I loved the concept! Also, your names all look like Brazilian names, so maybe we're from the same country... :)
My only feedback is a bit similar to Perita's... I felt I didn't have enough information to guess the right cards (the icons and colors mostly didn't seem connected to the conversation matters for me) so it *felt* like it was playing randomly when I actually had to guess the right cards... but I still enjoyed the dialogues...
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Concept | #2 | 4.400 | 4.400 |
| Graphics | #3 | 4.200 | 4.200 |
| Theme | #3 | 4.400 | 4.400 |
| Overall | #5 | 3.767 | 3.767 |
| Story | #6 | 3.400 | 3.400 |
| Audio | #6 | 3.400 | 3.400 |
| Enjoyment | #9 | 2.800 | 2.800 |
Ranked from 5 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Did you use any optional theme? If so which one?
Retro
What game engine did you use?
Unity
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Hi! You're right, amiga ...we're all from Brazil. :D
And yeah, we know that sometimes the connection between the symbols and the answers is a long shot...but as a prototype, we couldn't polish it more. But at least we hope you had some random fun! :)
Thank you so much for the valuable feedback! We are already thinking about improvements, and your points are really consistent.
The glossary does help! (maybe you could also add the card color)
I was still a bit surprised with the wisdom and potion cards outcomes in some cases, felt more confident in guessing the right cards. Maybe because of that sometimes I felt I had a really bad deck in my hands and there was no way I could win that specific character with the deck I had... Maybe that was intentional? :)
3 years ago(+1)
Yes, there's more luck than strategy at the table...it's a very casual "card game". You're right!!! :)
But all the feedbacks are very useful, thanks again.
3 years ago(+1)
Thanks for your feedback, Perita.
About the cards: they have different effects when used in different NPCs or questions.
But they were designed to generate the same dialogues when used in the same question or NPC.
The challenge is trying to guess or imagine which result the card will get on a specific question, considering
the matter and the NPC personality.
I think it helps a bit, but i still sometimes get confused.
I captured an example and i am going to “transcribe” my thoughts, so you can decide if there is really something confusing, or it is just that i am too dense, which it might well be.
At some point i had this screen:
And this was my reasoning:
I want to save the wild card for later, so not that one. Not the brew card because there is no drinking or magic involved in this situation. Wisdom card is hard to tell, because it is “common sense” for whom, her or the wizard? I’ve been bitten by this before. Seems that attack card is the best, because in a previous run it worked when she asked me “what kind of dangerous gigs are you cooking up?” and the response was some kind of dish specially for her.
I chose attack, and the response was:
I am pretty sure that the problem is me seeing the two situations, the one with the food and the one with other party-goes, as more or less “the same”, and expecting that i could use the same card for both.
Sorry that i can not be of much more help.
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