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Spindle's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Seriousness | #736 | 3.636 | 3.636 |
| Visuals | #1007 | 3.485 | 3.485 |
| Creativity & Theme | #1140 | 3.485 | 3.485 |
| Overall | #1385 | 3.145 | 3.145 |
| Enjoyment | #1484 | 2.939 | 2.939 |
| Audio | #2401 | 2.182 | 2.182 |
Ranked from 33 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Congrats on your first game / game jam! This has a super unique art style / look with the bold black and red. I think some of the major upgrade balancing was a bit off. Sometimes, as soon as I got to a level, it felt like I could already move on to the next one. But that may have just been that I grabbed a weird order of minor upgrades. I liked Admin!
I like the red static visual of the game. It's really interesting.
Spins the spindle. "Yes, you grinding wheat". Oh ok.
Very interesting spindle game, ended up having it moving on its own tho.
Cool minimalist art style!
Also, I like the dystopian commentary from "Admin".
It adds a lot of personality to the experience.
I liked the coloring and the art style of everything. I wish I didn't upgrade the last time because I could spin it faster manually lol
super fun and on theme for the game jam!
I honestly love the 1-bit art style and cookie-clicker style narration. Super fun incremental game. Solid work for your first game jam man!
The use of color and silhouette was very striking and I like how it was flush with the itch page. Besides that, marginally more interesting than your typical auto clicker game and the audio was kinda annoying, could've maybe used some upgrade sounds or something, cute game!
A decent game! I like the commentary from the little fella up there, though the incremental loop is kinda janky, the controls to grab the spinner to spin could use some work as it sometimes takes a while to accept my mouse inputs and also with the fact that the audio of spinning gets repetitive quick and is quite jarring when it auto stops one you stop spinning, but besides that visually its a pretty nice looking monochrome game, nice job!
Let's say that the game became self aware lol. Very cool! It had me hooked. What does the Gear upgrade actually do btw?

Commentary was okay but I am in LOVE with the style:
- Solid incremental game, wouldn't say there's anything too novel about it, it might be a bit tad too involved for an incremental game
- The intentional use of just 2 colours is REALLY GOOD. I cannot stress how much I love the art in the game. Great vibes!
I may not have given it enough time to get interesting, but I gave up pretty fast. It looks interesting, and the commentary seems interesting, but I’m doing it on a laptop without a mouse, and that isn’t fun for my hands. If I could do it with a joystick, it’d probably be easier.
Very serious for my wrist !
I enjoyed it, might be good to add how much seriousness you are getting per spin




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