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A jam submission

Dink or DieView game page

Drop brains down a peg game, use their mental powers to get to victory.
Submitted by Sysl — 2 days, 3 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Most Balls#53.1823.375
Game Most Likely To Please Tom Hanks#53.1823.375
Best Game that doesn't mention COVID-19#83.1823.375
I Would Play This Sport In Real Life#102.9463.125

Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Briefly explain your use of the theme
In the future where we are all brains in jars, a new sport had to be developed that required no body to play.

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(+1)

I choose death! I love everything about this game, except I guess for waiting for a stage to be over? I love the idea but honestly I felt completely out of control of my ultimate fate. Even with a route mapped in my head, brain control was tough, so everything felt either random, or a surprise. I never really felt like I could work towards success? Death seemed sudden, and unexpected, and would put me off having a second dink-a-round. This has the legs of a very fun game, but I think giving the player more lives, or a say in if eg a recycle causes a fresh drop, some small flow adjustments like that would help me a lot.

(+1)

[x/p from thread] Love that title song, also I'm pretty sure I've heard some of that music before lol.  This is a fun one, quite a bit of content to it!  There's some pacing and balance issues (teleporting pretty much trumps everything, just eating it to a saw doesn't feel very fair) but it's fun trying to learn the systems.  I'm not sure if all the graphics/audio meshed for me but I did like all the playful touches.  Overall I like this one, as a toy it's satisfying to mess around with.

Submitted

Interesting game and story. Liked the art style and thought it worked really well in setting the mood.