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A jam submission

The Ooze That BindsView project page

A level 1 ShadowDark adventure for the Shadowdark 8 bit Game Jam.
Submitted by DiceWrought Tales — 5 hours, 42 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Inspiration#383.3573.357
Vibes#433.0003.000
Overall#512.7622.762
Usability#551.9291.929

Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted

I love the cover art! The vege-kin and fruit-kin are so cute and the game of Janken as a way to resolve things is wonderful. Interesting  mechanics with the Tomcats.  This is a very creative entry! Good job!

Submitted

The inspirations shone through loud and clear. The Veggie kin were great. I’m not a big fan personally of adding new mechanics, so I felt the Tomcat system was a bit overwrought. I would love if you perhaps just referred to boat rules and spent the extra space on expanding the adventure itself. The illustrations are charming, add more!

Submitted

I'll get my gripes out of the way first because then I want to talk about how cool this is. I think the way the information in your entry is organised is hurting it. Info tends to be is scattered over various pages, and it feel like there's a lack of consistency in the overall format/structure of the adventure. Restructuring to consolidate related info (for instance, all the tomcat info) into single spread would be a welcome improvement.

Okay, now what I love about this.

Love the anthropomorphised and plant-kin ancestries. You let me play as an anthro-turtle zipping through a sewer on a skimmer and that is seriously awesome.

I think there's a solid foundation here for a cool setting, but there's only the start of it present in this jam entry. The sentient ooze sewer is a location I want to know more about! It would have been really awesome to see something like a point-crawl for it. I also think the Oozetown Corpos are a great faction that could be doing all kinds of nasty operations in said point-crawl. There's lots of potential!

Overall this is a rough gem, but it is certainly a gem.

Submitted (1 edit)

This is cool! I honestly had a bit of trouble figuring out what was going on, and I'm still not sure what traveling on the Tomcat entails. But i still dig the concepts and I think this is a worthy submission. You should be proud!

Submitted

Really enjoyed the Tomcats!