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A jam submission

Broken PotionsView game page

Submitted by GooseWithAMissile — 4 hours, 19 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme Integration#1503.0003.000
Innovation#1802.6672.667
Fun Factor#2902.0002.000
Overall#2992.0742.074
Art#3032.1112.111
Gameplay#3421.6671.667
Sound Design#3971.0001.000

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

How does your game bring our theme, The Error is the Feature, to life?
broken potions leans into chaos with its simplistic yet buggy mechanics that will macke you want to cry

Did you include a fake publisher splash screen at the start of your game?

Yes

Did you use the Audius API in your game?

No

If AI was used in your game, let us know how you used it.
no ai

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Comments

Submitted (2 edits) (+1)

The art was nice, although i couldn't figure out so much what to do. 

The player movement works well (although the path finding seems to not like the rug lol), however the player still moves and registers while menus are up. This caused the potion screen to keep popping up. 

The ui is nice, although on the materials one it is not the correct size, it is too big and covers the screen. 

Regarding the knowledge value, it seemed to not be correct when i went to the materials, i thought i would have enough points but then find out it is actually less. Also, why did i keep getting jump scared while clicking lmao, it did give me a boost of points though Lol.

But yes, the simple and buggy mechanics did make me want to cry, so good job on hitting the theme Lol. Well done for a first game jam entry. Gg

Submitted(+1)

It's a great idea! But I was a little annoyed that pressing buttons while in the menu caused the character to move, which sometimes took me straight to another tab. Keep working!

Submitted(+1)

This is a really neat idea, and I think with a bit of polish it could be pretty fun. I was having trouble understanding the recipes, and tried quite a few combinations. The amount of knowledge needed felt a bit too high to achieve. All in all, really great entry to the jam. You are doing really good for being new to game dev. I like what you're doing so far! Keep it up!

Developer

thanks a lot for the words of encouragement and i’ll put the advice you gave me into my next game i’m working on now

Submitted

I tried so many things but still couldnt figure out how to get materials to the cauldron, guess it servers the theme very well haha

Submitted(+1)

Pretty fun as an idea but I do wish clicking wasn't such a necessary part of the alchemy shenanigans. What I did play though was buggy as hell and I'm a fan. Now I'm off to flashbang myself with the sun potion again.

PS - You have my kind of humour. Please accept my heartfelt condolences.

Developer

thanks for the comment i appreciate it and will try to improve on the mechanics next time i work on the game 

Submitted(+1)

Mass chaos, I have no idea what the point was. Nice fit to the theme, seemed very broken.

Developer

haha thanks i appreciate it, you described exactly what i was aiming for.