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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #1 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Humour | #1 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Use of items | #1 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Overall | #3 | 3.400 | 3.400 |
| Story | #4 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| World | #5 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
Ranked from 2 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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A very clever little game. I like the number of actions and the modifiable items. In a small room with only a few items it feels like there are lots of things to try. Variety in the scientist action makes it interesting as she responds to every single move you make.
I had to play through a few times before I got any job offer at all and still feel like there is more to it. I'm going to play a bit more before I rate it.
One thing I did notice - and I'm not sure if its intentional it not - but some of the math answers will give correct and incorrect responses for the same command. e.g.,
>math, 1
Weird but accurate!
Incorrect, that number is not the solution to any of the equations.
Thanks! I had a lot of fun writing it. I spent a week (maybe a little more) before the jam reading all the Inform 7 documentation to make sure I was limited by the capabilities of the engine rather than my knowledge of the engine.
I had a really hard time figuring out where to set the threshold for job offers. If I'd been able to get more playtesters I could have fine-tuned that a bit. However, it sounds like you played long enough to get an offer, which is what I was hoping for.
If you want to make sure you're getting the full experience, I have two recommendations. One, check out the action list in the help menu if you haven't already, and then try those actions with various items. As you said, items are modifiable, so you may get different results based on things like whether the item is wet, where the item is, etc. Two, figure out what the math is telling you, if you haven't already figured it out.
That thing you mentioned with the math is definitely a bug. The math should either give one or more correct responses, or the math should give an incorrect response. I just checked the code to confirm my suspicions: it's a misplaced else, so the incorrect message shows up in more situations than it should (but the correct messages show up only when they are supposed to).
Excellent, I'm going to play through some more times tonight and see what jobs I get offered!