Interesting idea.

The door doesn't give you a choice after prompting you about skipping, it just does so.

Could have used visuals for the selection menu. The second choice of who to eliminate is messed up and shows horizontally.

The computer terminal should definitely not have you input right away.

The cow collection was a bit annoying because you don't just touch the cows, you have to interact with them. This isn't clear from the dialogue.

The game basically tells me to spread my relationships evenly while focusing on whoever is eliminated that week because they'll vote on the winner, but I found that it might be better to just focus on 2-3 of them. The important part is getting the power to eliminate (and power to rescue if possible). First week, get rid of your lowest relationships. This is your throwaway. The top 3 relationships, you want to work on them. Second week, work on your top 2 (or top 3) relationships and eliminate them. If one of them gets the power to rescue, switch to the third choice (or, do a second throwaway and take the risk of that throwaway being picked). You want them to be around the 60-70 range. Third week is fairly easy. Bump up the top two and ignore the third unless one of your choices gets the power to rescue. If that happens, use your influence to do the stronger relationship boost. You want your allies to be in the 60-80 range. Last week, keep the person with the lowest relationship and focus boosting the other. Since you'll be getting the last power to eliminate, if there is a tie, you win.

If you cancel the relationship menu, it picks the relationship loss option instead of just cancelling. I think I almost failed because of this and another issue. (I still got 1st place, but only because I got the power of elimination every week).

Why does it look like you can eliminate yourself? (I didn't dare test it though).

I wish the game was a bit clearer about the fact that whoever you pick at the end is not the one that is auto eliminated. It says it, but it isn't clear at first because of how the game works until that point. Also, add confirmation dialogues please. I almost failed because of this.

Influence is honestly fairly useless here because you need to sacrifice relationship to gain influence. I didn't try to see if I could go negative though.

You can cheese a lot of the minigames. Wasn't a big fan of the spike traps area though.

Not a huge fan of the memory puzzle. You can record it, but some of the icons flash almost at the same time.

It felt like one of cannons misfired at some point.

I wasn't ever able to get the power to rescue. The minigames for that one...

Interesting idea of entering a reality TV show for a game. It's not bad, but it's unusual and maybe you should provide one instructional show text when you enter the big house. Something like "Use your time and influence to gain relationship points with the other contestants, but choose wisely because you're limited on both!"

I ran into a bug when you walk into the left door. The player is prompted with a show text that asks, would you like to skip the next part and go straight to bed, but then it doesn't give a show choice, it just jumps ahead. 

On the shed map you forgot to add collisions, you can walk all over everything, even the walls, Ray. There are some simple mapping or region restriction errors here. Not a big deal, but check them out and get them fixed for the next version update.

On the computer terminal please prompt a show choice BEFORE the input number. People are going to naturally feel inclined to inspect everything when they enter a room. So you may be asking the player for an answer before you've given them the right information.

Most of these puzzle are very short and require very little effort, but then you have a spike dungeon trap puzzle which is quite frustrating. I think they can all work, but maybe polish the difficulty so that it ramps up slowly. The difficulty basically goes like this:  kindergarten work, kindergarten work, college essay. Skipping grade school, middle school and high school entirely. Add some middle ground difficulty puzzles before the dungeon trap. Maybe sequence them instead of randomly selecting them.

When the player gets to decide who to use the pendant of power on, you should increase the relationship and/or influence the player has with that person. You basically just saved their butt in the competition and a person might remember that you just saved them. That would certainly call for a nice Relationship boost with the person you picked to save, but sadly it doesn't in this version. 

The cowboy minigame where you wrangle the cattle was my favorite minigame, it was simple, the music for it was good and I had genuine fun for one minute. :)

I would also like to see your unused time points carry over to the next round. I have ended every round with a single time point and I always start with five. It would be nice to be able to save them to add some different strategy, but I understand why you wouldn't for realistic reasons. Keep in mind though, it's a game and realism should hold less weight than fun gameplay. First make your game fun, and THEN try to make sense of it.

The inclusion of a Guide in the main menu was a great idea as I was unsure of many things about the game until I read through the guide. 

I finished second place, 13 influence(it never really moved) and 962 fans. The biggest tip that should be included is, "Remember that all the contested will come back to vote for the winner when you reach the finals, so don't neglect anyone." It would make sense to spend the first couple rounds just adding relationship points to everyone evenly instead of picking favorites. The person who I had the most relationship points with ended up winning. 

Overall I really liked this entry into the game jam it genuinely brought something different to the table and felt much different from the other entries. There were plenty of things I felt could have done better and a few bugs and map issues, but those could be polished out in the final version. Thanks for participating and congratulations on having a decent project to show on your portfolio! I look forward to seeing what you bring next time.

Hi, I just played your game. This is really pretty cool. I ended up being second in the show and I only won two of the minigames, but it was fun.

I did notice some bugs:

• In the Influence part of the guide, you forgot to capitalize 'However'
• I had a game, where two of the characters had the exact same sprite (Maximo and Reginald), which ended up being a bit confusing. I would suggest that all contestants have different sprites in the future.
• Whenever I interact with red door it asks if I want to go to the next phase, but it doesn't actually give you a choice.
• I could walk on the walls in the following minigames: Farm Frenzy & Mad Scientist.
• When I'm talking to someone and I use the Cancel button,  I lose 3 AP and gain influence. How? And what is that?
• Upon nomating the second person, the choice window gets all stretched out.
• For the credits, I would remove the AP window.

Honestly, this entry is super impressive and the minigames are mostly fun (though I found Farm Frenzy to be a bit hard; I always took about 2x or even 3x times more than the winners of those games). Great job, Crucible!