Hi all,

This is my entry for the TINS 2021 gamejam: https://tins.amarillion.org/entry/234/

This was my first gamejam, and I liked it a lot. I didn't know what to expect, so I went in 100%. Arranged babysitters for my 5 month old son, prepared my office as a game development work station, bought enough food and liquids to last me for a week, and had enough aspirins to sedate an entire stable of horses.

Started out Friday 14:00 exactly, and my submission was on Monday at 13:55. I did have to go home to sleep every night

I love oldschool point and click adventures for their stories, humor, puzzles, dialogues, setting. But there aren't a lot of those these days with the exception of Thimbleweed Park. When I played that game I realized point and click and especially "pixel hunting" for clues and interactable objects is outdated, not of this time. Also, after a long workday I just want to hang on my couch and play games with a controller on the big screen. Point and click with an analog stick is not a great experience.

So I wanted to use this gamejam to make a sort of Proof of Concept. I wanted to create gameplay mechanics that work well with controller (Xbox 360 controller is supported) and keyboard, and use the old school adventure concepts in a way that is more of this time. For this I spent most of the time making the gameplay mechanics, and making them feel well.

Because of the time limitations I knew I wasn't able to make that much content for the mechanics. So with the content I did create, I experimented with the mechanics in different ways. For instance the starting area (Richie's apartment) plays differently than the rest of the game.

I think there is a lot more to explore in this direction. But I would like to hear what you think about it. Questions like:
- Did you like playing this game?
- Would you be interested in an iterated full game? With iterated I mean, every round of development will lead to somewhere new. It would be a missed opportunity as a gamedev to not follow this flow and stubbornly stick with the original plan.
- Do you think there is a market for reinvented "oldschool" adventure games?

Thanks for this awesome gamejam!

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Thanks! And @LennyLen cool that you played it!

@amarillion thanks for playing my game! Cool that you found the Escher artwork I was referring to.

There are 15 beatsamples. One of them is hidden away together with an Easter Egg to one of my favourite games

I also made a NodeJS API endpoint on a free tier google cloud server for a small leaderboard. So when a beat had been made, you would've been able to post your score there, and see the results of the other players. That way a good score would be the score higher than the current highscore. This part was allllmost done. But I wasn't able to finish it on time.

Use this for score reference
0-5000 = Nice try!
5000-8000 = Nice!
8000-10000 = Good!
10000-14500 = Epic!
14500 and above = Godlike!

Progress gets saved. So if you've collected some cool beatsamples, you can just quit the game and continue later.

By the way, is that a "redrum carpet"? That's a nice touch!

Speaking for myself, I think game jams are a fun way to try out ideas and exercise your creative muscles, but you really should stick to your original plan if you want to make something big.

I don't want to worry so much about whether there is a market for a particular game, I just want to make something that I think is fun or interesting, and then see how I can sell it. Otherwise I should probably be making freemium mobile games.