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A jam submission

Truth vs Lies BattleView game page

A (very basic) Pokemon style battle where the honest player must defeat their lying opponent.
Submitted by HoosMcGoose (@osianhooson) — 48 minutes, 59 seconds before the deadline

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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme#1843.3753.375
Innovation#2193.0003.000
Fun#4112.7502.750
Overall#5692.3962.396
Game Design#6982.1252.125
Graphics#7152.0002.000
Audio#8831.1251.125

Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted

I like the concept but the game is missing a lot of functionality, like when I killed the other player the game continued even though it said "Player 1 wins".  I would have also liked some music and sound effects. One thing I liked was the attack animations of the other player, but you should have also made them for player 1

Submitted

I think you nailed this theme !
I really dig the concept of catching a liar with some pokemon battle system. With some more time and some art direction, you have in hand a new type of rpg/investigation game, I would definitly push the thing forward !
Cheers

This is a very nice proof of concept. I reckon that this would make a detective/crime investigation type of game. It really fits the prompt really well and fighting against a liar's tactics with the power of truth was really fun.

I managed to render the opponent's health bar down in about 10-11 turns with a chunk of health remaining. But the game seems to continue on with the opponent  starting his attack even after the game was over.

This then caused the win screen to change Player 1 Wins into Player 2 Wins.

There's a lot to improve upon this game but mostly needs:

  • A massive graphical overhaul;

Command prompts are a little hard to read.

Some attacks have animations while others don't.

It's mostly just two non-moving stick-figures on a warm pastel purple backdrop (which is understandable with the amount of time you had to make it.).

  • Sound effects and Music

Some other things you can add:

  • More commands to equip and use
  • Possible ways to play as a liar character

Overall, you got a really great and simple idea that is willing to become an even greater game. 

Congrats on finishing your game on time.

Submitted

This game was really funny hahahaha

I'd have preferred the letters on the attacks were a higher size, it's kind of difficult to read.

Other than that, fun game!

Please, check out our game if you can. It would mean a lot to us if you rated it!

Submitted

I like how you used a theme for a game. Also I hope to see more games from you in the future.

I have a bit of nitpicks also: 
Being able to know what each ability does would have made life easier.
Text is a bit too small to read.
Audio would have produced a great feedback for player.

Developer(+1)

Hey Nick, 

Thanks for your feedback and encouragement. I agree with all your points! This one was slow going, and so isn't quite in the state I would have liked. But I learnt a lot getting it to where it is so that's great.

As for the theme, I was stuck on what to do for a while. Then I started thinking about idioms and phrases surrounding honesty and dishonesty, and this gave me loads of ideas for characters or abilities or boss fights. Maybe they'll make it into another project.