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A jam submission

No rats were harmedView game page

A game about observation and cheese.
Submitted by Bardt — 13 minutes, 39 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme Interpretation#34.2624.262
Overall#73.7223.722
Presentation#94.1674.167
Fun#382.7382.738

Ranked from 42 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted

I liked the interpretation of the theme here and the gameplay is somewhat unique. It took a bit to understand that I had to run the experiment with one of the medicines and then "grade" but when I understood it I was like "oh, duh". Would be interesting if you could administer drugs in specific orders to get it to react in the right way to get to a goal or something, but that might be kinda a different game.

Submitted

Really interesting game. I had a fun time with it. One issue I had is that I felt like I was guess and checking towards the end. I had a hard time understanding “promotes a healthy appetite”. I think it was because I would normally expect a mouse to eat cheese even without any drugs.

Submitted

One of my favourite interpretations of the theme so far! I love the concept!

I think that one thing I might change is to combine the list of beneficial effects and negative effects into one list, and ask the player whether a medicine improves or makes a particular effect worse. It wasn't clear for example, what the difference was between 'reduced anxiety', normal, and 'increased anxiety' - as far as I could tell, the rat was always scared of the cat except when the 'reduced anxiety' medicine was given.

Submitted(+1)

it was hard to understand for me, but fortunately you provided some hints, nicely done. I wish this game had sound effects, the only missing part

Quite nice looking game. I really love the graphics.
The game mechanics are not obvious.