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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Ambience | #7 | 4.352 | 4.429 |
| Innovation | #16 | 3.685 | 3.750 |
| Gameplay | #19 | 3.685 | 3.750 |
| Overall | #25 | 3.544 | 3.607 |
| Theme | #43 | 3.053 | 3.107 |
| References | #46 | 2.948 | 3.000 |
Ranked from 28 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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This is like mini exploding kittens. The game looks quiet nice, and feels good to play. The sound design for the music and effects is really good. Appropriate for such a high stakes card game, however I do think Gura is just a tad too noisy. Seems like she's always making her little noises (Which may honestly be true of the real Gura, but I thought it was too much)
I think you did a really good job communicating what's happening in the game to the player, the glow for the cards, the heart tokens on the table, The little warning when you try to play a card you can't play. That's an important detail that gets missed a lot in game jams and you nailed it.
Nice game!
Nice environment and great animations! Cute Gura voice clips too!
The gameplay is short and simple. I managed to lose and win once.
Improvement suggestions:
- Windowed mode should allow for resizing the window or have a predetermined list of resolutions to pick from.
- Enable V-Sync or frame cap the game. It doesn't need to run at 200fps.
Thanks for reviewing! I don't know why the window mode cannot be resize but I will try to fix it.
Any suggestion for gameplay/art/etc?
An intense card game with Gura/Gwar! the rules is simple yet intense with how the background and the music is set up, plus points to Gura facial expression when you pick the cards and when she goes in serious mode she just put on a poker face is really great!
Indeed, a fun and short fulfilling game!
Short, sweet, and simple, and the ambience is on point! Loved seeing Gura's facial expressions change throughout, really made it feel alive. Game was fun figuring out the strategies of when to play which cards. Nice job!
Short and Fun!
I really like Guras Animations and sounds.
A short fun game with nice animations! Gura's expressions are great and helps with the game too. The rules are simple and easy to understand as well.
Wow, animation is incredible, down to her facial expressions and hair sways. Love how cute she looks in this.
Short and sweet, love the atmosphere.
Screen size is a little too big, and I can't resize in windows mode unfortunately.
I like this game a lot. The voice clips are cute and fit, the animation is really nice, and there's a bit of strategy too. For example since you go first, if you and gura keep putting down cards, you lose first and are forced to pick her bomb. Having a small tell for the last level would have been nice, but I saw you didn't have time which is fine.
The big thing for me though is the game doesn't actually end. Even when I lost or won, the game would show the menu saying to hold F to reset but it would just start a new game so F was actually skip turn. So to reset I had to close the game and reopen it.
Otherwise, amazing job!
Thanks for feedback, I just add a evil shark for the last level, and the game will be pause after game ends. The control bug should be fixed.
Also you can now set the screen to window/borderless/fullscreen.
I really liked the concept. The game is kind of like a mix of War and Go Fish. I also really like how Gura changes her expression depending on which one you are hovering over. I don't know about later levels, but I think her expression can be a bit less revealing as the game goes on to make that part harder.
Update: I replayed it, and I saw that she stops giving tells on her cards when she is on her last health. Nice touch!
that's what will happen when gura has her last health and her eyes become purple, but maybe we don't have time to do more than that