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Unexpected Jam

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A jam submission

FIND XView game page

Can you solve the randomly generated math mystery?
Submitted by Josh Delson (@joshdelson) — 6 hours, 19 minutes before the deadline

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FIND X's itch.io page

Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Unexpectedness#273.2963.900
Gameplay Innovation#362.9583.500
Overall#493.0433.600
Fun#512.9583.500
Visuals#583.0433.600
Audio#702.6203.100

Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Please list any pre-made art/music/code/other assets that you used.
https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/

How many members in your team?

Team of 4

List each team member's role, along with their social media / website links!
Josh Delson, Designer, https://twitter.com/JoshDelson
Andy Bagdady, Artist, https://twitter.com/AndrewBagdady
David Wales, Programmer,
Melvin McElrith, Artist, https://twitter.com/Melvinmiik

Anything you want to say to players before they play?
Get ready for some math. Seriously. The game generates random questions ranging from 1st grade to ACT/SAT questions.

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Shot out gamesSubmitted4 years ago

Shocked how cool this math game is. The ending kinda scared me :)

Very cool concept. Nice graphics. Very good game. Just wish it was easier to aim. 

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Near Death Experience
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theoratkinSubmitted4 years ago

Cool math game, I didn’t expect it to be a rail shooter and definitely didn’t expect the end! You got the difficulty curve just about right. ;-) Some of my suggestions:

  1. It took me some time to figure out how to type answers, so I had to restart the game. Maybe you could add a brief text explanation in the menu.

  2. I think you need to add a crosshair in the center of the screen, because it can be difficult to eyeball the calculator guys.

  3. A speedup key would also be nice, because sometimes you clear a room and still have to wait for a long time to leave it.

Overall (A), great game! Very nice art style (A+), fun and fitting music (B+), challenging equations (A+)! :-P

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Knopka
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GuiBDBelloSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

Very nice idea!

By itself, this could be a full game. It starts a bit slow, but the end was really unexpected.

I would really like to see this game improved and used in schools to teach simple math to students.

Congratulations!

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Dog Sonic
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Josh DelsonDeveloper4 years ago(+1)

Wow GuiDB! That means a lot. This experience can definitely be one level of a larger experience. We were inspired by Pokemon Snap's railway & level progression so if anything we'd do something like that, but weirder...

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Martin AoSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

It was fun! It's just that at first it took me some time to figure out how to play it.

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Ascend
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Josh DelsonDeveloper4 years ago

Yeah, like any other project if we had a few more hours we could have added polish.

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Artem Flo / aturbidflow / kubikámiSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

Good game. Only reminded me of studying at the university, which plunged me into depression. Well, I really miss an aim point, yes.

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Randomaly Bounty Gunter
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Josh DelsonDeveloper4 years ago

We really wanted to have a large range of math equations so this feedback is awesome! Thanks Artem Flo!

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AdonisSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

Definitely an experience. At first I didn't know you were supposed to answer the questions at the end hahaha. I got a D, so I guess I'll definitely have to bring out the calculator next time :)

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Josh DelsonDeveloper4 years ago

Haha yeah I've gotten a lot of F's & C's... Maybe we'll have difficulty ramps available.

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JK5000Submitted4 years ago(+1)

This is a very cute and funny little math game. I like the music and the games visual style. Overall is this a good jam game. Well done.

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This Is Not
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Josh DelsonDeveloper4 years ago(+1)

This means a lot JK5000!

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HeroRobbSubmitted4 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

So, this was 100% unexpected. I don't know what I expected with a math game, but an on rails shooter wasn't it. I will say I did really horribly the first time I played cause I didn't know I had to type numbers in and shoot them at the problems, I thought it was an overindulgent intro cinematic until halfway through. Also the numbers you shoot seem to go at a weird trajectory that made me miss quite a few times. Overall, pretty fun and neat.

BE MATH! DON'T GOSSIP!

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Budget Rate Stigmata
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HeroRobbSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

I forgot to mention the eerie otherworldliness of the last section was awesome.

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Josh DelsonDeveloper4 years ago

Thanks! Happy to hear how unexpected and eerie it got. Definitely what we wanted to hear HeroRobb! :)

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