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Dinosaur bone discoveries are old gold. Literally ancient and worth as much as gold in money and reputation
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Very beautiful game! Very fun soundtrack, and the concept is very solid, I loved it!
I'd say the game seemed pretty easy and unbalanced, at least in my run, all I had to do was dig up some bones, and wait for my enemy to sabotage themselves by bombing up bones until they sink their own reputation. It felt more like my enemy losing than me winning x)
But apart from that, the experience is very clean! Congrats!
Thank you for the feedback! You're very right, it's easy once you know the rules as we only had time to put in a very basic AI. Would love to add tougher enemies in the future :)
A nice brainy submission! Love the music jam. Felt right for the tactical pace.
Thanks! We actually brought in our composer Isaac part way through the jam when we realised none of us had time to learn how to make music (lol), he really came through for us.
Likewise, the composer on our team worked magic I would be lost at.
Very nice game! I loved a tactical-based entry, with a peculiar but fascinating theme! :)
Thanks! We went into the jam wanting to make a tactics game because we (as a group) have been on a Fire Emblem kick lately, this ended up being quite different from those games, but I think it is for the best.
Very fun game! It looks amazingly pretty, controls really well, has great music and since I'm a dummy I didn't read the explanation for the game but I still could gather what was going on in the screen. My only complaint was that text progressed too fast but that's alright! I can see a child version of me getting lost in this game whenever I'd get bored. Great job!!!
Thanks! I am glad that it was still somewhat comprehensable without reading the instructions. The complaint on the text is totally fair, we didnt get time to have people outside of the team testing it so I think we got used to the quick text because we already were familiar with it. The concept that a younger version of you would have enjoyed the game is so lovely, thankyou.
Cheers! If we update this in future I'd definitely want to make some of the text pass only on a button press rather than time out :)
Quick to know the controls, fun turn based mechanics but would like a more challenge haha. Also missing Pass all button. Visually it was impressive, love the character portraits.
Thanks for the feedback, totally agree on the criticisms, both were things we discussed but just didn't have time to work on. We are hoping to make a patch some time in the future that will improve these issues (and others) but we were happy getting a working game out in time lol.
Cheers! If we update this in future those are both high on the list, more challenging AI/maps would definitely be cool.