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A jam submission

Mind the MinesView game page

Minesweeper but you're the smiley
Submitted by hakkthazard — 4 hours, 15 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity#884.3564.356
Overall#5493.8423.842
Presentation#9303.8473.847
Enjoyment#13093.3223.322

Ranked from 59 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?
Minesweeper with the roles reversed; you play as the smiley, and have to prevent the "player" from making mistakes.

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?

Yes

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

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This is a really fun take on the theme. I'm ultimately not sure whether my influence was helping the 'player' very much! But it was great once I realised what was going on.

Submitted

genius, very simple but requires quick thinking which is typically untrue for minesweeper! It took just a few seconds to understand the controls, but after that it was super clear.

Submitted

VERY simple and effective, feels like wrestling for control from a friend who just refuses to learn how mine sweeper works. Awesome!

Submitted

Highscore 130! As a person who played to much minessweeper I feel understood! Took a second and some buttonsmashing until understood but I really love it!

Submitted

Fun way to make minesweeper even harder and kinda stressful because  u have to focus all the time. Still, minesweeper has its own problems which make the game harder to enjoy :D. but good idea anyways

Submitted

Fun concept! The game was simple enough but still had me thinking! While I did find the controls to be a bit slow compared to the player's mouse, the game was interesting regardless. Great work!

Submitted(+1)

Interesting ideas! I'm still playing minesweeper sometimes so i really like ti! Nice entry and well done! :)

Submitted

Interesting idea. Feels a bit too slow. A bit annoying that pressing up or down in windowed mode would scroll the screen. There is a bug where if the player tries to place a flag when 0 flags are left, the game would freeze (at least that's what I think caused the freezing).

Submitted

Most creative idea i've seen yet! Quite difficult for me considering I suck at minesweeper

Submitted

I like the concept, but I think it could have used a bit more tutorialization. And I feel bad for anyone trying to play this that doesn't know how minesweeper works, haha.

Submitted

Superb idea! Super stressful to play though, but enjoyable nonetheless.

Submitted

This somehow combines minesweeper's usually relaxing gameplay with fast-paced decisions. Very well done!

Submitted(+1)

This was WILD to play. Probably the best representation of the theme I've seen so far, hands down.

Playing this game is a nightmare though lol. I'm not sure how you're supposed to be able to influence the cursor to NOT do something, but even then, it felt like the lack of communication on which space the cursor was going to made this like 5x harder. I know that kind of frustration is intended though, so it didn't influence my rating that much ^^'

Overall, the concept of this game fits the jam PERFECTLY, and the helpless nature of watching someone else blindly stumble through a minefield is effortlessly executed.

Submitted

Really cool approch to the theme! I hope this game gets mentioned in the video! Great entry 5/5

Submitted

Amazing idea, and after stumbling trough the beginner map and failing, I'm terrified of the giant fields in the screenshots.


You did a great job on the ai, making it seem intelligent enough for a lot of its moves but still making enough mistakes for you to fix.

And because of the simple idea you get a lot of mileage out of very little assets too, pro jam move

Submitted

Great game and super unique idea that distills the idea of role reversal down to the core. Good work!

(and great choice of game to build on hahah)

Submitted

Seems like I'm not the only one that built a game based on minesweeper :O

AI playing the minesweeper was a very creative concept, mashing the keyboard to make it not choose the wrong tile was pretty funny.

I wish there was an option to 'force-click' so the waiting time could be reduced. Would like to see more with this concept!

Submitted

Super creative and a cool take on the theme. I had a lot of fun!

Submitted

I was fearing this was going to be a little too similar to what I made but I have the pleasure to announce it's actually way better than that. This game is fantastic in the sense it both amuses me in a meta way and drives me insane. 10/10 would watch my little nephew play minesweeper again.

Unfortunately for as much as I love this game I can see it being mostly a gimmick due to how slow it feels and realistically not having much way to speed it up without ruining the concept. It's definitelly an S+ in creativity though. Including a beginner map was a great call.

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