Trick Hunt

Join these Crafty Crooks as they take on a highly profitable job from a shifty merchant. You'll infiltrate a huge room from a tiny perspective and race against the clock to collect items as you explore.

This game is a submission for the 2023 Robot Party Game Jam. You can learn about the very specific rules it needed to follow here!

I'll be updating this page a lot more in the coming days. Looking forward to playing everyone else's games!

• Shred & DSD collection *very* rarely count twice.
• DSD Balloon string... Something happens when first activated. It's either perfect or a mess.
• DSD Payment animation not activating.
• Audio controller sometimes not calculating time left correctly due to transitions/ audio effects.

• Shred & Big Shred Illustrations by Groggy.
• EzySlice - Dynamic Mesh Cutting / Generating Library.
• Detective by Marron Fields Production.
• Coffee Brown by Ryo Lion.
• オーシャンズ108 by ネコト.
• トロピカルジュース by えだまめ88.
• 奇妙な道化師 by ゆうり.
• 怪しいヤツ by いまたく.
• 探偵のいるBAR by Notzan ACT.
• Kawaii手書き文字 Font by Spicy Sweet.
• Heavily modified textures from Unsplash and Pixabay.
• Additional sound effects from the Universal Sound FX packs.
• Images from past Robot Party and Glinny's Cauldron Game Jams entries used with permission.
• Kyle's Bosman's 'Don't Call Me Mama, But Yes, I Am Your Mama' cover art, Box Peek Jordy Dino Sticker, Robot Party Robots and Iconic Stream Hoodie Texture.

Illustrations by Groggy! Some original plans for the shreds had them pathing about a little bit and trying to avoid the player. This didn't end up being especially fun as there was a limited amount of space I'd want them to path anyways. I did want them to still jiggle around a bit on the spot and animate but depending on how I did this it started conflicting with the dynamic mesh cutter. Eventually I just ran out of time!

More of the illustrations Groggy (aka groglox on Twitch) prepared for the game can be seen here!

The four big shreds, also illustrated by Groggy, were also planned to have some very simple mechanics to haev them stand out more. For starters they'd each be able to take a few hits each

Deputy Dovens located up on the shelf would fold up and take flight, requiring the player to hit him with tape to bring him down.	Sherrif Froggie on the bed was going to shoot scrunched up paper balls packed with physics to knock back George.
Unicorn Bandito would've dashed off, pathing around the floor level and leaving obstacles for George.	Crock-Pot-Ctapus would've sprayed patterns of foam, coating the aquarium. You'd tape rocks behind him, pulling them into him, to deal damage.

I was hoping to have all of the sound effects recorded myself, but many of them got pushed back and eventually I used some existing assets. I did manage to get all of their dialogue sounds, tape grappling hook sounds and paper slicing sounds done though!

There were a ton of plans for Craig that just didn't make it in time. Most importantly is that he would've been a bit of a jerk. Bumping into the player, crawling all over George's face, getting in the way of the camera's view (like it needed any more difficulties!), etc. None of this made it in and it left the rest of the gang feeling a bit mean spirited towards Craig.

The original plan for the inventory included much more functionality. All of the items you collected would've been displayed there and a map, accessed similar to the options page, would've given you some approximate locations of remaining shreds. There were even plans to have George slowly grow larger as you start cramming more objects in him.

More coming soon!

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A big shoout ooout to Kyle for organizing The Robot Party Game Jam, LKB for the amazing art, the mods for being awesome, the robot party community, everyone in chat and all the vod lurkers too (which is me, most of the time!).

• Trick Hunt v0.97
  - Major camera improvement. I didn't have the player's collider set for the camera >_>.
  - Added a few dialogue lines to make things clearer.
  - Music cutout if switching between zones too quickly should be fixed.
  - I think I fixed the cinematic camera + chest opening bug.
  
  
• Trick Hunt v0.96
  - Fixed some potential geometry holes. Should hopefully solve getting stuck.
  - Added some inventory screen buttons to access my debug tools incase anyone gets stuck again.
  - Adjusted some colliders that were likely the cause of music issues.
  - Spamming attacks or jumps when a dialogue triggers shouldn't break things anymore.
  - Fixed a similar issue where spamming attacks or jump at the end of a dialogue might've locked controls.
  - Options panel toggles fixed.
  - Fixed a small timer bug that could've resulted in a soft lock.
  
  
• Trick Hunt v0.955
  - Fixed the dialogue not happening when all shreds are collected.
  - Fixed a potential reason why the repair notebook stage was not completing.
  - Fixed the time over resulting in an endless loop.