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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #15 | 2.510 | 3.000 |
| Overall | #22 | 2.390 | 2.857 |
| Thematic Relevance | #23 | 2.988 | 3.571 |
| Historical Accuracy | #23 | 2.749 | 3.286 |
| Overall | #24 | 2.231 | 2.667 |
| Graphics | #27 | 1.673 | 2.000 |
| Audio | #27 | 1.076 | 1.286 |
Ranked from 7 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Historical Accuracy
This game is heavily based on real events that happened during the Great Emu War, except told from the standpoint of an emu in a comedic tone. Everything featured in the roll tables is a real thing that happened in the Great Emu War, which you can find out more about here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
Thematic Relevance
The Great Emu War was an uprising of emus in Australia against farmers who were trying to grow wheat after WW1 & whom the military found incredibly hard to stop due to the tactics used by the emus. When the humans tried to eliminate the emus due to the fact that the emus were damaging the crops, the emus did a very good job at standing up against the humans & seemed to use tactical maneuvers that were surprisingly sophisticated to evade the soldiers. The emus won the first round of attacks, which is what this game is based upon.
Disclaimers
I made everything in this project myself & made it during the span of this jam, with the exception of the premade asset of the emu illustration that is featured on both the PDF & the cover image, which I found during the span of the jam & was used with permission & found free on Pixabay from user Clker-Free-Vector-Images. The image can be found here: https://pixabay.com/vectors/emu-bird-wildlife-australia-40222/
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I (Gerbera) tested the game all by myself because I am the one with the most TTRPG experience.
Just looking over it the game seems to be very heavily skewed towards the emu side. But may it be balancing or may be be (bad luck), I managed to roll 11 human points vs 12 emu points. I bet playing this as a small group that is into improvising small stories this is probably quite fun. And if the humans manage to win the game, that would probably as funny as an emu win.
You might want to check some of the numbers again. :3 The text says "which off the three tables" while there only being two. The second table might be mislabeled as it says "If you roll a 3, 4, or 5, roll from this table:" - could this be 4, 5 and 6?
Just from a design standpoint (I asked Allium for this as she is the design expert in our team) you could nudge a few things here and there to align them a bit more nicely.
Really cute little game! I like that all the 'Emu' moves sound like stuff the Emus would actually do. The game document reads very clearly, and the moves are very funny to read out loud, especially the Emu side.
Really cute little game! I like that all the 'Emu' moves sound like stuff the Emus would actually do. The game document reads very clearly, and the moves are very funny to read out loud, especially the Emu side.
Yes! Thank you! We wanted to make a game about this story but gave up because we thought it wasn't really a revolt, but your idea of using the emu's point of view to consider it a revolt is simply brilliant! Played it with my partner and we had a good time.