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A jam submission

Sinister SidekicksView game page

Create your supervillain dream team by hiring villains to destroy your worst enemies, superheroes.
Submitted by MattressD, Trigonious — 5 hours, 56 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Concept#34.5384.538
Overall#123.8923.892
Presentation#164.0774.077
Relevance to the Theme#174.2314.231
Gameplay#243.3083.308
Immersion#303.3083.308

Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Credits
Aside from the background music, all assets were created by MattressD.

Trigonious graciously helped to juice the game up a bit near the end of the jam.

External Credits
Background Music:

Corona by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com
Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

How did you/your team interpret the theme?
If we're not the hero, we must be the villain.

Or perhaps we're just an aspiring villain, dreaming about the day that we defeat all the superheroes.

How was your/your team's experience in this jam?
I really enjoyed building the random character generator, which pulls different body parts from a sprite sheet and layers them together to form something that looks like a person.

I think the silly characters make the game a lot more fun than it deserves to be and I spent a lot of time playing it just to see what they would look like.

If I had more time, I would add additional sprites to increase the variation in the characters. And I would spend some time developing a more interesting superpower system between the heroes and villains. Something that goes deeper than rock-paper-scissor mechanics.

Content Warnings
Crude humour?

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Comments

Submitted

It has a good concept and the art is good and the music. I just think it's too complicated and I never managed to win but instead always was defeated. D:

Submitted

I really like the concept here, nice work! The randomized descriptions and character depictions are also pretty fantastic. Gameplay was also an interesting take on rock-paper-scissors mechanics.

However I do have a few issues:

  • Sometimes you get a choice between villains with seemingly no good counters for the current hero. There should be a shuffle button just in case this happens, as otherwise you'd effectively be forced to take a complete dud villain.
  • One time I got a hero who had flight twice. Seems like a bug.
  • It'd be nice if after you win, you'd get reasons why the powers you chose beat the hero's powers. This could be part of a meta-game where you fill in the chart by playing over and over again, and you could introduce more powers after you fill in parts of the chart.

Still, the game's pretty fun, and absolutely deserves a more expanded version.

Submitted

Very good concept! Keep supporting it!

Submitted

The concept is super cool, would love to see a full version with animations etc... love the art and the music too !

Submitted

I love this concept! Would be nice to see an updated version with more randomized backgrounds/descriptions. You did a great job on the portrait randomization!

Submitted

There is so much potential here! I absolutely loved the concept. I would love to see this developed further with more mechanics and scenarios. Really nice work!

Submitted

Very unique game! Some of the bios and descriptions were pretty funny, I see a lot of potential there for a lot of good humor. 

It can be hard to tell what directly counters what. In theory, the mind control description seems like it would just win any fight, since there seems to be no limitations on its "difficulty" to use. I think having more in-depth descriptions would help with understanding what something really does, and what is needed to counter it. 

There is a lot of potential here for a full game like this. Having more complex mechanics eventually, maybe like multiple hero's to take out, or even getting 2 of a certain power with your villain's can make a combo. 

The art is very nice! Reminds me of papers please. Audio is also good, but im not sure if it fits the theme / gameplay of the game so much.

Submitted

I like the idea, music and artstyle, but as it stands the gameplay is too simple. Still great work tho.

Submitted

I like this idea a lot. It seems like a good foundation for the real game. Humor is nice as well. I enjoyed reading descriptions and played multiple rounds just to read more.

Developer

Hey Dmitry, I'm really glad you enjoyed the descriptions. They're one of my favourite parts as well and I plan on adding more soon. Thanks for playing!