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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #266 | 4.143 | 4.143 |
| Overall | #1696 | 3.357 | 3.357 |
| Enjoyment | #2531 | 2.857 | 2.857 |
| Presentation | #2624 | 3.071 | 3.071 |
Ranked from 28 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?
Normally it is user who is being influenced by social media content. Now the role is reversed - player controlls the algorithm and tries to influence other people.
Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?
No
We used pre-existing art
Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?
No
We used pre-existing audio
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Really interesting idea. I could see this being very cool with a little more time, but what we have right now is cool.
Neat concept, and enjoyed that it was a game with something to say. Sometimes a bit frustrating because, after playing through a few times, it seems like there's a limited pool of tweets and sometimes you just don't get the correct ones for the user you're influencing, and I couldn't figure out how to at least mitigate the user's boredom in that case. I still wish there was more of the game to play, though, so I'm glad to hear that you're planning to continue developing after the jam!
Thanks for playing!
Some notes from developing - initially we had an idea that user should have at least one "good" bidLE in the pool. Good meaning increasing agenda score and reducing boredom. Then we switched to only agenda score and it was still really easy to win and hard to lose, but the pool of birdLEs we tested back then was really small. And after adding more birdLEs we changed the idea so the birdLE you get are totally random right now. That might have been not the best one we had but at least player could now lose sometimes :D
We will probably play with the ratio of good to bad birdLEs and the size of the pool so it is not as frustrating at the times ;D
I really enjoyed the concept of this one, and it's a very relatable one too. Could see this making quite an in-depth experience if developed further!
Thank you! We will try!
Funny take on the theme, I'd say.
Thanks!
Really cool concept! I feel like this even has the potential to become something bigger, like a Not For Broadcast of sorts. Anyway, really cool take on the theme! :)
Thanks for saying so! We will do our best to expand this project ;D
Clever take on the theme and it's interesting as well! Would love to see this get expanded in the future!
Thanks!
Really clever idea and message, glad you've decided to continue working on it! One idea for your consideration is to have an exploratory phase where you go through the user's profile to figure out their traits rather than having their traits given to you, might help with the repetitiveness that games like this usually suffer from if the game is split into two phases. Having an overarching plot would be awesome too and really drive home the message. Can't wait to see more!
Thank you! That is awesome idea we would love to do, but we will need to think how to implement it and based on what player should decide what traits that target have. This will require some brainstorming but I would also love to see it in the game some time ;D As for overarching plot - just wait :)
Wow, what a great game! Very smart too! Well done.
Thank you!
that was fun, very cool idea!
If you make a post-jam version maybe it would be a good idea to let the player know why the boredom level goes up or down, because that wasn’t always very clear for me.
But yeah, good job man!
Thank you for playing! That is one thing we had in mind and did not have enought time to add before the end. Like some kind of turn summary that will tell you how if you matched any traits or not. We will be sure to add it to the next version :
I hope you will keep working on this, because it is a very interesting idea for gameplay! As for additional content I would love to see birdLE users with difficulty varieties, some of them easy, with traits right there in their descriptions, some harder where you have to deduce what they are like from maybe latest birdLE's they liked/shared or some other data? Maybe they bought something recently? Maybe they signed up for some newsletter? That would definitely spice up the game :) Good luck with the jam!
Thank you! We certainly have it in our plans to have some kind of difficulty progression as the game continues. Thanks for ideas how to make it so :D
This is a really clever concept and is both a fun experience to play and has a strong message about social media. I think it would be great to polish the interactions a little more as this has a lot of potential!
Hi, thanks! We are going to polish it more after the voting ends. We didn't have any time left really during the jam and were on brink of falling asleep standing :D
I loved the idea, and I hope you can polish on this concept more, because a game like this could hopefully make people be more aware on how the algorithm can affect our worldview if we aren't aware. I guess my only comment would make the texts more simple to make it easier to the player to act quicker, at least considering that this version of the game is short, but interesting concept overall. Great work :)
You are right we should start we something that is easier to find out what is going on. That is a very good idea to add as a tutorial once we get it to. Thank you! We are glad you liked the game!
Nice idea, it could be developed with a lot of depth and make a really interesting game.
Thank you!
at first i was a bit confused by the amount of the information, but turned out everything is quite clear! or i hope so :D
i love the concept, was fun to look for the right tweets. wish there were more tweets and targets to influence!
I am glad to hear that you sticked and tried playing it. We were so afraid that people will be scared off by this wall of text of a game. Glad you liked it after all, we will try to add more content and make it more friendly after the jam!
Concept alone is great! If you would put more writing and a better UI this game can easily become a hit!
Thanks you for your comment! We will try to create more content and better UI after the jam. It was our first game and we are by no means artist so it was a bit hard. But we make sure to update it later!
Clever game, I could see this being a big success with some extra content and polish.
Thank you! We didn't make it in time with content and better UI and polishing but we will certainly update it after the jam is over!