Fun little game! I included it in my GameDevNetwork: The Big Festive Game Jam compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :)
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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Theme Relevance | #1 | 4.118 | 4.118 |
Fun Factor | #2 | 3.412 | 3.412 |
Overall | #3 | 3.544 | 3.544 |
Accessibility | #7 | 3.294 | 3.294 |
Originality | #8 | 3.353 | 3.353 |
Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Very nice comic artwork, great style and awesome music! Gameplay was a little basic but really challenging to "catch-em-all".
haha! its really interesting when i carry a lot of people behind me. i like this feeling, that i call a lot of people to attend a party! And the artworks in first screen just like comic. Really special!
This is a pretty great game. The art was great, the controls were pretty good, having the townspeople jump up and down when you could invite them was very helpful so you didn't have to check the invite list or try to count all the people swarming around you. The chatter and voice acting was an incredible piece of polish (except you couldn't really make out what they were saying because the music was louder). The game itself was very fun. It was more challenging than I thought it would be. A couple times I lost and retried and just ran around picking up people, thinking it was pretty easy, but then I would get sloppy and Jimmy would spot me and chase after me like I owed him money or something.
I have to ask - why are we throwing a party for Jimmy? He seems like quite the ungrateful little guy. I mean, I had Batman and Superman at his party and he was only 42% happy. Why does he love that panda so much? I eventually convinced the panda to come just so Jimmy could be happy, but I can't help but feel Jimmy doesn't really deserve a cousin as great as Marcus Tempest.
I had some trouble figuring out to press space to get things started in the story part because it doesn't say anything about space in the controls. I tried clicking and moving around at first. Then when I got in game, I had a hard time finding where I was. I think I was confused by there being a blond guy in the center of the screen and I thought it was me. I tried moving for a bit and he didn't move. I did figure it out eventually that I was in the top left corner. I think something like a fade out would work wonders to fix that. Like start with a small circle around your character and everything else black, then expand the circle to show the full screen. That is if it was even a problem for anyone other than me.
Hey Solrun, thank you very much for taking the time to play the game and write such a thorough comment!
The chatter is actually unintelligible because it means nothing at all, is just gibberish :)
Jimmy just loves pandas THAT much.
To me it felt natural to press Enter or Spacebar but it would have been better to place some arrows on the screen or to let player just click to advance in the initial comics.
Highlighting the starting position of Marcus is a good idea, could do it in the future.
Also, congrats on beating the game :)
So fun to play and the music matches perfectly with the game, good job man.
Well, it's a great idea and the art looks great, good music.. but i couldn't get the controls to work with 3 tries. first i got stuck on the first screen, then i figured out that Enter turned the page. then i checked out the invitation rules and got stuck on that page and never did figure out how to get back to the game from there. reloaded and it wouldn't load. With some work it could be a great little game though!
Matches the theme well. This game has a lot of style. The sound effects are a nice touch, and the music fits well with the overall aesthetic. The gameplay isn't anything groundbreaking, but it is an interesting take on the PacMan concept. Good job.
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