Hide It / Break It / Pay It by Raivk

DISCOVER A HOUSE FULL OF VALUABLES....
AND HIDE THOSE FROM THE TAX INSPECTOR !
You received a big house as a legacy of an old relative... But the tax inspector comes in a few minutes. You need to discover a house you know nothing about, and try to hide or break any valuable to avoid paying too much in taxes.
Use the ZQSD / WASD on your keyboard to move, Space to jump, Shift to run, CTRL to crouch, Left Click use / throw and Right Click to Grab / Release an item.
You might panic a little bit... But remember : you absolutely want to start the inspection with nothing of value in plain sight !
BE FAST ! LEARN WHERE EVERYTHING IS ! FIND NEW WAYS TO HIDE THE ITEMS !
AVOID GOING BANKRUPT !
Developer - FX Artist - 3D Artist : Thomas Lebrun (Raivk)
3D Artist - Artistic Direction : Léa Pequignot (Silveria)
System / Gameplay Developer : Anatole Chaumont Frelet (CharlieTU)
Sound Design / Music : Aurélien Montero (Punkzen)
Together we're Teagher Studio : Teagher Studio






| Youtube | https://teagher.itch.io/hide-it-break-it-pay-it |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/hide-it-break-it-pay-it |
Ratings
| Overall | 285th | 3.717⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 209th | 3.717⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 306th | 3.542⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 850th | 2.896⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 166th | 4.16⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 165th | 3.783⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 120th | 3.761⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 171th | 3.87⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 28🗳️ | 28🗨️ |
The Introduction seems empty, the only thing I can do is press Enter to skip.Is that a BUG?
@wxzuir the intro is quite progressive and... well long, you need to wait for the messages to be displayed :)
@saltfactory-studio Yeah the game is made to be experienced in more than one run ;) you got to explore, and discover where to hide things, and what needs to be broken. You start with nothing and no knowledge on the house, so you got to learn from scratch^^
@local-minimum thanks for the details in your feedback, really kind of you ! Yes indeed it's not clear. You get the summary of what was hidden / broken / found at the end that can help. You start with no knowledge of the house, so you need a few runs to discover the rooms and hiding places ! The garden hose... well... it's a bug x) it can become glitchy as you found out. But the main use of it is to destroy everything by using it (spilling water everywhere). But well, we did not have enough time to fix everything in time^^ The two minutes are here to show the hurry, it's indeed possible to have a positive score easily after a 2-4 runs :) (some items are WAY more valuable than other, and some are really easy to break !). But yes we could have given a little bit more time, and more over, we could have added some hints as to what is a hiding place and what isn't, and what is valuable :) We're definitely taking note of your feedback !
Thanks for the game! We really enjoyed playing it. The music and how it evolves makes you feel the tension of passing time. The only aspect that was a bit confusing was the intro (yeah, we waited and nothing really happened except for the full music loop... twice :D)
Oh the intro... You're the second person having a problem with it ! What happened ? You got all the way through the messages until the controls were displayed ? You need to press enter to finish the intro after that. Yeah we should have added a text to say that the intro was finished...! Sorry for that !
@daria-toni thanks for the feedback ;) and of course you need to memorize the most expensive objects, that's how the game is meant to be played (and that's why there's no randomization) !