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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Artwork | #6 | 4.844 | 4.844 |
| Narrative | #24 | 4.425 | 4.425 |
| Creativity | #128 | 4.425 | 4.425 |
| Enjoyment | #137 | 4.222 | 4.222 |
| Audio | #329 | 3.886 | 3.886 |
Ranked from 167 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
You run a News Loop in a small village, where what you publish strongly influences the locals, which in turn loops back into the next day's news!
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
We did everything ourselves.
(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Knotshire City Council!
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Super fun game with fantastic art! A delight to play!
Loved it! It got tricky, but all the art and the little stories were excellent. The only real negative I have is that the scoring was a bit unclear (not sure if the effects were rendering behind the pieces?)
It was really funny how the next day's headline and the ending changes. Also, you made lots of unique art! If only there was a clear button it would be even better. Regardless, really great submission, congrats!!!
Top marks for me! What an incredible, creative and original take on the theme, I loved it! Visuals are very neat and pleasing, and me love some good news. Really polished, gratz!
So glad so many umbrellas were found! 😄
Top marks for me! What an incredible, creative and original take on the theme, I loved it! Visuals are very neat and pleasing, and me love some good news. Really polished, gratz!
So glad so many umbrellas were found! 😄
Every 5 stars! Your game is very well made, you have a creative game in which I had fun, many short narratives with start and end, like the missing dog, or the dance festival, the art is pretty good and the sounds are gorgeous. Really polished game, congrats!
Really addictive. I wanted to keep playing it. The graphics were superb and I really enjoyed it. Well done you smashed it
Really addictive. I wanted to keep playing it. The graphics were superb and I really enjoyed it. Well done you smashed it
Brilliant idea on the theme, creative and really well thought through and so enjoyable to play. Great visual and sounds and interesting narrative as game progresses. Amazing quality given the time constraints and would love to see this game developed. Wonderful to have such an uplifting game both in the storyline and the feel of the characters and it is so satisfying fitting the articles onto the page too. My favourite!
Cute! I'm not sure if I understood all the systems, but I still had a lot of fun puzzling the pieces in. The multi-day story lines were a nice touch.
That was pretty great. Just some tuning so to force players (planners?) to stay more in the grey area. I went straight Superman 2025 then straight Tabloid style. The Visuals and feel were really really charming. Great game hook.
Lovely little game, perfect for a little playthrough, has a clear idea of what it wants to do and does it, well done!
Very nice, reminds me of the board game "Fit to Print." I really liked the idea that which articles you print change the narrative. I only wish there was a bit more tension between picking positive vs negative articles, I found it easy enough to just pick the happy ones all the time, there wasn't really much incentive to do any different. Maybe framing the stories a bit more ambiguously, where rather than picking between good and bad the player is picking between two differently positive paradigms - like if I had to decide between pleasing the frogs or pleasing the mice I might think a bit harder about what stories I want to include, rather than just trying to always minimize negative stories.
You guys really nailed the presentation, loved all the illustration and graphic design of the UI and different tiles, and really appreciate the polish put in to making the interactions satisfying. Great job!
I got 945 sales! I can't believe how much I found myself picking stories based on what sort of paper I wanted to be while also trying to manage the Tetris nature of it all. This was such a delight!
creative idea!! very cute and interesting, I love how you tell a story through game play, that's so smart! :)
Really cool! I enjoyed it a lot.
A lovely game, my only nitpicks are, I'm not sure how the scoring works, and it's not clear why I should pick negative stories unless I just want to be a monster lmao. I would love to see a full game with this concept, fantastic job guys.
Very cute, very cozy! I appreciated the level of polish in this game. Can't say I understood the scoring perfectly but trying to fit shapes together is always very fun. I am really impressed with the quality of this entry!
I don't exactly know how to describe this, but it was brilliant. I loved the game, and the art style was perfect. The music was just as relaxing as it needed to be to fit the style you were going for. Overall, 5 stars.
Thank you for the kind words! It's great to hear that everything came together well, as the team worked very hard all around. Thanks for playing <3
Thank you aswell for your feedback 😄
From the music side I had to spend a lot of time trying to make something relaxing as it's something I hadn't done before. The rest of the team helped alot especially when the art started coming through helped me better place the tone musically.
Glad you found it fitted the game 😁
A creative puzzles with cozy artworks! I really love it.