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ALEA IACTA EST [GMTK 2022 Game Jam]'s itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #2306 | 2.740 | 3.625 |
| Creativity | #2828 | 2.835 | 3.750 |
| Overall | #2903 | 2.709 | 3.583 |
| Presentation | #3322 | 2.551 | 3.375 |
Ranked from 8 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 play dice against your inner self
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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Comments
The setting where you play dice against some floating mask surrounded by bombs was very strange and intriguing. Even if it is short, the playing dice/releasing bomb is a little repetitive but the end where the mask desappear and you spawn dices infinitely is very surprising and creepy. I had some problemes with the mouse, not only at the start screen where I had to click bellow the button but also in-game where the cursor and the mouse where not aligned. I found the visuals and sounds were good but may be some kind of shader to make the 3D models less clean could improve the atmosphere.
Thanks for playing! Yeah, there are some problems with mouse, we saw it after the submission period, luckily, that they are not game breaking. Current game with the floating mask is like a bare minimum, that we planned, but, of course, we had no time to implement further ideas. Thanks for the tip with shaders, we will probably make use of them in upgrading the game after the voting period ;)
Fantastic, creepy atmosphere, gloomy sounds, great main character with japanese vibes. Nice replayability because you want to find the second ending. Sophisticated and even philosophical game.
Great atmosphere! I love that you force player to drop bombs as the game goes on.
Aiming the gun at myself was a bit unintuitive. I can only assume that by shooting yourself you prevent the bomb drops and the entire game is therefore a variation of the trolley problem.
I couldn't really understand what's going on and what does all of it mean, but that's to be expected for a game like this to leave you with no clear answers.
Thank you! Interesting interpretation btw, you're probably the first player (that I know of), who thought about the trolley problem. It's great, that everybody sees something a little bit different in this game, but it all makes sense and goes hand in hand with our vision :)
I like the eerie, creepiness going on, sound design especially. Hard to tell what is going on, which I'm sure is by design, for the most part. As a side note, this is one of the uncommon cases of the text going by too fast, rather than too slow.
This game has potential, keep doing it.
I love it, I mean, I want more
Thanks, it means a lot to me :)
Quite macabre and crazy game lol
Don't know if I ever reached the ending, at some point lines would repeat and I thought that I reached a loop. Is that so?
Good job doing such gloomy game.
Thank you for a kind comment! A loop is not the ending, you know you finished the game, when you see a "thank you for playing" screen :) There are two endings, but they are quite hidden, we didn't have time to work on better communication to player.
Soft spoiler: one ending requires using dices and the other one requires using a gun :)
Oh, I tried the gun one. Shot the mask sometimes, then it prompted me to shoot myself. When I tried, the gun disappeared. Therefore I thought that was it with the gun interaction lol
Gonna give another try to reach the end :)
It is possible that you ran out of ammo that time, when the gun disappeared :) Thanks for being involved and keep us updated!
Yay, got to both ends now!
Great!