Appeasement
Made in one week for the Brackeys Game Jam 2024.
A malevolent force resides beyond the Door, in order to convince them to stay there you'll need to offer something to appease them!
Appeasement is a short puzzle experience where everything from the mechanics to the win condition will need to be deciphered through experimentation.
Everything in the game is controller by clicking and dragging with the mouse.
In the interest of preserving the intended experience for other please avoid any hints or spoilers in the comments, thanks!
I've added a few hints here because it seems I might have underestimated the difficulty, but I recommend not checking them until you've tried a few times so you can exhaust the in game hints.
Solution Hint 1 (Spoiler)
All cards should be the same in one way but unique in another.
Solution Hint 2 (Spoiler)
Cards have 2 attributes; the animal in the picture, and the value given by the number/symbol
Full Solution (Spoiler)
You need all cards to either;
have matching animals but different numbers (eg. Crow 1, Crow 2, Crow 3, Crow 4, Crow 5)
OR,
matching numbers but different animals (eg. Newt 1, Rat 1, Crow 1, Goat 1, Bull 1)
Comments
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Not-very-spoilery feedback, but in https://rot13.com/ anyway just in case:
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Thanks for the feedback, and especially for figuring out a great way to give it!
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I feel like I should have a webpage I can link to every time I leave a comment, which says something like "When I spot a flaw in a game that a studio spent two years developing, that's on them. When I observe a weakness in a game that one person made under a one-week game-jam time limit, I'm doing so with the understand that, OMG, you made a game in a week! That's awesome! And I liked it and I'm not leaving a comment to try to make a bad thing good, but to help make a good thing better. Really, I'm only saying anything in case you feel like you have the time and energy to return to it!"
In all seriousness, this was a very good puzzle game. (Also, now that I think about the one-week limit, I realize, "Oh, all those games about doors--this was one of those, wasn't it? It's just that it incorporated the behind-the-door theme so well--central to the game, but not central to every move you make in it--that I didn't notice.") Think about the feedback as much or as little as you like!