I like the art, the music, the sound effects, the theme itself...basically everything, but my only gripe is that the gameplay is a bit basic and repetitive. For a game jam game this is amazing!
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Nursery Curse's itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Presentation | #114 | 4.317 | 4.317 |
Originality | #360 | 3.912 | 3.912 |
Overall | #377 | 3.731 | 3.731 |
Fun | #980 | 3.256 | 3.256 |
Ranked from 524 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?
There's tons of kids, completely out of control (fighting each other, setting fires, crying).
Did your team create the art for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
We created all art during the game jam
Did your team create the audio for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
We created all audio during the game jam
Comments
This game made me understand why some of my primary school teachers left and never returned. I don't think I've ever felt so incredibly powerless before in any game ever haha! The first thing that I noticed about this game was the art style. I absolutely love the look of the game! I love the simplicity that it has to it, while looking incredibly smooth at the same time! The sound design was clean and the concept is great and very original! Very well done!
The amount of polish in this one is well, what you'd expect from a Blackthornprod game. It feels a bit too stressful though, and there doesn't seem to be any clear objective or death state, so you never really know how well you're doing. You kind of just see a bunch of kids fighting and crying and burning. It still was fun though, I just feel some more clear objective would've made it way more fun.
I guess throwing kids solves everything? Pretty well done though.
Looks and moves really nice. Very nice take on the theme.
At the end of my first I didn't felt in control at all, this was war. I don't want to get back to work. Ever.
Well done !
Another incredible game!! Always like the games you do together =D
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very nice game! i really enjoy the animations and the general motion of the game. i found it a bit hard to sometimes understand what the children wanted to do and how to prevent it, which was a little frustrating (eg. it wasnt very clear to me what the blue-purple icon was supposed to mean). still a very funny experience and if definetely felt really like everything is getting out of control :D very nice!
I find it hilarious how it basically escalates to full-on war at the end of the game. After trying frantically to keep things calm, the kids still managed to throw over 700 punches at each other like the little devils they are. One thing that totally should've been a feature would've been allowing the player to straight up just yeet the kids out the front gate.
Cool concept! I would have liked less post processing effect, or at least an option to disable.
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