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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #199 | 3.643 | 3.643 |
| Innovation | #234 | 3.357 | 3.357 |
| Fun | #238 | 3.464 | 3.464 |
| Game Design | #291 | 3.393 | 3.393 |
| Overall | #332 | 3.315 | 3.315 |
| Graphics | #506 | 3.286 | 3.286 |
| Audio | #676 | 2.750 | 2.750 |
Ranked from 28 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
It's a game about the "calm" moment before a storm hits and you realize you really need to go grocery shopping before you get stuck indoors. Also you are a dinosaur.
Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
We made everything ourselves except for the music and some of the fonts. Everything we didn't create is credited in the description.
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Great work on this! I thought the shopping mechanic was really straightforward, nice job including a score based on how well you did after you leave the store! Excellent work on the intro and outro animations.
Cute and funny!
We thought the game had a fun vibe, with cute little dinosaurs running around. It was also very hectic and stressful which fit the theme well, it was maybe a bit too difficult to remember everything on the shopping list however, so having to stop each time you check the list felt a bit clunky.
We also had some issues with the movement, as it felt like we lost speed and had to turn around to move fast again, and we couldnt get the "ramming" of other dinosaurs to work.
But apart from that, nice work!
- Erlend and Hans
The vibe was correct. The hecticness of shopping and seeing people take stuff off the shelves in a frenzy and sometimes seeing two shoppers ram into each other repeatedly was funny.
I think upping that franticness would make the game really stand out.,
Really cute! Love the concept, really unique! The dinosaurs were adorable, and the grocery store music was spot on.
Ramming around the grocery store was a lot of fun, and looking for each ingredient was genuinely a challenge!
Great job :)
Scored 869.13 points. Fun game and I especially loved the derpy faces in "dino cart jam". Simple and straightforward game.
Suggestion:
- Tell about controls within game (a carpet in the supermarket as example)
- Pick up sounds and collision sounds... maybe angry mob sounds?
Shopping made me happy. Ending made me sad. Good game.
Cute game. The dino art was great and it was a fun concept to play with. I lost the first time because someone took all the chips, but got 818 points the second time.
818 is a great score! The feature we wanted to get in the most but couldn't because of time is knocking groceries out of other dinosaur's carts when you rammed them so you could try and steal stuff from other people if you were too late to get it from the shelf, just like real panic shoppers do haha...
Simple and fun game, I really got confused lol I see some dino traffic jam, Awesome.
This is a really fun game! I love the take on the theme and the art is really cool. Great work!
That was simple fun! I love the fact that they were all dinosaurs.
Could use some clarity on the score system - apparently you lose points if you pick extra stuff? The world-end scenario made me think you need get as much stuff as you can before the other dinos get to it.
Thanks for playing! Yeah we were hoping to add a short tutorial before you got into the main game that would explain scoring but ran out of time. Definitely a weak point of the current state!
This game is a triumph! The innovative gameplay and stunning design come together perfectly. It’s clear that a lot of hard work went into this. Congratulations on creating such a captivating experience!
In all games that i played in this jam i can say this is the one that have more potential to be a full game
Absolutely adorable. ^-^ Really liked this one, and the music was a perfect choice. Good mechanics as well. The only issue was that it was hard to see some of the smaller food icons on the list, so I put it in full-screen. But strangely, when put into full-screen, it lagged the game. Possibly a browser issue, though.
Oh dang thanks for the heads up. We definitely were testing in full screen for that exact reason and didn't have any issues, sad to hear that there's lag in the browser build! Ideally we would have used a sprite sheet for all the food icons but we ran out of time to refactor things so they're loaded as separate PNGs which probably doesn't help haha...
final score -5700 haha, I guess it is because I bought everything, it was a fun game with a ton of items there was just a lot of items it took me a while to get all of them :D, well made game with good content and implementation of theme. also cutscene was very funny :D
Here is mine if someone wants to try:
https://abdullahsevin.itch.io/allican
I loved the game, I loved the dinosaurs fighting and rushing to buy. The graphics could be improved, but the fun factor and the game design are really really good. I also loved the spin on the theme!
I'm a programmer first and foremost but I've dabbled in pixel art for years and I find that means that I can make decent sprites but it takes me a long time haha...
The rest of my team had actually NEVER done pixel art before this project! I'm super proud of them and how much they improved in such a short time.
Thank you so much for playing!
This made me laugh, I want this expanded on.
Thank you so much for playing! I'm glad you enjoyed it :D
Dino derby! Loved spinning in circles and smacking the other dinos endlessly. Great game, congrats!
Funny game shopping with dinosaurs. It was hard to keep checking my list and hoping the product was still there haha, but I did it!!
Real nice game made definitely would even be more better when more time for polish. Very unique game I would not think of.
Hee-ho. Fun game, nice
Really fun game with cute art as well.