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A jam submission

Hive MindView game page

A dungeon crawler where your whole party shares one brain!
Submitted by soozafone — 2 hours, 8 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Originality#14612.8464.500
Overall#17522.4243.833
Adherence to the Theme#17842.5304.000
Design#18941.8973.000

Ranked from 4 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted

I feel like it only misses some mechanic to make it a bit more game, it is super hard not to murder all your friends while you were trying to heal one, but it's an intersting mechanic, if understanding how to move, make friends and all was easy enough, it wasn't really clear what i had to do and that the acutal challenge was trying not to kill my friends, which is too bad cause it's fun to cause self destruction.

Maybe you could trying using a grid for the character movement, as it would make everything more about strategy than trying to block people on the edge of a block or having issue because they pushed each other into the walls (happened a few times that i got someone stuck inside one)

Also, the end shouldn't be hidden as there's no time limit, threats other than yourself or treasures lying around, exploration isn't really attractive, before i found there was a place to end, i thought that i had to try and recruit everyone, and that it would only end when all the people alive are my friends.

Submitted

The file works.

I didn't try out the wizard, but I made it out with 5 "friends". 

I think the instructions were insufficient. Using wasd is not obvious when the known buttons are j and k. On top of that, all the characters on the screen initially look the same, so testing out each possible control method is harder (due to not knowing what is supposed to happen. Also, figuring out that new "friends" need to be injured first was confusing.