Rick and The Ghost by TheGamingProject

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made by TheGamingProject for LD28 (JAM)
"Rick and The Ghost" is a point and click adventure game where you play as a ghost and haunt Rick a cigarette smoking monkey with a day job. The game essentially has two phases. The first phase is "the haunting" were the player finds ways to haunt Rick, each object that is haunt-able comes with three options each effecting rick differently with last option always being "Do nothing". The second phase is when Rick comes into play, he will go about his day which changes with each object that was haunted.

We didn't really finish "Rick and The Ghost" (which is made pretty clear by all the debugging text) as we ran out of time. Thinking this game would be simple to finish we quickly realized how intensive the art and animation had become. That being said we had a lot of fun working on this game and gained a lot of knowledge. After a little rest we plan to finish "Rick and The Ghost" and add more content. The game is designed modularly so adding new content is only a matter of making said content.

We will keep an updated link to the game as we continue work while keeping the compo version up as well.

Hope you enjoy what we made.

HTML 5 RULES!
The Gaming Project


Edit: Our interpretation of the theme was 'You Only get one day to haunt Rick for your ghost interview"
We are aware of the lagginess, its related to not loading/caching properly (new library troubles), and we are working on a post-LD version :)

Ratings

Coolness 67% 3
Overall(Jam) 2.69 426
Audio(Jam) 2.00 432
Fun(Jam) 2.36 446
Graphics(Jam) 3.97 106
Humor(Jam) 2.75 174
Innovation(Jam) 3.06 196
Mood(Jam) 2.61 371
Theme(Jam) 2.09 484

Feedback

ryanmurakami
17. Dec 2013 · 02:44 UTC
loved the graphic style.
cobhc6
17. Dec 2013 · 17:33 UTC
Didn't get the game to work apparently... Graphics looks really nice though!
ALobker
17. Dec 2013 · 17:46 UTC
Looks good, but not really that interesting and obviously buggy.
olafsworld98
18. Dec 2013 · 13:43 UTC
really weird and cool game i kinda liked it
dudsen
18. Dec 2013 · 22:51 UTC
Reminds me on this NES game where your goal was to scare a family out of "your house" by manipulating things. A pity that this one isn't finished yet :/
Dining Philosopher
21. Dec 2013 · 12:16 UTC
The graphics look very nice, but they are loaded after a level starts. It would be nice to see which things you can click, for example by changing the cursor or highlighting the object. The game doens't look finished yet, but it has some potential. :)
JohnnySix
21. Dec 2013 · 16:11 UTC
Love the animations and the character, look forward to seeing more. Like the humour style and the occasional dialogue from Rick!
biscuitdough
26. Dec 2013 · 08:47 UTC
a lot of cool ideas set up here, like the concept of being some outside force in a point-n-click rather than just an extension of the main character. Needs a bit of work, but a good amount of effort shows in this.
arcticleaf
26. Dec 2013 · 09:38 UTC
niceee
plancien
26. Dec 2013 · 10:24 UTC
Was buggy for me. But I find the concept, plot and graphics attractive.
Cbeed
26. Dec 2013 · 19:30 UTC
The game has very unresponsive controls. At the first play though I got stuck at the table and thought the game got stuck but I apparently had to click the arrow.
In the first stage you could see what you can click but in the second I did not know what I could click. I marked the calendar an replaced the food but that was all. It was not really fun but I think mostly because it was unfinished.

Nevertheless I really liked the animation and the graphics.
occash
26. Dec 2013 · 20:16 UTC
veri nice idea! but on this step of development, i think it is not so interesting as it could be...
Tex Killer
26. Dec 2013 · 20:22 UTC
Nice game, congrats!
thebrainfuse
26. Dec 2013 · 20:55 UTC
Really dig the graphics!... wish there was some sound... also, it could be better if instructions are displayed as the gameplay progresses, rather than put it all in one screen...
Nikteddy92
26. Dec 2013 · 21:50 UTC
I'm sorry but on my browser is a little laggy...
Perhaps nice graphic and animation! Really nice!
van noctar
28. Dec 2013 · 11:28 UTC
Game bugs at the kitchen part! Great graphics!
taocayo
31. Dec 2013 · 23:43 UTC
It's heading in a interesting direction. The gameplay reminds me of Ghost Trick: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ghost-trick-phantom-detective/id489113377?mt=8
CaptainKraft
01. Jan 2014 · 03:28 UTC
Looks great. Interesting idea
TeamQuadratic
01. Jan 2014 · 06:48 UTC
It was really cool but I can't say I really enjoyed it after the first time through
emmelineprufrock
01. Jan 2014 · 07:48 UTC
Love the concept and graphics. Really cool.
Macroz
01. Jan 2014 · 13:58 UTC
Maybe you should come up with more things to do in each scene? Seems like they mostly fly past.
Xanjos
01. Jan 2014 · 16:55 UTC
It's a shame that you weren't able to finish a lot of things in time for the initial version but I did like the graphics and concept a lot.
Dry Tree
05. Jan 2014 · 13:07 UTC
nice graphics and interesting concept. I played through a couple of times but I couldn't find the content shown in two of your screenshots (outside the house and living room, by the looks of it)
BradleySmith
06. Jan 2014 · 17:24 UTC
Neat idea. :)