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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Originality | #8 | 4.541 | 4.541 |
| Overall | #28 | 4.288 | 4.288 |
| Presentation | #121 | 4.356 | 4.356 |
| Fun | #136 | 3.966 | 3.966 |
Ranked from 146 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?
Your laptop and the projector is Joined Together through a lot of dongles
Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?
No
We used pre-existing art
Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?
No
We used pre-existing audio
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Pure genius. I love every minute and it took me far too long to work out. Great job!
Glad to hear you liked it :D
I love that idea ! The gameplay is pretty simple but it's so funny and reminds so many irl situations... And it's a perfect and unique take on the theme !
Thanks for your nice comment. I played your game as one of the first in the jam. I love the art style and it was fun. You did a great job.
This game really nails the feeling of being a "toy." Its especially satisfying hearing the click as the different dongles snap together.
Thanks for playing. I went through a lot of sounds to find the right once so glad to hear you liked them :)
Great game, I watched on the GMTK Live Stream and I had to give it a shot.
Funny, well polished and prefectly fits the theme. I only played it once so Im not sure if the dongles change randomly or if you made different levels but the game is great none the less. KUDOS
hope you have some time to review mine as well.
If I had the time I would have loved to make the dongles randomly generated, but that would require a lot of new code so decided to focus on the sounds and animations instead. Nice to hear that you liked it anyway :) I also played your game, liked it, and left some feedback.
Very original and fun gameplay! The ending was quality and the artwork is very nice.
Thanks for the nice comment. I was honestly a little nervous that the ending would fall flat, so I am glad to hear you liked it.
I really enjoyed this game on the stream, it's a fun 3 minute joke for everyone, and could really be a good little mobile game! The simplistic art style gave it this really satirical feel, and so far, I have never seen this take on the theme on any other game. Good job!
5 stars - Fun
5 stars - Originality
5 stars - Presentation
3x5 that is so nice of you, thanks! Glad to hear that you liked the art style and how it fits the theme. It is always a risk making a funny game so I am also glad that you found it a good joke :)
Definitely the best concept of "Joined Together" in the jam I've seen so far. I felt it was a really cool iteration on a jigsaw puzzle! Excellent ending made me laugh, hope to see this concept expanded into other levels where you have to connect a different series of cables together because the sound adaptor isn't working for the projector, or it doesn't have a headphone jack so you need to connect 50 different dongles together. By the end of the game you would have a giant tangled mess of wires on a desk!
Maybe having a time limit and a better way to rotate items around would make this even more entertaining?
Glad to hear you enjoyed the game and thanks for the great feedback. I like the idea of having multiple lines of dongles for different types of signals. A hardcore mode with a time limit could also be a nice addition. Again thanks for playing and your feedback.
Absolutely brilliant. Well done!
Thanks :D
Great game! Something from real life that could add some variety is people grabbing adapters and telling you "THIS IS THE ONE YOU NEED!" and creating some chaos.
Thanks for playing. That is a great idea! It would be frustrating as hell, but also very fun and realistic.
One of the most unique and best games I played during this gamejam. Love it
Reminds me of one LTT video when they tried the same thing (it didn't work)
I am so glad to hear that you think it is one of the best games you have played in the jam. Thanks! I have watched a lot of LTT but haven't seen that one. Now I need to find it! :)
It wasn't a main part of the video, but here is the link: youtu.be/QsdqfcCx5C8
It's at the end
This is sooooo gooooooood omg
Thanks a loooot! Glad you liked it :)
Incredibly unique idea executed in a really fun, silly way. Gives me some nostalgia for the huge "physics-based" wave of indie games from 10 or so years ago. Awesome work!!
I remember that wave of games. Great time :D Glad to hear that you enjoyed the game. It means a lot to read nice comments like this.
it was original but very short and cant say that it was super fun. It was a little challenge thats all
Sorry to hear that you didn't find it that fun. Hope you still got something out of it. I got some good feedback from watching you play it on stream so thanks for that. It helps a lot when designing future games :)
Seemed like you spent more time on the art than on designing a fun gameplay, thats all. For gamejams i think its a good idea to focus on design for the majority of time and then polish up the experience a little. But thats just my opinion :D
Loved this! Such a clever concept! And could be a really great learning program to teach kids the different types of connections and to what device types and why we don't use the older ones etc. Loved it though! The physics application of the cables was a really nice touch!
Great job!
Glad to hear that you like it and thanks for playing it on your stream. It is always great feedback to see someone play. I spent a good amount of time on the cable physics so glad you liked them.
best way to see the theme
Thanks :)
In case there is apocalypse and the only way to save the world is to plug a palm to a printer with parallel port, I can be a hero! :D
Fun and relatable game
I hope we never need you but if so I know where to find our hero xD Glad that you liked the game :)
I like the idea, it’s very unique but I think you need to add more urgency, like your battery is low but for some reason you can’t charge your laptop so you have to do your presentation quickly.
Another idea is make multiple ways of connecting the connectors but then what connectors you use (vga or other old connectors might decrease the quality of the presentation and newer ones like hdmi will increase quality) and how you connect your connectors (maybe have a few switches that the player has to configure) will impact the quality of your presentation.
As for other stuff that you probably should improve, you should make a better tutorial because I don’t really like reading a wall of text before playing the game. And moving the connectors around was a bit fiddly, maybe you can make connectors easier to rotate?
Anyway, good job with the game, especially with just 48 hours!
Thanks for playing and thanks for all the great feedback.
This was very confusing, which was probably intentional. One of my favourites for sure!
I hope it was not too confusing. I wanted it to be a little confusing but not annoying. A very hard line to walk :) Glad to hear that it is one of your favorites.
Likewise to all other comments, I can agree that this is a very relatable situation! I'm pretty sure I had to do as wacky schemes of combinations back in university to get different laptops to work in our projectors as I had to do here. 😆
I think this game was pretty neat! The aesthetics were pleasing, the sounds were very clicky and satisfying, and the presentation room ambient and every one staring at you really helps give you that awkwardness as you try to solve the problem.
If there's one thing that I would have liked is if there were more than just one true-solution to the connections. It'd have been pretty fun to see more different types of ports (even if it they don't make sense in actuality) and seeing what sort of weird contraptions other jammers and players could put together to make it work! It'd also give it a fun sense of replayability, as I definitely tried to see if there were different combinations myself.
Overall though, this game still got a chuckle out of me and was pretty funny all things considered. I can tell you had fun making it as we had playing it. Cheers! 🐳
I am glad to hear you enjoyed the game. I would also have liked to have more than one solution but ran out of time. If I work on the game after the jam I am considering randomly generated dongles to increase replayability. I did have a lot of fun making it :D
That's a 15 star game right there.
wow! I am glad that you liked it and thanks a lot for the great rating :D