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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #318 | 4.294 | 4.294 |
| Artwork | #372 | 4.353 | 4.353 |
| Audio | #956 | 3.588 | 3.588 |
| Narrative | #1153 | 3.382 | 3.382 |
| Enjoyment | #1324 | 3.676 | 3.676 |
Ranked from 34 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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The player has a limited amount of rounds to save as many dinosaurs as possible before the meteorite crashes into Earth.
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All code, art and music was made by me during the 96 hour jam period. Only exception are textures, that were taken from Resource Boy.
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Reeeally nice art and overall style. I read the rules at least 3 times and still was not sure if I was playing it right tho :,(
Well designed, feels polished, and the art is adorable! The intent is clear after a couple turns.
One of my favorites! My best is 34. Amazing art, super fun, great music, wonderful polish. Great game!
Really nice art work and interesting concept!
fun little puzzle! i like the additions of the achievements as well to incentivise repeat plays. unfortunately, it did reveal after a couple tries, that i reckon there's a bit too much randomness for my taste if i want to reach those high scores (i think mainly with the architect, because the luck is unmitigable, and poker, because some of the cards are so pivotal to reaching those really high scores). still, fun idea, and very clean execution! i wouldn't have noticed my issues with it if i'd only played once, and if you had me coming back repeatedly, i think that's doing something right :)
Rescued 22 dinos! I love that this feels like a solo boardgame. Brilliant and fun game, especially considering this was a 4 day jam. I enjoyed this very much, will probably play a game or two more later today!
Edit: played while taking the metro and the game runs nicely on a phone. Managed to rescue 44 this time :)
really interesting idea! I loved the artwork too! There was a lot of instructions to read on how to play and what to do that I found overwhelming but still really good!
Please give our game a play and rate too!
The game was fun :D. I like the art style and music was good. The tutorial was a lot to take in though. Maybe shorten it or have tooltips focus on one aspect and highlight each role on the the first day. Overall, great job :)
very humor and cute art style, it's been fun planning and trying to save more dinosaurs, and the music is great to. Brilliant work for single dev.
I had a lot of fun with this game. It had quite a bit of a learning curve, but felt like a complex board game so it didn't take long to figure out. This would be really cute turned into a physical board game, honestly. The art style was great, and the music was very good. You did a great job all around!
This is really good! The UI is clean and the whole artstyle is super super nice. Music is really great too.
In terms of gameplay, it definitely felt overwhelming at first, but you quickly pick up what you are meant to do and it becomes super enjoyable. The RNG aspect can be frustrating at times, but gives the game lots of replayability and can often work in favour of the player, which is really neat.
Overall, a really fun game with clean visuals and great music. Spot on theme too. Great job :D
Was a bit overwhelming at first but once I starting doing stuff it made sense! I really liked that there were interesting decisions about where to use each number and that some choices made the lower numbers useful. I can tell you put a lot of love into this design and it shows :D
I think the main piece of feedback I have is that the game felt a bit undirected because the goal was simply "save as many dinos as you can". That type of undirected goal can make it hard as a player to get feedback from their actions as there's no solid metric for a "win". That may also be my fault because I've never been terribly motivated by making numbers go up XD
Other than that small nitpick I think you killed it with this one! Keep up the good work!
Music and art are great! But I didn't really understand the game. I thought I finally figured it out, but then it wouldn't let me make certain moves and I didn't understand why. Probably just a skill issue on my part though.
The ART and UI are PEAK, LOVE IT, feels so polishided, so clean, in 4 days that so good well done!
The gameplay is simple but relaxing, maybe the X on the action could become the number you hold in yoou hand?
Also loved the theme and the animation!
I like the art alot!
I am not great, but I will be back to get better!
I do like that the count down goes from 10 to 7, and then at 7 the dinos are like "lets figure this out and survive". I know its not much, but not starting at 10 is a great move
I liked the artstyle, the music, and I'm amazed at the design and polish in such a short amount of time. Amazing job.
The art is really polished. It feels playing like a finished game. Maybe after 1 or 2 rounds, I start to get the hang of it. Great gameplay and I like the theme of the game. Maybe one improvement came to my mind, before you drop the number (and do the action), could it somehow preview how many stones/food/dinodollars would I lose (it might help at the beginning). And in some cases the text might be a bit small (if not in fullscreen), maybe you could right click on an action to zoom it.
The art work made me play this game and this is actually a good one
The art style is so unique and i love the game loop as well. Really looking forward to future updates if any. this is an incredible submission
Great art! Really felt like this game is made with cardboard, keep up the great work!