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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Usability | #2 | 4.214 | 4.214 |
| Overall | #8 | 4.024 | 4.024 |
| Inspiration | #14 | 3.857 | 3.857 |
| Vibes | #17 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
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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Oo love this one. Your pixel art is brilliant and really brings the vibes, especially the caldera map. But also your blueprint style location maps are ace and really clear.
Good luck in the jam!
As crisp and refreshing as a Granny Smith apple. I loved Rhonda and Havlan as twists on the McDonaldland characters, and the smorks are super fun! Quite a polished piece, and ready for table application!
I really appreciate the kind words!
Really proper. I am a huge fan of the map style, size and frequency. Bite size doses is probably the only way to keep a map this complicated somewhat functional for a dm. Good luck to the cartographer, but that is just the way I like it. I also think the back page is particularly strong. Two tables that pretty much round out the flavor and content for the entire package. The whole thing is pretty dense for 16 pages, but I feel like 16 pages is a pretty tight constraint and you managed to succeed in fitting a ton of flavor. If I could offer one critique -- the layout, while very clean, doesn't feel entirely functional to my GM preferences. I would have to be doing A LOT of flipping back and forth. Finally, cool Guardian Beasts / Rampage Potion situation. Even outside the jam I think this does a great job of invoking the retro game feel. Nice job.
I'm loving the finale of lava overflowing the vault! The cover, the 8-bit art, and the maps are great! Good job!
Tempted to make smorks a recurring bit at my table, such a fun design. Are descriptions for locations 9 and 10 missing? The layout and art is so clean and fun, the rampage kaiju potions are also a wonderful idea. Great job here!
Glad you like! The smorks came out of my own love of chaos at the table. I want the players to freak out when they Smorks get loud and potentially draw the guardian beasts' attention...
Those areas are simple and are covered in the mini descriptions in the main map key. If I had more space I would expand on them perhaps. I'll add it to the list of post-jam to-dos!
I love the pixel art, and since I have my own plot of turnips that I only planted once before they self-seeded and grew everywhere, I'm fully on board with a plot of turnips outlasting a dwarven settlement! I still remember Rampage fondly, so I loved the appearance of the guardian beasts too. This is definitely something I could run at my table as-is, but are there any plans to expand it after the jam? I feel like one or two extra pages would go a long way.
Wow, thanks for the comment! I'm glad you found so much to like! I'll definitely be expanding on it post-jam.
Pixel art looks great. The layout breaks everything down to be super easy to follow without sacrificing any visual quality. I love how you formatted the adventure hook with the points in time as they led up to adventure. Super sick!