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Give Me A Grin

By millie

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall7562.6222
Fun7672.3522
Innovation7412.4222
Theme4423.6022
Graphics6322.9722
Audio4253.0022
Humor2193.4221
Mood6882.9022

Comments

pcho 2025-10-07 12:35

Such a crazy idea! (in a good way) But it still didn't win, so the old man is left without his teeth haha. Good job

trusty 2025-10-07 15:53

I hate the dentist! Im so old and they are so fast! The mouth at the end with the adobestock watermark was funny. Thanks!

kristinamay 2025-10-07 15:54

When the actual game started and the dentists were running around and I started moving sooooo slowly, I lol'd. I didn't find any teeth though. Darn dentists are too fast!

floata3 2025-10-07 16:33

good idea , not a bad sound track , character to dentist movement is impossible to evade.. i definitely would enjoy this more if it was more player friendly

aurora-bee 2025-10-07 16:59

Interesting idea for a first entry, nice and small scope! The dentist movement feels super random as others said, and there isn't much sense in replaying the game. But the music is neat, and it has a very innocent charming sense of humor. :D

binarydiv 2025-10-07 17:45

A good criticism of the public health system. :sweat_smile:

Very small and short game of course, but still good work for a first game jam. Hope it was fun creating it. :)

One suggestion for future games: Having the letters appear one by one in the intro text is a nice touch. However, two recommendations for that: First, it should be skippable (i.e. press space/enter to immediately uncover the full text), otherwise it can feel a bit sluggish, especially when you've already read it before. Second, right now the text is always centered depending on what is currently shown, so with each letter the text is shifted a bit. That makes it a bit harder to read because the text is moving all the time. It's better to make the letters appear on fixed positions, basically placing them where they will eventually be when the full text is shown. Godot actually has support for that using the "visible_characters" property. :)

reivilibre 2025-10-07 22:13

Hilarious game idea, but by golly was it hard! I feel like you have to get quite lucky with your spawn in order to have a chance (or am I just a sore loser :)), it hurts being old and slow! I appreciated the art and the game font. The music brought it all together. An all-round solid small game.

I mirror the 'skippable text' suggestion from @binaryDiv; on the other hand the 'Again' button did skip the dialogue, but it for some reason didn't work on the first load of the game

mahc 2025-10-07 23:18

This was so funny I loved it xD The intro text set the scene so well. Evading the dentists is so hard but well worth it for the final scene

sirred 2025-10-09 23:19

Great job getting your first game jam done. I swear those dentist were locking on to me the first few attempts

gwhyang 2025-10-12 12:36

Dentist walks so fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Were I the old gentleman, I'd declaim that they run into me and make me fall.

oller125 2025-10-24 19:10

Quite fun. I think the intro text was a bit slow and you can't seem to skip it. Also. It seemed like the upper cupboards didn't seem to open?

eaglez 2025-10-24 19:46

So funny! I didn't expect to move so slow, still fun!

dis0rder 2025-10-24 22:00

This is a lovely and funny game!

Also somewhat timely for myself since I dislodged three teeth in a bicycle accident! :no_mouth:

Only two of them could be salvaged so I might need a denture at some point. (Although the gaping hole when I give a grin raises my street cred **+5** points!)

This game convinced me that I need to rummage some local dentist's office because I can't afford their over-priced services.

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I found the random movement of the dentists both good and a bad thing. It made them feel more "menacing" but also hard to anticipate. Additional behavior-patterns would probably be a nice improvement.

Some kind of indicator and/or sound when finding a denture from the cupboard would make finding them more rewarding.

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This is very good work for a first game!

Keep on jamming!

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