Scale Salon: A Sardine Dress-Up Mystery

(fullscreen for best experience — sorry about the weird aspect ratio!!)

Somewhere off the coast of Sardinia...

It's the morning of Sardinella's wedding! She has a surprise for you...she's invited her long-lost birth father! Well, she's invited ten sardines who might be her birth father. Your job is to gather intel from each of these maybe-dads and figure out who the real father is...all while fitting each sardine for a fashionable wedding suit.  This GMTK 2024 entry combines the dressup and detective genres, with a focus on building outfits made of scales. Get it?

CONTROLS

Click and drag scales, clothes, and accessories onto your sardine to dress him up! These items will generate randomly across the screen. Click on the speech bubble to  advance the dialogue. Pay close attention to the dialogue while meeting your sardine's needs to unlock extra content at the end of the game!

CREDITS

Studio Gamma - Michael Gancz and Zacharie Sciamma

Code, art, and music by Michael Gancz

Story by Michael Gancz and Zacharie Sciamma

Hat art by Naomi Gancz and Josie Parker-Blier

Concept by Serena Thaw-Poon