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Amelia vs the Goblin MafiaView game page

An action-adventure deck building game

Submitted by StandOffSoftware (@standoffgamedev) — 12 hours, 42 minutes before the deadline

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Results

Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Graphics	#21	3.268	3.444
Enjoyment	#25	2.951	3.111
Audio	#26	2.951	3.111
Overall	#27	2.881	3.037
Concept	#29	3.057	3.222
Theme	#31	2.635	2.778
Story	#33	2.424	2.556

Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Did you use any optional theme? If so which one?

Didn't use an optional theme

What game engine did you use?
Unity

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Vance

Comments

tenori-noriSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

Amazing visuals, looks pretty stylish. The music sets the mood nicely and the story seems fun, hehe. But yeah, it's hard to play, so I failed a lot and mostly just tried to run away from my problems instead of fighting them (ah wait, I do that in real life, too. But this time I'm talking about enemies in the game xD)

Gameplay mechanics seem interesting, so with some balance this game might get really enjoyable to play. And I think your project fits "magical realism" theme pretty fine. (Although personally I would interpret it in more... symbolic way? But only because of how it was worded in gamejam's description).

Anyway, urban fantasy with goblin mafia is a cool setting :D

So... fun setting, badass story, amazing graphics. Good job!

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Memoriae Morior

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AleshaniSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

As other already said, it's really difficult. But the visual are pretty and the music fits well. I'm not sure is magical realism though. With some balancing, it would be really really awesome but in the context of a jam, it's not always easy to do. So really good work !

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For a Lifetime

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StandOffSoftwareDeveloper2 years ago(+1)

Thanks for playing! Yes, we researched magical realism but it turns out it's a surprisingly difficult thing to pin down. After playing the other games, if we got it wrong many others did too, so at least we're not alone :-D

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WordyRobinSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

Man that music really got me ready to kick some goblin butt! Unfortunately, the opposite happened... a lot. But I like the concept, it seems like it could be a really fun game with a little balancing and maybe a tutorial or something (or maybe I just need to git gud lol). Nice work!

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String of Hearts

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StandOffSoftwareDeveloper2 years ago

Thanks for playing! Indeed we need to start easier and ramp up the difficulty more slowly, as well as balance things better. We are working on improvements to be released after the jam voting.

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unlostpixelSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

The combat is interesting, but the skills take too much time and it leaves you without a combat option for a long time, and since there are no checkpoints, you have to go through that long text intro a lot. The art looks a bit over the place, since it's different art styles and resolutions. I think with more time, this has the potential of being a very interesting and fun game, hope you keep working on it after the jam. Congratulations :)

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Serendipia

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StandOffSoftwareDeveloper2 years ago(+1)

Thanks for playing! Yesterday it occurred to me why people think the card draw is slow. We start you out with Punch and Kick abilities but we do not explain them at all. Or how to swap abilities (You talk to Lee). The Kick ability does a good deal of damage for an early ability but it makes you skip your next card draw. So if you use 3 kicks in a row, you skip your next three card draws. It is intended to be a bad ability that the player will swap out as soon as possible, but we don't make this clear enough.

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unlostpixelSubmitted2 years ago

Ohhh, that makes sense and sounds pretty interesting! It'd be a good idea to explain it in game :)

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A. V. DossowSubmitted2 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

Pros

Sprites look pretty cool! The main character's design loos pretty good!
Very dynamic gameplay.
Sound effects and music were good and fitting.
I think the theme was used in a good way, although some may argue that this doesn't count as magical realism so it's more of a subjective opinion.

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