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A jam submission

Holy MatrimonyView game page

Joined Together in the Holiest of ways
Submitted by Nattland Interactive — 20 minutes, 15 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Overall#734.1304.130
Presentation#924.4114.411
Originality#1354.1564.156
Fun#2453.8223.822

Ranked from 90 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
The game is about joining people in marriage and uses a connection mechanic to do this. Both mechanics and thematics are about joining together.

Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?

Yes

We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam

Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?

No

We used pre-existing audio

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Submitted

Very nice game! nice concept and art! Good job!

Submitted

This is how I imagine the daily life of a marriage counsellor, attempting to facilitate love between two obviously incompatible people whilst dodging crossbow bolts fired by eligible zombies. 

In all seriousness though this is a really impressive game for a 48 hour jam, especially the art which must have taken a lot of effort. I love the polish and detail on the spritework, the church scene in particular is really beautiful. I like the original game mechanics and I think it'd be really cool to see a full story mode following the tragic plight of a lonely cupid surrounded by his successful matches but with no love to call his own. Great job!

This is a well polished game with a humorous story line, and well drawn pixel art, and the photos at the end of each round were particularly sweet. The difficulty curve sits nicely between: not too easy and not too hard; which is valuable in a game jam, because if it’s too hard I will just move on out of frustration, and if it’s too easy I’ll move on because it either stayed easy for the remainder of the game or it didn’t ramp up the difficulty soon enough.

The final boss was great fun, but it would have been nice to do something other than just avoid them the whole time, as they were pretty easy to weave around. Perhaps give them more projectiles and faster movement, minions or obstacles?

The only other improvement to make is more levels, but the number you provided is well above my expectations or what others should expect of a 48-hour game jam. If you wanted to do more polish and a couple more levels outside the time pressure, then I’m certain people would fall in love with this game, particularly if you introduce new rules for the bonds mechanic as the game progresses.

Overall, a great entry into the jam. I would be surprised if you didn’t make it into the top 100. Excellent work all!

Submitted

Very nice. Very round game.

Very good game mechanics idea, which including the obstacles (monsters) made it even better. And the monsters are targets as well, thats good.

I like that you match anybody and that the wedding dress and the suit can be on anybody.

Very very good graphics.

Submitted

xD Oh my god this was too cute! I like that you can just marry off anyone to anyone,  it made some of the pictures really funny and adorable.  I had a whole inner dialogue going on xD

Submitted

Great game with so much polish and amazing art! I really liked having a reflection on Level 1. And also a nice concept, there are few games that use the same concept, but this one presents a polished experience

Submitted

There is so much polish in everything here, it's amazing!! Even small details like the reflection on the ground inside the church add so much. The bonding mechanic itself is also super original! Well done!!!

Submitted

I liked how I could pair anyone I wanted! I found myself deliberately trying to pair orcs and humans just for fun! Sweet game!

Submitted

Interesting concept where you have link up people! Nicely done!

Submitted

Really neat idea, and gorgeous pixel art!! Cool combination of some kind of puzzle-action mechanics. Definitely could see this getting expanded to a proper-length game - and I'd play it, too!

Submitted

Looks really nice, the art is great. Nice job

Submitted

Extremely well polished and neat entry. Perhaps its just a little easy, but you did a phenomenal job!

Submitted

This is such a beautiful and funny game. Loved the art, loved the concept, loved the tiny priest forcing people into marriage. Just loved it.

Submitted

This game was enjoyable to play. The different enemies did a good job at making it harder as time went on, and I liked how the last boss worked. I think that marrying people gives you hearts is a good design choice.

But most of all this gaming humorous and charming. I loved the big mustached man and seeing the ending pictures of everyone either looking uncomfortable or happy. Really funny!


You pixel art was fantastic too. Really really good.


My only negatives is that I wish there were more environments, and the game is still relatively easy to beat. Wish it was harder!

Submitted

Cool idea, music and gamplay match soo well, great job really fun to play :D

Submitted

This game is well-presented, with nice graphics, music, and a lot of humor. :) I really enjoyed playing it.

The mechanic is quite unique and interesting, however my only suggestion would be to explore some ways to make the player consider some things when "matching" the people. Oftentimes I just find myself mindlessly dashing through everyone and matching them with whoeever is nearest and that usually does the job. It would be more interesting if there is some mechanic that forces the player to formulate some strategies.

Overall though I think this is an amazing accomplishment for a jam so a real good job! :)

Submitted(+1)

The photos are so great! I like the synergy of gaining health by making matches, very elegant design

Submitted

Holy Sheep, i love the wedding pics!!!

Submitted

Very funny! The photos were a lovely touch. The whole game was so cute!

Submitted

great art and really fun my fav part was the wedding photos though

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