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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #15 | 4.526 | 4.526 |
| Story | #31 | 3.842 | 3.842 |
| Aesthetics | #72 | 4.105 | 4.105 |
| Overall | #73 | 3.842 | 3.842 |
| Fun | #89 | 3.711 | 3.711 |
| Mechanics | #90 | 3.579 | 3.579 |
| Music | #123 | 3.579 | 3.579 |
| Sound | #186 | 3.263 | 3.263 |
Ranked from 38 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How many people worked on this game in total?
1
Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
Yes. There is a credits page in the game where it is listed.
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What a lovely game! Haha I love the attitude of the people being like "hey yo the hare's talkin' smack, we gotta help our world tortoise out!" Okay that's not what they said...but I love the vibe, which the music was perfect for, and I really loved the first two minigames (especially the second one, with the cups).
Where you kind of lost me was the memory card one, and especially the baseball one. I don't love the memory one because all of the "gameplay" is happening in the span of a few seconds as you memorize some cards (though thankfully it's easy enough to memorize one row and steer sparingly). The baseball one did not explain itself, and it felt random which side the "ball" would go. I suppose in both cases my critique can be boiled down to "RNG."
I wouldn't mind either of these things if there were checkpoints.
But critiques aside, I'm still very impressed with this one. That's a lot of minigames to implement in such a short span! Awesomely done!
Very impressive for a one man work. Interesting mechanics of undirrect control. Cach the theme of Jam very well. Great work!
Cool game! I really like the concept of having the minigames influencing something else as well as the variety of minigames. The graphics and audio are great & give the game a nice, cosy vibe. Good job! :D
Nice concept and cool minigames! Liked it a lot! Just couldn't get past the homerun minigame, hahaha! I'd suggest to maybe add a checkpoint system to save the progress every 1 minigame or 2. Congratulations for your entry!
This looks fantastic and love the tortoise idea (I love tortoises and had a pet one in the past), only problem is I couldn't work out the first minigame for ages then when I worked it out I had run out of time to play any further. Shame as looks like you had really put a lot into the game. I'll try and revisit after the jam.
I'm a first time game jam entrant and what I've learned in this jam is that as there so many games it is better to err on the side of creating a game that is easy to grasp and play quickly as often people only have 5 or 10 minutes for each jam game.
Great concept and a unique idea. Game itself is super cute. It was a little hard to control though, but I guess thats part of the challenge! Great entry!
This is such a solid game! The artwork is really good and the game fits really well with the theme. It's really impressive how you made 5 mini games for it and the way they all interacted with the race was really well done. It was a little unclear on what the first minigame was doing at first but once I found out it was fun. Overall a pretty fun game!
A very cute game with some fun spins on minigames to work with the race. Go turtle!
That was a really cool wario ware kinda game! Fits the theme really well, but boy was it HARD on a couple of those mini games xD I beat it though!
Nice game! I like the mini-game style, reminds me of WarioWare. Great use of the classic tale as motivation to win the games. Took me a few tries to get used to the balance mechanic. Great job overall :D
Thanks for playing my game. Yes, WarioWare and Mario Party were definitely inspirations.
Great game! loved all the mini-games and it's super cool that you actually made them very unique!
Thanks for playing and for the compliment.
very unique idea, love all those minigames :D nice job!
I'm glad you enjoyed the game. Thanks for playing.
Super cute game and unique mechanics. Well done!
Thank you for playing my game.
Great work, a nice concept. You didn't make just one game you made lots of games, that must've been a lot of work to get done in time. Well done!
Oh yeah, making those games took time. Also thinking of appropriate games took a while as well.
Thanks for playing.
nice work! multiple mini games in one.. and a nice story behind it. I enjoyed it.. honestly took me 1 go of confusion to work out what I was meant to do and then went back and read the instructions better. The baseball game felt not quite responsive enough, i felt like i sent a lot of people to the right, but didnt move enough to the right. Was good fun and well put together
Thanks for playing.
Yeah, all the games could have used more tweaking, clarity and from what I've been reading, some difficulty adjustments. Normally my kids would've been my game testers and would've told me what was wrong with the game (they don't hold back), but unfortunately I was working too frantically to get the five games built.
Great idea, well done!
Thanks for playing my silly game.
Nice job in making this cute little game. Love the way you incorporated the theme.
Thanks for playing!
Great job submitting a game to the jam! You did a lot in just a week! I really like the idea of the mini-games and the mechanics were fun. I keep getting tripped up on the memory game XD. Great job!
Thanks for playing and your feedback.
Loved the arts for the game however I can't fully experience the game as it become laggy in my pc. I realised that this happen in few others game too.
Oh, I wonder what's wrong. You're the first I heard that had an issue with the game. Well, thanks anyhow for trying to play it.
It looks very interesting but even after multiples times trying I couldn't figure out how to play the first mini games. I've read the comments below so I understand it was your goal to make people figure out, but in that case it could be interesting to add a clue system for people like me that is available after a certain number of tries, to prevent frustration.
Thanks for playing and your input. It gave me an idea. Since modifying the game would be counter to the spirit of the game jam, I instead decided to add some additional information to the game page. Under the controls, I gave a stronger hint towards what the play may need to do. I hope that helps provide the player with enough direction. Unfortunately, I won't be able to make the game easier, as people have found the minigames too difficult...