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Historically Accurate Game Jam 5

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A jam submission

Attack Of The Emus (The Great Emu War)View game page

Game based on the history of Australia and The Great Emu War - Game was made within 2 days
Submitted by GentalGiants — 5 hours, 14 minutes before the deadline
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Attack Of The Emus (The Great Emu War)'s itch.io page

Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Thematic Relevancy#603.4293.429
Graphics#642.8572.857
Gameplay#662.4292.429
Overall#722.5712.571
Historical Accuracy#732.7862.786
Audio#941.5711.571

Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

On what countries' history is the game based ?
Australia

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jonathanmccSubmitted2 years ago

I managed to install the game via the itch app.  Didn't seem to be able to shoot anything with Left Mouse Button. The top down view was well done - I would have liked it zoomed out a little bit more so I could see more of the map - otherwise you need a mini-map display or choosing where to go is just guesswork. I think the white birds were the emus - I thought there were geese at first - they didn't move or do anything and I couldn't shoot them - did I miss something?

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Scéal - The Story Of Ireland
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wessloSubmitted2 years ago

The emus are pretty cute. Also, I love the idea of this game, I always thought the great emu war was an interesting piece of history. That said it's sometimes a little hard to understand what's going on, I would suggest maybe an audio cue to guide the player in the direction of the invading emus? 

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halfdan
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GentalGiantsDeveloper2 years ago

That's a good idea, i was struggling to think of a way to alert the player, i was thinking an arrow that grows the closer they get but I went with a slightly simpler method of just having a single entry point towards the farm. 

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Tymedust GamesSubmitted2 years ago (1 edit)

I tried downloading both versions but when unzipping them I got some kind of unidentified error, no idea why (hasn't happened before, so I have no clue what might be wrong). If you look into that and fix it I'd love to try the game later on. :)

Edit: I got it to work using the itch installer, strange. Had some fun shooting emus before my house (?) magically disappeared lol. XD Enjoyable overall, the graphics were cute too.

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The Skirmish at Bender
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GentalGiantsDeveloper2 years ago(+1)

The farm still needs a model and a restart screen was needed for when you lose haha. I'll make sure they're all added to fully complete game.


Glad you got it working too and thanks for the review. 

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jonathanmccSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

I got the same issue - I was able to browse through the zip contents, but cannot extract the files to a folder.

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AleshaniSubmitted2 years ago

Quite fun ! But a little hard!

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Your Majesty
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GentalGiantsDeveloper2 years ago(+1)

it's even hard for me haha. I forgot to change the amount of health that farm has. Thanks for playing the game!

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sergioriosuSubmitted2 years ago

Quite challenging, and fun

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The Hunt for Che
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GentalGiantsDeveloper2 years ago (1 edit)

That was an honest mistake, i forgot to increase the health of the farm before packaging. I ran out of time to really add a few other things sadly but thank you for playing, i learnt a couple of new things this time round(my goal each time i make a game).

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