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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #27 | 4.670 | 4.670 |
| Creativity | #82 | 4.388 | 4.388 |
| Overall | #111 | 4.175 | 4.175 |
| Enjoyment | #1195 | 3.466 | 3.466 |
Ranked from 103 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?
We incorporated the theme “Built to Scale” in our main mechanic. In “Bureau of Appropriately Sized Facial Features” players change the scale of the game characters’ facial features by grabbing them with a mouse click and dragging their mouse left and right across the screen. The goal is to match the ratio of facial features as presented in the Beauty Standards. The game is built to enable players to scale facial features.
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Soundly
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Sunday Romantic by Letterhend Studio https://www.fontspace.com/sunday-romantic-font-f84159
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Needless to say that the art is top notch! Ahh I wish I had the same Bureau
you just need a van, a printer and powder puff and you're ready to go!
I really loved it! Great concept and especially excellent realization! Really love the art and the vibe
thanks a lot!
Awesome art and good polished gameplay.
I think, with more content it will be a great finished game.
thabk you! what kind of content whould you wish for, if you could? :D
Beautiful art. Reminds me a little of hylics!
thank you, the colors were actually inspired by a piece of hylics fanart so good catch!
Has a similar vibe to papers please and I love it.
thank you!
Very interesting and creative concept, had fun toying around with it and the concept is very absurd and fun.
thank you!
Really creative game :OO, and a unique style it miss some rewards but it's really funny to play
thanks!
As a big fan of Lucas Pope, I can really feel the influence of his works like “Papers, Please” and “Mars After Midnight” in your project. The concept is very original and fits the theme perfectly. The presentation is excellent - I particularly enjoyed the variety of facial features and the quirky, unique faces that result!
Regarding my strategy, I typically maxed out the scale of the facial feature with the highest ratio and then adjusted the rest accordingly. When scaling a feature, I would first assess its limits (both minimum and maximum sizes related to mouse position) and then use the background lines as a reference to achieve the desired ratio. I’m wondering if showing an outline of the min and max limits for a feature while scaling it might help avoid manual assessment - or perhaps adding audio cues, with pitch variation based on the position between limits? Just some ideas, but probably it’s best to keep things simple.
That said, congratulations for the great result, I really loved the game!
A few small nitpicks:
we were really glad to receive this review. thank you very much!
super unique! loved the art style!
thanks!
great game but a little opaque on how to get a good ratio! My highest rating so far!
thank you!
I couldn't quite figure out how to match the ratio (most likely my fault). Great style however!
don't worry about it. how it works is that the customers come in with a standart ratio of 1:1 on everything. Then you try to match the new standart on the left. This is not necessarily related to image size, but more to the base scales on the customers initial visit.
thank you for playing!
This feels like a goofy Papers Please. Very clever, and the art style is fantastic! Quite a unique game.
thank you very much
The limited feedback the game provides along with the steadily increasing difficulty of the ratios both are both effective at sending the message I took from this game - that keeping up with the ever changing standard of beauty is impossible. Thanks for the game!
thank you
This is a beautiful game, I love the art style, the sound effects the background music, the chatter, its so easy to lose track of time. customer line is so long too lol. Took me so long to get one five star because as soon as i got the hang of it you threw more ratios and floating numbers at me, but that's not a complaint, it felt so rewarding when i finally did.
anyways, my most beautiful customer is the one I'm hovering over in the top left.
honestly an amazing game, easily going to be top 100, solid team effort too i love it.
thank you very much for this reply our team was so happy to receive it
This was such a sweet review!
Thank you so much for playing <3
Was really funny! cool concept!
thank you!
The art style slaps so hard!
this made our artists very happy <3
hehe thanks
The are style is so nice!
<3
Really cool art and nice take and the genre, good luck with the Jam
thank you, good luck to you too
Really loved the art style here and music here, felt so stylish! Took me a second to get it but was fun once i did
we are glad to hear that!