Game felt very polished, and the animations were great! Nice job!
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Work-Life Balance's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #2 | 4.412 | 4.412 |
| Gameplay | #3 | 4.235 | 4.235 |
| Overall | #4 | 4.100 | 4.100 |
| Innovation | #8 | 4.088 | 4.088 |
| Audio | #14 | 3.794 | 3.794 |
| Graphics | #34 | 3.971 | 3.971 |
Ranked from 34 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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GitHub repository url
https://github.com/Stiggstogg/balance
Comments
First attempt: 25,000 points.
Really cool game—well explained, very dynamic, and great art too!
With more modes, this could go even further. Maybe add more levels with different work/life tasks.
Perhaps even unlockable skins or outfits for the dancing character, or other activities.
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The Unbalance LabMy record from the first attempt is 20578, from the second attempt - 29724!
The fact that you create music yourself is really cool in my opinion! Graphics and music create a great atmosphere! The gameplay was also fun and interesting!
The most difficult thing for me was the mistakes in the words, since I don't have such a good level of English, but in any case I think I gave a decent result from this work, but the numbers are what I played well on :). Dancing was also fun and easy, but mowing the grass... Life didn't prepare me for this :).
Also a good fit for the theme!
I thought that if added a cooperative mode, where everyone has one of the sections to play, it would be fun, and then we need a table with the best results to determine the best team :). After all, when you are alone, it is difficult to balance, but when there are two of you, it is much easier and you can focus on only one thing, by joining forces you get twice as much! And if each team member chooses what they are stronger at, then that would be absolutely amazing or random :D?.
It was fun to play, congratulations!
P.S.
After reading other people's records, I thought I should try again, my new record is 34974 :D.
P.P.S.
And one more - 36473 :D. Let them beat 35k+ now :D.
But what I noticed is that your eyes get tired quickly because you try to look in different directions - it's not good for your eyes :).
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BalanceWow, thanks a lot for playing my game and providing the nice feedback. Yes, maybe the Coop-Mode could be a thing :). I had already some friends of mine playing it with two people and they got a score of 40k :).
Wow, your points are amazing. For your first tries the points are already great, but your 36473 is the highest points I have seen so far, when it was played by only one person. Congratulations. Happy to hear you had some fun trying to beat the highscore!
Good gameplay, good music and a good implementation of the theme. I reminds me my first game idea, I loved it.
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Accountant Simulatorso far my absolute favorite-it forces you to confront the idea that you can’t multitask your way to success
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GameDevJs 2025 Jam - Ramen TycoonReally clean implementation of a terrific idea!
It’s easy to imagine expanding this with a wider set of minigames.
My best so far: 31066
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Dot's Wicked GardenWow 31066 is fantastic. Everything above 20‘000 is already very good but higher than 30‘000 is excellent 👍. Well done.
Yes, the initial idea was 6 mini games, but at some point I decided to cut the scope and focus on providing 4 mini games in a polished way.
Thanks for playing and the nice feedback!
Great game! Love the interpretation of the theme. Ended up getting 32208 points.
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Prophet's ChoiceExcellent game! Lots of fun playing this one!
The music, graphics and animation is so much fun! Good that the timer is visual and not numbers!
Quite engaging and frantic game! Loved it!
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President's red cap (open source)20238 pts, I was so bad at maths haha.
This game is very charming, loved it, well done!
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Noodle HuslteCool! Everything > 20‘000 is already very good! Agree in the Accountant game I am also pretty slow. At the beginning I even had 3 digit numbers, e.g. 435 $, in the calculation, but realized it was a bit too difficult. So I changed it to two digits and just mutiplied it by 10 to make the numbers look a bit bigger.
Thanks for playing and your feedback!
What an awesome, well built game! Really well made, easy to know what you have to do. Smooth interface. Loved the visuals - somehow innocent, but really well polished.
Amazing work, I love it!
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Balance FISHThanks for the nice feedback an playing. Especially happy to get nice comments about my visuals, as this is for sure my weakest point. I tried to keep it simple this time and I think it worked very well. Even if I want to, I cannot do better 🤣. A game changer was AI. I asked AI for some inspirations and art concepts. Then I took it from there and drew it on my own based on the AI art as inspiration. This way I had a nice starting point but still could ensure it is consistent.
Amazing game! The mini games are really fun and well thought-out, and even though there's only 4 of them, I still had a great time playing your entry. The graphics are wonderful, and the music as the game totaled my points had such a wonderfully happy vibe. Overall, this was an amazing entry, and I'd love to see a full game like this :)
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Slimy ScalesThanks a lot for playing and the nice review. Yes 4 mini games are not much. Initial plan was 6 (3 work and 3 life) so you have 9 different combinations. But I think you know how it is in a game jam 😝: At some point you need to cut on scooe and I decided to rather deliver 4 polished mini games than 6 unpolished ones.
how hard it is to do 2 things at the same time, cool interpretation of the theme, I liked it
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