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A jam submission

StringersView project page

Your paper is gone, but you're still reporters.
Submitted by jefftyjeffjeff (@jefftyjeffjeff) — 19 hours, 34 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Story (or Starting Scenario)#323.3333.333
Overall#393.1673.167
Setting (or Location)#403.1673.167
Mechanics#433.0003.000
Use of Theme#493.1673.167

Ranked from 12 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted

This is so incredibly creative - your theme is excellent. It's also an interesting departure from other games (in that it's diceless and more of a collaborative storytelling game). 

In terms of criticism, I think this kind of game will be very dependent on your taste; we don't see much opportunity for inter-character roleplay, just addition from each player to the joint story.  There's no guidelines on numbers of players or how many poetry sets you'll need to play, and I think until we tried it in play we might not feel like there's much closure because in every end you will always succeed in writing a story. But again, I think these crits are more due to personal taste/reaction to the style of game rather than there being anything non-functional about the game itself. Still very much admire your creativity however!

(Adam & Grace) 

Submitted

Clever use of the theme and I really like the mechanic with magnetic poetry set (even though I don't own them myself). Well done!

Submitted

really cool and uniqe idea using story magnets.

Submitted

Cute! But I don't have hardly enough magnets :'( I love the story/setting. I don't know how many rounds I'd last before my creativity failed me and I hit a writer's block. Hopefully the additional responses by the Editor will help.

Submitted

This is a cool thematic twist and an interesting take on collaborative story-telling.  It's nicely self-contained in it's word count as well.  Really solid!

Submitted

Clever interpretation of the theme. :)