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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Authenticity (use of resolution) | #9 | 4.833 | 4.833 |
| Graphics | #55 | 4.125 | 4.125 |
| Overall | #73 | 3.969 | 3.969 |
| Gameplay | #113 | 3.458 | 3.458 |
| Audio | #122 | 3.458 | 3.458 |
Ranked from 24 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Did you work in a team?
I worked solo, first time in a jam, it was glorious!
Was the resolution a challenge?
Yes! It was really hard to overcome some of the challenges, picking a font was a nightmare.
What did you learn?
A lot. I used Unity before this but it's been so long (6 years), I barely remembered anything. I also learned that camels can't create good AI's. To be fair, this could have been guessed before but still.
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Surprisingly fun for a "find the differences" game, very comical, witty and well made. I liked that you can't zoom out, it sort of makes sense with how neural networks work. Loved the office themed banter, it has that mmffpp twist to it if you know what I mean. Great job!
Nothing I do seems to work haha ^^ funny dialogue and interesting mechanic, I wish I knew what I was doing wrong cos I want to be a smart ai :) great game!
Thank you. Remember that although you're an AI, you're still an AI created by a camel, so you actually played it right!
Nice and funny intro cutscene… text needs some speeding up I think, ended up key-pressing to skip the slow text display. It would be nice to be able to reduce the image but I guess the whole challenge is on visual memory. Depending on resizing algorithms at this resolution is quite “risky” as accuracy is not that good particularly for isolated pixels, but the game plays quite well even with that given the chosen pictures. Smart entry and a funny experience, good job!
Thank you for playing. Honestly, it was quite a challenge for me to get the resolution right. I wasn't sure if the smallest differences would be noticed by all the players, but I decided to risk it, since it's not so bad to misjudge a camel. It was "in character" I'd say. Still, I wish I'd found a better way to control what was seen at each step and how the algorithm worked.
Very interesting entry! The gameplay goes really well with the narrative, but it's a shame there's not a lot of story besides managing percentages going up or down. I think it could lean more to the narrative side, perhaps giving more power to the player since they can arrest whoever they wants (what if the boss picture shows up in the AI).
I agree that there should be more story, more interactions, something more in general
Fun idea and best naming !
I losted but not shure why, tried all strategies that came in mind but fail anyway)
Bad news, but thats OK!
Thanks for playing.
There's a random multiplier for the bad ratings, maybe you were unlucky. Or maybe something went wrong, I was rushing at the end.
I like interactive narratives, so I went ahead and declined 3 calls for fun, and I got pretty much what I expected lol. I don't entirely know what it means for a camel to be guilty in this game, but I guess it doesn't really matter much.
I tried to add a little narrative twist here and there, and I knew someone would try!
The real question is, do the camels know what it means to be guilty? Or does the AI control them and shape their society to its liking?
Fantastic effort for a first jam game! You've tried something outside the obvious genre choices, and packaged it up nicely with narrative as well. Good job :)
Thanks I tried my best!
interesting idea, you had a nice narrative for it. The gameplay felt a little bit flat, but a nice game anyways
Thank you for taking the time!
I agree, I'm glad I made it to the end, but the gameplay is a bit lacking
Interesting idea that takes advantage of the resolution constraints, and I liked the discussions between the boss and the worker. I started by playing as "intended" but eventually my morality got very twisted indeed, which was amusing. Unfortunately the game does get somewhat repetitive after a while which is a shame, I think maybe adding some more mechanics would have made it more engaging in the long term (though maybe that would have gone against the message of the game?).
Thanks for playing!
Yeah, unfortunately the gameplay is kinda boring, I had a couple of ideas like hacking attacks and stuff like that but I really misjudged what I had left to do and was really in a rush in the last couple of days in order to finish.
Haha! There needs to be a “thinking outside the box” rating for this game :) I like how the low resolution forces the player to really pay attention to every pixel of the camel faces before you enhance the picture!
Is there an ending or do you keep helping Camel Tech rake in crazy money forever?
Thanks!I was really unsure about the gameplay, I feared users would find it boring.
The only way to escape the corporate overlord is getting fired 😂
I am absolutely astounded!
I played the game as you’d think it should be played, enjoying the banter, but when seeing those negative numbers I knew I was doing something wrong.
When I realized the true goal of the game I was blown away at how well crafted this whole thing was. Really fun, and I loved that discovery.
11/10 would send an innocent Flumpo to jail again without a second thought.
Thanks man glad you liked it!
And at the end of the day, nobody is really innocent right?
At first, I was playing as expected. Checking each camel, letting some of them go, arresting culprits. Then, after some time, I sold myself to corporate, put everyone behind bars, my boss was super pleased, and the company was thriving.
At some point I wouldn't even check, and just work as quickly as I could. Hell, if everyone is arrested, no crime can happen right? lol to be fair sometimes I would flag random people as innocent just to pretend the AI was doing something.
Jokes aside, this was a nice experience. I like the office sound effects the dialogue is very cool. The enhance feature is fun. Good job!
Thanks!
Unfortunately I didn't have the time to flash out that aspect as much as I wanted. Still, sending people to jail is much funnier of what I anticipated.
A great idea, interesting dialogues, as if I listened to a conversation in my office. A great idea that it is necessary to release some of the criminals.
Thanks glad you liked it!
This is my personal favorite entry
I can see why