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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #3 | 3.182 | 4.500 |
| Uniqueness | #4 | 3.182 | 4.500 |
| Overall | #5 | 2.263 | 3.200 |
| Sound/Music | #5 | 0.707 | 1.000 |
| Graphics/Art | #5 | 2.475 | 3.500 |
| Fun | #6 | 1.768 | 2.500 |
Ranked from 2 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
About?
It's a bizarre news-themed mashup game inspired by 'Oh Sir! The Insult Simulator' where you combine text to make an odd news broadcast. I didn't realize this was a bad idea until it was too late, but I enjoyed working on the UI as it's something I've been trying to do well for a long time, and hopefully I've finally cracked the code.
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This was such an ambitious idea! The backgrounds look great, and there are a lot of good UI and artistic touches.
It was unclear how to score points, and the funny/scary metric seemed pretty subjective. But it was quick and easy to burn through the levels - you made an easily replayable gameplay loop. With some more concrete scoring metrics and a wider variety of content, this could be a fun, quirky little package.
Thank you for the kind words and feedback, I worked on the UI for a long time and I'm really glad you noticed. The algorithm for funny/scary was really basic; literally
for i in funny_words:
if dialogue.contains(i):
funny +=1
I really should've fleshed that out more, I tried to focus more on UX and polish than my usual 'features, features, features, features, zero testing, hopefully it works' approach. Nice to hear you think it could be a fun game with more work :)
Cool concept, and the level theming was good. Would be nice to have more options when building a headline and some audio too, but overall good job!
Thanks for your kind words :)