I tried to play this game with a friend but we couldn't figure out how to play :/
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Hi Wojon! Thanks for trying.
You'll need three players at the very minimum (this game doesn't make sense with two player), although the more players - the better. The core of the game is cooperation and planning, trust and betrayal for which you don't have much options when playing with few players.
All players need to log in with their Google accounts.
One player creates a room (open dialog with button at the bottom of the left column), when you select a room from the list of your rooms (left column), you can see "Room ID" at the top-center of the page - send it to other players - they need to paste it to join (also open dialog with button at the bottom of the left column).
Or you (both) can join the room I created for public use: 5Mf4Qwyh0UFQV83qBhUY
Once there are three or more people in the room, "room creator" will have a button at the top of the room to start the game.
Hi Wojon!
I am making a video about making this game and why making an online 20+ player game for a game jam was a bad idea.
It seems that you are the only one who actually tried to play in your room (although a few people joined the one I created). Is it ok, if I take a look at your room in the video and how far you've got? I guess it's not far, given you didn't have any questions since then, but that would complement the video anyway:)
Sorry but we didn't keep the recording, we basically just started the game and did 1 move. Then the other player tried to do a move because we thought it'd switch rounds but nothing happened and after that we kind of gave up. I also read afterwards that you had to wait like a day before getting ur moves back :p
It was actually an interesting choice you did, since I usually praise for gamejams to be extremely short (no longer than 30 minutes). Since then you get time to finish the game. But in your case it was rather the opposite, being extremely long instead
Sorry but we didn't keep the recording, we basically just started the game and did 1 move
That's what I guessed:) Most people didn't make it past "Sign in" button. In fact, significantly more people rated my game then ever signed in 😅 So if you created a room and actually started playing - that's the farthest anyone got in this game 😅 Is it ok if I show your room on video? It will contribute to the flow/message of the video to show the farthest anyone got in the game. If you used real names when picking nicknames, I might blur those if you want.
you had to wait like a day before getting ur moves back
Yes. It was a day in the original offline version, but because this one is adapted to be played online by people from various parts of the world, I decided to perform "schedule" every 17 hours to "rotate" timezones and make it slightly faster.
I actually had an idea to remake this game about 2-3 weeks before the jam and I was not sure I'd take part in this jam, but the jam theme just happened to match so nicely that I decided it's time to remake it now. I significantly underestimated the difficulty to gather 20+ people to play over the course of a couple weeks, although I also wasn't very active in making it happen.