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TriJam-145: ollethO's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #13 | 2.177 | 2.667 |
| How well does the game fit the themes? | #13 | 2.722 | 3.333 |
| Audio | #13 | 0.816 | 1.000 |
| Overall | #13 | 1.951 | 2.389 |
| Visuals | #13 | 1.905 | 2.333 |
| Did you make it in 3 hours (put 5 by default) | #14 | 2.449 | 3.000 |
| How much do you enjoy the game overall? | #14 | 1.633 | 2.000 |
Ranked from 3 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How long was your dev time?
4h 40m
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Neat.
Although it seems you're showing off a clever idea that's not very functional as a game.
Understanding the rules of the game comes with a pretty high barrier to entry: you need to be familiar with a whole different game, playing it in reverse is just harder, and it's very difficult to tell what makes a good board state from a bad one.
The UI doesnt help much in understanding the game (it's only natural for such a complicated premise developed over this short a time frame).
I'd suggest you could ease the players into this game much better by first simplifying the initial state: instead of diving straight into a finished game first introduce a game that's a few moves in (this would give a simple solvable problem where the player can learn the rules), then another that's a few more and so on.
Thanks for the long write-up! And the follow!
Though it’s never been more true than with this one, a lot of my games fall into that category.
That (and all of the points in the rest of your comment) is actually one of the reasons I’m participating in TriJams. (Along with learning Godot instead of updating my own increasingly horrible made-during-gamejams C++/SDL2 ‘engine’.) I spend so much time in just implementing the bare ideas, and never have any time for polish.
That’s a really nice idea if I would continue with this. But…
… I don’t think I want to, for those reasons. I enjoyed making it (showing off to myself?), and I’m (as always) very curious what other comments I might get, but that’s about it for this one for me.
Yeah, I figured that was likely the case. I just mentioned it because I think it's useful to think about regardless, to improve our understanding of game design.
Let me know if you'd like to team up with me for a future trijam. You can look for me on the trijam discord.
I didn’t mean to imply otherwise :-)
Next month I’ll have to focus on the Secret Santa Jam ( https://itch.io/jam/secret-santa-2021 ), but I’ll keep it in mind!