Judge feedback

Judge feedback is anonymous and shown in a random order.

• Completeness

  There are a lot of half-baked ideas here.

  • The way to start fights is by teleporting your opponent, which isn't explained in the manual
  • The manual says you need cats to fight, but there are no capturable cats on the map
  • You actually can start fights without having cats
  • Because of that, charming animals is useless
  • Magic Missile is just an immediate game-losing move

  So I have to give you a 2/5 for all the confusing stuff that seems like it should do something but doesn't. This might be counterintuitive, but I would have scored you higher if you had cut unfinished features from the game.

  Aesthetics
  

  The help screens are annoying to navigate, but contain a lot of really important information. The keys are somewhat easy to use but don't make a ton of sense. However, the main board game thing is pretty easy to use, and the aesthetic of the game is nice. 3/5

  Fun
  

  The core gameplay here is an enhanced version of Trouble, with a roguelike-ish overworld. There isn't much strategy to it. I played through a couple of games to try things out and it didn't really hold my attention. 2/5

  Innovation
  

  I do like seeing unusual ideas in roguelike trappings, so 3/5 here. This would definitely have worked better if the overworld had stuff going on.

  Scope
  

  You clearly had a lot of ambitious ideas, and only got through a fraction of them. The world does feel alive, and the board game is definitely complete enough, so I've scored you 3/5 for scope.

  Roguelikeness
  

  This is a board game, not a roguelike, but it does have an overworld that could turn into a real roguelike. 3/5.

• Defeat the elder mage to win. I beat it.

  Completeness 3
  Instructions include "s in nonsensical spots.
  "You kill you".
  Going fullscreen or expanding the window glitches the graphics.
  The instructions mention unimplemented card effects.

  Aesthetics 3
  ASCII is fine.
  Hard to tell how many periods "........." is, and that information is necessary to play properly.
  Move with hjklyuNM rather than standard hjklyuBN.
  Multi-keypress commands, especially annoying when teleporting (Shift+z+t+move+Enter+move+Enter).
  In the board game it is possible for your home tiles to be the same color as the extraneous home tiles.

  Fun 3
  Figuring out how to get past all the instadeath gotchas and glitches when starting out is fun.
  Board game segment is more time consuming than interesting.

  Innovation 3
  Duels are fought by playing a board game similar to Sorry.

  Scope 3
  Several spells.
  Board game with several special effects.

  Roguelikeness 3
  Turn/grid based
  Randomness
  Permafailure
  RPG spells
  Animals/people are referred to by their scientific name
  The majority of time is spent on the board game segment