The Search for the Secret Sapphire

------ THIS GAME IS BEST PLAYED WITH A MOUSE RATHER THAN A TRACK-PAD -------

A point-and-click adventure puzzle game (with a twist)... Lost in a haunted mansion without a hope of escape, the only way out is in. Will you find the Secret Sapphire and cure the curse? 

DEV'S NOTE: The above assumes that you are able to start the game. If the start-button breaks, the HELP BOT should be able to assist you. That shouldn't happen though. Probably.

SPOILER DESCRIPTION

The point-and-click adventure actually takes place inside of the menu of "The Search for the Secret Sapphire". Your goal is to fix the start button and finally get to play the game. 

This was made in 30 days as my submission for the GitHub Game Off 2024: "SECRETS"! [Link to Submission Page]

Controls: 

• Interact / Pick Up Item: Left Click
• Drop Item: Right Click
• Pan Camera: Middle-Mouse / Ctrl+Left Click
• Cheat Codes:  ↑  ↓ ← →
• Hammer Man: ↑  ↓ ← →  Spacebar

Tools Used: 

• Engine: Godot
• Gameplay Code: GDScript
• Art: Aseprite

Credits: 

• Design, Code & Artwork: Me
• Music and Sound Effects: 
  • Many sources (I will list later when I have some time)
• Title Font: Font+ [Antiquity Print] by SciGho
• Other Fonts:
  • m6x11 by Daniel Linssen (aka managore)
  • Wacky Joe by VEXED

This Game Jam was a real marathon, but I'm pretty pleased with the results!

Link to GitHub repo

List of Known Bugs: 

If any of these feel game-breaking enough, I'll try to fixing during the jam, otherwise I'll get to the more minor ones in the post-jam version.

Major Bugs:

• Some users have reported that the desktop section freezes up and becomes non-interactable. This is very game-breaking so will have to be fixed mid-jam. (FIXED!)
• Clicking on the Cave of Secrets while it is thanking you for giving it a secret results in it interrupting itself, which stops it from being able to give you the hidden letter. This is game-breaking so I will fix this ASAP. (FIXED!)
• MacOS users cannot use CTRL+Click to pan the camera. (FIXED!)

Less-Major Bugs:

• The desktop's drag-drop functionality is generally a bit buggy.
  
• HammerMan can be generally glitchy at times, particularly when interacting with the desktop. If you find that he's bugging out too-much, you can reset him by closing his window and reopening it.
• Some find the password puzzle very difficult, to the point of looking at the source code. I think the solution to this is some better clues from the HELP BOT (that will have to wait for the post-jam build). In the meantime, I'll add some hints to the puzzles in the game's description.
• Very rarely, items can glitch out of the menu screens and fall into the void.
• The click-point of certain items while you're holding them is sometimes unintuitive.
• The Play Again and Main Menu buttons at the end of the game are generally a bit glitchy.
• The game gives the wrong instructions for the camera-pan functionality if you activate it using the toggle button. (FIXED!)
• While Ctrl+Clicking to pan the camera, you can still interact with the environment, which causes weird behavior (particularly in the desktop)
• Some grammatical errors.

If you encounter any bugs that are not mentioned in the list above, let me know in a comment and I'll add it to the list!

If you encounter any bugs that are not mentioned in the list above, please let me know in a comment and I'll add it to the list! 

I will add some screenshots later when I have some time (and more energy)