The Clock Tower

Devlog

• Game Jam Day 10
  November 10, 2025 by grumblyharmonics

  Tag: [day-10] The main activity of the final day was lots of polishing and minor enhancements, guided by feedback from play testing. Then we submitted the game! You can find it at https://grumblyharmo... Continue reading

  
• Game Jam Day 9
  November 09, 2025 by grumblyharmonics

  Tag: [day-9] Today we added a win condition (you have to feed the cat) and worked on other polishing and enhancements. The game now has a title— The Clock Tower —which replaces the development cod... Continue reading
• Game Jam Day 8
  November 09, 2025 by grumblyharmonics

  Tag: [day-8] Polishing The knocking puzzle plays one of three random knocks when not inspired, with audio and a custom description for each. Radio puzzle We added a room containing a locked box, which... Continue reading
• Game Jam Day 7
  November 09, 2025 by grumblyharmonics

  Tag: [day-7] More expressive room description logic On day 5 we added a conditional-desc field to each ROOM to give us some flexibility in room descriptions depending on the current game state. The co... Continue reading

  
• Game Jam Day 6
  November 09, 2025 by grumblyharmonics

  Tag: [day-6] Today was devoted to two things: implementing the knocking puzzle and making it possible to enter the belfry, and making the radio work. Knocking puzzle and belfry We talked about how to... Continue reading
• Game Jam Day 5
  November 09, 2025 by grumblyharmonics

  Tag: [day-5] The clocktower After some brainstorming, we've decided to start the game at the top of the clocktower. As the player progresses out of the tower, they pass a puzzle on each landing that n... Continue reading

  
• Game Jam Day 4
  November 09, 2025 by grumblyharmonics

  Tag: [day-4] Objective and puzzles More brainstorming about things to do in the game and puzzles on the way to the end. We are thinking that you want to work your way to the top of the tower, and ther... Continue reading
• Game Jam Day 3
  November 09, 2025 by grumblyharmonics

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  Tag: [day-3] Thinking about game state vs. UI state Continuing with the model–view–controller thinking, we moved the state.running variable into a separate mutable variable . The state.running fla... Continue reading
• Game Jam Day 2
  November 09, 2025 by grumblyharmonics

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  Tag: [day-2] On this day we refactored the command parser to make it more general and added a player inventory and the ability for rooms to contain items. The game now can handle multi-word commands (... Continue reading

  
• Game Jam Day 1
  November 09, 2025 by grumblyharmonics

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  Tag: [day-1] Our vision for the jam is a text adventure game (along the lines of Zork or Colossal Cave ) with integrated audio. We picture background sounds as well as objects in rooms that emit posit... Continue reading