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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Creativity | #175 | 4.073 | 4.073 |
Presentation | #182 | 4.317 | 4.317 |
Overall | #277 | 3.886 | 3.886 |
Enjoyment | #1053 | 3.268 | 3.268 |
Ranked from 41 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?
It's a classic Dice game.
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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Your game looks really good, and the concept is nice, but I have NO IDEA how you're supposed to win. I understood all the mechanics, but the best I managed to do in 6 turns is like 30 or 40 points. It's unbelievably hard, I don't know why you put that turn limit. I think a butter way to go about this would have been to let the players take all there time, but display the number of turns taken at the end as a score.
It's too bad because I think I would have enjoyed playing around with your game.
I tried again after reading some comments saying they managed to do it, but nope, couldn't do anything. If you post a video of a winning game on YouTube I want to see it, because right now I can't believe that game is winnable.
I liked the presentation and concept a lot. The puzzles are also really nice. Great job!
Interesting concept and artwork. It took me a bit to wrap my head around the mechanics but it was very enjoyable once in the flow.
Game has a very unique artworks. Very different gameplay from all other jam games. It reminds me potioncraft and some micro management games. Overall I like it. Nice work ^^
Nice puzzle and I love the aesthetic.
Thanks!
I loved this game's visuals.Good job!
by the way could you play and rate my game?
Great puzzle game! I loved the artwork and the theme, and I really appreciate that you took the time to implement a good tutorial. Very polished and enjoyable game overall, good job!
Thanks for playing :)
Really creative game, the art and audio is also quite polished. The puzzle is a little more then what I had time for but could see my self coming back to this in the future.
Good work
Glad you like it! We hope you try again soon :)
As a fan of puzzlers, This game really wrinkled my brain :) It was really fun learning the mechanics and had such a rush of joy after finally winning!
Glad you like it! Thanks for playing :)
Really cool and fun game, I really like the artstyle and the sound design, but why is the name German? Either way it was really cool to play, nice one!
Haha two of the team member had lived in Viena for a while (we are based in Madrid currently) and we though of wordplay between the german article "die" and the singular of dice "die". Then we saw the game was kind of taking references from Potion Craft, so calling it the "the pharmacy" using that wordplay seemed like a good idea! The other german word was just kind of fun to use, so there it is.
Glad you liked it! =D
Oh I didn't even think of that wordplay lol, good one!
To be honest, the German name just sounded cool in our heads hahahahaha. Thank you for playing!
Really really good game, I opened it up and got immediately overwhelmed, but the tutorial explained everything nicely. the art is absolutely gorgeous and the music calming and fitting. great job!
=D
We are glad the tutorial fitted you. We are aware it is a bit too much to process at first.
Thanks for playing!
Oh! We're glad that the tutorial was helpful, we were a little bit worried in that regard :_)
Great visuals and an interesting premise. A cute combination of Potion Craft and Roll. The tutorial was good at explaining such a daunting screen at first glance. Awesome job!
Potion Craft was our exact reference when thinking about the game, yes.
Thanks for the kind words =D
Glad you saw the Potion Craft inspiration hehe. It was high in our inspiration-list
This is a very adorable, fantastic, puzzle game.
I did get frustrated by the lack of clarity of some of the mechanics. I was never sure exactly what a given spot was going to do and how it was going to affect the controls. (I used the ability that let me re-use a recipe... and I wasn't sure why everything was highlighted in red... and then I clicked on something and I lost the round)
Overall, though, the music sound and art come together to make for a very calming experience. Incredibly well done, fantastic puzzle :)
Had to come back to this after re-reading my review. This game is excellent and top-notch. Its so good that I got frustrated by a minor lack of polish detail.
Really, sincerely, well done.
Thanks a lot!
We are aware the game lacks clarity in general, we have tried giving some hints and guidelines in the description, but I just think there is too much to process and it need a super tight UI design.
Very glad you like it, thanks for playing =D
Thanks for the elaborate feedback! We're glad that these polish tasks we couldn't get our hands on didn't ruin your experience in the end. Thank you for playing :)
Felt really clever when I finally won over the cauldron!
Congratulations on your great game =)
Thanks for playing!
Nice! I'm one of the programmers and I'm still struggling to win once :_)
Very cool!
One of the best games played in this game jam
Thanks a lot for your feedback!
=D
Glad you like it :)
At first I was kind of struggling to find out how everything works, but it was worth it. It's quite satisfying, it has got a nice design and it's not easy to succesfully finish it.
I hope you stayed long enough to work it out and beat the cauldron =D
Thanks for playing!
Thanks for playing :)
This is an amazing game and a fantastic submission for the Jam! Once I figured out the mechanic where the right column was reusable I was able to find a strategy to get the +3 dice and +1 turn. Two small glitches: There's a +2 where it only gives +1 (not a big deal) and the dice covers the cauldron (and the score). Super tight game!!
Yes, the dice covering the cauldron is a bit annoying.
Actually you can right click the dice and it goes directly into the cauldron (avoiding so the bug).
Thanks for your feedback!
Thank you for the feedback! That's a nice strategy you have right there, glad you enjoyed it :)
Very good. It seems incredibly daunting at first, but it's fun to puzzle out the solution with the mechanics. I haven't "beat" it yet but I'm going to keep trying!
=D
Let us know if you manage to beat it!
We hope you figure it out hehe. Thanks for playing!
Best game of the jam for me so far. I really liked this. its a very tough and interesting puzzle. There is a bug where dice get stuff on the cauldron.
We discovered the bug after the submission :(
Thanks for your kind workds and your feedback!
Glad you like it :). And thanks for the feedback!
This game is intense and beautiful and relaxing all wrapped into one. Well done!
It took a minute to figure out how things worked, but once I had that it was so enjoyable to realize the depth of options open to the player.
That being said I couldn't win, no matter how I tried. I still had fun though! Thank you so much for the absolutely amazing game.
Edit: after reading some of the comments I realized a mechanic I had no idea existed and I went back and won. Felt sooooo good. =)
So glad you gave it another try and won =D
Thanks for your kind words!
Niiiice. Personally, I'm finding it pretty hard to win, maybe I should also check some more strategies in the comments hahahaha