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A jam submission

Outside the LinesView game page

The coloring book turf war
Submitted by DecadeDecaf (@DecadeDecaf), CatnipOverdose — 48 minutes, 12 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme#24.5004.500
Graphics#24.5004.500
Overall#34.0004.000
Fun#53.7503.750
Humor#52.5832.583
Audio#63.3333.333

Ranked from 12 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

(+1)

Super well made, very polished, did a great job on the theme, sound, graphics, feel, everything basically. Original too, you guys did a wonderful job, congratulations!! Only 3 days to make this, I would love to see what could come of this with more time!!

Submitted(+1)

I liked the polish of the game. The main menu, the graphics, the music and the sound effects were excellent. However, this game is not really that entertaining to play though. First of all, winning does not inherently feel good and losing does not inherently feel bad. Also, the game does not really seem to have interesting tactics or strategies. When I was playing the game, I just blindly spammed the left and right click buttons and picked up random powerups.  Though the gameplay was not exciting to me, I did like the innovation of the game. I have never played a game like this. Overall, I like the unique concept of the game and its excellent artwork, but I wish some tweaking with the gameplay mechanics  was done to make the game more interesting.

Developer

Thanks so much for the feedback! Any specific ideas on how to make the user have more of an impact on the result of the game? We considered less weapon drops so the player had to work with what they had, and didn't get to switch as often. We also considered different enemy types like an eraser that clears paint and eroded chalk that shoots you. We've already added local co-op and competitive multiplayer that we'll release after the jam, so hopefully that spices up the gameplay.

Submitted(+1)

Well, to make winning more inherently fun, you can make levels in the game. After a player wins one level, the player goes on to the next level. This way, there is a sense of progress in the game. Making levels in this game is fitting to this game and can make winning more fun. As for the gameplay, maybe you can make the enemies shoot the player and you can make the player also have the ability to shoot enemies. Then, you could have the enemies and player have health (and the player should have more health than the enemies because he or she is alone). If the player dies, the player will have to restart the level. If an enemy dies, it will disappear. Every few seconds or so, another enemy will spawn. It would also be interesting if the NPCs also fought each other (since there are three types of characters in each game and two of the types are competing NPCs). While fighting, the player should also have the ability to put more paint on the canvas if they are concentrating on painting (e.g. pressing some buttons that are hard to press while fighting). By doing this, the player can get an immediate sense of danger that can compromise the player's objective, but the player would also have to think in the long term and actually try to get most of the paint on the canvas.

Developer(+1)

Good ideas! The player and enemies actually do have health, though, and you can pick up paintball guns to be able to shoot. Certain attacks are better for killing chalks, other attacks are better for covering ground. Enemies that can shoot, and enemies that fight each other sound cool though.

Submitted

Try focusing more on combat and survival. Also, focus more on covering large amounts of ground in paint by pressing buttons that would normally be hard to press while in combat.

(+1)

Fun Game play, multiplayer would go great.

HostSubmitted(+2)

Splatoon in 2d.  Super fun music, totally goes with your whole premise.  It took me a couple of tries before I won, but now I wish there were more levels.  Awesome idea.  I would totally play local co-op of this with my 3yr old son.


Developer

Thanks so much! Local co-op actually sounds really fun, we might come back to this one day.