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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Aesthetics | #53 | 4.184 | 4.184 |
| Story | #91 | 3.388 | 3.388 |
| Music | #112 | 3.592 | 3.592 |
| Theme | #177 | 3.796 | 3.796 |
| Fun | #204 | 3.490 | 3.490 |
| Sound | #218 | 3.102 | 3.102 |
| Mechanics | #340 | 3.061 | 3.061 |
Ranked from 49 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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1
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sound from opengameart, fonts from dafont
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Really enjoyed the game, nice and chill. It also motivated me to clean up my room :D Well done!
Nice job! I really dig the art, too!
Thanks for playing! It's a good incentive to keep practicing!
That was fun. Literally flush 'em all! Did you do all the drawing? Well done.
Thanks for playing! Haha you got it! Of course a game jam is a great time to do non-pixel art animations for the first time... hehe
Well, the house is clean, but I'm scared of that water bill xD Nice little game! I loved the art style and the animations were pretty funny. I would've loved it if there was something to do in the normal dimension! But it's still great, well done :)
Thanks for playing!
lol loved the spirit designs and animations. They were so fun and cute. xD
Thanks for playing! I'm inspired to practice more!
Cute game! I like the visuals, the art style was pretty cute (THICC DUCK), and the music sets that “flushing the spirits out” kind of vibe xD. The gameplay was nice and simple, easy to understand mechanics. Overall, good job! :D
lol haha thanks for playing it!
really cute game. I loved the design of spirits and their animations. Nice job!
awesome, thanks for playing it!
Very fun game, although it is the art that stands out as being masterful.
Maybe add some more sounds, and I agree that there is no reason to toggle the glasses, but really well done.
Thanks so much for playing! The art took a lot longer than I planned for, so that's a big reason for the limited number of sounds and things :)
Some spirits are cute, think I would just keep them in my place as pets. I like the art and I like the concept overall. The feedback I would give is that 1. It was not obvious at first what to do after I pick up a spirit. I figured it out eventually of course, but some guidance would be nice. 2. The player can complete the entire game with the glasses on without taking them off, so what is the point there in switching dimension?
Thanks for the feedback! I agree about these things, good improvements for the future!
Nice work like the plot and theme of the game. Also enjoyed the music. Great job.
Thanks so much for playing!
We really enjoyed playing this game, cleaning all the flat brought us the peace we needed, now we can rest good :D Nice work ahaha :)
Excellent, thank you for playing it! It feels good to have a clean flat :)
I've cleaned up the whole apartment, now I can sleep peacefully. It's time to tidy up my own place too. I enjoyed playing the game, the music was well-chosen, and those funny ghosts! I felt sorry for the one hiding under the blanket on the bed, I didn't want to scare it away:D
Thank you for playing it! I'm sure we can leave some treats out to entice the spirits to come back next time :)
This put a smile on my face :)
Everything from the plot to the character designs were really charming.
Was nice to see such big character sprites and the ghost designs gave me a chuckle.
Hey thanks for playing it! If I can make somebody chuckle it's mission accomplished :)
your game is oozing personality and your artstyle feels refreshing and unique. The character was wickedly charming as she stuffed these little critters into the toilet with a blissful smile on her face. and the wiggling animation of the little sh*theads were the cherry on top. I actually think our games share some DNA as we both explore extraordinary events happening in extremely ordinary environments and we both focus more on exploring the world and its characters and the general mood, than on super tight gameplay loops. i really love this.
Wow thanks so much for the kind words! That's a good point I think you hit the nail on the head, I was trying to start with an ordinary situation that gets weird, luckily none of the spirits took my marbles! ;)
BTW I also really liked the dialogue system you had in your game, I loved how you were able to add a lot of depth and humor to all the characters (the neighbor's eyeball!). I didn't have enough time to really work that out for my game in this jam, but I plan to! I tried to draw the spirits so they would help carry the story instead :)
thanks to you too. I actually did the GameDev.tv tutorial on how to implement a dialog system from scratch in unity (with custom unity editor windows and good stuff like that) while the jam was going on. so maybe that is a course that would be interesting for you to pick for free after the jam ends.
https://www.gamedev.tv/p/rpg-dialogue-quests-intermediate-c-game-coding-course
it is A LOT of work however. took me around 30 hours to get it done. but it's definitely sth I'll keep using
Ohh excellent! Thanks a lot, I actually have that course but I haven't gotten there yet. I bought the whole RPG bundle and just finished the first core combat course literally the week before the game jam :) I believe it when you say it's a lot of work, but I'm up for the challenge!
At first I was going to comment "I like how instead of squashing the ghosts like bugs we're gently carrying them out of our home" but then I realized that the 'Flush' of the title was literal. Oh noooo! I hope ghosts don't mind a trip through the sewers!
The art is very cute, I like how each ghost has its own appearance and animations, that's an excellent attention to detail. :) Being able to toggle the glasses vision on and off is also nice, but I don't think there's any gameplay benefit to switching it off.
It was a little difficult at times to grab a ghost (and pick up the glasses at the start), it wasn't always clear how to properly line things up.
The irony of messing up your freshly tidied home when clearing it of ghosts was a lovely twist. :D
Thank you so much! And gold stars for both the title meaning and the fact you have to mess up the house in order to "clean" it. I was hoping to make it clearer that was happening, but I couldn't fit everything in the time limit, so it is what it is. Thanks for playing! :)
Really cool game! The spirits are cute too!
Thanks for playing! :)
I love that you had Dickbutt as a flushable spirit hahaha
lol I guess so in "hind"sight :P thanks for playing!
Hehe really liked the idea of flushing down spirits. :D
Nice game, well done!
Thanks for playing it! I couldn't resist a good flush :)
Nice game, I love your sprites and music.
Thank you for playing it! :)
A nice cute game with some great art and music!