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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #571 | 3.178 | 3.178 |
| Theme | #701 | 3.244 | 3.244 |
| Visuals | #796 | 3.378 | 3.378 |
| Enjoyment | #870 | 3.089 | 3.089 |
| Overall | #886 | 3.019 | 3.019 |
| Innovation | #1048 | 2.622 | 2.622 |
| Gameplay | #1137 | 2.600 | 2.600 |
Ranked from 45 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does the game fit the theme?
Dogs love their biscuits. More accurately, dogs love to eat. This game is about dogs stealing food to fill their bellies. Don't get caught! It's a risk they all take.
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
Models (credited in description). Music (credited in description). Some animations (credited in description). Used GC2 for the first time. This was my "tutorial" project. Big adjustment from C#. Still couldn't do everything I wanted to with it, so I reverted to coding my own stuff for several things.
How many people worked on the game?1
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What a peaceful game. I love the whole vibe of it. I think one thing that could elevate the feeling of freedom in this game is to make the camera dynamically point to where the dog is running. I would have loved to get a better view of the map, and generally where I am running towards. Great game!
Great music and visuals. Feels really dramatic!
Nice game. Music is well chosen. Visuals are beautiful. Butcher's house seems to be slightly in the air.
I encountered a bug. Sometimes I have 2 songs playing at once after I steal an item.
Also, where the fish is, there is a problem with the camera. The house just blocks the whole view.
The song bug is known. Unfortunately I fixed it in one place, but not elsewhere before the cutoff time. Was going to have the camera go higher and more above the dog when there was intervening terrain, but the deadline was too finish that. Thanks for playing!
cuddles best boy! nice and simple game
The visual is good. Is that only me or the camera view is blocked. It feels uncomfortable since I can see around.
I wanted it to be closer to a top down camera, but still be low enough that you could still see the models.
I personally wish the humans had less of a memory, so I don't get killed by an NPC that I thought I escaped a minute ago. I love the medieval theme and how seriously the music takes itself, the soundtrack was a highlight!
I enjoyed how there was a well thought-out map for the dog to explore. I do wish that there was a point system or a way to know that taking food is providing progress. Also not sure if the dog died but at one point the enemies would follow me but not attack
Interesting about the enemy chasing but not actually catching you. Thanks for the feedback. In hind sight, maybe putting pictures of each food item you need to snatch along the top would have been helpful.
Absolutely stunning environment, good job for releasing a game! Youve gotten plenty of feedback about the camera, which is also my vice. It made it uncomfortable to play, but if you fixed that, thats the main issue.
I am ruminating about ways to fix it. Moving left the camera moves left? Or moving at all and the camera moves more above the action? What are your thoughts on this?
Looks like you put a lot of work into making a nice atmosphere for this game. Very relaxing :D
Nice game. I liked it , but I think you should make a better camera
That seems to be the biggest complaint. What would you want to see?
the camera should move according to the dog's movement.
To understand me better, when the dog goes left the camera should show what is on the left and so on.
That's good feedback. Thanks!
enviroment is well done and is stunning and everything is pretty simple and well polished, just didn't like not being able to move the camera around, the game play was really fun, maybe adding a small tutorial or objective for the player like, go steal some food or go steal fish would make it easier for the player. overall good game keep up the great work!
Camera seems to be the biggest complaint. Too late to change for this jam, but if I keep going with it, will definitely be the first thing I fix. Thanks for playing! Your feedback is important!
this game is very enjoyable, the art is very good as well and i would happily play a full release of this
Thanks for trying it. I had plans (don't we all) to have more dogs. Also originally wanted the the villagers to attack instead of just chase. The wizard was going to cast spells at you, for instance. Too much for one person and only seven days.
i hope if you continue this, you can execute all of your plans
Really nice and simple game, but a little more complexity like hiding and escape spots could make the game a bit more interesting. You can still jump after getting caught which was pretty funny. Overall pretty fun gameplay and visually appealing!
Somebody did a youtube play through and did the exact same thing. I think it messes with the music as well when that happens. Definitely going to fix that today. Thanks for playing and pointing out the bug! It's appreciated.
Really cute and fun!
Nice easy fun!
The gameplay loop is quite simple, which is good.
I miss SFX, and some goals, and the possibility to rotate the camera.
But its ok. I think you will get high score.
My gameplay
Thanks for the play through! It looks like you discovered a bug for me. When you double died the first time, it did something to the music. Looking into this now...
So cute! But also scary, when I picked up a piece of food and the music changed I was so alarmed. Couldn't find a 5th piece of food and got caught. Really love the medieval setting and the dogs are so cute!
The goodest boy. I would love more dog options and other models tbh . Needs more doggos for more maximum good bois!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And I would love to add them. Hard to get everything in there in 7 days and have it all work at the same time.
I reached 4 pieces of food, but then they killed me.
The main issue for me is that the camera feels wrong for the type of game. For example having the chance of move it would have allowed me to see that I was running into my pursuers...
Nice game anyway, I love dogs!
I definitely wanted to refine the camera some, but ran out of time. Thanks for playing it!
Best boy. The villagers are massive assholes tho, fuck that wizar all my homies hate that wizard.
Very fun running game! I really liked that music changes when pursue starts. There is a bug (maybe), that at start it shows King as selected character, but when you enter game you instead play for Cuddles.
Thanks for letting me know about the bug! It is now fixed!