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Joke Dispatch's itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Adherence to the theme | #28 | 1.265 | 2.000 |
Completion | #29 | 0.632 | 1.000 |
Gameplay | #29 | 0.632 | 1.000 |
Innovation | #29 | 0.632 | 1.000 |
Well-rounded | #29 | 0.632 | 1.000 |
Ranked from 2 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Team Details
Sean Khoo, John Tuffen, Virginia Litta
How To Play
Walk around: WASD
Advance dialogue: Spacebar
Interact: E
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Comments
Okay so first thoughts: GEE I SURE HOPE THIS ISN’T MALWARE (pls add something to your game page like some screenshots or a preview image and maybe a blurb about your game to help people realize that your game does in fact exist).
Second thoughts - I genuinely don’t get what I’m meant to be doing. Going by the intro dialogue, I guess I’m meant to be telling jokes to people based on their preferences, and I supposedly have a jokebook - but I have no idea how one is meant to use the jokebook (do I need to press a button to open it? which one?).
So all I can really do in the game is walk around, listen to the rather unpleasant footstep noises as I do so (they aren’t very pleasant as the only audio, and really should be a bit quieter), and talk to NPCs who only reveal some dialogue presumably to hint at their joke preferences. Can’t enter any buildings, can’t attempt telling jokes (do I need to collect them or something first? if so, how? and then how do I tell the jokes?), and just can’t really do anything.
Still, the game concept does work very well with the theme of the jam. But I just can’t ignore the elephant in the room of ‘there doesn’t seem to be a game here’.