I loved it !
Simple and addictive game !
The accessibility is just perfect, the tutorial is neat, I jumped into the game right away !
Congratulations !
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Who Knows the News's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Controls | #1 | 3.929 | 3.929 |
| Accessibility | #1 | 3.929 | 3.929 |
| Theme | #4 | 3.786 | 3.786 |
| Graphics | #13 | 3.143 | 3.143 |
| Music/sfx | #19 | 2.571 | 2.571 |
Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Comments
Such a unique and simple game concept - and I mean simple in the best way possible. You really focused on one idea and accessibility and you can really feel that because it's a very polished experience with a very nice scope. Also i think Accessibility is a very important factor and you did a great job! I am feeling guilty to not at least implement a mute button for the music in my game haha. Next jam! Thanks for the inspiration.
The game has some nice little details too. I love the paper sound for the UI interaction, calming, immersive and useful. :) And that the News headlines are real news from a feed makes this just amazing.
Great game!
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One Simple ObservationThanks a bunch for playing and the kind words! Glad my “less is more” strategy resonated with you to keep t clean and focused. Glad you enjoyed it - and yes, accessibility is something that can always improved. I’ve learned a bunch from what other people had done in this jam too, on things I could incorporate here or other projects. That’s a part of what makes these jams fun and improves us all.
Yes it totally did. I love games where you can see a tight and clear scope just really really well executed and polished - like in your game.
Indeed! Because of you i had the idea of implementing a "story" mode for my game after the jam in which you don't restart after falling but you just get pushed up again so it doesn't matter how good your platforming skills are and you can just enjoy the story if you want to. :)
This was a really great entry in the jam! You fit the theme, the idea is cool, unique and well implemented! I love the fact you actually get headline from the real news. I had fun playing it and having multiple ways of interacting with the letter is cool.
The biggest pain point for me was the difficulty.. The headline are quite long and often have names, which can be hard if you’re not familiar with them. But I understand this is hard to balance when using real headlines!
Congrats for your submission!
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JetfirepackThanks for playing and glad you liked it! Yup, definitely that’s the #1 feedback. For another iteration, I’ll contemplate how to balance the start better by pre-solving some proportional number of characters to the length of the headline, and potentially doing other checks to maybe ignore a-typical names or proper nouns; though that likely is less feasible especially with languages coming from different languages. Things to think about for sure!
Amazing work! Such a unique game, something I have no idea how you even approach with Godot!
Your tutorials were so helpful! Really liked how you integrated the author in the game, and kept this feeling of character all throughout! Huge congratulations!
Been playing together with my wife, so much fun! As previous comments have also mentioned, it is a phenomenal APP to use in schools and other educational settings.
You combine so many skills: touch typing, glossary, grammar and syntax as well with news! A perfect puzzle game. And 100% polished! Amazing!
Oh! Before I forget, really liked your choice of no music and just SFX. Well done!
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Sugar LumpReally cool entry. The fact that it takes real headlines directly from the internet means it is basically infinite, which is great for this type of game. From a game design perspective I'm a little divided, like, it's just scramble except you have the computer to tell you when you put a letter in its place, which allows you to scramble literally all the letters, forcing us to start each puzzle by trying out blind guesses before we can actually deduce anything, which leaves a lot to luck at the start. I don't know, maybe I'm dumb and if you read the news a lot you can guess a word by category and number of letters alone? I'm pretty sure experience helps with that blind luck at the beginning.
I also like the visuals, you took some effort to make it look like old school newspaper, that's very nice (although I'm not gonna lie I would love a dark theme, hahaha). You also counted the time and swaps it took to solve each puzzle, which kinda implied that you kept our performance somewhere, but I couldn't find it anywhere. Good job, very cool take on the theme and scramble overall.
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To Shed New LightThanks for playing! After voting ends, I’m thinking of pre-solving at least one or two characters (or, some proportional number, based on headline length) to make it a bit easier, as your experience is similar to mine where I just start out guessing. Especially for the “daily” article which, for more technical reasons than anything, don’t really have a “category” as it’s just pulling from the top news feed. Good feedback (and on having a dark theme too, hm I should consider this…)!
The game indeed saves your performance in terms of swaps and time, I just didn’t have time to display it anywhere. Eventually, hoping to create a past puzzles view so you can view how you did, open those corresponding news articles. Also planning to create a leaderboard view for the “daily puzzle” and a calendar view to show both your progress over time vs (top? average? median?) players.
This game feels like a nearly complete product. Honestly I can imagine a school of sorts to have this on their site for instance to have students play with the letters in the English lessons. Loved the finished feel and the simple yet thought out mechanics.
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Card WorldThanks a bunch, both for trying it out, but also for generally streaming and trying out everyone’s games! (I had to step away for a meeting when you got to mine, super wish I could have seen your commentary and in-the-moment suggestions, I found listening to you while you played the other entries very insightful).
Hadn’t thought about the school angle of something like this. There might be something to that actually hmm….
Interesting game. I really enjoyed how it grabbed articles to make the word puzzles with. I found that it was a lot like wheel of fortune a lot of the times. Enjoyable. This could be a great phone app. It has great replayability!
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