Shredded Secrets
Girls Make Games · 2020 · Adventure, Action-Adventure, Story Rich, Cute, Surreal
PC
4 user reviews100% · 4
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About Shredded Secrets
“Be kind; Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
Shredded Secrets is a charming story-based 2D platformer that lets you step into the lives of four people at a middle school - Isabella, Taylor, London and Oakley.
Their lives intersect at different points as each character faces their own complex issues. Isabella, dubbed the "nerd" of the school, is being bullied by Oakley, a problematic kid in her grade. Taylor struggles with his grades, anxiety, and pressure from his family to do well in school. London is navigating depression and grief, while trying to keep up with her job as a middle school teacher.
Learn each character's fears and face off against bullies, hurled insults, inner demons, grade monsters & more. Seek comfort in each character's favorite item. Confront your biggest enemy - the worst bully, or your inner self!
Shredded Secrets builds empathy, manifesting human issues through interesting and charming gameplay.
About the Development Team
Shredded Secrets was created by Team Sarcastic Shark Clouds, a group of middle school girls at the 2018 Girls Make Games Seattle Summer Camp. The game won Grand Prize at GMG’s 2018 Demo Day competition and went on to raise over $30K on Kickstarter.
Team Sarcastic Shark Clouds: Crystal, Isadora, Keira, Gracie
About Girls Make Games
Girls Make Games is a series of international summer camps and workshops designed to inspire the next generation of designers, creators, and engineers.
GMG’s flagship video game summer camp teaches girls ages 8-18 how to design and code their own games. The camps culminate in Demo Day, a national competition where the top teams from around the country pitch their games to industry professionals. The Grand Prize winning team receives extended mentorship and the opportunity to have their game professionally produced and published.
Shredded Secrets is a charming story-based 2D platformer that lets you step into the lives of four people at a middle school - Isabella, Taylor, London and Oakley.
Their lives intersect at different points as each character faces their own complex issues. Isabella, dubbed the "nerd" of the school, is being bullied by Oakley, a problematic kid in her grade. Taylor struggles with his grades, anxiety, and pressure from his family to do well in school. London is navigating depression and grief, while trying to keep up with her job as a middle school teacher.
Learn each character's fears and face off against bullies, hurled insults, inner demons, grade monsters & more. Seek comfort in each character's favorite item. Confront your biggest enemy - the worst bully, or your inner self!
Shredded Secrets builds empathy, manifesting human issues through interesting and charming gameplay.
About the Development Team
Shredded Secrets was created by Team Sarcastic Shark Clouds, a group of middle school girls at the 2018 Girls Make Games Seattle Summer Camp. The game won Grand Prize at GMG’s 2018 Demo Day competition and went on to raise over $30K on Kickstarter.
Team Sarcastic Shark Clouds: Crystal, Isadora, Keira, Gracie
About Girls Make Games
Girls Make Games is a series of international summer camps and workshops designed to inspire the next generation of designers, creators, and engineers.
GMG’s flagship video game summer camp teaches girls ages 8-18 how to design and code their own games. The camps culminate in Demo Day, a national competition where the top teams from around the country pitch their games to industry professionals. The Grand Prize winning team receives extended mentorship and the opportunity to have their game professionally produced and published.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
I enjoyed how simple yet difficult the game was. I also enjoyed how real the game was in general, between the real situations that everyone struggles sometimes and facing your demons, i enjoyed the game 10/10 would play again!!!11 found this helpful
Adorable game with a story full of empathy and heart. The story arcs made me tear up!9 found this helpful
Well-made game! The art and animation is really great, and I enjoyed listening to and reading the different characters' thoughts. The gameplay is a little generic, but it's fine and the controls are good. I definitely started enjoying it more when new mechanics were introduced- the first time there was a boss fight, I was really surprised (in a good way)! Other mechanics I thought were creative were Oakley's shouting mechanic and how it changed with the story, and the "game within a game" idea in Taylor's level. One small thing I wanted to point out is that I didn't realize that you could advance the dialogue bubbles at first, so for a little while I only saw the first piece of text for each bubble. I think I would've realized it sooner if the little icon at the bottom was animated (to indicate that you should press a button) or if the dialogue box stopped you from being able to move away. Even though it's really, really short (my playtime is having replayed the first three levels), $5 isn't much so I think the price works. Although maybe it's unlikely, I would love to see this developed into a longer game, with more time to develop each of the characters' stories.8 found this helpful
More than I expected. tl;dr: Buy the game, and support good people doing good things! Play the game, and find some hope. If these folks can do this much while this young, imagine what they'll do as they grow older and skill up. As a long-time Kickstarter supporter of Girls Make Games, you'd expect that I think their stuff is cool. Indeed, this is a solid game, and I do think it's cool. A 2D side-scrolling platformer. Nice art. Bug free. A pretty big win from a small team of young designers. Beyond that, the real draw is the surprisingly thoughtful characters. As you play through the story, you encounter thought bubbles that play small bits of internal monologue. It would have been easy to simply stereotype characters along the standard school-clique lines, but this game does more. Each character has small bits of real complexity.5 found this helpful
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