The game mechanic is really smart, but I think there should be some kind of tutorial or explanation either in the game page, or in the game itself.
God save the Queen (bee)
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BUZZ OR BLAST?'s itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Aesthetics (Art or music) | #8 | 4.083 | 4.083 |
| Innovation | #11 | 3.417 | 3.417 |
| Overall | #16 | 3.531 | 3.531 |
| Your personal opinion | #21 | 3.208 | 3.208 |
| Use of the chosen theme | #30 | 3.417 | 3.417 |
Ranked from 24 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Title its based on
Don't Shoot the Monster!
Any pre-made / AI assets used (if applicable)
no
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BzZzzz: That means I did not understand this game and then I read your comment explaining how it works and I find it to be very clever. Maybe it was simply the fact that the + and - values weren't prominent in the animation, so I didn't even really recognize them as important or how they were tied to the responses (maybe I'm just dumb, but sometimes dumb people play games). The art is great and now that I feel like I understand how the game works I think it's really clever and hope to see what more you can come up with!
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The Kanji KidBzzzZzZzzzZzzzzZZZZ! It means "BzzzZzZzzzZzzzzZZZZ". Not bad
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Hopes and Dreams of the GalaxyThanks, stay tuned for an update! We are working on implementing more of the awesome audio from our audio team! Also our programmer had a family emergency but they said they wanted to improve the gameplay next week. I’ll be working on another project but hopefully with the update it will be clearer then!
I enjoy the art and music! I should do something more cute like this sometime. And I like the concept. It makes me imagine a typical adventure game protagonist turned pacifist. But I agree with Good K in that it felt a bit random even though I know it's not. I think it's just that I found it hard to memorize the different buzzes since they're all a similar arrangement of B and Z's
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Monster Girl Dating DungeonThanks for playing our game and for your feedback! Maybe if we were to implement this game again, we could make the words colored differently as well? And when we first started the game we had a history, but then submitted it without, maybe we could keep the history but have it only be the last three turns? There are lots of things to consider! Overall it was a learning experience, and in the future we would focus more on user-friendliness and consider how our game comes across to someone who isn't developing it, something we definitely didn't focus enough on this jam!
A neat idea, appreciate the art a lot and love the general experimentation w/ a linguistic puzzle here.
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The Boy Who Became A Bombthis is kinda luck based though, or perhaps it's because I skipped the opening 🤷♂️
but it's fun to try and make the queen angry without shooting her
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A Tale Of A TreeThanks for your feedback! We didn't do enough to explain how to play which is why it feels random. We learned a lot from this game jam, and if we did this game jam again we would definitely focus more on teaching the player how to play and making less assumptions about what the player should figure out.
But if you were interested, it's actually not random! Each word corresponds to a weight and the words are introduced in such a way that you will learn them, for instance, the first level always has words with weights -1, 1, and 0. The hope (without implementing it because we didn't teach it) was that if the words are {bz:-1, bzz:1, bzzbz:0} then the player could pick bz or bzz and learn from that choice what weight the other word is. In the future we would take more time to teach the player how to play.
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