| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #121 | 4.476 | 4.476 |
| Overall | #326 | 3.984 | 3.984 |
| Creativity | #427 | 4.048 | 4.048 |
| Enjoyment | #1277 | 3.429 | 3.429 |
Ranked from 42 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?
FRANKEN JUDGE was made and submitted as part of the Game Maker's Toolkit 2024 Game Jam. The theme for this jam was Built To Scale. As part of this theme, the duo at Hangover Sunshine felt inspired to take the term literally: "Built, with the purpose, to scale." This concept led to having the player balancing the scales of justice as the perfect judge, deciding the outcomes of each courtroom case. To further emphasize the weight of each decision, your rulings affect your reputation with three distinct citywide factions. These social classes have different values and beliefs, and repeated poor judgments can lead to your downfall. You were built by Frankenstein to weigh in on and scale these court cases, making you theoretically the perfect man for the job.
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Yo, thanks for giving our game a shot and for the feedback! Some bugs in the project right now make it a bit difficult to get those peasant reputations up. Also yes, the card one, sorry that seemed to happen during your run.
One big issue atm is balance, peasants start off super angry with lower societal values which is why I think they kept going down in your run (gotta get their other Social Ranks high to garner positive support). As for the 0% thing, I think what made sense to us at the time was that the majority needed to be mad, so if the Peasants were at 0%, then one of the other factions had to be below 50% to lose.
Either way, I appreciate you leaving a comment and for giving our game a shot. Brought up some stuff I'm now thinking about for the update!
Cheers!
- S. "Essay"
I love the aesthetics and design of this game so much. It has really nice animations and juice and interesting dialogue.
I ended up winning and coming across a weird bar bug. The game is super interesting but the juiced up animations take sooo long. Eventually I didn't read the cards and text anymore because I felt like it was becoming a drag. I also encountered a bug where sometimes it would give me the wrong card.
Hey, thanks for giving our game a shot and for shooting us a comment. Yes, the animations! A tad too long if you see them over and over again (could imagine seeing the stats slowly move to center screen for the 15th time that I'd go crazy lol). We'll get those reduced for the update. Also, interesting bug you screenshotted, we'll take a look and see what's going on. I think the default Godot scaling of those guys probably broke it and had the slither go off the bar.
Regardless, thanks for giving our game a play and for the feedback!
- S. "Essay"
Yes, totally agreed. We're going to calm that down for the post-jam update. Appreciate you giving it a shot!
- S. "Essay"
Yo! Thanks for playing and calling that out. Game has some bugs we gotta tackle, that is one of them. That bug where you select a card and it gives you the opposite is on the list. Looks like it just randomly happens with some playthroughs (not ideal, def on the high pri). The game balancing is also a little off rn as well. Peasants are very very angry atm which we hope to balance once updating the game. The goal would be to make the Clergy and Nobility not so happy at the beginning since their Societal Values are just very out of wack and high resulting in a positive rep in the early game. Either way, I'm going on a tangent, incredibly appreciative for the love and ty for your time playing through!
- S. "Essay"
Oof yes, another lil' thing we missed. Taxation should be split among the classes. Right not it's just being treated as: 1) "high tax = bad", 2) "low tax = good". Also yes, the peasantry start off a bit toooooo angry and the others too happy. Think the realistic interpretation was not the best decision for balancing lol. I like the idea of rubber banding and the consequence of just focusing on the two. We'll discuss it and also get to balancing for the post-jam update. Appreciate the time you spent playing our game!
- S. "Essay"
Yeah, we need to balance that more. The peasants start waaaaay to aggro. Appreciate the love!
- S. "Essay"
Thanks for the love my dude!
Both of us were quite delirious at the end of that Friday (myself, I work that 9-to-5, it gets to you lol). We wanted to take the theme more literally:
"Built, with the purpose, to scale"
We figured out the "scaling" part using the Scales of Justice and weighing which side you want to win. Just not the "built" part. Was a toss towards robots then we realized that Frankenstein was kind of funny since he's technically "built." Also fun tidbit, his skin color and flesh match the color palette of the three different factions. Literally built from the people to be the perfect judge for the differing societal classes (kind of like a nod to how a judge has to be impartial).
I'm going on a tangent, appreciate the time you took and for the love of our game!
- S. "Essay"
Hey, thanks for giving the game a shot and for the feedback! We're looking to improve how to communicate the intricacies of the game so thanks for leaving a comment about that!
The idea we had is that each card has an immediate and "background" effect. The immediate effect comes from picking a case winner while the minor effect manipulates different societal values. Those societal values at the end of each day will also affect your rep and give you an idea of what's going on in the town of Geneva for each faction. Think the game starts with 1 Policing and 1 Labor for the Peasants so they aren't being treated too well at the beginning of the game (hence the possible decreases in early-game peasant rep). I think that might be why the peasant rep kept going down after each day, but do let me know if it was another case.
Either way, appreciate the time you spent trying our game!
- S. "Essay"
Yo! Thanks for giving our game a shot and for the time you took to play it! Getting the skeleton for Frank to look good took a hot minute so appreciate the hype.
- S. "Essay"
Yo!
Thanks so for much for playing our game and sorry about the confusions with card picking! Sounds like it may have possibly bugged out? The way it should work atm is that the card you push down on is the side that wins. We’ll take a look at what’s going on and get that fixed asap.
Appreciate the feedback!
- S. “Essay”
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