There’s lots of game idea generators out there, so it was smart having yours stand out by giving it a cute AI mascot.
The 3 options it gives you allow for broad interpretations as well. Nice job!
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Game Jam Idea Generator's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| How much I could potentially use it in the future | #5 | 3.786 | 3.786 |
| Overall | #8 | 3.595 | 3.595 |
| How nice it is to use | #12 | 3.714 | 3.714 |
| How innovative or original it is | #13 | 3.286 | 3.286 |
Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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It's surprisingly easy to get evocative suggestions from this! I also love the idea of it recognizing individual devs.
Wishlist:
- view a list of the possibilities for each category
- click to speed up the text
- click to speed up the roulette process
Favorite suggestion so far:
- Genre: Survival-horror
- Theme: Let's be friends
- Limitation: The game must have a frog.
How did you put together the lists for each category?
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mondri-onTo put the lists on each category, I created three JSON files attached to the project. The three JSON files are the original list of the genre, theme, and limitation. You can take a look at them in the Files folder when you downloaded the tool. If you read the JSON file, there is an array that shows the data. The elements of the array represent as a suggestion. If I'm correct, there are 56 elements in the genre section, 128 elements in the theme section, and 32 elements in the limitation section.
However, I'm not sure if Construct can modify the JSON files attached to the project. Therefore, I use a Local Storage plugin in order to save the updated array. If you had just loaded the tool for the first time, then the program will immediately read the JSON files and place them in the array. And from the array, it will copy into the local storage, just in case if you left immediately. If you modify the array from the "Suggest a Theme" or "Suggest a Limitation", then the Local Storage will be updated to the latest array.
Text Adventure, game port view port limited to 128x128, and zombies.
I can already think of something I’d want to make. The claustrophobic limitation and text with zombies? I feel like those three could work well enough together to make quite the game.
Being able to copy and paste the results would be nice.
Overall, good job!
Edit: Also, I like the inclusion of the limitation. Probably was what gave me the most inspiration.
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LINK!Nice tool, good idea to start a game when you don't know what to do.
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