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A jam submission

Pair-Dice Dating: Sentenced to DieView game page

Throw word dice to flirt in Pairgatory!
Submitted by simonisacssona, vanillissie, mechonion (@mechonion_3D), Games by Fat cat (@ElinGranath), albinwrede, eagledanger, PJ, Oscc β€” 1 hour, 3 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Presentation#124.7044.704
Overall#194.4044.404
Creativity#354.3944.394
Enjoyment#754.1134.113

Ranked from 71 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 roll dice to produce sentences in a dating-sim!

Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?

Yes

We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam

Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?

Yes

We created the vast majority of the music during the game jam

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Submitted(+2)

was happy to put this in my top ten games! 

Submitted(+1)

I loved the characters and how different they all are and the use of the theme was very interesting! The game sometimes gives you very silly words to work with which made me laugh. Oscupp is definitely my favourite character here.

Amazing game!

Submitted

Cute game! Great twist on the theme!
Unfortunately interactive buttons and answer options was out of screen on my PC. Couldn't get far with that. I'm sure without this bug the game is awesome!

Submitted(+2)

Sooo cute! I love the art so much, Kimty is my favorite for sure but unfortunately I had the worst luck with her despite trying a few times... all the responses I got sounded like insults, I'm sorry Kimty... I did manage to score it with the pretty ghost lady though! A truly charming game you've got here. β™₯

Submitted(+1)

Yknow it's funny, there were a few moments at the beginning of the jam where we considered making a dating game tooπŸ˜‚
I think the idea was more that you'd have to try and seduce the die in order to get favorable rolls somehow. That certainly would've been interesting, but instead we made a rhythm game. I only have a handful of regrets this time πŸ˜…

Anyway, this game is immediately charming. The art is fun and has a good vibe all around.
Interesting how intentionally unlikeable some of the characters are to give you a chance to use the rude dice, or at least I hope that was the intent πŸ˜…
The dice creating a mad lib style dating sim is a nice goofy idea, the only thing is i feel like it always should ensure to roll a dice for each required word type so you don't end up with grammatically incorrect sentences. Just imo I guess but mad libs are funnier when they're grammatically correct.
Still got a good few laughs out of me especially with cancelling people online and drinking alcohol while stealing underwear.

Unfortunately I think the game bugged out at the end? I selected the dog to pair with and it just immediately went to credits but if i clicked i heard the dialogue sounds in the background. I was looking forward to hearing about my new life with dogg

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much for playing and giving feedback <3 You DID make the most kick-ass rhythm game though, so don't worry! During development we thought grammatically incorrect sentences usually provided funnier results - but we'll see if we might adjust it like you suggested in an updated version. We do have a system that gives a bonus if you make a grammatically correct sentence, so we do take it into account at least.

About the dog ending I actually have no idea what could've caused that! I can't even repro it myself πŸ˜° I hope you know Nanako was happy to leave Pairgatory with you!

Submitted

That's interesting, I'm wondering if there should've been some feedback for the grammatic bonus.
To be fair sometimes bad grammar is funny and I don't think they should be removed entirely, but a good portion of the time it felt impossible to make a sentence that made sense and the options werent ideal. I know thats like kind of the point but it hurts the obsessive compulsive part of my brain slightly. Maybe being able to re-roll the dice would've been good? I was also a bit unsure what the additional dice were doing, I assume it's just a larger pool overall, but might be good if you could roll every dice you collected one time, would make it feel more involved and rewarding to collect them.

Of all the jam games I played, I think this was the most charming though, so again very well done.
And Nanako still warms my heart even if they were overshadowed by the credits lmao.

Also I'm glad you liked the dicey rhythm game 😁
I think it turned out fairly solid (albeit difficulty was always going to be impossible to manage for a jam) Though I must admit in hindsight I kind of feel dissatisfied with it, I think just because it is just that, a rhythm game. I basically spent the entire jam programming super fiddly audio nonsense and never had time to make anything super fun with it.  And inherently rhythm games are hard to make unique or interesting already. So It kinda feels like I didn't get to shine much this go of it. A far cry from the freerunningparkouranimescorpionbossbattle we did last jam together, eheh πŸ˜…
In the end the visuals and music take the show since theyre the only thing that can make a rhythm game stand out.

Submitted(+3)

Wow I feel called out by Nanako. And my heart broke when I mispoke in front of Oscupp. Cute game! I think it's a really interesting use of dice. I was thinking it would be nice if you got more options as you got more dice, but I guess that would take away from the wacky randomness of it. So yeah, no notes, top marks!

Submitted(+2)

Wow! I really loved this! This is such a highly polished and beautiful game! It is clear how much work went into this!! The characters are so cute too! My faves are definitely Shade and little Cuppa :3

Can one decide who to end up with at the end? I didn't quite figure out, what to do after completing all my dates, since they repeatedly told me to come back for them...

I really love the creativity for this game! Very well done, thank you for sharing this!
(Also hii, from a fellow dating sim jam entry :D)

Developer(+1)

So glad you liked it!! Check out the huge gates by the bridge after you've gone on all 4 dates πŸ˜Š

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