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A jam submission

Read All About It (GameDev.tv Game Jam 2024)View game page

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! An asteroid is coming to wipe out the dinosaurs! We better do something about it!
Submitted by waijee — 14 minutes, 31 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#124.2644.264
Story#134.1324.132
Theme#154.3964.396
Music#313.9253.925
Overall#334.0574.057
Mechanics#793.6983.698
Aesthetics#944.1134.113
Sound#1643.3403.340

Ranked from 53 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How many people worked on this game in total?
1

Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
Yes. It is listed in the credits within game.

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Submitted(+1)

Very nice game.
The progress curve feels good. Maybe a little bit easy (I won on my first try). Would have love more kind of upgrades.

Anyway, a good game. I enjoyed playing it

Developer

Thanks for playing. Haha, yeah, that's what happens when you game balance the last few minutes before the game jam is over. I'm hoping my post-jam edition of the game will be better balanced after I put in more content and polish.

Submitted(+1)

I like how quick and easy this is to jump into. It's simple but it's so addicting! Love the whimsical tone of it, the music is very fitting. It's cool that you're doing a post-jam version, I'll be sure to check it out!

Developer

Thanks for playing my game and your kind words. I hope that I keep my motivation high and I am able to get all the things I want into the post-jam game.

Submitted(+1)

Really loved the game, and upgrade system hooked me to the game for a while ;). Really Good!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing. I appreciate the post and kind words.

Submitted(+1)

Ha, that was fun, cant decide if it is paper hell or dino hell - this was excellent, well done!

Developer

Haha. Thanks for playing!

Submitted(+1)

Wow this was such a fun game! The fast-paced survivors mechanics with the cool upgrades (I especially liked the boomerang) made me keep returning for more runs to inform my fellow dinos of the incoming extinction. The music track fit the vibe perfectly, absolutely loved it!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing my silly game. I appreciate the feedback.

Submitted(+1)

The name didn't lead me to thinking it'd be a survivor's clone, but it was well done. I liked the dinosaur theme on it. I don't know why the dinosaurs drop/become human when they are informed, but nonetheless, it was a lot of fun. I died with 17 seconds left.  SO CLOSE

Developer

Thanks for playing. Yeah, I wasn't sure if I should give the game a title that was obviously or not, but I thought I'd lean into the newspaper theme more.

Submitted(+1)

I love this game! I honestly hadn't played much in the way of survivors-style games at all prior to this game jam, and I'd begun to conclude that it really wasn't for me. But this was great---the story spoke to me and the music and art were spot on. Great work!! I won on try #4 I think, but try #1 barely counted bc I didn't put it together and walked into 4 dinos intentionally before making the connection lol

Developer

Awesome! I'm glad to hear you beat the game. Was worried about the game balance.

Thanks for trying out the game.

Submitted(+1)

I love the art and the upgrades felt very impactful! Great Job!

Developer

Thanks for trying out the game. I'm hoping to build the game up with more and interesting upgrades.

Submitted(+1)

I found myself smiling when I played the game. Great choice of BGM!

Developer

Haha! Glad you liked it. Thanks for trying out my game.

Submitted(+1)

Very inspiring mix of genres. Makes me wanna try something similar next jam :P

It's so fun I'd be looking forward to play more if you ever update it with that list of missing features after the jam.

Developer

Thanks for playing. Yep, I've already started on adding in cut features. First focus are on the dinosaurs. I'll be working on it for a few months. You can check it out here:

Read All About It: Clever Girl Edition

Submitted

Haha loved the nome 🙃

Submitted(+1)

Lol very funny.... a message that meaningless today though ;p. I had a lot of fun playing it well done :)

Developer

Awesome. Thanks for playing.

Submitted(+1)

Very fun spin on the genre and application of the jam's theme. Liked the art and song choice a lot.

Developer

Thanks for playing. I got really lucky when I found the song. It really works well.

Submitted(+1)

Had fun playing your game! Really liked the idea and the non-violent spin on the survivors genre. The music was great too. Took me 3 retries to get to 1k, but it was really close to 4 retries.

Developer

Good to hear you beat the game. I left game balance far too late in development so I was afraid people would either find it too easy or two hard. 3-4 attempts is great. Thanks for playing.

Submitted(+1)

Pretty fun. I can see a lot of ways you could take it from here if you wanted to.

Developer

Thanks for playing. Yeah, for fun and for the learning experience, I've already started making a post-jam version.

Submitted(+1)

These things are very subjective, but this really worked for me.
Happy to keep playing this one after the jam.
Love the music. love the art.

Developer

Thanks for trying out my game and the feedback.

Submitted(+1)

Wow, what a fun and creative take on the ‘last stand’ theme! I loved the idea of dinosaurs shooting newspapers to inform others about meteorites—so unique and hilarious! The gameplay was super engaging, and I had a blast playing it. Awesome job, keep it up!

Developer

Thank you for trying out my silly game.

Submitted(+1)

Oh that's really cool game! I didn't expect to see a survivors game but :o

Developer

Thanks for trying out my game!

Submitted(+1)

What a great surprise. The vampire survivor mechanic combined with electro swing background music and the artwork was really cool. Nicely done.

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing and the kind words!

Submitted(+1)

I had a great time playing your game. Very cool.

Developer

I'm glad to hear you had fun. Thanks for playing.

Submitted(+1)

Simple yet very fun game! The story has a nice touch to it and I really like the beginning sequence.

Developer

Thanks for playing. I was gonna cut the spinning newspaper at the beginning since I didn't think I had the time, but my daughter insisted I put it in. I'm glad she did. My full plan was to have different side headlines show up for each retry of the game. Some silly news headlines. Maybe I'll put that in for the post-jam edition of the game.

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