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How does the game fit the theme?
You play as an undercover agent in the mob. You cant trust some people, but most of all they cant trust you.
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
Audio (Music), portraits are composed of cutouts of other images, one icon and some patterns are from asset pack
How many people worked on the game?2
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Very enjoyable game, great visuals (I was 100% sold upon seeing the cover art). Works really well as a bite-sized version of Reigns or similar games (though it has enough of an identity to stand on its own). The writing is also nice, I had fun seeing what happens if you let each of your stats drop to 0.
It took me couple of tries but I got all the evidence. The UI and game feel is really snappy so good job on that! The writing is funny and made want to just see all the choices that there were.
The text was bit blurry tho on my screen not matter how I zoomed. You could try to enable the “Full screen” option in the “edit game” -options on Itch.io. That could help if it has something to do with the web player scaling.
But overall the experience was great and I enjoyed the art and music :ratJAM:
Thanks a bunch for playing and the advice! This was our first game jam and didnt even know about the itch io option for full screen. Ill definitely turn it on because there is so much reading in our game and if you cant see the text there is no game hahaha
It was a very pleasant experience. The UI is very responsive and cute. The art is very charming. Nice entry!
Im glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for playing our game.
haha i found so funny the little rats in costume, well done !
Hahaha thank you, it was a funny thing we thought of last minute. You are a rat, the mob are mice and the police are cats.
i loved this game and its music is so nice : )
Thanks for playing our game! Im glad you liked the music!
I loved Reigns, and this game reminded me of it a lot. Great job!
Thanks for playing! Reigns was definitely a big inspiration for this one. I've been meaning to go back and give it another play because it's been so long.
really nice visuals and music, nicely done 👏🏻👏🏻
This was a blast, I actually felt really conflicted with the choices, however some of the choices feel a little too certain, in the sense, oh I know I can lose sanity because I have N units of sanity greater than any potential sanity loss. Do some actions result in more than one unit of loss in a category? That would make some choices more risky and force more thinking.
So happy that you enjoyed! There are choices that result in more than one unit of loss in a category near the end but they wouldn't shake you if you came in with the right stat balance. It was hard to find a difficulty that would keep a general audience engaged while also not frustrated. The goal was to set up situations where you'd sometimes have to compromise idealism and choose whatever choice would keep you afloat. However, like you mentioned, there are times where your choice becomes uninteresting because your safety net is too big. The game Reigns keeps things interesting by having capped bars also result in a lose condition. I can see why that was an important part of the design now.
This is a really fun game with the music and artwork! I know game jams keep things limited, but this is a really nice base for a bigger game.
Thanks for playing! There's definitely a lot more depth that could be added outside of the time restrictions of the game jam. I particularly wanted sub quests aside from collecting evidence on Big Tony. That way, you'd have to balance your choices between even more allegiances.
Solid overall, wait times between choices feels a bit too slow, especially when replaying, but pretty enjoyable anyway
Thanks for the feedback! I replayed it again and i definitely agree that there could be a faster mode, or perhaps even just "click to skip" to the end of each animation.
edit: Actually, our click to skip that is already in game is broken/bugged TT
Good submission!
It fits the theme really well, but I feel like it could use a bit more... fun?
Since it's a narrative game, I think you could try adding more than two options when the player has to make a choice. You could also add some jokes to make the game a bit funnier, or maybe add some ambient sounds to make it feel more serious and immersive.
These are just suggestions, though! You did some great work. Nice game!
Thanks a ton for the feedback! This was my team's first Game Jam ever, and we were so worried about time we ended up making the game play a bit too shallow hahaha
But we think there is so much more we could do with the idea that we are open to all suggestions. We were thinking possibly adding cards that get added based on which cards you selected, multiple chapters with increasing intensity scenarios, perhaps more characters for replay attempts, unique evidence etc.
Yess those are nice ideas indeed! Great game for your first time!!