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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #7 | 4.156 | 4.156 |
| Game Design | #31 | 3.875 | 3.875 |
| Innovation | #49 | 3.656 | 3.656 |
| Overall | #49 | 3.635 | 3.635 |
| Audio | #79 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Graphics | #191 | 3.438 | 3.438 |
| Fun | #196 | 3.188 | 3.188 |
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 fit the theme?
Each time the player gets beaten the enemy becomes the protagonists. Ending your last journey and starting a new one in a persistentworld.
Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
I wrote all the code, the art and music was gotten from free sources.
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A super interesting concept and great way of encouraging the player to learn about both groups in the story. It really hits home the idea that your enemy is a person with a life and a story, since when you die, you assume that story. I also really liked the environmental storytelling that explored the contrast between the groups, especially the way the human's classism was depicted. Overall, I think you had a really cool idea and you executed it really well!
I'm so glad that the ideas came through, I wanted to show how the monsters are struggling with the humans taking over their lands while the humans in the city were oblivious to anything other than their own personal problems. Thank you for playing!
nice game, the attack sound I really was not expecting that. you did a lot of work in such a short time, interesting game mechanic switch the player with the enemy after each battle, but it should have been more noticeable on the player character that is being controlled in the game screen. good job !
Thank you for playing, you're absolutely right I need to make it more obvious the first time around.
Definitely an interesting concept and it kept me wanting to continue to complete the quests. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for playing!
Very cool game! I didn't understand which character I was for a while because I didn't realize I was switching places with the people I lost to but that's a really cool mechanic I haven't seen before. Art style was great, SFX were great, and story was great. Small detail but for a game that looks this polished I enjoy a more stylized font (but that could just be me). Overall great job!
Thank you for the kind words. I definitely need to make it clearer that the characters are swapping, will make sure to work on that and will make sure to implement a better font in the future.
Fun to play, I haven't seen any that type of game in this jam so far. Music and art was also great, good job!
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for playing!
This is a cool game, almost like Pokémon, but you become the Pokémon you lost to. It was fun to play and explore the charming world.
That's a actually a really cool comparison, maybe I'll have a mini section where you can be the number one animal! Thank you for playing!
many features for one week not bad, there is a lot of your time in it
Thank you for playing. Yeah I went a little overboard for this jam..
The game is very fun, A lot of effort was put into it, I see potential in this game!
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it, I'm going to keep trying to develop this post jam!
Hey Pretty cool concept!!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
One of the best games i’ve played! The idea of switching protagonists when you die is really creative and I think you have made a really fun game out of this idea. The only feedback I have is to balance the game a bit more because I could defeat monsters really easily as a human but not the other way around. Otherwise, super great game!
I'm really glad you liked the game! You're absolutely right about the balance, it's a bit skewed I'll work on that for future patches.
Great game, one of the best I've played! I love the idea and that everyone has their own life goal. Another thing is the movement for me it feels cool to not have it grid based. Really enjoyable, my only issue is the balancing I guess, because enemies randomly hit you for absurd damage and I feel that playing as a human is somehow much easier?
You're abosulutly right the balance is out of wack, never had this many enemies in a game before so trying to balance them was a bit of a swing and a miss. Will make sure to equalize the roles in future patches! Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for playing!
Interesting game, Good job getting all this done in jam time
Thank you for playing!
Very unique and ambitious game! I like the smooth movement and the visual effects in combat. The music fits very well. Well done, keep it up!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. I'm glad it all came together as well as it did!
Really cool use of the theme. I really enjoyed playing this game and it looks like a ton of work went into making it. Great job!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! I might have work a bit toooooo much on it, I bit off way too many systems to implement and had to do a mad rush to make it playable.
Neat concept! Ive always liked the idea of seeing things through multiple points of view in a game.
Glad you liked it! Thank you for playing!
Nice concept, huge amount of game for the game jam, great job!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
Great idea, nice graphics, good sounds and becoming reach is nearly impossible for plebs? 10/10 all perfect
Thank you for playing! The game certainly needs some balancing in the fights but I'm glad you like it!
Well done, I like the grafics and the whole world you created. Maybe a tutorial at the beginning would be nice, but great job!
Post patch I will work on setting up a tutorial! Thank you for playing!
You made a huge world in this game, well done. The gimmick is super cool. However I figured if you were entering a combat that you won't win it's always better to do your least damaging attacks possible so your next character has more health, which doesn't feel that fun a way to play (deliberately losing). I'd love to see this concept expanded further.
Also if you are planning on making a narrative game like this, I'd 100% recommend you to have someone read over the dialogue/narrative, even if just a friend or family member. Even the main menu had the typo: "being adventure", which makes zero sense (you were looking for the word "begin"), and there were at least 10 other occurrences in dialog or objectives that didn't make any sense to read. They weren't even simple misspellings or grammar mistakes that people would recognize but made the sentences complete nonsense.
I'm not trying to be critical of this, but if you are planning on releasing a game with narrative as a focus this is truly vital or people won't enjoy it.
But I really hope you expand upon this sorta idea, I think you made something truly innovative so well done! 💛
Definitely right about the spelling and all. Sadly it was the last thing I did in a mad rush before uploading the game so I didn't get a chance to proof read it, gonna have it all fixed up in the post jam.
I do need to make changing of character more fulfilling, not sure how I'm going to approach that yet but it's something I'll keep in the back of my head.
Thank you for playing!
I was so confused because I forgot to read the description, but the idea is great and the game looks fully fledged out!
Glad you liked it, it definitely needs a better intro, will make sure to fix that up for post jam!