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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #740 | 3.870 | 3.870 |
| Overall | #1098 | 3.589 | 3.589 |
| Presentation | #1241 | 3.681 | 3.681 |
| Enjoyment | #1596 | 3.217 | 3.217 |
Ranked from 69 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?
In most games about war, conflict, or politics, you usually play the role of the warmonger, or someone on the ground fighting against the enemy. However, you rarely play the reversal of that: the neutral party. You don't play Paradox games to play a historical game of Switzerland or to pretend to be the League of Nations or the UN. You don't play historical first-person shooters to negotiate peace. In this game, you are that neutral party, trying to prevent other nations from delving into war.
Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?
We used pre-existing art
Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?
We used pre-existing audio
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This is a very intriguing concept, but i am not able to wrap my head around how to play it very well lol
Great job overall, I can totally see this being successful if it finds the right audience!
Very engaging idea. Love how you included Poland lmao
The only thing that was missing for me was a measure of success. But really neat execution for a very abstract idea, nice job
Thanks! But yeah there was more in the works in terms of endings, just ran out of time to implement them
Oh damn, I didn't even know there was an ending! I just assumed it would be endless until you lose. Guess I'm just bad lmao
Amazing idea and nice execution, especially for a first jam ! I would have liked knowing a bit more about the consequences of my actions (especially about the financiary cost of my actions) but the experience was great ! Cool work
Thanks for the feedback! There were plans to make it clearer of the costs of each action (like icons on the side of the button showing it), but I ended up having to just use the built-in tooltips in Godot which pop up when hovering over a choice.
Great execution! Love the concept.
Awesome game, felt like a really clean simple, yet challenging management game!
Very polished user interface, reminds me of Papers, please! I like the idea too, fits the theme pretty well.
Bit tough at first but I enjoyed it! Really interesting take on the theme :)
Kinda confusing at first but once you got a hang of it, it's so much fun. lol. Great job!
Really cool concept of managing relations of other countries. I would love to see more stats of the countries like happiness of the population, GDP, trust in the media, trust in the government, trust in Beorland, etc. But really cool overall.
There's all these fake regions and then there's just Poland. Love it!
Wow, so unique! Such a great take on the theme and it looks great & feels well excited! Well done love it
Very neat concept, although the bottom portion of the screen doesn't really serve much purpose, and the dragging of the newspapers is super finnicky. This could definitely be expanded more, I'd love to see event chains and honestly just more events in general.
Definitely, I had some chained events created, like rebellions in areas you rejected independence, but didn't have enough time to figure out how to implement them. Thanks for playing!
Loved it, but I really hate Almastan.
Thanks! But also
Great game! Interesting approach to the theme and great art too! I liked the narrative of the nations. Despite some bugs (dragging papers), it was a great experience.!
Great work! The choices were interesting and the theme was unique. There were some conflicts with dragging papers when they overlapped each other, and I think putting the flag icons in the map legend would help the player better understand which country was which. Otherwise, I thought it was well executed!
Yeah, I should've thought about putting those icons on the legend, I never realized that there was no clear connection on who was what outside of the countryballs, and for the papers I kinda ran out of time to troubleshoot it, but thanks for the feedback and playing!
Good concept, but the difficulty is kinda hard.
Thanks for playing! I added a section on the game's main page talking about not getting the good ending; check that out if you have time.
Great game, the only problem i had was the papers that didn't work so well when i drag them, still incredible game 10/10
Thank you! Honestly the papers weren't even working properly until a few hours before the deadline, so when I realize the bug in moving them, I was kinda just too exhausted to figure out what was wrong.
Cool game - UI looks super cool, love how the map is dynamic when nations claim territory and love the bell dinging noise. I did find it hard to understand what territory nations were trying to claim until it was done - maybe there was some indicator I missed there? It always just said "trying to claim such territory", and when I moused over for details it said "[affected nation]". Some more indication of which nation is being taken over would be nice, and having [affected nation] be replaced with the actual nation. Also dragging the Intro/other stories from the bottom was a bit finicky - I did, however very much appreciate the world building and inspiration for the game though. Music also helped set the scene of "world on the brink of war".
Yeah, I was planning on doing that, but couldn't get to it in time; there was a whole lot of customization that I didn't get to, but thanks!
15/15. Liked every piece of it.
Thanks!
This is maybe the most unique take on the theme I have seen yet, and it feels very polished. Well done and great submission
Thanks! Means a lot