This game is a great treat to look at and play!  You all should be very proud for doing the smoke box justice!

Congratulations! A truly deserving winner and I'm really glad it gets to be canon!

Congrats on the well deserved win. You guys  nailed the brief and made something that really does feel like it could be a promotional game for a real life Smoke Box.

Really cute game! Giving each mascot an evolved form is such a nice idea and all the character and enemy designs are really clever (the Pitmaster being a particular highlight). I would have liked a quick tutorial as the battle system was a bit overwhelmingly chaotic at first (though it was also partly due to the prompts not matching my controller), but I had more fun with it the further I went. I loved the secret boss fight and ending and the way the game just abruptly closes is great haha

Fantastic art! Especially love the hip redesigns, and the battle animations. Pitmaster's redesign had me laughing out loud and of course I LOVE the metal Glerry! Also, excellent excellent job on the combat and writing, really enjoyed it!

This was great! The ATB system was really creative and fun. The character art and animations were brilliant and smoking Steve's evolution made me laugh out loud every time he used his attack or just looking at his pose! Fun callback to last year's jam as well!

This hit a lot of note really well.  The bonus fight after the credits was a real treat too.  I especially love upgrading the mascots.

I loved this one! Huge fan of RPGs so the mechanics were super easy to get into. I loved seeing what each character would evolve into and I loved exploring the hand crafted world. All the enemy designs were beautiful and creative. An absolute joy to play! 

Very awesome RPG mechanics, music, art, and writing! Love the character designs so much! Amazing work:)

Really great cohesive aesthetic, neat twist on turn based combat, and the character evolution structure makes for a really satisfying progression for a small game

Heyyyy it's really cool seeing this game come together after playing the early version! This is a wildly ambitious game (an RPG??) but your team really pulled it off. Also, all the character upgrades were treat! Nice work!!

Very fun and hectic battle system! It was fun to see all the evolved form of all the mascots. Great easter egg bonus boss fight.

Really enjoyed all the character art! Was a genuinely great time to play and i wish i could keep leveling my team! Great Entry!

I love the character art and ferocious hipness is integrated really well into their evolutions. The writing and battle system are also great, and this game does a great job promoting The Smoke Box.

Wow! This really ticked all the boxes of 'things in RPGs that I love'. You came up with a legitimately new, unique and interesting battle system and executed it well.

My favorite character was Taxxie, as her ult just generates more ults in a loop. It's crazy.

Like the others said, the ATB system is cool! And I loved the evolutions, especially Trixie's and Chipp's.

Ended up using Glerry (that sustain!), Jambon (couldn't use her properly :p) and the evolved Pitmaster (THE BIG ONE!!!!). Very fun!

Fantastic RPG! Great music evoking some Chrono Trigger vibes, I really like the spin on the classic ATB battle system, you really feel like you're commanding your team and the way they can act autonomously is great. Chipp in particular ended up being so fast, I hardly had to control him because by the time I walked up to him he'd already be attacking.

Love the progression, the pacing felt really good, and it was really fun messing with the different team comps. I ended up using Chipp, Glerry and Steve for my final party, they're so OP together I love it! Fantastic art and some fun twists in the story. Excellent!

Absolutely loved this. Right from the start, getting to assemble a party from all the mascots is nice, the combat was a really neat take, and that true ending was perfect. Not to mention getting to evolve the mascots into their new designs is a genius addition, and the designs themselves are a lot of fun. Great entry the whole way through, really nice work!

The action/ATB system was really cool for this RPG, I haven't really seen one like that before. The story premise was fun and I liked the ending and what happens when you feed all your dudes!~ Great game!