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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #4 | 4.400 | 4.400 |
| WOWIE! | #69 | 3.800 | 3.800 |
| Sound | #85 | 3.700 | 3.700 |
| Visuals | #89 | 4.033 | 4.033 |
| Topic | #115 | 3.883 | 3.883 |
| Fun | #189 | 3.550 | 3.550 |
| Simplicity | #236 | 3.850 | 3.850 |
Ranked from 60 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Music Source
PMSFX (ambience and sound effects)
Credits
Vykri
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Nice :D good take on the theme!
I love this game, it is so funny to select random thing, and the dialog adapt to it, thats so well done, just lovin it
Hey, thanks for playing my game! If you haven't seen the 2nd and 3rd story yet, it might be worth taking a quick look if you enjoyed the first story since they take the gameplay in completely different directions! There's a walkthrough and cheats in the description on the itch page if you're interested :) . Thanks again for playing. Really love all the nice and friendly feedback.
Hey!
Very nice and creative game. I have to say that after playing the first story and seeing that the next one has fighting (because I looked at the controls) the game will lose it's charm and will be incoherent, BUT it didn't happen, the fight was well incorporated into the main mechanic, which was great! It took me a while to figure out some of the options possible in the second story and I really thought it bugged at one point but it was just me not knowing there is another a little less obcious choice still to be made. This game is a perfect jam idea, but also could be expanded and still have it's charm and novelty. This game really plays with player expectations. <SPOILER>Last story especially has some great player baiting and humor</SPOILER> While I'm not really a fan of this style of graphics I have to say that they serve their purpose here. I have to admire how the lines said change based on what we choose, and overall how well this is thought out.
I think the font bugs a little at first, as it's changing, but that's just a minor detail. Also I have to agree that it's sometimes hard to know if by "order" you mean position of the event or an event sequence, but once player gets a grasp on that the game is really enjoyable.
To sum all of it up:
- Very clever idea
- Great execution of said idea
- Fun play on player's expectations
- A little, minor confusion with the wording
- Good visuals and sounds
- Possibility to expand the game after the jam
- Very, very few bugs, actually I think I only saw one very minor one
- Enjoyable and challenging gameplay
So overall Very solid game, great job! I enjoyed playing your entry very much :)
Hey, thanks for playing my game all the way through! I've seen a few people confused about the "in order" wording. It's a pretty difficult thing to put into words. I think a small tutorial level or something would go a long way if I were to do it again. Thanks for the complete feedback!
Loved the theme and idea, very cool concept, and made me nostalgic for Mastermind. Liked when the game remembered the order of events and told a story about it (like the life-saving changing based on weather). Wish maybe there were more cues and hints so you could finish with more informed guesses and a little less trial and error, like if the grandpa was like "No that's not right, hmm I'll go get something to jog my memory" and he's holding an umbrella or smth. Idk but I really liked the idea and playing it!
This is a fantastic suggestion and would solve all the feedback I've been seeing about the solution being too random and not tying back to the story. If I were to do this again, I'd definitely include little hints like that. Thanks so much for the feedback!
Beautiful game! I like the concept of getting the right order, very creative. Good job!
Great game! The plot was super creative and the stories were enjoyable to play through (especially the last one!) Although, I wasn't a huge fan of the trial and error gameplay. That's probably just me, though, and I probably should have opened up notepad to help me remember what I got right lol. Still, it's something I haven't seen any other game try, and that's really cool!! Also, the walkthrough really helped and I liked how the text in the first one changed depending on what you picked prior. Good work!!
Hey, thanks so much for playing my game. Yeah, I've heard a couple people talk about how difficult it is to get the solution without additional hints. I think if I were to do it again, I'd include little hints during the "No wait, that's not quite right" part after you get the wrong solution. Maybe something like "Odd. I remember it was raining." or something if it isn't raining by the time you fail. Thanks for the feedback!
I LOVE story games, great concept, great take on the subjects, one of my favorite despite not being able to pass level 1 XD
I don't understand how it works XD it's the "in order" thing that I don't get,idk if that's means "at the right position" or "the order in which the elements are placed" but then having "1 element in order" doesn't make sense. Maybe I'll replay once I have more time
Hey, thanks for playing! The way the "in order" messages work is that it'll say an event is "in order" if the correct answer has that event at that same index.
For example, if the solution was yellow, green, orange, red (it's not) and you guessed green, yellow, orange, red then it'd say that 2 are in the right order (orange and red) and 2 are not in the right order (green, and yellow).
If you've ever played the board game Mastermind, it's the same as that. If it's too difficult, I included a walkthrough in the game description. Again, that's for trying out my game. Really appreciate it!
Yes I already played games like that but maybe it's because i'm a french speaker and we say more like an event is "at the good position" rather than "in order"
nice game
Super cool, i like how some combinations of events effect other events, like how if you rain and then select "she was almost killed" it would say it was a lighting instead of a branch :)
Very good and especially creative game, I really liked the stories. It reminds me of how my grandpa used to tell me stories from his past. The last story was unexpected but was the most fun. Overall very good game fits perfectly with the theme.
Love this game! The artwork is really cool. I can see that a lot of effort is put into the dialog system; the story interconnects convincingly irrespective of the order of the choices, well done!
This was awesome, I preferred the setup of the first level, and unfortunately I got a crash on the second, but overall, one of the better games I've played today!
Hey, thanks for playing! Glad you enjoyed it. Sorry about the crash. If you want to try the 3rd story, you can start up the intro and press 5 to jump to the scene after the fight.
The most creative and on point with the thematic of the game jam. A pixelated font and square background for the font would make it more on point.
This is one of my favourite ones. It is so creative, I was surprised when I had to start controlling grandpa. Also grandpa is very funny in a grandpa-y way. Like other people, I did crash a few times on story 2 and I appreciate the cheat buttons.
Wow, thank you so much for the nice feedback. It's so weird, so many people are saying they keep crashing on the 2nd story, but I've tried to reproduce it in every way I can think of but haven't been able to. Bugs like that are so frustrating haha. Thanks for playing!
Edit: I've fixed the bug now. Thanks for letting me know about it!
This game is amazing! My favorite of the jam so far! It reminds me a lot of the board game mastermind but with an actual story attached. I love how the dialog changed in the first story depending upon my choices. The art and sound effects fit perfectly.
I did run into an issue where story #2 kept crashing the game. If you fix that in a post-jam version, please let me know. I love this game and would happily experience it again!
Hey, thanks for the nice comment! Sorry about the crashes in the second story. I've been hearing lots of people say that. If you want to try the 3rd story, you can start up the intro and press 5 to skip to the scene after the fight. Thanks for playing my game!
I was able to fully finish the game even with the glitch, but thanks for giving me the cheat code!
Nice and well thought out game. Never thought a story-based game like this would fit in the topic. Well done!👍
Very good game, I like how the dialogue changes based on the order of choices you pick!
I thought I was going to play a game about a story about the grandpa's life and half expected a sad story. I didn't expect it to go the route it was going to.
There was a bug on the bully level that kept making me restart the game, not sure what caused it though.
Originally, it was going to be a sad story. The second story was going to be a top-down shooter about how Grandpa had to kill some people in a war, but decided that was a bit too heavy and went with a school fight instead haha. I've fixed the bug on the 2nd stage now. Thanks for letting me know about it and thanks for playing my game!
Aw man... you mean your allowed to fix bugs after you upload your game? Whish I knew that.
Yeah, Jonas posted about it in the Discord. There's still time to fix any urgent bugs if you want!
Wish I saw that on the front page. Thanks bro!
Super cool idea! Very puzzly.
Nice idea, fits the topic really well and was nice and relaxing
That is such a cool idea! its very original and fits the theme perfectly
at the first level i was amazed that the text changed, depending on what i chose
the second level was so cool, since i expected another text story, but i kinda got softlocked there lol
- the art is good but you might need to work more on shading and picking colors
- in the fight stage, the background has outlines while the charcters do not. it can be a little confusing
- it would be nice if there were some sort of hints in the level, so you wouldn't need to bruteforce the answer like you need to in mastermind
EDIT: i reached the final level again, its just as cool as the other two (: