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A jam submission

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Timing Based JRPG
Submitted by MysterySeed — 3 hours, 39 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Cleverness#934.0004.000
Theme#1044.0004.000
Artistic Style#1094.0004.000
Playability#4873.0003.000

Ranked from 1 rating. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Judge feedback

Judge feedback is anonymous.

  • Nice game! The storytelling is good and the story implements the theme pretty well. Nice job!

Did you include your Game Design Document in your downloadable files?
Yes

Tell us about your game!
The theme "its spreading" inspired the mechanics for the game and story.

For the game: It is a turn based RPG where you have a second resource to manage: "Disease" You lose if it hits 100%. The idea is to encourage the player to not waste turns and be motivated to learn to take down the enemies effectively with a resource that is constantly ticking up encounter after encounter.

For the story: The story features a tree that is growing, thus spreading, and taking over a town. The tree has created this disease and its up to our hero to chop it down! This is a prologue to a longer story.

Also, I was inspired by fear and hunger. Each enemy has a unique set of limbs and weaknesses. Even though I made it, I found myself finding new techniques on how to defeat enemies while taking less and less HP and disease damage. Combined with the dance that comes from needing to "Queue" actions instead of executing them immediately and it becomes surprisingly fun and deep!

Did you remember to include your Game Design Document?
Yes

Is your game set to Public so we can see it?
Yes

Extra Notes
Thank you! (:

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