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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #52 | 3.336 | 3.462 |
| Visuals | #57 | 3.780 | 3.923 |
| Theme Use | #66 | 3.484 | 3.615 |
| Creativity | #73 | 3.410 | 3.538 |
| Entertainment | #97 | 2.891 | 3.000 |
| Duck | #111 | 2.743 | 2.846 |
Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Schoolhouse Rock is probably my favorite piece of retro television.
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i did play until my satisfaction on most of these, though the first guy running to screen had zero haptic feedback (perhaps i didnt find the right key, or in piano sweeping the keyboard found the right key but hit it early and ruled it out), i did get a joy out of the games looping similar to that of recognizing a textbox is looping but amped up quite a bit (more so for the 3 games looping which i did first).
Yeah, I also probably should've at least indicated that the games loop endlessly. I didn't think about that. Thanks for playing, though!
love the music and visual style in this! reminds me of old cartoons from when i was a kid c: A+ little ducky fella
the controls were a little confusing for me though, it took more than one round to figure out how to play haha. i wish it were clearer when you do something right vs when you do something wrong. also if the stages ended after a few rounds instead of looping infinitely i think it would help the flow as well, i couldnt figure out how to go back to the main menu to see the other levels without closing the game first 馃槄
Yeah, I definitely should've provided the player some more positive/negative feedback. Also, maybe I could've gotten away with a system of dividing play sessions into sets comprising several rounds, each ending with a scorecard, but I worry that would prevent the player from hearing the entirety of each song unless I made each set very long, and since I had only a few unique minigames, I worried it would get monotonous. I did, however, make sure to allow the player to return to the menu at will by pressing M, which I documented in the 'how to play' screen.
Thanks for playing!
oops i must've missed that page! thats good to know though c:
i can tell you worked really hard on that music, they are all such bops馃憦
Heh. I was very satisfied with those tracks when I was finishing them up on the final day, but listening back to them now, they sound awfully... dry. I guess that's just how it goes.
I imagine it's a false positive, but one of the checks on VirusTotal is flagging this as a virus:
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Neat little games, though. I wasn't always sure when I was winning or losing in some of them, but the art was cute. I'm no super fan, but I thought you matched the style pretty well. The Ben Franklin game was my favorite.
Huh, weird. Thanks for playing, though! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Neat artstyle, I liked the "Start the Revolution" minigame the most, but I couldn't figure out the "Conserve Ammo" one at all.
Pretty interesting and specific inspiration behind this, the only Schoolhouse Rock I can remember from way back is I'm Just a Bill. Take me back...
Yeah, I didn't quite get to finish that one. I planned the objective to be to 'hold your fire 'til you see the whites of [his] eyes', but I didn't finish the animations, and I even forgot to make firing play a gunshot sound, so it just ended up a really awkward experience.
Thanks for playing!
Very pleasing artstyle that fit with the inspiration and cool minigames, but I agree the comment that it would help if it had a confirmation on whenever you hit or missed the action. Nice job.
its cute, but I couldn't figure out what to do, or if i was even doing it correctly.
also, didn't know about the american revolution schoolhouse rock. had to research it
Thanks for your thoughts! Yeah, I definitely should've prioritized adding a clear indication of whether the player fails or passes a minigame. Even a simple checkmark/X would've done, but what I had in mind was more ambitious, and I didn't get around to it before the deadline. Shame.
Also, Shot Heard Round the World is a banger! It's maybe my favorite Schoolhouse song.