Can't help but echo everyone else's sentiment here! Part Yahtzee, part buckshot, part... coins! I think the idea of hold and calling what side you want to score for is a way to make the act of flipping coins, a very binary thing, super engaging and pretty fun! With some juice and some polish I could see this taking off! awesome stuff.
Play experience
Fortune's Edge's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Sound | #7 | 3.771 | 4.000 |
| Overall | #9 | 3.536 | 3.750 |
| Use of Prompt | #10 | 4.125 | 4.375 |
| Visuals | #11 | 3.536 | 3.750 |
| Engagement | #13 | 2.711 | 2.875 |
Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Comments
This was awesome! I too was incredibly intrigued by the concept of illegal underground coin flipping. I think the vibe set here really helped sell the surrealness of the concept in general. The room is really well designed, and it's cool that you guys even got around to some little world interaction by pushing around the lantern when you click on it. Would totally love to see how this idea could be expanded upon; coin flipping is such a simple game but you guys already found some clever ways to add depth to it. The whole setup and premise/atmosphere really channels some Inscryption/Buckshot Roulette vibes. I think there's plenty of reason to keep working on this!
There were a couple bugs I noticed, like when some held coins would remain held the next turn without the red cross appearing over them. I think this would lead to a softlock where i was just stuck in my turn. I would also notice that sometimes it seemed like I may have been 'flipping' a coin in the code, even though it was already flipped or a held coin. Nothing too huge though, I think the game loop worked really well! Great job!
Submitted
Vision of DeathWe're glad you enjoyed it! We'll definitely expand on the concept more in the future -- more opponents, actual consequences to losing the game, and better refining the points system. The Inscryption/Buckshot Roulette vibes were definitely our top inspiration here!
I definitely also caught a lot of those same bugs in testing, but didn't leave myself a whole lot of time to fix them so we had to submit with the bugs intact. ~Haani
Oooo really fun entry!! After reading the description "illegal, underground coin flipping" I almost expected a Russian Roulette style game where I would be eliminated (in a more violent way) upon losing (like Buckshot Roulette). Music was vibey, the camera work was clean, I LOVED the assets for the room we were in (especially the poster hanging off the wall on the other side of the room), and the coin-flip animation and sound were super satisfying. Some feedback-- I think I was able to break the game by going back and trying to flip coins I had already flipped (the urge to cheat was strong), I didn't always know when I needed to go back to dialogue and sometimes it felt like one dialogue should have led to another instead of breaking, and I think a small effect about which coins can still be flipped would help (like a little sparkly or something), sometimes I would flip in a weird order and just wasn't sure which ones I had done already. Great game, you managed to make coin flipping super vibey!!
Submitted
First SnowThank you for playing and for your feedback! We planned a lot of big consequences for losing the game and for *something* to happen to Mr. Dadd at the end, but scope creep got the better of us and we had to delay those parts to a later build :)
You're definitely right in that the coins need some more visual feedback on which ones you can and can't flip; I did try to place some catches in code that prevent you from cheating, but it isn't 100% accurate, either.
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