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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #225 | 3.810 | 3.810 |
| Originality | #439 | 3.857 | 3.857 |
| Overall | #447 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Presentation | #1303 | 3.381 | 3.381 |
Ranked from 21 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
The game is set in a prison where the prisoners have escaped. They are "Out of Control".
Did your team create the art for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
Yes
We created all art during the game jam
Did your team create the audio for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
No
We used pre-existing audio
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Comments
I like your take on the theme. And the game was very fun to play and it was well executed. Nice job, great game!
Simple and executed reasonably well. Good Stuff :)
This was a lot of fun. I like that it was "out of control," but as the player, I still had control. I also really liked the lockpicking mechanic, but I wish the prisoners were even more aggressively trying to get other prisoners out. I also realized towards the end that I could move the guards as well, and I wished I'd known that earlier, cause that made things a little bit more strategic towards the end. Good game!
Yeah it was a little too tight to make the AI do smart things in 48 hours, though I still get a kick out of 1 prisoner releasing 2 releasing 4 when it works right. We only saw someone suggest it once the Jam was over, but next time I think making a small tutorial letting you know what does what and how it interacts would go a long way to helping our players.
Thanks for the feedback!
Great concept! Your art style is good and cohesive, like it!
They pick-locking mechanic made trying to manage all the prisoners already in cells and prisoners running around fun! It made me wish you had more mechanics like that. I'm not sure what else they could do, but something to really make me have to manage them carefully and keep track of a bunch of different things. Maybe there could even be different types of prisoners, or obstacles to the dragging?
No real problems with the game, just think it has a lot of potential and could use more! Good job!
I didn't spend as much time on the art as usual, but I tried my best to make sure it's as cohesive as possible. Good to know it worked out!
We were definitely limited by time crunch and some difficulty trying to get pathfinding off the ground, which held back what could've been a lot more in depth gameplay.
Thanks for the feedback!
Really good concept and a very frantic game which fitted the theme really well. There was quite a big issue in the game in the fact that you can drag prisoners into walls by mistake and they they will get stuck there, making you unable to complete the level. Also I think a bit more strategy could be added to the game, possibly with roles calls, different guard types, different prisoner types etc. However, I think the game is really fun considering that you only had 48 hours to make it and I definitely enjoyed my time playing it, great job!
We had some difficulty implementing a few mechanics quickly, like pathfinding and teleporting dudes to very specific spots. That would've helped us implement more mechanics and guard/prisoner types, and stop people from looking like they were stuck in the wall even though the game thought they were in a cell.
Glad to hear you enjoyed what we could make though. Thanks for the feedback!
Really good concept and a very frantic game which fitted the theme really well. There was quite a big issue in the game in the fact that you can drag prisoners into walls by mistake and they they will get stuck there, making you unable to complete the level. Also I think a bit more strategy could be added to the game, possibly with roles calls, different guard types, different prisoner types etc. However, I think the game is really fun considering that you only had 48 hours to make it and I definitely enjoyed my time playing it, great job!
This was the greatest game about being a God of Incarceration I have ever played!
So far as my thoughts go, I do wish that I had a full-screen option, since it was hard to see and precisely grab the inmates at times (though I did notice you had a bit of a larger collider for grabbing than the actual size of the inmate, so kudos to you!) -- still, you could get away with a larger resolution in a game like this since the art is so simple (a compliment!) and iconic.
If you want to run with and iterate on this idea, consider:
Considering the time constraints, this is an outstanding game. Great job!
Heyho! Thanks for playing. I agree about the full screen point - was kind of a case of leaving it at the default screen size for too long until it might have broken something to change and I just wanted to sleeeep. But I agree, should have changed screen size from the get go. Thanks for noticing, we did indeed increase the hitbox size of the prisoners as well as allowed a few frames of wiggle room if the player clicked to the side of a prisoner and then dragged their mouse onto the prisoner to correct. But yeah, bigger screen size would have been a good thing.
On the points of improoooovement,
This game makes me go YES!
I love the simplistic pixel art style and the game was very addicting. Great job!
Thank you!
really hard game but i enjoyed it a lot
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the feedback.
I really enjoyed this one! It felt very frantic and I needed to constantly switch between the room to make sure the prisoners were in check. I just wished there were more levels!
Glad you enjoyed it! Sorry we couldn't deliver on more. I wish we had more times for some interesting mechanics that would've made more levels reasonable. I was definitely worried that an extra even bigger level would've been too much.
What a great game, really feels out of control trying to put all of those prisoners in to the cells. Really fun, great work!
Thanks! Once we were close to finishing up (and dead tired) I started to worry if it even hand the feeling of "out of control". Glad to know we hit the mark!