WELCOME TO THE ROTTEN EGG!
You've just entered a place you never thought you were gonna end up at. A dark gloomy aura fills the room as the auctioneer enters the stage. His voice fills the room "WELCOME TO THE ROTTEN EGG - Your trusted eggspert when it comes to everything valuable and rare since 2025."
You look around and see a few people scattered around the room, most of them look as defeated as you feel. As the first artwork gets rolled into the room you get a bad feeling "this feels wrong". Taking an even closer look confirms your supsicion, it is a fake of the precious MonaShisa. But that was an artwork you knew, to be sure you check the catalogue the auctioneer gave you at the entrance. Comparing the artwork, its name and the price will give you certainty if you should bid or not.
You're sure that if you had bought it your boss would be really unhappy so you skip this one but you're on the edge when bidding on the different artworks. The auctioneer glances over at you, while the cat strots over the stage. You know when your money runs out it will be over for you...
About
In The Rotten Egg you attend an underground art auction as a buyer for a secretive client. Your job is really simple: buy the real pieces at the right price. But the room is full of forged artworks, and telling a fake from the real thing is the difference between surviving another day or ending up dead on the curb.
The Rotten Egg is an entry for the mini JameGam47 and was created in less than 3 days.
Behind the Scenes
This was my first game jam submission, and also my first ever game. The theme was "cheap copy" and the special object that had to be integrated was "egg". These two guidelines pushed me to lean into the concept that we ended up on, spot the fake but with a small twist.
Thanks a lot to Celthyan for making that amazing background track. Check his work out it's really cool.
To see the entire process of me making the game come back and watch it on youtube (It will be realeased soon) :)