thru but that's part of the jam ig!
Well done!
- Review for the jam -
Controls - First of all, thank you for accounting for keyboards that can't press all those keys at the same time. This was very considerate and doesn't make your game 'less worse'. The only thing that bothers me is that there's no hint or clue to understand the keys. You have to take your time to know where they are, adapt, and then they change again after 45 secs. I couldn't finish it and I'm playing every game for 20-ish minutes. The controls are bad, don't get me wrong, but they are unfair. I also get the explanation, the computer is supposed to be glitching, but it still should be a bit less cheaply punitive. Maybe if you kept the randomness and added more key possibilities, like the whole keyboard getting assigned to different directions and you choosing which ones you found better.
Art - Yeah it's like vomit on a screen. Also it's nice that you used different fonts.
Sound - The music becomes bad, and the metal pipe is funny, but to put a person screamming nonstop when you lose is not cool. There's no rule against it, but I don't see the effort in that. Maybe if you put more sound effects on the interactions (like a brick dragging sfx when you move the mouse).
Creative Badness - I can't give a higher rating because of the things I listed above, but it's pretty creative, I like it.
Theme - It fits almost perfectly. More on the computer helper part than on mama's part.
Edit: I replayed and locked-in and got a score of 6. I guess your game doesn't have an ending? Anyways, my time's up!
Thanks for playing and leaving such a thoughtful review! I agree there could have been more structure to how the controls are reassigned, but I figured that for this jam, infuriating isn't necessarily bad. It works well enough for people to play the game, but they really have to crawl to the finish line. And about the ending... Yeah, it's pretty loud. The jam said audio that makes you want to rip out your ears and I took that pretty literally, but I agree it could have been higher effort. Also fwiw it's actually a water buffalo call (not that it really matters lol)
I know, right? I'm seeing a lot of people thinking a bad game is a rage game, but that's not really what it means. Also I've taken into account the initial part, where you have to write the commands, as part of the controls. It's still gameplay nontheless. I was gonna review how I scored yours, but it is pretty solid tbh!
Also I didn't understand what you meant, does your game have an actual ending or it just goes on forever with mama asking food? I'm curious but not in the mood to retry it lol.
I appreciate your reply. I try to take a lot of details into account, feel free to disagree with something I said. Good luck!
There's no victory screen, it's just an infinite survival game once you finish the troubleshooting section. And thanks! GL to you too
i dont know is there's an end at the grandma asking for food part but the controls swapping was annoying lol
If the timer in the top left runs out you go to the game over screen (also if you give mama the wrong food.) Thank you for playing!