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A jam submission

TipswordView game page

Medieval betting service.
Submitted by Lord of Madness, hovorkaa, Pedryx, Eryaq — 1 day, 18 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Visuals#74.2764.276
Music & Sound#103.6553.655
Theme#103.5173.517
Controls#113.4483.448
Innovation#133.2763.276
Overall impression#153.6213.621
Fun#203.3793.379

Ranked from 29 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Beautiful art and funny cards

Submitted(+2)

Fucking golden game. Only thing I wish is that the cards were procedurally generated. You've inspired me so much that I am going to make my own spin off on this just with a bit less gambling and procedural generation (for my own purposes, i need this). Bardcore slaps, your humour does as well. The art style is unique. If you ever do create a deck of like 500 cards and pick them out randomly for randomly chosen (but adequate and fitting) adventures (could be recombined randomly based on certain probabilities), I will play this game for hours. Golden.

Developer

I could see that happening.
Maybe some handwritten campaing of a couple of levels (Level is 4 quests in our game)

And some proceduraly generated endlessmode.

I cannot imagine proceduraly generating something that would be consistently funny, but as a guessing game it could work.

Though the quest themselves would probably have to be written in some consistent pattern unless we wanted to use an LLM and I don't like LLMs in games as much.

Thanks for a glowing review and we are glad you enjoyed it!

Developer

Aww thank you for such high praise! It really means a lot! <3

Submitted(+3)

Striking style and a fun premise. Took me a bit to grasp the flow, but once it clicked, it was entertaining. :)

Submitted(+2)

Really funny and a good idea :D Was bold and sold everything in the beginning so I CAN QUADRUPLE MY CASH INCOME WOOOOOO YEAAAH LET’S GAMBLEE

Visually stunning and full of jokes, music amazing :D I think sometimes the card rotation glitched and got stuck :D But other than that it’s really great, good job!

Developer

I think that's exactly how god intended for this to be played. Thanks for playing and the feedback!

Developer

Glad to hear such high praise.

Happy to see that you found our gambling enjoyable.

Card rotation sometimes gets stuck for a few seconds in a skewed state, but only if you move your mouse on it a lot I found it cool enough to let it be a feature not a bug.

(If they got stuck stuck - as in not moving when you move across them, then tell me, but I never came across that.)

Submitted

Oh okay then as a wise man once said “It just works” :Dd (it wasn’t stuck stuck)

Developer(+1)

You just wait for Tipsword 76 and Tipsword: Legendary edition XD

Submitted(+3)

I loved the visuals and overall gameplay! I laughed at the descriptions of the things to sell, especially tinder profile.  Personally on me it was too much information everywhere and my eyes got confused at where to look in the beginning hahahh.  In credit card info I started putting random numbers but when it said "Mastercard" I almost shat myself and rather checked "Skip card"  just in case ahhaha

Developer(+1)

We recognise Mastercard, Visa, Discover and AmEx :-*

Thank you for the kind words

Submitted(+1)

Great visuals, have no idea what's going on, great XD.

Developer

Um.... thanks? XD

Submitted (1 edit) (+2)

The artstyle gave a nice vibe to the game. At the login screen I wrote some random card number and it actually got accepted, so if someone’s bank account is gonna get siphoned its not my problem.

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Developer

LOL

Developer

Thank you for the contribution O:)

Submitted(+2)

Haha, good thing I got a spare wife, I could sell one of them no problem!

This has been fun, thank you.

Developer

Glad to hear you enjoyed yourself!

Sometimes you have wife to spare, sometimes a college degree.
Tipsword finds a way!

Submitted(+2)

Amazing and so funny! I loved the don't stop belivin' medieval cover :D

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing!

Submitted(+2)

So! Good! 10/10! The concept, the visuals, sound, the BOLD characteristic of each adventurer. I appreciate this game a lot.

Developer

Thanks a lot. We were glad you liked it.

Not just characteristics were bold. If you pay close attention to the names of each quest....

Developer (1 edit) (+2)

I wonder if anyone realised on the opening screen that there was a real card validator and which one of you actually typed yours there XD.

We definetly are not harvesting them or anything....

Submitted(+3)

I really loved this game. The overall feel of it is amazing, the animations feel smooth and the artstyle gives it a proper medieval-online-casino vibe :D The music is also amazing, almost like i heard it somewhere before.... :Ddd

It's just an amazing experience altogether, even just reading the adventurer's cards or the chat, selling your kidney for a quick buck and then winning a fortune thanks to a pixelated cat. 

 The only gripe i have with the game is that i cannot switch the tabs. So that i could switch the music of course.......

Developer(+1)

We are thankful that you liked it.

If we had more time we would certainly add tab switching.
We can see that is something our players want  -- Music switching of course. 

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

i loved everything about this, so many details (especially loved reading the chat). amazing visuals, again.

only the text was covered by the cards, so i had to keep on turning them to be able to see parts of the text:d

couldn't find the bread though:Ddd

Developer (2 edits) (+2)

Quest writer here:

The quest to find bread was and still might be partially in the game files. However since bread was provided, there was no need for BOLD adventurers to seek it.

If however you feel dissatisfied with the lack of Breadquests here:

Quest name: Bearing Bread
Quest description: Swiftly! The Jammer’s league has been smitten by starvation. They shall die without their loaves.

Choices:

Matt the Fizzy

  1. Bringer of Exams
  2. Old as fu....
  3. Lender of locations
  4. Denier of open doors

Spens the Ponsor

  1. Bestower of Lunches
  2. Oathsworn to grant sustiance
  3. Lacking Bread
  4. Deliverer of Kingdom Come

Lord of Madness

  1. Bamboozlingly talented
  2. Outstandingly handsome
  3. Lamentably underrated
  4. Desiring pastries

Dave Tailwood

  1. Bearer of bread
  2. Opener of doors
  3. Liason of mattraces
  4. Devout to the Jammer's league
Submitted(+3)

This "Lord of Madness" guy sounds really cool ;)

Developer

A friend of mine reported the same thing about text getting covered by the cards, which is a bug unfortunately:( Thanks for playing!

Submitted(+2)

What a beautiful game! The whole aesthetic is really fitting for what the game is and it's  more coherent than some steam releases.  On top of that the music and funny messages really bring this all together. Great work!

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much!^^

Submitted(+3)

I love this. I probably had most fun reading the funny chat, while listening to the glorious music. All of the descriptions are amazing. The gameplay itself feels a little confusing, but I figured it fits the theme when I bet my diploma all in on some random-ass cat XD

The details on the screen really sold the experience to me. Also, the visuals are lovely, all of them. Good job guys!

Developer(+1)

Glad you liked it:))

Submitted(+3)

i love it

Submitted(+3)

i will never forget this game

Developer(+1)

And I shall not forget yours!

Submitted(+3)

As a certified gambling addict this spoke to me. 

Okay, the visuals here are really distinct and just my style. A bit of crunch and dithering, monocolor palette... Me likey. I loved the little details of the scrolling chat on the left, and hotwenches... Well, say less!

I can't really say I knew what I was doing as far as the gameplay goes. I tried picking heroes that seemed to fit with the quest, won money exactly once and then, after i sold my kidney, I won. The Web version got stuck on "Don't forget", so I went and played the windows version to see if it was intentional or not.

On my second try I understood more about picking the right adventurers, and some got a sensible chuckle out of me. I still don't really get the ending, but I sure am glad I sold my family home to get to it!

Developer(+1)

Hiya, artist here. I'm really glad that you liked the visuals! The ending got a little goofed up, it's supposed to say "Don't forget..." and "Fortune favors the bold" after. Unfortunately we didn't have time to update the build, but we're glad you finished our game :)

+ Sorry you had to sell your kidney.