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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Game score | #1 | 4.500 | 4.500 |
Ranked from 4 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Nice to see someone else try a text description style game!
What could improve? The way of entering the option is a tad clunky, if you type in an invalid option it scrolls through the whole text again. (a way to skip the scrolling would also be nice, I'm sure that was on your roadmap anyway!)
What was done well? It's nice that you have a json defining all the links, which makes it easy to extend the story or make new ones. The descriptions were great, and you make use of the player's imagination quite well.
Thank you for playing it!
Yeah, not being able to skip the scrolling was also annoying during dev but alas, we ran out of time :) The json file with the decisions, more than anything, came as a necessity rather than a feature since the amount of story nodes just grew so large that it made editing the code really unwieldy.
On future versions of the engine I'm thinking about making a separate tool that edits the json files and generates header files with enum values in it so I don't have to keep track of them manually. Whatever helps isolate the code from the content has proven to be a good decision in the long run.
pretty good game