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GMTK Game Jam 2024

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A jam submission

2nBack!View game page

Scale up your working memory with this simple exercise!
Submitted by PeaK Dev — 1 day, 10 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Enjoyment#64021.7172.429
Style#67701.6162.286
Overall#67921.6842.381
Creativity#68131.7172.429

Ranked from 7 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Scale up your mental working memory with this brain training exercise

Development Time

96 hours

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thisisforsoapSubmitted2 years ago

Interesting idea
I liked the concept but I thought it would have been so much better if there was an indicator for when you did it correctly or made a mistake

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ScaleBall
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PeaK DevDeveloper2 years ago(+1)

That's right.
I do have a scoreboard-like panel enabled in the debug-build of the game (which I shall add in the downloadable files).
However in the spirit of the n-back exercise I removed it as real time feedback is not provided while testing.

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TalesSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

I'll admit, I had no clue what I was supposed to do. I saw the squares jiggle; and a button on the side with a diagram... but nothing  easily intuited worked. Though reading the store page clarified things, it would have been handy to have a line of text explain that in-game.  Also, none of the end-game buttons worked.

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Quest for the Little Big Gem
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PeaK DevDeveloper2 years ago

Thanks for playing wabuilderman!
I admit it was rushed and the tutorial could be a lot better & probably help out first time players. I will try to address this.
Surprising to hear about the endgame buttons bugging out. I couldn't reproduce it just now so I will try some more rigorous testing of that screen. If you have the time to drop the details when this happened that would be fantastic too.
Thanks!

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TalesSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

Hm... Well, I was able to reproduce the bug twice in a row. For your reference, this is on Windows 10, run in windowed mode w/o adjusting size on a 1440p monitor.  I didn't score any  points, just clicked around right at the start   (getting a false positive), then waited for the end-screen.  

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Otterpop!Submitted2 years ago(+1)

I can feel my brain tingle while playing this game as it slowly transforms into a queue. Extremely optimistic to let the N-Value slider go to 20 :)

I somehow missed the Dual N Mode toggle my first couple of tries, and I am NOT smart enough for that. It might have been interesting to change the scale of the blocks rather than add an audio cue, but the audio is a great addition. Great polish!

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Kobold Cuisine
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PeaK DevDeveloper2 years ago

Thank you Otterpop!
I like your feedback on alternative prompts in Dual mode. I also am just dipping my toes in shaders so I would definitely like better animations on either mode.
Thanks for playing

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