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A jam submission

All the Better to Date You With!View game page

You're a werewolf on a date! Make it through the night without transforming!
Submitted by Max Farr, Schmorgle, goblincat — 5 hours, 28 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme#1904.8334.833
Playability#2054.6674.667
Cleverness#2204.6674.667
Artistic Style#3164.8334.833

Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Judge feedback

Judge feedback is anonymous and shown in a random order.

  • Multiple minigames happening at once is a lot of chaos and I enjoyed it! Clever concept to merge alchemy and a dating style game. Make more games!
  • Very enjoyable game, great playability, good use of the theme, engaging and challenging, all around a really solid entry and one of my top so far
  • I was seriously blown away at the level of polish that has been shown in this game. Where many entries play like tech demos, this plays like a full public release. The art is unique, the music fits the vibe perfectly (I appreciate the effort into getting it looping properly and the great main menu track which I bet most people listen to for about 2 seconds), and everything on screen (bar a couple of the minigames mentioned later) is super readable and intuitive. (Also yes I did reach the end and it's great!) I don't really have any strong criticisms of this game. It pretty much hits the mark in each category. I'd love to see the game expand its story and get more minigame variety going into the later levels, and perhaps to increase the difficulty of maintaining the potion since I never really found that to be challenging, especially since the game allows for swipes which don't result in a match-3. Also the mouse and dialogue minigames could be made easier to read but neither posed a major concerned once you got used to them. I also found a bug where if you mess up the mouse minigame twice quickly it will lose you two lives. P.S. what the fuck is a schmorgle

Did you include your Game Design Document as a Google Drive link?
Yes! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o-22EO5kEpeyJXtocUyqu4zl2Fv9-LLsXCYX1cZ_b2A/edit?usp=sharing

Seriously... did you include your Game Design Document?
Yep, I swear!

Is your game set to Public so we can see it?
Yes!

Tell us about your game!
In All the Better to Date You With!, the player inhabits a werewolf on a dinner date, and must spend the entire time making sure they don’t transform while still keeping up conversation.

To do so, the player must multitask minigames - handling the date (responding to questions, making eye contact, controlling their shaking hands, and fighting intrusive thoughts) to maintain their “health” (werewolf transformation status) while also brewing and regularly imbibing a lycanthropy antidote through a match-3 minigame.
The player wins if they can finish the date without transforming.

All minigames are controlled using the mouse.

We recommend playing to the end, but if you don't have time, we linked a video of the end sequence on our project page!

Extra Notes
Thanks for hosting the jam!

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Comments

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Submitted(+2)

Such a professional and adorable game omg. Love that it's sapphic, and the character designs are so cute. The ending is cute too. Cute cute!

Developer(+1)

thank you for playing!! we all enjoyed checking out stellar bloom!

Developer(+2)

Yeah Stellar Bloom is so dang pretty!

Submitted(+2)

This game is so good! The art is incredible and it's a great concept with a fun story. I didn't manage to make it through first time, but it seems to have enough variety to be worth coming back to.

Your game seems to have the same audio issue ours does - on Mac (Safari) the audio has issues. We haven't fixed ours yet so let me know if you figure it out!

Developer(+1)

thank you so much!

and thanks for letting us know about the safari issue - none of us use safari so it looks like that was a gap in our playtests! i'll dig into the issue and see if i can fix it

Submitted(+2)

Also I cheated and watched the ending scene and it's soooooooooooooo cute!

Developer

thank you!! so glad you enjoyed it!

Developer

Heck yeah, that's why it's there!! I really want everyone to see goblincats' killer frames at the end.

Submitted(+1)

Really good work! Very creative take on the theme. The art and gameplay is all very good and the game is very polished. Keep up the great work!

Developer

thanks so much!! looking forward to playing your game!

Developer

Thanks a ton!! Appreciate your time and feedback!

Submitted(+3)

Great mini games, great art. Very impressive!

Developer (1 edit)

thanks so much for playing, we're glad you enjoyed it!!

Developer(+1)

Thanks a ton! Goblincat Is a genius. 

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