| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Presentation | #283 | 4.200 | 4.200 |
| Overall | #576 | 3.653 | 3.653 |
| Creativity | #934 | 3.560 | 3.560 |
| Enjoyment | #1219 | 3.200 | 3.200 |
Ranked from 50 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?
Our game fits the theme of "roll the dice" by having random generation of characters be the obstacle to the player's success. Because the player has to respond to random generation, it is an integral part of the game's design.
Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?
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?
We created the vast majority of the music during the game jam
A very cute little experience. There's a lot I really liked about this. I liked how there was a little bit of unexpectedness when <spoiler> they explode if they hold tnt </spoiler>, and the art style was great all around. The humor with it was great as well, with some of the combinations being silly along with the dialog at the end. Also, this is a custom game engine? I assume it wasn't made during the jam, but that's still really cool. If I had to make one suggestion it's that this game concept really needed more possibilities for things to come up in the customization. Even with the game's short timer, you tend to see a lot of repeats, which impacts the gameplay.
My best score was 63
Also, I may have been looking around the game files, and I have to say I love the placeholder.png files:
I'm happy you enjoyed it, and thanks for playing! Nice score, you made it to both endings!
Yes, this is made in my own game engine (written before the jam, and used in our game for last year). You can find the source code on my GitHub page. :)
Within the jam's time limit, 2FoamBoards spent a large amount of the time and effort drawing each of the five options we have for each of the five "layers" you can change. Sadly, the 3,125 possible combinations still exhibit visual repeats within the time limit! The human brain is too good at this! I think if we were to remake this game with more time, we could do something similar to the Mii Maker, where you can move elements around as well as changing them. However, I don't know how we would encourage the player to spend time customizing them with the current time limit and goal of getting as many humans on earth as possible... Good criticism, though I'm not sure how we could address it. 😅
eyy you found the placeholder images! We used them to make sure my layered sprite rendering code was working well, and I agree with you that they are too adorable to remove haha. The banana even made it into the final build!
Thanks for the feedback! I agree that the explosions are a bit loud for when humans explode. They were originally supposed to be staggered randomly over a second or so; when I had to remove that feature due to C++ pointer jank it caused all the explosion sounds to play at once and stack the volume... whoops! Definitely something I will fix post-jam!
The penalty, which is about 1/3 of the humans, was indeed chosen to prevent spamming. In my testing, spamming the UFO with this penalty always leaves you with one or zero humans left, which was my aim so as to clearly communicate that the strategy wouldn't work. However I do agree it can be quite harsh when you have a lot of humans on the planet, so maybe making it a constant number (around 10 humans) could work better to make it less frustrating to shoot for a high score.
Anyways, super happy you enjoyed the concept and the art! Also, congrats on beating my high score :)
Thank you for playing! I hope this knowledge serves you well (wait, why do you need to know what a human looks like? are you an alien??)
Thank you!
I hadn't thought of dice as distinct from randomness for that reason, hm. What I've used dice for before is to determine a result randomly, so I associated them with randomness as a concept, but it seems that the applications of dice are wider than I had originally thought! Thank you for offering your feedback! ^^
I'm glad to hear that you had fun! This theme was tricker for us than last year's, for sure, but we were certain that we didn't want to do anything with literal dice, so I tried going at the theme by thinking about the motive behind it, which I figured was to get people to play with randomness. Good RNG is hard to do well for games, I've learned!
Hmm, this could have been explained more. Basically, you don't want to let anyone with alien parts onto the planet, as the boss would then notice you'd been tampering. The T-shirt with eyes is alien (shown on the right as "bad" in the start screen), so it counts. Post-jam, we may update the start screen to more clearly say this. Anyways, thanks for playing and I'm happy you enjoyed the game!
By "bad humans," my intention was to say that they were unconvincing at being humans. Could any "human" created by the HUMAN GENERATOR™ be truly human? I don't know. It's buggy. So buggy that the unconvincing ones explode! 💥 As for the T-shirt with eyes, because there was a motif of eyes in the alien antenna and skin, I thought that continuing the eyes motif to the shirt would help players understand that they were related. I've seen a lot of atypical clothes... Teacup-shaped mini hats, clear plastic shoes, etc. Shirts with a lot of eyes aren't that out-there, I'll admit, but I have trouble thinking of something that is. 🫠
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