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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Style | #4834 | 2.424 | 3.429 |
Enjoyment | #5031 | 2.222 | 3.143 |
Overall | #5159 | 2.357 | 3.333 |
Creativity | #5202 | 2.424 | 3.429 |
Ranked from 7 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Lots and lots of monkeys!
Development Time
96 hours
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This is a great concept for a clicker game. The "infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters" adage lends itself perfectly to this sort of game. The number of monkeys increases, and the prompts get longer, but I wonder how else the game could incorporate the theme. Maybe you could hire bigger monkeys, or maybe different types of monkeys could type longer/shorter words, etc. Of course, clickers can potentially go on forever with a million different upgrade tiers, so there's a lot of room for this game to expand.
The sprites and animations are really cute, and the upgrade descriptions are funny! While the sounds help identify when a new word appears, I kind of wish that valid words that you have already collected would be a different color, like blue or at least a darker/less saturated green.
Everything seemed to work fine for me except for the tier two upgrades. Maybe it's because I'm playing on Windows?
I liked it! It reminds me other this other game my friend made (also about monkeys and typewriters), but you took it in a completely different direction that I feel is much more interesting, making each monkey type out a possible word, than having all monkeys combined type one word. https://pyrousha.itch.io/infinite-monkey-theorem-real
It did find some parts of the game confusing at first, such as how to piece together quotes. Also, I don't think I could buy the tier 2 upgrades for some reason.
But overall, good job! This is a really good concept executed well.
cool art