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A jam submission

SpellboundView game page

Spell based rougelike game
Submitted by Peyoway (@peyoway), FreyaByForce, junkmail7, d.buggy, Build3rman — 4 hours, 51 minutes before the deadline
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Judge feedback

Judge feedback is anonymous.

  • Cool game! I think the choice of music is a little odd; while it makes me think the wizard is a little eccentric and weird in a funny way, it still doesn't really go with the scene in my opinion. The GDD gives a little insight into the lore and the spells used, but I would've liked to see straight up what your inspiration was, what the developing process looked like and what your idea of the theme was. You mention casually that you can use the spells once, but I would've preferred more information on your thoughts there. I ran out of spells by the time I hit the boss and didn't get any new ones. Even when restarting, my deck was empty, meaning the game was really over. I don't know if that was a bug or intentional, but then why include a "start over" button? Your game is still fun and I like the art style generally, but running out of cards was a bit of a bummer. Maybe include a short tutorial that also warns the player to spend their cards carefully. I had to "waste" a few "invincible" cards because at one point I had only those and "teleport" which didn't help me much and I needed more attack. If this was intentional, ok, but maybe look into the balancing again :) Overall though, good entry,. well done! Thank you for participating and I hope you all had fun and learned a few things about game development. Looking forward to your next project!

Link to your Game Design Doc on Google Drive.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W3peFfkpggO2sfY8dgKS1QKHsAF8-LVB/view?usp=sharing

Have you checked that your GDD is publicly accessible ?
Yes

Is your game set to public on itch.io so we can see it?
Yes

Summarize your game!
Rougelike game with spells, you are a noobie wizard who can only use spells a limited amount of times.

Please explain how your game fits the theme.
You can use each spell slot only once

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Comments

Submitted

Everything changed when I figured out that I could roll :D Really awesome soundtrack!  

Submitted

Cool game. I love the 8 directional movement sprite. The music bops!

Jam Judge

Your entry is disqualified for using generative AI in your game design document.

Submitted(+1)

I would argue the "No AI-Generated Content." outlined in the game jam rules is ambiguous. "Content" implies to me the content of the game, and would not include the GDD. I did not see the image shown in the GDD present in the game. As a fellow competitor, I would like this game to be included in the competition with me.

Developer (1 edit)

Hey thanks so much for sticking up for me and the team I really appreciate it. Our team was heartbroken after hearing about the disqualification. No other generative AI was used in the making of the GDD or the game and the image was originally just a design for the artist to follow. 

During the design face we each made a game design document for our respective idea. I should’ve just used an image online and I understand the disqualification but I’m also confused on why it has to disqualify the entire game. 

No AI was used in the content of the game. 

Assuming the points are in different categories like the jam info says surely we can just get a zero in the GDD section?


It’s just a real bummer that our entire game doesn’t get to be scored at all or recognized after 2 weeks of hard work.

Jam Judge(+2)

Given the confusing wording and the lack of AI use elsewhere, I'll make an exception and requalify your game. I'll try to improve the wording for next jam to be more clear.

Submitted(+1)

Great game. I love the art and the idea is cool. Though there were some weird bugs I found where I would lag back to a spot I was in  previously. I also thought some of the loading was a little slow. But it's still so amazing and is a great game.