In Seize The Clay, you are looking to support yourself through making and selling beautiful bits of pottery. These various vases, pots, and bowls all must be made out of clay, painted, and then baked in order to be ready to sell.
And that is what you must do each day! You have the option to sell only three pieces of pottery, so you’ll need to carefully pick a design from the table. Once you have this sort of map to follow, you can pick one of three clays and then bring them to the molding stand. There are two phases when it comes to molding – the first bit has you using your hands to smoosh the clay in, forcing it to be taller and thinner. The second phase uses your nails to dig bits out of the clay, designing the shape. Both of these motions do take some time to get use too, as you’ll need to understand how your hands move and work.
Once you have the design done, you must bake your clay. Baking it is simple – putting it in the oven, turning up the heat, and watching it cook. At some point, it will hit ‘perfect’ and that’s when you want to take it out. You’ll need the oven temperature to become zero, which takes a bit more time, so you’ll need to be careful to make it perfect every time. Once the object is completely created, you can place it on one of the pedestals within your shop. After all three are filled, you will see various creatures enter your shop and purchase your items. Depending on how well you do, you’ll be given amounts of money for each piece. Hopefully, it’s enough to survive another day doing what you love!
Seize The Clay is a really lovely little game made in just a few days for the Ludum Dare 44. I quite enjoy designing pottery within the game and striving for the exact picture that I picked up. You don’t seem to be set too back by not matching them completely, but it’s still a cool goal to try and achieve.
Seize The Clay is playable for free on Itch.io.
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