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GMTK Game Jam 2021

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A jam submission

PhDivinityView game page

Maintain balance to earn your deity diploma.
Submitted by shlak, Patipaton, arty — 2 minutes, 5 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Originality#17323.2693.269
Overall#33862.4102.410
Fun#39552.0382.038
Presentation#44301.9231.923

Ranked from 26 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?
As an apprentice God, maintain balance in 2 connected worlds.

Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?

Yes

We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam

Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?

No

We used pre-existing audio

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Comments

RedZennSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Interesting idea, was a bit confusing at first, perhaps some kind of dialogue box to explain what happens at the start? 

Fun mechanic and game

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Joining of the Elements
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arya-sSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

It took me a bit to realise what's going on. I think failing the player with a dialog box is probably too late.

I think breaking the tutorial up a bit more would've been better. Start with asking the player to build 1 shrine, then flip the switch for them and show that because 1 shrine was built, the other world got 1 tent.

Then I think you can switch the objective and ask the player to build 2 tents. I think from there on the game becomes a lot clearer.

Nonetheless, interesting concept!

Congrats on submitting!

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CRABBED
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boomoSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Really nice mechanic! I played in firefox and it seemed to work fine for me. I thought it was a really interesting puzzle game, my main input would be to try and show the building sizes before putting them down so that it's not just trial and order. Otherwise, it would be cool if you could tie the two worlds closer together. I really liked all the themes between the buildings and how you needed to build up infrastructure together though, nice job with this game!

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Slider - Jam Version
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crypticcelerySubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Definitely an interesting mechanic. Had fun solving it (lots of demolition and reorganization towards the end). Nice work.

The game does not load in Firefox (only thing I can tell you is "abort(114)"), but works fine in webkit based browsers.

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The Bucket
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ArrhythmicBoySubmitted3 years ago(+1)

I love the music when you switch to divine mode, it's like boss music but you are the boss.

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Our Shit
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SydmenSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

very interesting game and mechanic, i enjoyed the experience! good work :)

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Soulless
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Uma Grillo3 years ago(+1)

I really enjoyed this game. It is a struggle to find the spaces for each building, specially not knowing what the require. I kind of missed seeing the quadriball field at the end. It just jumps to the end screen. I can't even see what the other world looks like.

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lertsenemSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Ok, I finally understood that you're supposed to balance 2 worlds at once but can check what you did in the other one only once every 3 turns. It's interesting, but I feel like the presentation is uselessly confusing about it. Good idea anyway.

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Twin Ships
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shlakDeveloper3 years ago

Thanks for taking the time to try it :) We clearly see now that it is quite hard to understand. Do you have any feedback about what could be improved in the presentation? 

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lertsenemSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

I'm not sure. What I meant is that the game don't let me easily switch between world to observe or experiment to understand what's going on (if I experiment too much I lose quite quickly). Maybe all buildings should be available from the start ?

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The EmerySubmitted3 years ago(+1)

I'm confused...

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Mechanic Needed
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noramartin3 years ago(+1)

Wonderful premise! Gameplay was a little bit confusing, and the objective was not particularly clear

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bukit3point0Submitted3 years ago(+1)

Game doesn't load most of the time, but when it does, the quests at the bottom don't really line up with the pieces we're given - i.e. asking for a concert hall is also described as a school?

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Snake Gyllenhall: Ace Electrician
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