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A jam submission

Scout's GambitView game page

Case liminal banks.
Submitted by StolenCheese, MarmaladeSparrow, Zahr1729 — 2 hours, 34 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity#4194.0534.053
Overall#6703.7983.798
Style#8073.9743.974
Enjoyment#14253.3683.368

Ranked from 38 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
Build a scale model of a bank out of chess pieces, in preperation for a heist.

Development Time

96 hours

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Submitted

Wow really clean and polished. Great movement. Was a blast to play <3

Submitted

Cool concept and nice visuals/color palette. The rating system reminded me of Geoguessr^^
One issue I had was the camera constantly drifting to the right (Firefox). Also it was very easy to knock the already placed pieces out of position while putting down a new one.
Other than that it's a nice little heist game :)

Submitted

I really like the concept! Having played Payday, it kind of feels like you're planning heists. The game looks really beautiful!

Submitted(+1)

Nice 3d game ! The graphics are cool. I didn't have any bug

Submitted(+1)

I really liked it! The aesthetics were clean and well polished, and the premise reminded me a lot of setting up for a Payday heist. You've got a lot of room for expanding based on secrets and weird layouts.

I understand why the clock ticks down and that putting a time limit on it really helps  rush the player, but it did affect my enjoyment a little. My one suggestion is you could mix in some levels where the clock counts up instead of down, and then penalise players for taking too long. But I totally get why it's there.

Submitted

i like the way the movement of the chat box! great job man!

Submitted(+2)

This game is so good! ♥ The theme was implemented in a very interesting way, the music and sound effects were well done, and I really liked the fact that our partner in crime speaks! Even though the game isn't very long, it already creates some bond with the character. It adds life to the game, and so does that newspaper at the end! Good job! ♥

Developer

Thank you so much!!!! It means a lot to us :))))

Submitted(+3)

Damn! This looks, sounds and plays great! The levels are designed really well around the mechanics and trying to remember everything as you go, particularly in the 3rd level was a really fun gameplay loop! There is some minor jank with trying to place pieces near the right edge of the plan and also trying to walk through doors that open towards you, but those were the only real problems I noticed.

Love the music and general sound design! They go really well together and it makes it a very chill game to play despite the somewhat stressful nature of "oh god, did I put the camera in the right place" so it strikes a nice balance there. The humour also fits the tone well and is genuinely quite funny.

The art, both 2D and 3D is really cool. I especially like the title screen, it's very stylistically reminiscent of Persona 5, but the skybox and general environmental design outside of the banks also stood out to me and fit really well with the silhouetted characters and unshaded (if you don't count lighting) block colours inside the banks. Not sure how to finish this bit so in summary, game look nice.

I could see a system that rewards players for entering the scheming system fewer times working really well for this. Other than the 3rd bank, my general strategy was "go in, find 2 or 3 things, leave, add them to the plan, repeat" and the 3rd one did end up being my favourite because that felt less viable and I was more challenged to actually remember where everything was, but I'm just spitballing ideas at this point, the game is still very enjoyable without this :)

Submitted(+2)

Chess 2! I really love the art style in this game! Very well made and I'm surprised with the amount of detail with such a limited time. Super satisfying sounds as well... you have nailed sound design and that means so much for games. Great job! This is one of the top games I have played

Developer (1 edit) (+2)

Thanks a lot! One of the first comments to note about sound, which is something I and the person who made the music are both quite proud of - the first game I’ve done where I spent a lot of time thinking about this.

Submitted

It's what makes good games great in my opinion, the little things add up to the entire experience and can make a game so much more enjoyable! Awesome stuff from you both :)

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