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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Best game for 3+ players | #1 | 4.667 | 4.667 |
| Best rule book | #1 | 4.500 | 4.500 |
| Most unique design | #2 | 3.833 | 3.833 |
| Best family game | #3 | 4.167 | 4.167 |
| Overall | #3 | 3.476 | 3.476 |
| Best use of theme | #5 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Best solitaire game | #6 | 1.667 | 1.667 |
| Best 2 player game | #6 | 2.000 | 2.000 |
Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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I never got 4 players to play. Funnily, on Saturday I was on a skype call of 3 couples, so we could have very easily play girls vs boys and have one of each team sit together and play this. Alas, we ran out of time and I didn't manage to recommend it.
It reads great and it sounds great, so I think you have a great little party game here :) Excellent work!
As we are on lockdown and only 2 people, we didn't have an opportunity to play it properly, but I dug into everything I could.
Your ruleset is clear, concise, and as entertaining as I'm betting the game is! The "Name That Tune" bidding element is fantastic. I could see this getting quite heated in the best way. But I think where that shines is the betting time as currency. A nice addition.
I took a look at the word list, too. Yo. A lot of these are bonkers! Which is great! As others have said, having a common lexicon of inside jokes would 100% add to the humor of the game, but I also think as a team-building or ice-breaker activity it would allow players to stretch their communication and creativity skills. It appears to hit both sweet spots - exploring commonality among players - in a way a lot of these "shared brain" party games often don't.
Best news for you, I think, is this would be the easiest to produce. It might work best as an app and not strictly a tabletop game, but I could see this having legs.
Cheers!
I don't really have the opportunity to check this one properly right now - but looks like fun.
I feel like this would be a good ice-breaker type of game if played by new acquaintances. I also think it would be a lot of fun to play with close friends with whom you share common slang, nicknames, etc. It both cases it would play differently but effectively. It seems to be both competitive and cooperative as there is cooperation within teams but competition between teams.
Looking forward to having the chance to check this one out further in the future.
Tempting Intuition
https://cyberjunk.itch.io/tork-storm
Thoughts:
It’s a title-making game. Having in-jokes make it easier, but otherwise, it’s going to test how well you know each other and how well you know who you are while in this specific group of players. Warm fuzzy. Play it.
I think the inclusion of a single-serving website is a neat alternative to printing a carbon-sucking deck of rando-words. I don’t think the rules were clear enough on what the website was to serve. I felt very uncomfotable going to the address an @user includes in the very first sentence of their jam game. It just smells downright terrible and had all the adrenaline of a total trust fall into a bed of gerbal-sized DARPA dogs carrying hamster-sized casper matrices. Also the rules are disasterously wordy (to the effect of being charmingly comical).
I feel like the rules demand a proper presentation: take the most complicated spread you can find in House of Leaves, then reproduce it with this game’s rules. It should also include a mirror-dimension localization (all the rules printed backwards). Just, embrace this, go all-out. Make the Tempting… rulebook your stress ball after work. When you have a mopy day and just want to make something, know Tempting… rulebook is there awaiting your latest addition with no judgement and full attention if you so choose. The Tempting… rules love you. They will save you. Thanks for writing them. The thoroughness is pleasant and felt… urgent. I’m so scared this is going to be read as snide snarky or sacastic. Scared to post it.
Nice game.
I just want to say this comment was really great, very glad you posted it.
Thanks for the rate!
I love how playful your rules are - they set the tone for the game really well. Nice clear rules and an interesting twist on word guessing games. I would be tempted to make a version with a deck of word cards rather than a website - only because I like to stay away from devices during my game sessions!
Thank you for the comment! I had some fun writing the rules as well :)
I considered a deck of word cards too, actually, but since this jam is print and play I figured it'd be too much of a hassle (and waste of ink/paper) to do that. I figured going pretty much paperless would be a cool way to make the game haha.