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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Innovation | #10 | 4.250 | 4.250 |
| Graphics | #50 | 4.286 | 4.286 |
| Overall | #157 | 3.673 | 3.673 |
| Game Design | #260 | 3.607 | 3.607 |
| Theme | #438 | 3.571 | 3.571 |
| Fun | #465 | 3.321 | 3.321 |
| Audio | #577 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
Ranked from 28 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
In what way does your game fit the theme?
You put together different body parts to become stronger.
Did you write all the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
Everything except all the Audio and Fonts.
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Visuals are consistent and good. Sound is solid. I didn't really dig too deep into the gameplay playing against myself but it's a cool idea that seems well executed.
Cool idea and visuals area awesome, but I did not get how the armor works. It felt like the cards are very inbalanced and very easy to tell which one is better. Great job overall tho! I liked that you also made a card game :)
Here is your video review! Good game!
This was really fun! Wish I had someone to play it with though... lol
Really cool game to play with a friend!
Absolute unique idea. Great and funny visual. With a simple AI logic it would be better, but I really enjoyed it. I'm curious about the card deck shuffle, it's random or use some math behind it, how did you balance?
... and I can still attack! No more questions, I'm in.
Yeah, unfortunately AI was out of scope. It is a simple method that shuffles the body parts (I don't know why I made it public :P):
public IEnumerable<BodyPart> Shuffle()
{
var rnd = new System.Random();
var newList = new List<BodyPart>(BodyParts.bodyParts);
return newList.OrderBy(x => rnd.Next());
}
The balancing is mostly done by giving everyone the same deck. We tried to balance the heal, attack and durability but didn't spend too much time on it. It is probably very unbalanced.
We didn't thought about Monty Python! He should now say "it is merely a flesh wound". What a missed opportunity :(
Really interesting idea! Visually it looks great, having a very nice style and the appearance of swapping parts in and out was well done. Very innovative take on the theme, and I could see this being a fun game to play against others for sure. Perhaps more options for restoring health would be nice as I felt whichever side attacked first usually won when I played against myself a few times. Great job though, very creative :)
Thank you for playing. We originally had it even worse when durability was decreased after each attack instead of each attack done. This way the person that didn't attack first couldn't win anymore. At that point durability decreased based on the attackers attack level. We can easily balance the game, so if we ever pick this game up I will keep your feedback in mind. Thank you for that :)
Looking great. Love that old book illustration style. And creatures are awesome! Feels like you're reading some old time traveler's journal, describing all the fantastic and terrifying creatures, he saw on the other side of the ocean.
Post jam version with extended gameplay wanted!
Haha yes, we tried to go for a journal vibe. Glad you liked it :) Unfortunately we haven't planned to continue development, but we might create a card game out of it :)
This was such a cool deckbuilding-style fighting game! We played against each other and it both super creepy (in a good way!) and we enjoyed seeing all the different body parts mixed together. Very creative take on the theme, and one of the most enjoyable games so far, with plenty of room for further updates if you ever want to make it a full game. Great job, and hope you do!!
Thank you! We like to hear that someone played it with an actual second player =D
I think the game idea is really nice, since it stands out in the sea of co-op platformers, not that co-op platformers are bad or anything. I really like your take on the theme, too bad I was not able to play it with a friend :(
Thank you! Originally we designed it as a player vs AI game, but we only had a week so we changed that. Hope you still building monsters ;)
Great idea and the graphics are really nice. Fun game.
Thank you :D
Cool concept!
I think it would be more interesting if some combination of body parts could produce a suit effect!.
This was planned but we had to scrap it. I already had the parts linked up to one character. For example, Felicity the night nurse would heal the monster every round if you had at least 3 parts. We were also working with different types that would work better together. Thank you for playing :D
This is a really cool concept and I'd love to see it fleshed out some more! Obviously far beyond gamejam scope but a game where you build a deck and then combine it with your opponent's to face off and build weird creatures would be a lot of fun.
Thank you :) a friend of us who play tested the game had the same suggestion. This was our first game jam (and game we build) and it was difficult to have to cut all the ideas we had. But it was very educational!
Clever take on the theme and really fun art style and animation. I could definitely see this as a game with progressively difficult AI enemies, or even adapted into a physical card game . Great work!
Thank you for playing our game. We have talked about turning this into a card game. Originally we wanted the cards to be placed next to each other to display the monster. We would like to have AI enemies, but we didn't have enough time to implement it, so we skipped that part.
Art style is awesome, really cool to make our own monster before fight, I don't try it with another player but i'm sure it's fun ! ;)
Thank you very much for playing our game :). Yeah, it is one downside with our game that you have to play it with someone else to fully enjoy it. We didn't manage to create any AI.
Loved loved loved the art style!
Thank you! My wife is happy to hear it =D First time we made a game.
What a fun game to go along with the theme for the jam! I really like this concept, great job!
Thank you very much :) We had a blast building this game