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A jam submission

Motivated ReasoningView game page

Reason until you believe things that are NOT real
Submitted by melonmouse (@MelonMouseGames) — 7 minutes, 47 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Innovation#953.7413.741
Game Design#4873.2223.222
Overall#5373.0863.086
Theme#5693.0373.037
Graphics#6953.0373.037
Audio#7082.7412.741
Fun#7682.7412.741

Ranked from 27 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does you game fit the theme?
You can reason you way into believing things that are NOT real. That is Motivated Reasoning.

Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
Yes!

Just this background image (CC):
https://www.flickr.com/photos/texttheater/3122891131

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Submitted

This game is too hard XD

but it is great and fun to play :)

Submitted

Very interesting take on the theme. Cool game.  The graphics also is very fitting for the game.

Submitted

Great premise! But unfortunately, I don't thing is executed properly. I guess because of short time period

Submitted

Interesting concept.

I was able to get the "Invading is Defending" statement. I was a little disappointed there wasn't any fanfare or acknowledgement.

After you get enough statements, they start to overlap. Minor gripe, but it would have been nice if their icons and text shrunk after the list gets long enough.

Submitted

Not sure if I was playing it correctly but I was getting a lot of combinations in there. Seems like an interesting concepts. Graphics are great and so were the sound effects, i would suggest adding a background audio just to set ambience while playing. 

Very creative, I like it!

Submitted

You can see how much work that must have been.
The idea is very creative!

Developer

Thanks for your comment!

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Submitted

Nice Game! I was able to make 13 Combinitions. Would be nice to have some feedback of how much I have to do.

Developer (1 edit)

Thats a lot of combos! Thanks for the feedback, could be a bit more outlined indeed.

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Submitted

I didn't understand very much of the how to play but I like the idea and It seem pretty innovation. Great job :D

Developer (1 edit)

Sorry to hear that it was not clear. Thanks for trying and reviewing :D

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Submitted

Very cool to mess around with all the combinations. I got 17 combinations before I figured it was enough searching :D

Developer (1 edit)

Thanks for your feedback! This version is a bit too hard and the combinations start overflowing a bit, but we made a post jam version a few hours after the deadline: https://melonmouse.itch.io/motivated-reasoning-post-jam-version

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Submitted

This kind of a reminds me of doodle god in a way, anyways pretty fun game. Some more levels would've been nice.

Developer (1 edit)

Thanks! Doodle god is awesome!

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Submitted

Really creative idea for this jams theme and such a nice refresher - gameplay-wise. Nicely done!

Developer (1 edit)

Thanks :)

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Submitted

I really like the concept of the game! Will play a little bit longer later!

Developer (1 edit)

Thanks :D

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Submitted

Really nice game, where u have to think a bit. Art and SFX are great.

Developer (1 edit)

Thanks for your nice comment :D

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Submitted

"Invading is defending" horrifying how relevant it is right now
Looks simple and mechanic is interesting

Developer (1 edit)

Thanks for playing!

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Submitted

Nice idea and concept. The sound effects are really good. Rated it! If possible do rate and play my game :)

Developer (1 edit)

Thanks for playing! I always try to rate the games made by people who rate mine :)

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Submitted

Cool idea. I liked the goal trying to prove something like that. It was hard to tell which things would actually make something new, but that's all part of the experimentation.

Developer (1 edit)

We considered highlighting the matching statements, but didnt implement it in the end because we ran out of time.

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Submitted

I really didn't understand how to play.

Developer (1 edit)

Sorry to hear that!

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Submitted

Very cool game! I don't know how to pass the first part.

Developer (1 edit)

Sorry to hear that! It is too difficult for sure. We realized that, but too late; we needed another hour of devtime after the deadline. The fixed difficulty version is here: https://melonmouse.itch.io/motivated-reasoning-post-jam-version

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Submitted

It was a really cool game and a great link to the theme. Maybe to make it easier you could change the color if they can and can't combine.

Developer (1 edit)

Thanks!

We considered highlighting the matching statements, but didnt implement it in the end because we ran out of time.

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Submitted

Very interesting and creative idea. I could not get the first one haha. It got to be way too many bubbles on the screen. I really liked the placement and sound effects.

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Thanks! We found out that you could collect way to many bubbles, but too late; we needed another hour of devtime after the deadline. The fixed version is here: https://melonmouse.itch.io/motivated-reasoning-post-jam-version

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