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A jam submission

Joke DispatchView game page

Submitted by Khooey664 — 28 minutes, 28 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Adherence to the theme#281.2652.000
Completion#290.6321.000
Gameplay#290.6321.000
Innovation#290.6321.000
Well-rounded#290.6321.000

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

Submitted

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’.