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A jam submission

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After years of burning coal, came the heat. The last survivors ride on a train, followed by the deadly light of the sun.
Submitted by MaverickHorn (@MaverickHorn) — 5 hours, 14 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Presentation#744.5044.504
Creativity#944.2194.219
Overall#1014.1334.133
Enjoyment#3853.6753.675

Ranked from 228 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?
You are burning dice to roll with a train

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

In a melancholic way, this was really quite beautiful, aside from the art looking gorgeous. I only wish there were some more train sounds to give me better feedback for how well it's going, how close to slowing to 0 is it etc.

Submitted

Really great presentation and unique gameplay idea, the difficulty ramps up nicely. The only thing i could think of that could possibly be changed/added would be to add alternate controls, I found it rather hard to keep up once the game got difficult, however i dont know if this is a case of "get gud" xD

Submitted

A unique idea and awesome presentation! This game got an amazingly smooth learning curve. The only problem I had was telling how fast the train was going. When I noticed it slowed down it was already kind of too late - but maybe I'm just bad :D

Submitted(+1)

I like the graphics and this is probably the first time in the jam that ive seen someone do this for the theme. You see a lot of rougue likes and puzzle games where you roll the dice in this jam so seeing something like this was nice as it gave me a nice calming break from all the other games that played similar

Submitted

A very interesting concept with a beautiful landscape

Submitted

Great game! Very interesting concept:)

Submitted

Damn this is so unique and well presented. It was also surprisingly fun with such a simple mechanic and before I knew it I was super engaged. Well done!

Submitted

Incredible presentation and jam game entry, overall!

Submitted

Really great entry to the Jam. The whole mood to game was very immersive and I wanted to keep playing to find out what happens. The mechanics I felt were fairly easy to understand and didn't take me too long to work out was going. 

One of the best things about this game in my opinion is the balance. Each time my train was almost grinding to a halt and I just managed to keep her going, I was physically cheering.  The only thing I am sad about (not docking marks) is that this wasn't a longer experience. I would love to see this with a more levelled progression with the introduction of new wagons which behave differently with the dice and make you have to rethink how you manage them. But as for a Jam experience this was the perfect format.

Great work. 

Submitted

The best I've played so far. Well done!

Very nice concept! 

Submitted

Wow. The presentation is phenomenal!
Didn't get far with it as I couldn't figure out what to do with the dice. Kinda feel like you guys made this game work with the dice mechanics, but you could switch those out with something else and have a far better game for it. 

Submitted

very immersive! I like your approach to the theme
too bad I am terrible at it hehe

Submitted

This was a really interesting game! I had a lot of fun! The comments in the middle of each sort of "level" to give progression was really cool! Good stuff!

Submitted

Fun game with an interesting idea.

Submitted

Fantastic aesthetic, and I love the world setup. Gameplay is a little simple and I eventually just stopped playing after getting my fill.

Submitted

I played this game for a while and I really enjoyed it... After some time I managed to survive longer and I thought how does the story continue? Is there a way of finishing the game or is this endless? anyway... it is a fun game and I especially like the calming background music!

Submitted

Very interesting and enjoyable gameplay, the increase and the split mechanic without the decrease is really clever. The combination of pleasing colors, calm but tragic music and little snippets of the story and world building make this a truly artful game.

Submitted

Great and engaging design. All the options are neat to get the right dice, really well done

Submitted

Wow, amazing game. Simple graphics and gameplay but it's also challenging to find the right dices fast. Good job!

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