Judge feedback

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• ROGUE EMOJI: A fairly complete game with a pleasing aesthetic, which doesn't really bring much else new to the table. Still, its charm and fairly low threshold for player skill makes it a great way to kill an hour or two if you want to try a "light" roguelike that is still fairly traditional. Completeness: Playable from start to finish, seems pretty balanced. Some trouble with scrolling happening while attacking in FireFox, which didn't seem to happen across all browsers. Aesthetics: This is a really aesthetically complete game and it leans hard into the Emoji theme. Mostly intuitive controls; the different attack/move controls took a bit of getting used to for me, and they bug out a little bit on FireFox, but it was fine aside from that. Fun: I enjoyed this; it was fun and worth my time. Innovation: The lean into theming really helps this category, but there's not a lot of mechanical innovation. Scope: This is about as expected for a 7drl. Roguelikeness: This fits the bill as a classic-ish roguelike; it doesn't have as much of a hidden-info or tactical problem, but most of the other nuts and bolts are there.
• Cute little game. It works, doesn't crash, but a bit mroe polish definitely wouldn't hurt. Some uses of emoji are quite nice, some are less so. It is totally not obvious what emojis are obstacles and what can be stepped on. Seems random. 'P' to skip turn? Why? It is quite far both from WASD and cursor keys. Bump to attack doesn't work??? Why??? Ok, there is trident that can be thrown. But what about sword??? It was moderately fun to complete it once, but final battle was very tiresome. You cannot even block freaking dragon with his own snakes. I belive it far from the first rougelike-ish game that uses emoji, so nothing really new here. Mechanically-wise there are no innovations too. It is more or less ok in terms of scope, though there could be more weapons and clever use enojis for different kinds of obstacles and surfaces. IMO it is too simple to be called a true roguelike. Aside from the final battle there is almost only one enemy with very basic bahaviour.
• Really cute game. It looks great, and the phone interface is perfect. The final boss is fun to fight. This is a perfectly done example of a traditional (albeit small scale) roguelike with a unique aesthetic.