gameplay is godlike, just wow! This was more fun that it had any right to be, just amazing! I like the art style, the witty nature of it and just everything was so fun!
Please make a post-jam release with at least some saving mechanics, i lost at day 8 and just dont have it in me to restart. Solid!
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Originality | #7 | 4.677 | 4.677 |
| Fun | #13 | 4.290 | 4.290 |
| Presentation | #69 | 4.323 | 4.323 |
| Theme | #134 | 3.806 | 3.806 |
Ranked from 32 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game represent "Power"?
Power of Attorney, you know that legal concept about how lawyers have magic powers.
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Thanks so much for giving it a shot! That is a fair suggestion, and definitely one I would have considered a lot more if it didn't require us to create a save / load system lmao, unfortunately no time for that. But yes on a post jam patch version I would be very receptive to having checkpoints! And I'm glad to hear the gesture recognition system worked well, it definitely took some wrangling and still has a long ways to go. That stressful juggling of different tasks was really the inciting vision for this game, so hearing that it came through in the end is great!
26 days ago (+1)
Thanks for giving it a shot! Thats a shame you didn't get to use the power documents, those are a big part of the theme! The gesture recognition is far from perfect yeah, you gotta really try to mimic the way it's drawn on the logo. I do agree that the office could change a bit more as you go on, I think more upgrades and client variants would help the gameplay expand a bit more. That was a fun stream though thanks for giving it a play!
27 days ago (+1)
Thanks! The stapling was a very early idea with this as we felt it kinda pushed the power element, we couldn't make a game about the theme of power and have you gently hand the clients their documents lol. This is actually the reigned in version, originally handing clients documents was going to be what sends them flying across the room, but we decided to reserve that for the bat. Good luck on your future runs though! Word of wisdom if you get stuck, dismissal is VERY powerful. Like arguably too powerful lol. Thanks for playing!
27 days ago(+1)
Wow that means a lot! Thanks so much for giving it a shot and we're so hyped that we got to be someone's favorite! Good luck grinding for the quotas, and thanks so much for playing!
Thanks so much! Yeah it is hard to find the difficulty just right, I found myself wishing I could create optional difficulties or a sandbox kinda mode where you can just make documents and goof around. A hard mode where the qoutas are all tripled or something could be interesting too! Although that would probably be impossible as of right now haha. But yeah I'm glad to hear you had some fun with it!
Absolutely valid, yeah. I think during development I wrote off the bad feeling of a loss to the sloppiness of the end screen and figured if I had spare time I would overhaul that screen to feel / look better and solve that. In hindsight the main issue is more about how suddenly it appears, though. So yeah I appreciate the feedback and a post jam patch version would absolutely have that tweaked and improved! Thanks so much for playing!
29 days ago(+1)
ooof, that's rough. I definitely agree an indicator that you are reaching the end of the time limit would be great, the clock isn't enough, especially when it gets blocked by clients. This video was integral to getting the drawing system working, shouts out Mix and Jam!
29 days ago(+1)
oof yeah this on a trackpad does not sound fun haha. Thanks for giving it a shot though! I'm sure you will become a big strong attorney one day.
29 days ago(+1)
I appreciate the feedback! That's all very valid and I will definitely take that into consideration. Balancing a game to be fair is tough when you have been grinding it every day for 10 days straight haha, I need to learn better how to estimate where the difficulty should be relative to myself. Happy/sorry to hear we annoyed you though lol, definitely some intended frustrations mixed in there with some of the unintended ones.
29 days ago(+1)
yeha the sensory overload at the end is very funny to me and is definitely in the spirit of the original intended vision, but yeah in a real release I think that would need to be adjusted. I'm not too sure what is going on with the phone exactly, I have had that pop up a few times so I have to look into that. The blank red paper is uhhhh... well it's the gesture recognition system thinking you drew a dick. We included that in the trainings data as a planned joke to try to call people out for drawing a dick but the detection wasn't accurate enough so it would falsely accuse you of dick drawing often. We planned to just cut it but it turned out the dick gesture was too integral to the systems and would be a pain to remove, and we really didn't have the time so here we are lmao.
29 days ago(+1)
Thanks for giving it a shot! And yeah that mechanic came together pretty good I think, we initially thought it would be out of scope but one of our programmers got it going pretty quick and surprised us haha.
29 days ago(+1)
Thanks for giving it a real shot! Sorry to hear you were just short, that's a bummer. Super glad to hear the humor came through though and yeah we couldn't resist the saul references.
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