TIFY Boxes by mmisspelling

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made by mmisspelling for Ludum Dare 53 (JAM)

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TIFY Boxes is a service that sends you personalized packages whose content you don't know beforehand. This is a particular experience that one of the users of TIFY Boxes had, playable as a point-and-click graphical adventure.

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Music, art, story and programming made by me.

Ratings

Overall 40th 4.273⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 288th 3.75⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 121th 3.955⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 49th 4.477⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 628th 3.636⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Audio 167th 3.947⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 495th 3.25⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Mood 94th 4.205⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Given 20🗳️ 7🗨️

Feedback

riley9
02. May 2023 · 18:26 UTC
this is absoluetly amazing!! i loved everything about this. i want to make a game like this as well wow
Ntimi
04. May 2023 · 14:17 UTC
Interesting game! I really liked the small story you developed. Intriguing and a bit creepy. The art and music fit the tone well.
It was a bit hard for me to find the way out of the first room (and the main door), hovering in the empty space on the floor didn't make any sense to me, since there was no door indicator there. But apart from these navigation issues, everything went well and was easy to follow. Nice. :)
Drestin
04. May 2023 · 14:37 UTC
Oooh nice one!
There were times I got a bit lost (like at the begining, I didn't know how to get out of the room).

But the story is nice. I replayed it to see the different endings.
Good job
Rjdrag
04. May 2023 · 17:00 UTC
Really cool, I played all the way through. Great work. A couple small issues:
- Couldn't find exit to bedroom, (the exits at the bottom of the screen were tricky).
- Table said it's perfect for reading, but wouldn't let me interact until in the kitchen.
Ranzor
04. May 2023 · 18:54 UTC
Fantastic game. Like the other comments it took a while before i figured out how to get out of the first room but once i did i loved the story, the mood the art style probided and a fun quick story with a great twist.
shimmerscale
06. May 2023 · 22:07 UTC
Wow, this was great! The story really pulled me in. I also had a hard time finding my way out of the bedroom the first time, but after that, I didn't have much trouble with navigation. The music went really well with the story, and the doorbell ringing over and over again helped build the suspense.
3ggplant
09. May 2023 · 09:49 UTC
Nice story and music. The clickable areas are pretty hard to figure out and I struggled to exit the film development screen for a bit, but otherwise a really cohesive package with an engaging plot.
Flying Butter Studio
09. May 2023 · 17:33 UTC
A perfect evaluation for me. Fun to play, interresting and mysterious. The concept was clearly an amazing idea and an original take of the jam's theme. Nice scenario and your graphic style is coherent so I liked it. I am personally a big customer of this kind of game and I had a great time! Thank you for sharing your amazing work with us !

If I can just tell something concerning the UI: I think it lacks transition buttons between rooms to be more clear. But that the only things for me!

Continue like this please! :heart:
Amazing job!
One more time: Thank you! :smile:
Thomas Karcher
10. May 2023 · 19:23 UTC
Amazing! I never thought it'd be possible to create a complete point-and-click adventure with a deep story in 3 days! :astonished: Well done!
Ryder the First
10. May 2023 · 20:13 UTC
Great job! This is a super neat game and I'm a big fan of the graphics. I agree with another comment I saw that getting out of the room was pretty unintuitive, but outside of that, I've no complaints
hulien22
11. May 2023 · 02:23 UTC
Awesome game, really intriguing. The music and art really tie the whole thing together quite well
Francis
12. May 2023 · 20:23 UTC
Short game, but very fun. Did a great job setting the mood and mysterious vibe. The art style fit the game very well :)
gamebuilder
15. May 2023 · 21:00 UTC
Yes, I agree, some conspiracy theories are factual. The ending has a useful message. History is full of conspiracies. Anyway, a very moody and perhaps even surreal game. The music is very impressive, and it fits the story line very well - the best part of the game. I like the raw, edgy graphics as well. Nice work.
LDJam user 202408
15. May 2023 · 22:01 UTC
This has to be one of the most unique games I've played this LD, the art style is simple but shown a good understanding of perspective and depth which I appreciate. the music and just as simple yet very effective and conveying the overall mood. I really like how the game actually made me feel curious on how this all will play out and gave me a geniun want to solve the mystery, once I got the film I had an "Aha" moment where I realized that I have the nail polish and the film so they're trying to give me objects from the crime and blame it on me, yet in the end I shot the president lol, what can I say.. the power of conspiracy indeed.. all in all I really had a lot of fun, and enjoyed this game so nice work!

there are mainly 2 things that I didn't like and wish were done differently, the first is that the game doesn't really tell you where to go after you pick an item except for the nail polish I found myself going room to room moving the mouse around until I found where to click which sometimes would take a while like when I searched every corner just to realize I had to click the TV etc.. the other is more of a personal preference but I wish there was some simple path finding so when I click somewhere the character would go there without my guidance, for example if you stand in one side of the bed and want to go to the other you have to click 3 times to move the character around and can't just click once and have the character find its path there if you know what I'm saying, but that didn't bother me much really and as I said I enjoyed the experience a lot, great job!!
cassowary
19. May 2023 · 07:31 UTC
Huh, this is really interesting. You don't see a lot of point-and-click games made for LD. I really was intrigued by the story enough to play through to the end, and I really liked the scribbly art style a lot, very unique. My only criticism is that it was a little bit "pixel-hunt-y" at times, I wish there was more of a cue for what to do after picking up the TIFY box, but other than that this was a super cool experience, thank you for making it!
LDJam user 259103
19. May 2023 · 20:48 UTC
This was great! Short but sweet. I agree that it was sometimes difficult to figure out where to click, like with the exits out the front of the screen. I had the most trouble figuring out where to develop the film. But those are fairly small issues. It's cool to see a narrative-focused game in LD, especially one as well-written as this. Great work :)