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Ordinary Human Conversation

By mikesalyh

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1183.9029
Fun1313.8329
Innovation1333.8829
Theme664.1829
Graphics264.4229
Audio4323.1829
Humor583.9029
Mood1513.7229

Comments

trko 2020-04-20 02:31

Nice Work! Fun game :smile:

zonvoi 2020-04-20 02:32

It's really fun, i liked the mechanic, really original!

mcshirt 2020-04-20 02:36

really nice idea! fun to play and looks great, nice job

stolen-biscuit 2020-04-20 02:43

I really enjoyed this, great work!

blondhie 2020-04-20 05:15

This was super fun! I play a card game like this. My only input is that I feel "1,2,3" would have been a little less awkward on the keyboard. This would be a great party game!

thooom 2020-04-20 06:50

Great look to this game, and very original concept. I like the polish - looks like an already released game. Music stressed me out so much.

sneakycocoon 2020-04-20 07:34

Very high level of polish. The beat of the music is on point to keep up the tension. I was bobbing my head the whole time. Great short game for kids to learn pattern matching :thumbsup:

mikesalyh 2020-04-20 07:55

Thanks for the feedback everyone!

@Blondhie: Great idea. Post-LD46, I'll make the swap.

@SneakyCocoon: Funny enough, I spent about 4 years working on kid's learning games (mostly for ABCMouse), but I didn't even consider that this would make a good kids game. I should add an easy mode after the compo.

sayumeki 2020-04-20 08:04

Great polish! The ransom-letter text fit really well and I like the overall design and feel of the assets. The music speeding up as the game going on kept me on edge also. It was really charming overall.

bigtinygames 2020-04-20 08:15

Great game, It is original and well tuned. I'd change sound effect for conversation for some kind of mumble with random pitch instead of synth

gimblll 2020-04-20 08:25

Really slick presentation! And now my brain hurts. I see patterns emerging from the universe. I'm starting to question my existence.

gonzalol 2020-04-20 10:26

I really like the mechanics! It's a fun game, congrats. There should be more conversations available.

matt2728 2020-04-20 13:20

Great job, at first I was like "this is too easy" but it got more difficult very quickly (good thing). The only constructive thing I can think to give is that the audio was a little harsh on my ears, maybe next time some more graceful sounds? Overall great job!

gamedoodles 2020-04-20 19:13

I am seriously impressed with the look of this game! The concept of a matching game is really straight forward, but the polish and humor make it SO much more. Ideally, I'd like to see the bits of conversation incorporated more directly into the matching gameplay, but that's a pretty superficial gripe. Very well done!

kiddy 2020-04-20 23:31

Nice concept, harder than I thought.

entitynull 2020-04-20 23:46

Reminds me of the pattern matching game Sets. Lots of fun!

mrtroy 2020-04-21 03:29

Every time I played I realized I was missing an important thing. First it was "Oh you can match 3 different things" then it was "OH there's 4 things you can match based off of".

Then I realized I was playing this game multiple times. I like this game. :)

unlucky 2020-04-21 10:52

There are raccoons!!! It is fun game. I think it needs a little bit of variety in questions but I had a lot of fun anyway.

mikesalyh 2020-04-23 03:29

@bigtinygames @matt2728 Thanks for the audio notes! I agree, it's too harsh right now. I bet it would sound great with animal crossing style babble.

@mrtroy Thanks for playing Mr. Troy! :slight_smile: I wonder if I bumped up the contrast if it would make the pattern-matching more obvious?

madebychaz 2020-04-23 09:10

This was a really cute and unique little game; it's such a fantastic interpretation of the theme. I wish you had explored the humour a bit further; I feel like in a game like this there is a lot of room for some wacky interaction (almost like a Card Against Humanity setup), whereas it felt a bit bland to keep asking if you want to go for a coffee! I understand the theme is to have a "normal conversation", but you could have allowed yourself some creative freedom by setting parameters to having an understandable conversation. That way some crazy responses would be borderline and add a little tension to the objective.

Interface was slick, gameplay mechanic was almost instantly understandable; it doesn't take a genius to realise that if one thing doesn't match, the next closest should be the target.

Simple but appealing graphics. With lots of repeating cards appearing it became a little repetitive, but it was definitely a fresh take on the theme.

Thanks for sharing and congratulations on your entry!

mulberg 2020-04-23 17:32

@mikesalyh Perfectly normal human comment here. I'm OK thanks. The weather is nice. Have a good day )

(btw, that can be a good idea for a simple party game)

emmyoop 2020-04-27 00:08

Interesting idea. More conversation variety would be appreciated. The variety of what could match made this more challenging than I expected! The music was also a bit harsh and I had to mute it. Maybe some laughing/chatter instead for a confirmation?

jmad 2020-04-28 22:50

I love it!! It makes me really nostalgic too, because it reminds me of the card game "set", I used to play a lot with my family. The idea of raccoons having small talk is super funny in itself. Very nice take on the theme :smile: Managed to score 26!

dan-thompson 2020-05-09 16:21

This was really fun! Going in I thought it was going to be easy, but I like how the difficulty ramped up and you never knew which attribute you were going to have to try to match. Really great, polished graphics and presentation as well.

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