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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #785 | 3.864 | 3.864 |
| Overall | #1800 | 3.384 | 3.384 |
| Style | #1801 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Enjoyment | #3258 | 2.788 | 2.788 |
Ranked from 66 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?
MMORPGs are built to scale; our game's narrative is about when the size of the player base doesn't match. It is itself a small snapshot of a much larger world.
Development Time
96 hours
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Additional assets used:
- fantasy spell icons - liosan, from OpenGameArt
- fantasy ui panel - StumpyStrust, from OpenGameArt
- wind sound effect - Luke.RUSTLT, from OpenGameArt
- Pixel Art Platformer tileset - https://cainos.itch.io
- fantasy ui construction kit - Lamoot, from OpenGameArt (edited)
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The idea is crazy, the atmosphere wow, kudos! thee spell casting unfortunately frozes my screen a couple of seconds. But wow, the originality (or not) really blown me away. Great entry! Loved concept!
really realistic writing! i thought i was actually in a real mmorpg for a couple of seconds while reading the chat and someone was actually whispering to me. unique interpretation!
At first i thought you guys actually did a mmorpg within 96 hours. I didn't quite get the theme though until i read your explanation. This is definitely a interpretaion i would have never thought of. So do i get it right, the gameplay is basically just text based? Or did i miss something? Otherwise i think you did a good job. Keep it up!
That's right! The gameplay is mostly through the dialogue system. Although, there is a part where you have to splat a few enemies with spells :)
Wild concept!
I had a few technical hitches but I gotta say this is wild. I uh, genuinely wasn't sure for a few seconds if this was multiplayer or not. I'm realllllly impressed by this and felt like I was 12 again playing MapleStory, etc. Super fun concept.
The game concept is truly awesome, I love the feel of logging in and the messaging, server updates all felt very nice. I know I had to get some hats but I didn't know how, I tried to use spells and the game crashed several times so I didn't get very far. But I love the idea and it looks very nice, reminds me of the time I played goat simulator mmo and everyone was responding to me even if I wasnt connected to the internet :'3 nostaglic!
I didn't really get the concept of the game, at first I thought "whaaaaat?!? A full mmorpg in just 4 days? with logins etc..." ahahahah good job!
Nice game! The music really brings the old school MMORPG atmosphere together
Wow, there is so much attention to detail! The game is very immersive, and it nails that MMORPG feel. Amazing work!
How... how am I the only (or, I hope, first) one to review this gem?!
Honestly, one of the most striking concepts of the jam. I love that everything is so in-universe, down to the patch note upping at each disconnection.
My only gripe is that each of the 3 spells had my browser freeze for long, looong time ; and then as I figured the concept of the game I kept wondering if this was not a genius move instead of a bug xD I would have loved is this just crashed the "game", logged you out, and you could see an emergency patch note in there as the first logout to introduce you to the mechanic of relogging in for more content.
All in all, 5/5 style, creativity and enjoyment! You can be proud of this one!!