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The FreezeningView game page

A horror-comedy eighties-like

Submitted by Beard or Die — 1 hour, 48 minutes before the deadline

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Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Audio	#13	3.467	3.467
Originality	#20	3.667	3.667
Fun	#31	2.867	2.867
Overall	#33	3.147	3.147
Art	#38	3.067	3.067
Theme	#51	2.667	2.667

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

Did your team create most/all of the graphics yourselves?
Not exactly. I didn't make any 3D models, but I tweaked almost all materials, several textures, made some AI art, made the title logo myself. Not much was just dropped in as is.

Did your team create most of/all the audio yourselves?
Not exactly. I didn't make the music, I bought it. The audio was handcrafted from commercial and free sources. All are listed in the credits.txt. Audacity was used HEAVILY to customize the sound effects before putting them in-game.

How did you incorporate the theme "FREEZE"?
It's in Antarctica, and the game freezes for you to read the Developer Notes, and the climax. Even the build freezes!! lol, so just watch the MP4.

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AdrianSubmitted3 years ago

Definitely unique, loved the developer notes and voice acting xD

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Hazzard GameWorksSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

I enjoyed the voice lines xD and the atmosphere was well set!

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Organ Delivery Service

Mech Mind GamesSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Felt like a creepy stanley parable ! lol Nice work overall with the atmosphere and jokes.

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aquanactSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Haha this was hilarious, great artwork as well with the models and textures. Love the sense of humor.

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sidharthpraveen42Submitted3 years ago(+1)

Loved the visual aesthetics, mate; top scores for that! Enjoyed the voice acting as well.

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Death is Freezing

Mr. MooSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Haha that voice acting is top notch. Funny take. The lightings sets the horror vibe well, and your monster is terrifying XD. Nice job!

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HouseSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Love it! got some good laughs out of me,also the the assets,sounds and voice acting is surprisingly high quality,good job!

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Beard or DieDeveloper3 years ago

thank you, I appreciate it. Recording the cringey vocals was actually a pretty fun part of this. As usual I spent more time on the "feel" and tone than on the gameplay. I really need to get that through my head before the next jam.

HouseSubmitted3 years ago

You're welcome,it be nice to know what you think of my game too!

Beard or DieDeveloper3 years ago(+1)

Definitely, hoping to play several tonight when I get home from work, including yours. :) I'll leave feedback and rate as well.

Shun-CedhaSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

I managed to download this big boy, and I must say : Great atmosphere ! Sounds, visuals, voice, everything is so coherent. I loved the meta-humour of stick notes too. Well done 👍

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I Hate Penguins !

Beard or DieDeveloper3 years ago(+1)

I appreciate you! Thank you for the positive feedback. I did manage to get a build going that doesn't immediately crash. Absolutely zero changes were made to the project, just opened up in a new version of Unity and immediately made a build. So, if you happen to have a beefy GPU and want to play it (even though you already watched it), you are now able to do so here:
https://beard.games/the-freezening/The%20Freezening_NotCrashy.zip

Shun-CedhaSubmitted3 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

Did you add it to game downloads ? Updates is still available 😄
Btw, the game is entirely enjoyable on GeForce GTX 660

Beard or DieDeveloper3 years ago

I didn't, it didn't appear to let me but I expected that. Maybe I overlooked how to do it. Thanks, I wasn't sure how it would do on an older GPU since the storm particles and huge mountain range meshes and post processing all out together were making the frame rate go from 400 to 90 on my 4070. Thanks for playing!

AxelSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Wow, those voice acting chops XD Great work! Really interesting way you did this, think it was executed pretty well!

Beard or DieDeveloper3 years ago(+1)

lol, yeah... I actually intended to have time to run the vocals through an AI of some kind to make my voice less my-voicy. hahaha. I am pretty proud of the last two vocal lines of the game. They make me laugh quite a bit. Anyway, thanks for watching and for the positive feedback. I did manage to get a build going that doesn't immediately crash. Absolutely zero changes were made to the project, just opened up in a new version of Unity and immediately made a build. So, if you happen to have a beefy GPU and want to play it (even though you already watched it), you are now able to do so here:
https://beard.games/the-freezening/The%20Freezening_NotCrashy.zip

AxelSubmitted3 years ago

I'll make sure to check it out!