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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #1 | 4.286 | 4.286 |
| Gameplay | #2 | 4.071 | 4.071 |
| Game Design | #2 | 4.071 | 4.071 |
| Overall | #3 | 4.071 | 4.071 |
| Art/Graphics | #16 | 2.786 | 2.786 |
Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Great game, I immediately knew what to do (which is quite a compliment since I'm very bad at finding out how to play a game). The two-player variant seems to issue points always symmetrically, probably you could issue team points in this case and add some ghost team with virtual points that you can hunt with two players. But that is just an idea. Another suggestion would be to award more points if only one label is used and fewer if more labels are used.
Thanks alot for your feedback!
We're glad that you like our game!
The scoring issue with the two player variant is a bit unfortunate and I really like your idea to award more points the fewer labels are used. Since we plan on continuing the development of this game, I'll definitely consider your suggestion there 🙂.
This is my absolute favorite game of the jam. Really great idea for a game. Reminds me of "Just One" which we play all the time when Corona allows us to meet our friends and family.
Out of curiousity, does there exist a similar game like this on mobile devices because that might be a great idea that could go viral? I'm thinking about a similar system like Quiz Duel which was a ton of fun playing with all my friends or random people. Was playing it for hours on end 😅
Right now there is only one minor issue with your game. Some of the symbols are not displayed correctly and are either just consisting of very thin outlines with transparent fill or if that symbol can't be loaded a simple rectangle. Also some of the (I guess) job symbols are just displayed as male head with an additional job related object next too it like so 👨🎨
And you can drag multiple icons into the same field if you are fast enough, but only the last one counts 😅
Thanks for your feedback!
We initially planned to design a game that you can play together with your friends and not alone. As you said, especially in times like this, where you cannot meet IRL.
I can only recall that there are book/tv-show guessing games using emojis. I actually haven't searched for similar games to ours. Anyway, "What's in the box" got heavily inspired by the Jackbox Party games - that is creating and joining rooms, round-based gameplay where all players can do something.
Yes the bugs... You probably know it best at first hand, lack of human resources, limited time and little play-testing 😅. The thing with the emojis is, that it's up to the browser how to display them. Some do it correctly whilst other display them as separate symbols or not at all. Not to mention that emojis are displayed differently depending on the font, browser, OS.... That adds another layer of flakiness on top 😄.
Finally, the dragging. I guess you should not depend on 3rd party components - lessons learned. Also, dragging does not work on mobile which is rather sad. Unfortunately there was not enough time to fix all the issues...