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Faces

By baknik

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall4272.8931
Fun4672.4631
Innovation2833.1031
Theme2013.6030
Graphics4262.5631
Audio3412.5529
Humor3002.5030
Mood4402.4631

Comments

kbf123 2018-12-03 03:20

Well now...

Neat concept, if a bit grim.

ravarion 2018-12-03 03:41

I thought this game was horrible the first run. Gave it a second chance and I was Delighted.

fussenkuh 2018-12-03 03:42

Alrighty, maybe I'm just slow or maybe it's because I'm running on no sleep after 48 hours of coding, but, I've tried and tried to make delighted faces and I've yet to get a single one, let along 7. I'm going to have to pop back after I get some rest to give it another go. Thus far, all of my experimenting has amounted to a whole lot of nothing :/

jcmonkey 2018-12-03 03:43

not a bad little game, but no matter what i did it never said anything but 0/7

baknik 2018-12-03 03:56

@fussenkuh @jcmonkey A small hint for how to Delight faces: This jam’s theme.

rolly 2018-12-03 03:58

"So what do I need to do...? --> Oh yeah, there is a theme --> Got it!" then it's pretty easy !

justalocalhero 2018-12-03 04:15

Took me longer than I'd like to admit to figure out how to make progress. Simple, well executed, a lot of fun.

naihto 2018-12-03 04:29

I like the fact that you paced the game's learning curve really well. Then requiring us to deduce the rules to find the solution.

fussenkuh 2018-12-03 04:39

@baknik ha... thanks for the tip! I knew my brain wasn't fully functioning. Seems obvious now :)

myfriendtames 2018-12-03 04:55

It's very interesting, good job :smiley:

lemons 2018-12-03 05:13

I managed to finish it, took a bit of playing to work out what to do, but I ended up liking it!

numeralien 2018-12-03 05:25

Excellent. It was an aha moment to figure out how to delight the faces.

boltkey 2018-12-03 05:49

It took me a while to solve it, but eventually I got it.

Interesting message.

funkyjive 2018-12-03 06:33

Takes a while to solve but very nice idea. Similar rules to the "game of life"

yirggzmb 2018-12-03 06:59

This is a very clever little game. I appreciate that the amount of abilities you have starts small and grows. Gives time to get the hang of what the current newest one does.

andrew-garcia 2018-12-03 07:10

Nice and simple, but it seemed like you put a lot of thought into the mechanics. I love the lack of instructions and how the player is left to fend for themselves!

jk5000 2018-12-03 08:45

A fun and interesting little puzzle game. Well done.

slowpro 2018-12-03 16:33

one of the best entries ive played, super fun! some background music would have made it eaven better!

john-gabriel 2018-12-03 19:50

The only time I managed to delight a face was by murdering the face next to it once it had become enraged. This makes perfect sense.

oxrock 2018-12-04 05:26

Oh, so I should be making people pissed and then murdering them.... That does sound fun! ;p

foxor 2018-12-04 14:53

I appreciate how, no matter how you praise them, you can never get everyone to happy face.

baknik 2018-12-04 18:33

@foxor There is an actual way to get 7 delighted faces! BTW delighted faces are green with a big smile.

pkenney 2018-12-06 02:59

Oh man, you totally got me with this. I probably went through exactly the phases of thinking that you expected me to.

And then I was like "ohhhhhhh". And then I thought about the theme, and was like "OHHHHHHH".

So you really created quite an experience with a minimal feature set, and I loved it.

If I could change one thing, it would be to leave the last command active on the button so I could spam more. Or at least that's what I thought while I was playing and didn't yet get it, so maybe it's actually important to have that slight inconvenience of having to go face-button-face instead of being able to rapidly hammer out the same command repeatedly?

Anyway, very nice work here. Face graphics and the sound effects were simple but quite effective, but the real star here was your interesting concept and your successful execution in leading me through that.