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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Promoting the Restaurant | #5 | 4.355 | 4.355 |
| Sticking to the Rules | #9 | 4.387 | 4.387 |
| Overall | #12 | 4.065 | 4.065 |
| Actually Fun | #19 | 3.452 | 3.452 |
Ranked from 31 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Coziest game of the jam! Sprites and colors and world are done so expertly that I forgot I was even playing this for the game jam. Great job!
This is just a really nice, chill game! I love the large sprites for the mascots and the environments were all very well-realized. Great DSD absence too haha I did run into a bug in the sewer platforming section where it felt like an invisible force was pushing my character backward, but it seemed to possibly be corrected by pressing up on the d-pad (or perhaps it just went away on its own). Overall had a really nice time though!
Haha yes, in the sewer I didn't really test the knockback effect from enemies, and found it made the character act weirdly like they are spinning and and being pushed backwards. I ended up leaving it in just because it made me laugh a lot, sorry! XD
lol no worries! It didn't really affect things too detrimentally and I was able to recover pretty quickly from it!
The vibes in this game are perfect, I could have believed that this was an obscure game from the past that was just rediscovered
Nice game! I was blown away by the genre shift! Looked really hard to do and you nailed it. I love the amazing sprite work too, incredible! Also, you hid Steve and Pitmaster insanely well, I had goosebumps watching Pitmaster staring into my soul lol
After winding down from a long day, I had such a lovely time playing through this. Like what dubze27 said, it was so much fun to spot all our games' similarities and differences. Even though we both used GB Studio, seeing how differently we interpreted this year's theme was a joy.
Your pixel art is excellent, and your use of colors is stellar. Dubze27 and I were both in awe of what you accomplished visually. Using character portraits with the mascots was such a charming touch, and the different animations/facial expressions you gave them added so much!
I loved the arcade music track as well, by the way! Hearing your interpretation of what an arcade area would sound like on the Game Boy was a true treat for the ears.
DSD's absence was also great; I grinned hard at that one.
I'm excited to see what you create next :)
I was wondering if you would be continuing the vibe from last year of making a sweet and heartfelt game--and you sure did, but it's also so inspiring to see the huge growth from last year too! I love that you made a game that feels adventurous, but also has that feeling of--I don't know, almost a real life experience? I remember as a kid various "collect the stamps for a prize" promotions in various places (I think there was a yearly one at the local library) and it's such a nice vibe. Also a lot of fun little pieces to this, and some lovely art and smart spriting!
Thank you! Honestly this project I couldn't get stuck into until near enough the last week due to a lot of rl stuff going on, I was constantly worried things were either not going to work (no testing lol), or not vibe. Really happy that you enjoyed the game!
We really loved your sweetie game for sweeties last year so we were looking forward to this one! What a wonderful game. It would have been enough to collect the stamps around the town - I think the use of hide and seek elements in particular really works well in this type of game - and enjoy the beautiful sprite work - but the genre switches were really unexpected and added so much to the experience.
After this game I have been inspired to go back and play original pokemon blue on original game boy so thank you for that too!
A GBC game with a little city to explore is pretty much my ideal video game, and you made a really nice one. Such pleasant vibes throughout, and great pixel art. Fantastic job!
I am constantly impressed by EGPs sprite work and writing! Their games throughout the Jams have been particularly memorable and endearing to me. The game is beautiful and a lot of fun to explore. I love all the details in the world, it really feels alive! Excellent work!
I love the process of making the worlds in my games feel lived in, great to hear you enjoy it! Thank you for the kinds words ~
I really liked how you hid some of the characters. And it seemed like everyone and everything had unique dialog.
Really fun to see another GBStudio game and see so many similarities and many differences! The art is really good in this, I especially love the train sprite. You did a great job of converting the characters to pixel art! And fun idea of getting stamps
A fellow GB Studio dev! Thank you for the kind words, I really like the challenge of making detailed sprites with the Game Boy's limitations ~
I really agree, the limitations help drive the designs. I loved how colorful your game was and how using the same tiles but coloring them helped change the space.
Oo that arcade music is good! Kind of ironic that being my favorite tune in the game when it took me foreeever to find the second hidden mascot! The switch in gameplay for the latter half was pretty cool and unexpected. Oh, and I liked your incorporation (or lack thereof?) of DSD. One last compliment: great sprite work!
A lot of things that happened turned out to be last minute happy accidents, like the arcade music and the sudden switch in the last act lol, will be fun to talk about in the postmortem. Thank you for the kind words!
I was very impressed with the conversions of the mascots to the Gameboy style. Really cute game.
Excellent pixel art and the genre changes are great. Awesome job egpNoodlez and Mylosan!
incredible sprite work. and the gameplay changes in the latter half were really well done and surprising
Cute art style and great music! Hide and seek minigame was fun!~
Thank you!
Cute little game! Nice job with the mascot sprites! Pitmaster really found a sneaky hiding spot...
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
This project is about 90% complete. It is missing an intro cutscene, and a proper credits sequence.