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A jam submission

Divine MirrorsView project page

A solo journaling game about raising a divine beast
Submitted by Kristina Waterman — 9 days, 6 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Overall#14.0004.000
Fun to Play#14.5004.500
Hits the Aesthetics#14.5004.500
Sound of Design#43.0003.000
Creativity#44.0004.000

Ranked from 2 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Team Members
Kristina Waterman

System designed for
Pen, paper and two six-sided dice

Take on the theme
The beginning of a new life and relationship

Where else can we find you?
https://ninaunn.substack.com/

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

I like it. My own little journey through Divine Mirrors ended in a story of just about a thousand words. 

There were some things I thought were a bit confusing:

  • Under the Egg header it talks about adding points but where and when to add them exactly is only explained after you've rolled more dice for the creatures looks and only then does it explain it. That was a bit confusing.
  • Under Yearling there is a small mistake - How has the yearling has grown
  • Under the Divine Beast header it talks about how the beast has reached full maturity and then it says the same under Culmination

Overall its also basically impossible to get the opposite result after you got 2 points in either of the traits and since you chose which one starts with a point already it feels a bit superfluous. For a solo game I'd personally want the option for the story to change direction from the first to the last roll so I wonder if using d8 or d10 might not be better to lessen the impact of the points.

Developer

Thank you for your feedback, Owlsten! It's so useful to hear about the bonus point system and how it drives narrative. My initial reasoning for giving the player a free bonus point was to honour the direction they might want to play in, so to hear you preferred more freedom for change in the story is a great insight! If I end up making an expanded version of the game, I'll keep your feedback in mind. Thank you again!

Submitted(+1)

Interesting concept. Hagrid from the Harry Potter series would love this game :) 

Developer

Thank you!