Gave all top marks. A great puzzle! I was at war against the clock....
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #605 | 3.826 | 3.826 |
| Enjoyment | #674 | 3.696 | 3.696 |
| Style | #733 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Creativity | #986 | 3.783 | 3.783 |
Ranked from 23 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?
You run a kitchen whose only purpose is to feed Scales, an ever-hungry dragon that has taken your village hostage.
Development Time
96 hours
Comments
That was clever! The logic-grid puzzles are engaging, and the character art is charming. It's a little rough around the edges, but with solid fundamentals.
Given the other comments, I'm probably a serious exception in this case, but I found the difficulty to be trivial after learning the main combination of rules and prioritizing the easiest ones first (exact placements, required specific items). I was always at maximum mood, and could've potentially gone endlessly. It probably still starts a bit too difficult for a beginner, but it'd be nice if the difficulty continued to escalate in some fashion for higher skill levels. Mood restoration might also be a little bit too powerful in the late game.
All-in-all, great work!
120 days ago(+1)
I don’t think youre a serious exception - both Grant and I found the game to be endlessly playable as devs, so we wanted to add more fixed tutorial levels and a simple difficulty curve, among other things, but we were too slow to come up with a workable concept! Regardless glad you enjoyed the fundamentals, and thanks for playing!
Thanks for playing, and thanks for the feedback! We designed around eventually adding a table that the ingredients would be nicely laid out on, but we barely made it to the finish line in time, so that had to go unimplemented. It’s a similar story on the “rules met” cue, but we also thought that it would make the game too easy. Ironic considering the rest of the comments!
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