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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Did it make good use of the Havoc Engine? | #6 | 4.333 | 4.333 |
| Does the game seem fun to play? | #8 | 4.444 | 4.444 |
| Overall | #8 | 4.222 | 4.222 |
| Did it build on the Havoc Engine and add interesting stuff? | #15 | 3.889 | 3.889 |
Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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As a big fan of the novel Space Opera, I've been anticipating reading this book since the moment you started posting about it in the Discord. I'm really glad to get the chance to make it my last rating of the jam. Your layout looks extremely slick and professional; you make excellent use of pullout boxes, and I love me a nice drop cap. Your alien punks are very creative and the whole production gives really fun Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy vibes. The song mechanic is obviously the headliner (and really cool and innovative), but I also like that the standard Morale actions can be used to help other characters by default. Having enemies that have to be defeated to complete the objective is a clean, elegant solution to the "why not just run the objective as fast as possible" problem, and I like the Boredom mechanic as a transformation of the reinforcement rules; it's flavour-appropriate and I can see it being a useful way to speed up play. Your GM guide is the most complete and thorough I have seen of any entry I have read so far. I appreciate that you've provided the option to deal with some enemies nonviolently, but I feel like those rules could be front-loaded a bit to clue the players in that they can do it. Overall, hella punk, and a great read.
Thank you so much! Really appreciate the kind thoughts and the thorough input. And agreed on front-loading the non-violent bit of the rules; I'll put that in the hopper for the inevitable v1.1.
Between the awesome layout and super cool system I am super pumped to give this one a try soon!
Thank you so much! You're very kind. I hope you have a great time with it!
Love the setting. Immediately jumps out at you with a ton of character. The presentation is clean and I can see the effort you put into making the game feel polished.
Thanks so much for the feedback! I am pretty dang happy with how the song performances work. They are likely a little overpowered, but ultimately I think that's kind of the point.
fun setting and would be a cool Convention game. Being a band is good for the group cohesion and would be a blast with the right group. Hopefully with an expansion can lean more into the aliens aspects or a bit more scifi.