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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #188 | 3.863 | 3.863 |
| Gameplay | #235 | 3.608 | 3.608 |
| Visuals | #274 | 4.059 | 4.059 |
| Audio | #274 | 3.490 | 3.490 |
| Overall | #395 | 3.464 | 3.464 |
| Innovation | #882 | 2.804 | 2.804 |
| Theme | #981 | 2.961 | 2.961 |
Ranked from 51 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does the game fit the theme?
3 Buttons to choose from, risk 30%, 60% or 100% of your gold to have a good or bad effect with dynamic chances according to your previous outcome.
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
All code, character design, UI, animations, sound effects, and music were created entirely from scratch during the jam.
How many people worked on the game?5
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Nice take on the genre. Solid design, gameplay is fun and edges you to do "one more round". Swept me in for a good 20 minutes (would be more but I'm at work..)
Make sure to check out Ratisserie
https://itch.freezing.top/jam/brackeys-14/rate/3849530
Thanks ! I'm glad you enjoyed the experience, be sure to have some more fun playing it and exploring it later :) + i have tried your game the idea of roaming around being a mouse solving puzzles is really fun good luck!
Nice game, but the controls are unclear--there should be tutorial of some sort.
your suggestion is on point, unfortunately we couldn't invest much in this part so we relied on players to learn by playing and more details are on the game page
Very engaging gameplay. I like the part you can invest to your enemy xD
lol that is where "risk" takes place , glad you liked it!
Really great game! I could play that for hours 😂 And great music!
glad you enjoyed it! thanks for coming by! :D
Excelent and really addicting game, awesome job. I reached Wave 25 and then gave up cause I realised my Shieldman Lv 8 became immortal, lol. I only realised that cause this Shieldman is with this amount of life for several waves, and when I finally made another Shieldman lv8, the new lv8 died in one wave. So I realised it's a glitch. But really fun game, anyway, congrats!
Bruh look at the enemies lol. We'll take a look at the glitch, really appreciate your feedback and thank you for liking it!!
Bro you literally raised a huge horde we didnt expect someone would reach this wave in this stage of the game congrats !😂😂
We'll check out in which cases does this glitch happen for now consider it a feature lol
But I'm really proud and happy to loved it!
I'm not gonna lie, it was really fun to see a insanely huge horde like that lol. So for now I'll consider it a feature, my Shieldman Lv8 it's a great hero, I'll name it Kratos
That shieldman shall become a memorable in history books 🗿
He's a legend!
Love the visuals. A bit difficult to understand the controls. Enjoyed the game though!
We are glad you enjoyed the game. Thank you for trying
Can you tell us where the controls need improvement?
I really enjoy the game. It's very fun to play and I also like the overall visual. It's very pretty.
Happy that you enjoyed it!
Great work! Enjoyed the game, good luck everyone!
Thank you ;)
Really cool game! Art is amazing and I found it really fun well done :) Only thing is I got to wave 21 without levelling up anyone I didn't know that part of the game was even there a little arrow in game to say merge the two would be nice. But to be fair you did mention it in the document. Overall really cool!
!! What??! That's super lucky of you! I leveled them all up to Lv5 and didn't pass wave 17.
You are so far the bast record I know of.
wow you literally made the highest current record congrats!
We have that upward green arrow animation displays when dragging card or units , since it was not clear we will make them standout more, thanks for your feedback!
haha I have found my calling in life! :p Damn raging I didn't get a screenshot then of how far I got haha but congrats on the game very fun!! :)
For one week it's a great game! Keep it going
Thanks bro! We'll keep working on it!
gameplay is trash but everything except it is BEAUTIFUL!!!
appreciate your honesty lol, if u have suggestions to make it not "trash" that would help xD
So i am talking more about system part and quality of life features. For example, pips staking is working strange, ingame economics is bad, sometimes game frizes, and things like that. BUT - the visuals are insanely beautiful, SFX is good, same as soundtrack.
The game is really fun, I spent a long time playing and tried different setups — great job! Here’s some feedback: playing without taking risks usually ends up being easier, while starting to take risks often leads to losing. It would also be better if my setup didn’t get messed up after battles, and bullets keep hitting enemies in the next wave. But you did an amazing job in such a short time — congratulations!
I'm really happy you enjoyed it and tried different setups to explore the verities ! for the risks it's mostly a live risk decision when u feel u are almost guaranteed to lose as it can give you double gold but the out come isn't guaranteed that's how we tried to use it for the theme , the other 2 points are 100% solid suggestions, we will be working on fixing it as soon!
We've fixed the army set up and the bullet problem! Come try again if you like, hope you enjoy it better! Thank you a lot for you suggestion~
Really cool game! Insane you managed to pull it off in a week. Great visuals, great art, great music and SFX! One of the best games I've played in the jam so far. I would advise for adding an ingame tutorial about the bottom right options, they are not intuitive, that's my only criticism.
Thanks for your feedback really happy you liked it ! sound ,art , animation, programming was done by our small team, we were planning to create more enemies , characters, bosses but it was difficult as drawing took time and we wanted to keep it handwork, and thanks for highlighting the need for a tutorial u are the second person to say so, that really helps us know what work need to be done wish u all the best!
Auto battlers are great! I don’t find it intuitive what I am risking of and for.
happy you love that genre! + btw you can select the unit while in battle and move it around it doesn't change much of the outcome but it give's some dynamic experience, for the risk you you don't know the outcome until you press it it could either punish or reward u and we didn't make it intuitive so players can discover and see by trying, thanks for your feedback really apricate it !
nice polish on the game and the sounds were really good.
I think the difficulty curve was a little intense ahahah wave 6 got me dead so fast
I like your use of the 'risk' mechanic
Thanks! i really appreciate you coming by glad you enjoyed it, for the difficulty part we made it in a way to be "easy to learn - hard to master", to make it challenging, the risk buttons could push you further and give u an advantage but it's risky and could make u fall down thanks for your feedback we will keep it in mind
very cool game, enjoyed it a lot, very polished!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks!
Very beautiful and wonderful game! Wishing you all the best.
Thanks Lara glad you loved it ! Wishing you all the best too!
solid idea and execution. Other than the income the game is very linear.
Thanks for your feedback!
We will be adding more elements to the game that will be giving more variety to the experience like card shuffle.. more characters & enemies and new stuff where you can make choices of course but the will probably be after the jam however if you have suggestions and ideas you wish to see in the game we are happy to hear from you!
The characters are nicely drawn! I like tactic chess board games, love the art and the music!
I'm happy you loved it! Will be working on improving it your feedback is valuable
Wow this is pretty impressive, nice work!
Thanks! Glad you liked it !