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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Innovation | #10 | 3.917 | 3.917 |
| Theme | #32 | 4.083 | 4.083 |
| Overall | #59 | 3.575 | 3.575 |
| Game Design | #118 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
| Art Direction | #143 | 3.417 | 3.417 |
| Fun | #164 | 3.125 | 3.125 |
Ranked from 24 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Hi all! The top message is "I came for the jam, I'm staying for the peacefulness of the waves. I hope this letter finds you, whoever you are, in good spirits; full of life and laughter, and if not, stay a while and listen to the waves. Today is temporary." Thanks for tossing!
I was a big fan of the simple hands off approach and relaxed idea. I caught my experience on stream:
That's great to hear! Watched the clip, loved seeing the experience you had and appreciate the review :
Simple, calm, chill. I like it! Great job!
Loved the idea!
Cool concept! It reminds me of "Kind words: Lo fi chill beats to write to" (yes that's the name of the game)
My experience wasn't the best because of toxic messages though but it's not your fault.
By the way I'm wondering: are the HTTP requests encrypted?
Pretty creative idea! I wonder how many people tried promoting their submissions on here lol, well done!
The waves SFX is great. Love this kind of cozy, group hug style game. Nicely done!
Very cool, it's a nice concept and fits the theme really well. Did you know there is a 3D game with a similar concept that was made for the last Ludum Dare? https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/message-in-a-bottle I like the idea of the throw away / throw back and results, that adds a nice new dynamic to it.
Cool concept, but I received quite a few blank messages, maybe add a system that filter out blank messages. I think this fits the theme as it connects the community in a way.
Thanks! sorry about that. Unfortunately, we didn't have enough time to test, so that bug never came up for us. Thanks for the feedback!
Cool conept
I'm giving you good marks hoping that the system does indeed work and we will see the most thrown back message! Very cool idea.
Love it :)
I really like the concept! Very innovative. Is there a way to know how many messages there are in the ocean?
Yeah, we can figure that out! Might post that at the end of the jam.
Interesting idea.
Very amusing and clever idea. I'm sure lots of meme messages will be posted, though I suspect you'll also get some offensive or abusive ones that the community will likely throw away. Seeing as I don't know the first thing about programming multiplayer, just that alone was enough to impress me. Though, the game opened up in a size wider than my screen, which was a little annoying. Something to look into.
Thanks for playing! Yeah unfortunately we didn't have much time to work on responsiveness.
Neat idea!
I really like it. Makes the inner writer in me scream in excitement. I love this concept
Love to hear it!
LOVE IT
I'm excited to see what letters remain!
Let’s see what kind of writers we got in this community!