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Cipher KeyView game page

Submitted by EcstaticPichu — 1 day, 22 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Cleverness#2274.5004.500
Playability#2584.0004.000
Artistic Style#3284.5004.500
Theme#6003.5003.500

Ranked from 2 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Judge feedback

Judge feedback is anonymous and shown in a random order.

  • GDD The pace is good. Nice with "highlighters" of important words. However perhaps target audience should also targered to the new players who want to learned cryptology? Nice pun on the shadow banned. Good with development timeline Game I opened the game. I enjoyed the art style, but I am confused of how I am supposed to do the ciphers? Perhaps have a tutorial area first so players can learned the basic first. Also allowed for remapping of keys (in related to esc, regain control key) but movement keys for gamepad may be tricky with this? I think there should included a cipher solver for new players to learn the game. I died many times to vigenere cipher because it required 2 letters and all the game offer was one letter. It is very cool game mechanic with cipher, no doubt about it, but does it really feel alchemy-ish?
  • Excellent bridge between dungeon delving game and ARG style. Music works well with the setting. Very clever. Make more games!

Did you include your Game Design Document as a Google Drive link?
Yes

Seriously... did you include your Game Design Document?
Yes

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

Tell us about your game!
Mechanic:
The primary mechanic of this game is the ciphers which are applied to the movement keys on the keyboard. Starting out, the player will use the standard WASD keys for movement, but when a cipher is applied, the player will need to figure out what the new movement keys are using the cipher. If they press a wrong key, they will take damage. The player can reset the movement keys at the cost of 2 hearts by pressing the Tilde key: "`"

Story:
The player wants to join a secret society that specializes in the cryptic arts. They are very picky at who joins because they will need to prove that they can handle encryptions and ciphers. Thus the leaders of the secret society create 3 floors of enchanted encryption to test anyone who wants to join. The player must get through these 3 floors alive in order to join the secret society.

Controls:
Movement: WASD (but will get encrypted during playthrough)
Restore WASD keys: ` (Tilde)
Pause or close menus: Escape

Extra Notes
We are beginners at game dev. This is the first game we've ever made and our first game jam. Our confidence in game dev has really grown as a result of this game jam! Thanks for putting it all together!

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