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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Playability | #1 | 5.000 | 5.000 |
| Cleverness | #1 | 5.000 | 5.000 |
| Theme | #1 | 5.000 | 5.000 |
| Artistic Style | #1 | 5.000 | 5.000 |
Ranked from 1 rating. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Judge feedback
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- This was a well made game! Loved the humor (binjamin -_-) and the bad reviews, of which I got plenty. Tutorial is great, I would have the gameplay intro be slower - but that's personal preference since memorization is not my thing. While the theme implementation is pretty straightforward, I appreciate the effort and quality of your work.
Did you include your Game Design Document as a Google Drive link?
Yes
Seriously... did you include your Game Design Document?
Yes
Is your game set to Public so we can see it?
Yes
Tell us about your game!
Single player, time-management and shopkeeping simulator.
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This was extremely fun! I absolutely LOVED the voices! They reminded me of Cult of the Lamb. I feel like most things were well balanced, but some potions had two ingredients that had to be crushed or chopped in a row, so it was not possible to be more efficient about it. It's my only criticism. Besides that, what an amazing game! Great work!
That was quite something!
First of all, extremely playable. I hadn't had a slightest hitch except for some FPS drops when the torch went out - which made that event EVEN MORE STRESFUL. Also, playing with a trackball I got extremely frustrated - between that, the mouse reshuffling the ingredients and customers ZERO PATIENCE SERIOUSLY WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?! I lost 4 rounds and these losses felt unfair. Oh, you expect me to brew not one, but TWO liquids for a potion, interspersed with ingredients that also require chopping and grinding, and meanwhile one of these will be in the cupboard and then the mouse will move it to the top shelf? Yeah, screw me I guess :D
But once I put the laptop on "performance" mode the slowdowns were alleviated somewhat, and adding a mouse in place of a trackball helped with precision and timing of brewing, and then I managed to beat the game.
All that's here in the game is already working, and working extremely well; I would only add that for this to be shippable it needs content expansion (different stages to the game, so there's a sense of progression; maybe a bit of story) and maybe some balancing - I can totally see the player starting off with half the ingredients and potion recipes, and gradually building up in complexity and hecticness.
Overall: 10/10, I think this is a real contender for the prizes!
P.S.
That was one expensive bulb.
Thank you so much for the super nice and in depth comment!!
A shame that the track ball had to get put away to make the game playable hahaha, something we may take into consideration next game...
Of course we had lots of ideas for future games, but for this jame we just wanted to give a sort of idea as to the whole game concept rather than make one short simpler level (although that may have made playing the game nicer hahaha)
I love the atmosphere! Great execution!
Thanks so much :)
Awesome chaotic game ! You really nailed the pressure on this one. The random ingredients, occasional blindness, and the shifting of the ingredients' placement are really good design choices that keep the game's challenge fresh and really hits the adrenaline XD. That being said, I think some mechanic to give more leeway for players that aren't as quick could be nice. For example, buying oil to fill a lantern that prevents blindness for a few minutes.
Thanks so much for the nice words!
We actually had discussed having the torch be less passive and more something players had to interact with to fix! Sadly, just not enough time to implement things hahha
Who knows, maybe in the future :)
Fun game, well made and fleshed out. I was stuck on the chopped up ingredients, because in the recipe I thought it was an image of the mouse trap...... once I got past that though, I got the hang of it quickly :)
Thanks for stopping by :)
If only we had more time, we could've fleshed it out a bit more, but that's game jams right?
Glad you figured it out in the end though!
Astounding game! I love the sounds and low-poly style, along with the challenge of your torch going out in the middle of a potion. Also found it amazing that the ingredients and their placement shifted every time the game restarted, made it more challenging when you got used to things being in a certain place. The amount of polish is baffling and I can't wait to see what you guys come up with next!
Glad you got a kick out of the changing ingredients! That was one of our first big ideas for the game and we're just happy it managed to execute well :)
Loved the music and retro style. I really liked it. Reminded me of playing computer games in the 90s.
Thank you! We had many big inspirations from the early web days indeed :)
Very cool game! I love the vibes! Great work!
Thanks so much for the kind words :)
This game is awesome, super well polished!
I didn't understand how to create those colored elixirs at first. I didn't realize they have their own page in the potion book 😅
I love the game, hope to see it ranked high by the judges!
Super glad you got to figure the liquids out at the back of the book :)
We had done some early playtesting and found that was a common issue, but we just had no time to make solid changes to it hahaha
These kinds of games are one of my favorite, and this is a great take on it! The pressure mounting from harder and harder potions mixed with the darkness blocking your vision to ingredients moving around on you, all make for a complex and challenging game.
me ma me mo me me me de ah do de da..
"can you please make me a potion of love, cause this was a nice comment"
I enjoyed this, really fun sounds and effects, reminding me a lot of Rayman at the start. I liked getting better and remembering the combinations. The swirly effect made things a lot more stressful but a good challenge.
It took me an embarrassingly long time to find firewood at the start but really well made game!
Thank you for the kind words and also, we had a very last minute discussion on wanting to make the firewood easier to notice😅 sadly we just didn’t have time to implement any of them, at least you noticed eventually though haha
This might be one of the most fun potion makers that I've played. From the voice acting (if you can call it that ;) ) to the visuals and fun written dialogue that pushes you to make the potion faster, even though they had ordered like 3 seconds ago! Well done with this one! There was this yellow potion thing I couldn't figure out and the icon was not in one of the ingredient tiles, but when I reset it wasn't in the recipes so I could make all the potions I wanted! :)
Thanks man, I'm glad you enjoyed !
the nightmares of the customers still haunt me to this day, hahah.
This is a seriously cool and well executed game! I love the puns and the voice acting, haha. The, visuals, music, mechanics, all very well done. Great work! My only gripe was that I couldn't figure out where the firewood was - I didn't recognise it because I was looking for the icon itself. I restarted the game once because of it, only to later accidentally click on it under the table. Anyway, this is an excellent game and something you should definitely continue working on!
yeah hahah we had a, last minute discussion on wanting to make the firewood easier to notice sadly we just didn’t have time to implement any of them, its just one of those things.
Cheers man!!
Very nice looking game and I like the well fitting music and sound effects!
Tbh I skipped the tutorial and just tried on my own and intuitively knew what to do. Really good design.
Really nicely done!
Thanks so much! I feel guilty of skipping tutorials all the time on game jams after playing a few games, glad it came across easily for you!
I had a tough time learning but I slowly became a master at brewing potions. Loved this game!
Thanks so much! The first time playing it can be overwhelming for sure but I’m glad it got easier as you kept playing!
Great stuff! All around a hectic good time :D lots going for it! I’d change the tutorial to be more of a “here try this step” vibe but given its a game jam and a fairly straightforward mechanic it all works out rather nicely :)
-Alex
Yeah, your right haha.
Thought a "sample potion": that was the better way of explaining "how to play" and then we ran out of time. it be like that sometimes hehe
I'm glad you enjoyed though. :D
I know the feeling hahaha
-Alex
Such good fun! Clever and cozy. I love the art and sound design. Mee moo maa mee mo mee mo muu!
Cheers man!
mee moo maa mee mo mee mo muu!
Very nice looking game! Trash cans are all named Binjamen now.
all hail BINJAMEN!
CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP !
This is amazing!
Tickles the part of my brain that loves the Papa's Pizzeria style games. Love the amount of polish that's been poured into this!
ma me! maya mee ma me waaa
Thanks man, Glad you enjoyed! means a lot to us ! :D
really enjoyed the atmosphere. I originally skipped the tutorial and that was a mistake. went back and played the game with the tutorial and everything made a lot of sense. Very well done is very replayable!
Glad you enjoyed my dude.
hehe, I do not blame you for skipping tutorials we have all done it millions of times xD