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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Flow & Clarity | #9 | 3.885 | 3.885 |
| Overall | #17 | 3.641 | 3.641 |
| Adherence to Theme | #21 | 3.462 | 3.462 |
| Concepts & Originality | #28 | 3.577 | 3.577 |
Ranked from 26 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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A lovely story! Very well described combat, I could almost FEEL it from reading it. Good job!
Thank you so much! It was great fun to get inside the head of an Orc!
The italics on quotations made me think they were just thoughts at first. The cliff hanger ending was cool and I liked the orc characterization
The italics on quotations made me think they were just thoughts at first. The cliff hanger ending was cool and I liked the orc characterization
Thanks, glad you enjoyed the orcs!
Love Orcs, love Dwarves. Fantastic story.
In particular I liked the description of Orcs going more brown with age and young Orcs being considered 'ripening'. It gave the exact concept without further explanation. Really well done.
Glad you liked it! It always bugged me why orcs were green...
Some awesome imagery in this piece! The second-to-last paragraph is an excellent setup... but also excellent suspense. Well written!
Thanks! The word constraint was tough on this one as I had more I wanted to put in but alas, I've left it to your imagination!
Nice call back to the old ER'We Go Ork books on lifecycle (or at least it looked like it), good read!
Haha, thanks! Never heard of those books...maybe I'll check them out!
You crushed the title, Greenskin. And the flow of the story was excellent. The ending felt a tad on the nose, but otherwise I dig it. Plus, good to see the grudge lives on.
Thanks, I was particularly chuffed with myself over that title! Agree totally that the ending was on the nose, but I thought it fit the general demeanour of the Boss...
LOL It does, in truth. It at least very much sounds like something a space ork would say
First off, incredible title. Most creative I have seen so far. As for the story, it was very well written. I loved how much you captured Orc energy and mindset. You stuck to the theme too, but I would advise against using the exact theme word for word at the end. Great story!
Thank you so much! Have been thinking about Orcs since the last Jam as I didn't read any stories with them as the main characters - glad it paid off 😁
I enjoy the characterization of the boss and how you wrote the orcs in a non-Warhammer way and how you worked in the dwarf-orc rivalry.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! There has always been something that bugged me about the GW Orcs so I wanted to take a different approach; glad it paid off!