the E button asset constantly pressing itself made me accidentally skip half of the story panels so maybe watch out for that. i don't loove having to press E when i'm already using WASD to move. my brain is rather slow so i didn't realize i had to open the crane claw myself even though the space input is there right on screen for me, my expectations of how a crane game work had put me in autopilot to expect the game to do it for me. for an idle game it doesn't really let me be truly brainless with it if i have to manually open and close the claw, though it is more satisfying having the control over grabbing a couple of things at once and dropping them into the WIN (at least when i haven't accidentally sent the claw down there too and have to wait for it to come back) if you're going to have E as a confirm button i feel like Q should be the back button. i didn't realize until way late by chance of my mouse happening to be in a spot before an item moved over it than that would display info on it. the art for the toys in the crane machines was cute, the connor funko pop too. once i was able to grab two bears at once!! but then one fell out and the other stuck to one of the claws and i had to lower them into the box. the bananas kinda bottlenecked i got to the point where i was too tired to get more bananas for an attempt at the monkey push and connor was too slow at finding coins for me.... i did try to leave the game on to farm while i played other games but uhhhhh one of them messed up my browser's webgl and i refreshed before remembering to check back.....
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun & Game Design | #7 | 3.677 | 3.677 |
| Audio | #17 | 3.339 | 3.339 |
| Originality & Innovation | #18 | 3.355 | 3.355 |
| Theme | #21 | 3.452 | 3.452 |
| Visual Style | #24 | 3.661 | 3.661 |
Ranked from 62 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?
In PALMACHINE CRANESET player rescue pals stuck in claw machines.
Pals, in this game, are friends and mates both from Connor's youtube-circle, and ours. To rescue the pals players must play claw machines, but those cost currencies that can be acquired through other machines.
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first i gotta say
i fucing can't chris pizza, how do you grab that fucker?! how do you grab the cameras? i hated that
also i didn't notice that the gambling machine for views had the price in bananas, cause it wasn'y green, so i spent way more time on this, than i could've lmao
otherwise it is a fantastic game, really fun, cute, hillarious
i love it! (but pizza chris has gotta go)
Great game, very addicting xD, i hated grabbing the cameras but got pretty lucky with all the other stuff
This is the most fun game I've played in the jam. Really awesome job! I can see myself lose hours on this!
Really nice artstyle & loop, took about an hour to beat. In the end it turned into cycle + gamble simulator, would have liked to see more variety on the lategame. the everything a billion goal was not super clear- glad I did so I saw the endcard., in the end the E button flashed and did nothing- if I missed something please share :)
Also here's my VOD, I kept giving comments throughout so its a must-watch ( goodluck xd )
Might take a while for it to finish uploading & encoding,... xd link's above- It's almost 2am I'm just going to let it upload. :DAccurately simulates the frustrations of the claw failing to pick up items or dropping them when moving to the hole. Those cameras were the bane of me.
Just a well rounded package tbh, fun gameplay which handles physics well, satisfying audio, cute art and of course it's always satisfying to see number go up.
Fun game, very addictive ^^ spent more time in it than i wanted to xD
i love the artstyle! simple yet conveys the characters!
Very addictive game, I loved your art and music - I can see connor playing this on a stream and asking "where is my Sumimasen?" when he chokes like he usually does XD
Genuinely good game, i especially loved the art style and how the speech boxes blocked progression. Really made me feel like squidward in that one crane game episode. Excellent work :)
I think this is the best game I've played in this jam so far, really like the mechanics as well as sense of progression as you accumulate more followers.
A few things could be improved though:
-A little animation, like flipping the character sprite when moving, could've made the movement a bit better.
-You can also reset the crane game by exiting the machine and entering again with no penalty - this feels like it's cheating, as you can get optimal spawn positions of objects this way.
I would have loved to do walking animations/polis it, but that ended up being pushed further and further back on the to do list, we might add it after the voting period tho!
And yeah, resetting the crane is kinda like cheating but we kept it as a safe measure in case objects get stuck permanently. It is very hard to control what objects do when using physics so we decided to allow for players to "cheat" and feel sneaky about it than possibly punishing them by giving super hard or impossible machines!
Thank you for the comment tho! We want to keep working on it after the jam so hearing this feedback is great!
I mean, straight up all 5 stars here. Extremely strong contender to win the whole thing. The crane machine is addictive, you can multiplicative upgrades, it's esentially a crane themed clicker game. I've already spent so much time playing that I lost track of time ^^'
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