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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #937 | 3.788 | 3.788 |
| Creativity | #1611 | 3.879 | 3.879 |
| Artwork | #3054 | 3.424 | 3.424 |
| Audio | #3312 | 3.030 | 3.030 |
| Narrative | #7285 | 1.970 | 1.970 |
Ranked from 33 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
The whole game is a countdown: count a number down to exactly zero before the timer runs out, then do it again from a higher number.
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Music: "Chill Gaming Relaxing Ambient Background" by Matio888 — https://freesound.org/s/797765/ — License: Attribution 4.0
Sound effects: react-sounds (game/hit, notification/completed, arcade/level_up, arcade/level_down, game/miss) — https://reactsounds.com
Background pattern: Hero Patterns — https://heropatterns.com
(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
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Really fun and interesting game, I think it would be nice if you could cancel picking up a card and putting it back for example if you clicked it by accident.
the interface is so neat and the game is really polished! i know i'll be coming back to play this one. need something to keep my brain gears turning
I wouldn't mind if they used this to teach me math all these years ago
Interesting game, the limited hand size with no look ahead makes it really hard to plan ahead what to do though. Also not allowing the player to go below 0 is a bit weird since I was told to hit exactly 0, but there's nothing saying I couldn't go below, and then use the addition cards to get back up
This is a super well-paced and well-polished product. I wasn't expecting all that to work as well as it did, but I never found myself with a particularly bad hand that I couldn't use if I stopped and thought about it. Amazing work!
This is excellent and very addictive. Simple and incredibly polished and makes your brain work hard and actually makes math fun with is incredible achievement by itself.
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Good entry for the jam!
The game is simple but very fun, it's a bit frustrating to lose because you went below zero, it would be very fun if you cold go below zero, the game feel is very good and I enjoyed a lot playing it! :3
Congratulations! ^^
Simple and fun! I enjoyed playing!
this one was had me LOCKED IN. It was really stressfull and it felt sooo good when a card appeared that subtrackts your exact number.
Sound is very irritating, but concept is fun
Very fun puzzle game with 2 count downs. That should count for something I think. Great job!
I like the concept, but the nature of a random deck of operations means you can just get stuck with a bunch of duds that don't help, and you are unsure of what will be coming up. Maybe if you were always guaranteed at least 1 subtract/divide/addition each to ensure you have a bit of variety?
Thanks for playing the game and thanks for your feedback!
Yes. I thought about that and working on something similar. I did not have time to properly add this to the jam. but I will add it once rating period is over
Wow this is great! Amazing design and very addictive. I agree with the other guy, if I had this on my phone it would be at the top of my screen time chart. Definitely keep working on this after the jam.
Thank you for playing our game!
I am already stoked and working on a mobile game. more polished and more fun
I played this way longer than I thought I would.
You really nailed down that addictive feeling.
When playing with the mouse you sometimes play a card instead of discarding it, probably because when you hover over it the card scales up and you aren't over the X anymore.
This is really a great feedback. great catch. thanks I will work on this feature.
Another math game with interesting take on countdown. I am more surprised by the fact that you made it with react and typescript lol. You must be amazing front end developer lol.
I can see myself playing again and again.
Feature suggestion: Display upcoming cards (this would allow to strategize even more, like if current value is 18 and there is divide by 3 and upcoming card contains subtract 6, then we could use divide by 3 and wait for subtract 6 to show up)
Yes. Thats a great suggestion!!. I will add this feature once I am allowed to update the game!.
Put this on mobile and let the money roll in!
Fantastic game for math nerds and gamers of all experience levels. Very addictive!
Tiny note: The sound effects are way louder than the music, can be quite jarring.
Thanks for playing our game!. I will work on the audio. BTW, Your submission is cool
Thanks! All credit goes to theChief, I just did the music :)
One of the best games I played this jam! Please make a fulldeckbuilder version with items, new cards, and modifiers that support different builds sinergy, all centered around reaching exactly zero on the countdown. I'd love to play that!
Such a simple concept, but incredibly fun to play!
Thank you so much!
Very easy to get into and good use of the theme!
Once I started using the number keys I ASCENDED.
This is a good waiting for the bus game that you can pickup whenever, I think it'd be a great fit for mobile.
Nice work!
thank you so much for trying out our game!.
Wow this was way more fun than I expected!! really gets me focused. In my opinion though it should maybe let you go to negative numbers. And it should let you view the remaining cards in the deck. Still overall very nice and clean game.
Thanks for playing my game