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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Originality | #39 | 4.224 | 4.224 |
| Presentation | #58 | 4.259 | 4.259 |
| Fun | #193 | 3.328 | 3.328 |
| Theme | #226 | 3.397 | 3.397 |
Ranked from 58 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game represent "Slick"?
I think of mobsters primarily being slick people, but goons are the opposite of that, so the game is about training goons until they can be considered slick.
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I made my goon look like The Penguin (the Danny DeVito version). The little training animations are a lot of fun, especially the squats and victory pose. The concept is great. The music and visuals work nicely. I also love all of the creative ways of declaring victory: "made him cut to black mid-scene" might be my fave. Well done!
The character creation is hilarious. Great game overall.
I found an exploit. You keep your stats and stop being tired when you go back to the menu. So you can get max stats on day 1.
Otherwise very good game! Had a blast
Ah ha, it has finally been found. Yeah, I knew it was a thing but both forgot and ran out of time to fix it. The training attempt variable is tied to the room instead of the save data, so it gets reset on loading in.
Thanks for giving it a go! Hope you had fun.
I don’t typically play games in this genre, but you’ve executed everything so well here that I can’t help but have a great time with it! Everything about this game oozes personality; I especially love all the little powerup animations and the way that they speed up over time. The amount of stuff that you were able to implement in such a short time is seriously impressive. I definitely think a more fleshed out tutorial would go a long way here, but other than that I’m having a hard time coming up with any criticisms. Great idea and even better execution!!
This is such a great game. The character creator is 10/10, the training is silly and fun, and the battle system reminds me of chao garden in a very pleasing way!! I couldn't tell if I had any influence on choosing the moves in the battle, but it was just so charming. The graphics and music are so perfect as well.
The workout animation was funny AF. Great style on this game
This is absolutely my favorite game I've played so far. This is one of my FAVORITE game genres and I have never seen it in a game jam before. I'm amazed at the polish! And it made me laugh so many times too. Extremely slick.
A character builder in a game jam, whaaat? The music is awesome too! Great stuff!
Crazy amount of work for a jam, and it shows. Slick as hell!
the amount of polish is awesome. i love how it looks, i love how there is a character editor, i love the turn based combat system you made in the time of the jam. about only thing would be maybe mini games for leveling up stuff. but this game is a gem and it will definitely go far this jam
I love it! The music is banging. The animations are hilarious. This game is slick in every aspect of it. I spent way too much time on this one, but well deserved.
I did find a bit of unbalance and bugs( not as a bad thing, just for you to fix later on):
I found a meta strategy of upping your two stats ( f.e muscle and reflex), Monday you train muscle (100% chance) and second you train reflex ( ?70%(I dunno the exact number)? chance). Then next day you switch them and in case reflex didn't succeeded on Monday, you will it back and more on this day. And you switch so on and so on.
Another one is that learn move is taking vigilance, but on my 0 VIG character, I didn't care and I was trying to learn move up to the point where I got all the moves that I need first day. As a suggestion, either introduce "Blacked out" level of feeling or decrease a random stat together with VIG.
That's all. I loved this game so much wanted to help! Looking forward to release to this banger of the game.
Good luck in your future projects.
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Very nice visually and the character creator is great, made the goon look like Waluigi
Super impressive for a jam entry. I made a guy with a really tall hat.
GOON-Hatty=Mchandso-H4sIAAAAAAAAClNgYGCQYACBb04MDHrODAyLnBka+oD0FSBWBGJJINYByrkAaVsgngTEBY4MDAscgJqANIPD2TNn7EAmGBsb2zMwNCBhBpAaMBsA/mwbL2gAAAA=
Hey there.
With the jam concluded now, just coming back to say I did a round robin tournament with all the goons the jam participants shared. Your guy took third place! He was very well put together.
Just wanted to let you know. Thanks for playing and sharing!
Monster Rancher meets Mafia was not on my bingo card, but this was a pleasant surprise! I love the PS1 visuals and the goon's design directly tying into their stats. For some reason, I couldn't copy/paste my goon's code in browser, but this was one of my personal favorites to play.
MY GOON
IT'S BVSSIC
GOON-BVSSIC-H4sIAAAAAAAAClNgYGCQYICBKhcGhj4nhoa5zgwMFU4MDLFAOvwwg0OEC1i6oQ3IDzgIV87QYM/AcMDh7JkzdhA2CCPLMTgAMVgcAHuOSNloAAAA
CYBERWITCH AVENGED HIM GOON-Cyberwitch-H4sIAAAAAAAAClNgYGCQYICBFU4MDgouDAwuzgwNp5wZGA44MTCIHAaqcGJo+O4MUVMPpR0cIPiBw9kzZ+zgRjA02EMwRBFMDAC7cDt/aAAAAA==
AND ARU THE WINGEDFOXDEV GOON-WingedFoxDev-H4sIAAAAAAAAClNgYGCQYACBfmcGBk8gLnBiYFB2ZmjY6MzgYOrCwJADFGtwZIAAILvHmeEAgwsDCjhgD1QDxTAAZjsAMVgcADouM1VoAAAA
This goon right here: Certified Slick!
This is insane.... very well done
Goon Rancher 👀👀
I don't understand how attack rate works, it was mildly frustrating when jackal trade attacked my goon 5 times to my 2, kinda wish there was a clearer way to tell whether a goon is going to attack or not (and maybe make it dependent on stats somewhat)
The first few stylish goons I made failed miserably, so I tryharded and minmaxed my last one:
Thanks for giving it a whirl! And thanks for sharing your goon too!
The combat system is functionally random unfortunately. If they aren't too far away or too close, they have to pick between moving forward, moving backward, doing nothing, or attacking, and sometimes that means they just don't attack. The best current remedy is leveling Reflex so they can make that roll more frequently. Sadly, I had very little time at the end for anything so I couldn't get the better logic in I wanted but that's how jams go.
Hey there.
With the jam concluded now, just coming back to say I did a round robin tournament with all the goons the jam participants shared. Yours was the best! Top ranked!
Just wanted to let you know. Thanks for playing and sharing!
Ayoooo that Mister Brickham is a MENACE ! Love bulking up my big goon. Thanks for all the fun !
Seeing the lil guys duke it out was fun. Now I know why he’s called Mr. Brickham
Very nice. Very impressive. Top notch Goon game.