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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay Innovation | #24 | 3.167 | 3.167 |
| Fun | #36 | 3.222 | 3.222 |
| Overall | #51 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Visuals | #54 | 3.111 | 3.111 |
| Unexpectedness | #57 | 2.889 | 2.889 |
| Audio | #133 | 1.389 | 1.389 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Please list any pre-made art/music/code/other assets that you used.
None, except my own supporting libraries in C++.
How many members in your team?
Team of 1
List each team member's role, along with their social media / website links!
Nikita Lisitsa, programming & design
https://lisyarus.itch.io
https://twitter.com/lisyarus
Anything you want to say to players before they play?
Had almost no time for it, hence a really simple game, but a jam is a jam.
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I really enjoyed the game, it felt like a really fresh take on an old concept. The unexpectedness felt a bit too unfair and random - what I mean is that there was no way for you to strategize around it. Maybe if you gave one turn before the players knew what happened? Anyway I thought that everything looked really nice and played really nice too, from the previous comments it seems as though you've improved it a lot and I can definitely tell! Well done :)
My gameplay: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/748057463 (My face froze.. Ignore that)
Overall: I am sorry if I come off as harsh. I am not sure if there was something I misunderstood with this game, if I played it incorrectly or if there was a big happening. What happened to me each time I tried (I even tried off camera later) was that the second player would remove both X and O at the start and then it was a normal tic tac toe game, with the cool aspect of a expanding board.
Unexpectedness: I was mainly confused by the disappearing X and O at the start, other than that nothing else unexpected happened. Is it supposed to happen several times? If it did then I think this could turn into a real cool game.
Gameplay Innovation: I like the expanding board! I often feel when playing the original board that in the end you start to run out of space. I'd love a multiplayer!
Fun: It's tic tac toe which is a fun game on its own. In my gameplay I didn't get much of a spin on it unfortunately.
Visuals: Visuals are great! I think it's really well made.
Audio: I feel like I'm missing some music.
Thanks for such a detailed feedback! It’s a pity that you played the game yesterday, since I updated it just today - now it has music & better AI. The unexpectedness is in random stuff happening to the board; that you’ve only seen the first two moves disappearing is probably a random number generator issue, I’ve heard this from another player as well. I’ve reuploaded the game just now with a change that (hopefully) fixes the problem.
Wait what just happened ? This feels like GO but in a tic tac toe way.
Wow, this was original. If you added multiplayer or a better IA it would be a 5 stars overall. Too bad the AI loses the same way every time.
If you add multiplayer and publish I will surely buy this game.
Thanks! The post-jam version will definitely have hotseat pvp & a better AI.
The concept is cool, and I think with extra modifiers/challenges it could be a fully fledged game. Not having a restart function kind of sucked, since I had to relaunch the game every time, and sadly there wasn't any audio, which I quite understand because you used your own C++ libraries, and not an engine like Unity or Unreal. Also I didn't really experience a lot of unexpectedness, because the cover of the game kind of spoils the whole mechanic of the game anyway. That being said though, its a pretty good game.
Thanks for feedback! I’ll definitely add a restart option. Could you please elaborate on how the cover spoils the unexpected mechanic?
Great idea and execution!
I suck at Tic-tac-toe. :-D But really cool game, I liked the twist.
And I love self-made engines, no matter how small! Especially ones written for Linux. Missing restart option isn’t even a significant problem, since the game loads so fast!
Great game. Cool and smooth VFX animations. It's impressive that you made a competitive AI.
И ни разу не удалось выиграть >_<
Cool take on a classic, with the expanding board, definitely interesting. One thing is that there's no menu to restart, would have been cool to play again in the same session :)
Really enjoyed the game! I was a little confused at first when the unexpected happen, but it felt pretty thematic. It's really cool that you wrote your own C++ supporting libraries. It's definitely not easy to make all that from scratch and props to you for that. The animation and text felt super clean and polished :)
Also props to you for writing an infinite checkers AI!
Thank you! The advantage of writing everything myself is that the game is just 1 MB :) The AI is extremely silly, by the way.
I like this, but it is missing a few essential things like being able to restart, play locally, and sound fx. Otherwise, this is awesome!
Did this in a hurry, thanks for suggestions!
Really simple and fun.
Good concept and well put together together
very nice concept =D
Cool concept! I like the idea of a dynamically sized tic-tac-toe board!
I'm missing sounds and music.
Great game, but it's missing a restart button. Also, why first move always deletes both X and O?
Thank you! The game randomly alters the board (that’s the ‘unexpected’ part), in particular it can remove X and O. It does it in a completely random fashion, so I guess you were just unlucky!
When I played, the game also always removes the first X and O, I'm not sure if the random was re-seeded properly?
It is reseeded each time, strange. Thank you for feedback< I’ll look into the issue!
Really simple game. It seems like u made it in hurry. It can really use some music and sfx and maybe restart/play again button