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A jam submission

ProtagoNestView game page

Who decides who gets to be a video game protagonist? You! A video game protagonist!

Submitted by Jordan Han (@ThatGuyYouDK) — 17 hours, 16 minutes before the deadline

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Results

Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Gameplay	#1	3.266	4.000
Theme	#1	4.082	5.000
Coherence	#2	3.266	4.000
Graphics	#2	2.449	3.000

Ranked from 1 rating. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Mouse123Submitted4 years ago(+1)

My blood pressure has increased by 80% due to playing this game. Very stressful, and the feeling of defeat is amplified by having only one shot of failure, but was very enjoyable.

Pros:

Simple to play, hard to master gameplay
Nice aesthetic
Humorous writing
Spent 5 minutes playing with the up/down buttons on the main menu

Cons:

Font can sometimes seem too pixelated, making reading harder, especially under a time limit
Not knowing what was incorrect is a little frustrating
Descriptions can rarely seem incorrect, but are correct, causing a failure
Button randomly changing can lead to a unfair failure

Overall, very fun to play with only a few minor problems

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Jordan HanDeveloper4 years ago (2 edits)

All that feedback is fair. If I were to recreate the game, I'd probably make the things that hold text a bit bigger from the outset so I could make the text larger (as it is, font choice and size were restricted by what I could fit into the boxes). I'd also probably offer different font types as another accessibility option.

I knew there'd probably be problems with descriptions, so I can look over those to make sure I've programmed them right and written them accurately (they should be okay, but I could be wrong). And the button changing can cause hell.

When testing, it took me 26 tries to win - 16 of those were because I was wrong, and 9 of them were from last-second button changes (the other was a misclick). I know the struggles, and would try to reduce this a little bit in a different version of the game.