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Pass it On

By ryan-jung, alanc, angelina, Gary Kim and Connie Liu

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1664.04124
Fun3383.79124
Innovation114.46124
Theme15933.48124
Humor5953.40123
Mood6853.67123

Comments

ryan123rudder 2020-04-21 01:46

This is awesome! Really fun to play, and a cool concept.

kristian-kurktchiev 2020-04-21 01:46

Very clever, well done. Really impressive, and polished too!

ben-hack 2020-04-21 01:50

Whenever I click on the correct message, it always tells me that I got it wrong

darylsteak 2020-04-21 01:50

Great nice idea, and nicely made, I like it!

adonisdevs 2020-04-21 01:50

This was very fun! I can see a lot of potential in this :)

gustavus-coding-club 2020-04-21 01:50

Pretty good game, not really my thing but I'm sure there is a market for it.

nomadicrockman 2020-04-21 01:52

Very unique application of the them, keeping an idea alive.

twistashio 2020-04-21 01:52

Really cool game, not really my cup of tea, however it is really well done and can see a lot of polish was put into it. Hope you guys can expand upon it in the future and I can recheck it out.

One issue I did face was that some of the menu was a little laggy.

That however was it for me:)

uppitydonkey57 2020-04-21 01:52

This game is awesome and hilarious. Its awesome how polished it is.

kamranicus 2020-04-21 01:53

I enjoyed this, some folks really mess up the meaning, hah! Cleverly done and super cool it all works in the browser. Great job!

jofish 2020-04-21 01:53

i wasn't sure what i was meant to be doing at first, but once i figured it out i had a lot of fun!

scalliondelight 2020-04-21 01:54

Fantastic premise and super fun to play. I lost some time to this one!

topolino 2020-04-21 01:54

Very cool aesthetic! Awesome to see such a well-polished game!

anrqangel 2020-04-21 01:54

good concept, quite complicated and not really my sort of thing.. but well done

2020-04-21 01:56

super fun game! With more updates and polishing i could see this game as a big web game

huddybuddygreatness 2020-04-21 01:58

Brilliant. I had a lot of fun playing this game! Genius idea, and I love the ominous ticking while you type

alessia-ip 2020-04-21 01:58

This is very thematic, and creative too! I can't believe this came out of a game jam with how polished it is! The timer is very stressful, but I kept playing round after round!

cheese-team 2020-04-21 01:59

Great idea!

frozedon 2020-04-21 02:01

This is amazing! It's so clean and leads to so many funny phrases. I didn't know I wanted an automated "Telephone" game until now

aspect11 2020-04-21 02:02

i really like the concept but its pretty hard xD

drewg8 2020-04-21 02:02

I really love this! One small thing I want to complement you all on is that the game is very easy to get the hang of, even with the use of spy language instead of plain speech. In the future, using phrases that are't famous lines might be a better idea, because guessing was made a bit too easy by the ubiquity of the phrases.

mikabrytu 2020-04-21 02:04

Really nice and different but I couldn't understand too much. Maybe some tutorials and easier levels for noobs like me. The tick of the clock was genial! Gives me so much tension!

firebelley 2020-04-21 02:04

I really enjoyed the innovative idea behind this game. It really made me think about what I was doing and how I was rephrasing the message. I do think it needs a little tweaking though, some messages were downright impossible to decode. Overall I really enjoyed my time with this and it's definitely a unique idea!

mmason 2020-04-21 02:07

This is a great game, it would be fantastic if it was better moderated (not possible here I know). It feels very complete, a shame that the trolls keep entering gibberish.

togo-sepultraut 2020-04-21 02:07

can't wait to see the results after a good number of people played this game. i feel like i cheated somebody when i misunderstand a phrase but manage to decode it anyway.

captainproton42 2020-04-21 02:12

I had some trouble understanding what was going on but then I am also really tired after jamming all day. However, the concept seems really cool and I adore the mood the game sets. I'll probably check back on this later when I get the chance.

croze 2020-04-21 02:12

I was a little confused by the "Guess the original message" part, on my first one it gave me the thing I was decoding as an option so I chose that and won, but the next time it didn't so I had no idea what to click and lost. I'm very interested to check back in once voting ends, I'm sure the progression of the phrases will be interesting! Very unique and cool idea

chrisevry 2020-04-21 02:20

Incredible concept and a really nice twist on the theme!

not-the-loading-screen 2020-04-21 02:23

Amazing concept and great execution, one of my favorites so far

inact1v1ty 2020-04-21 02:28

Very innovative! A clever idea and a good implementation. And I like the style a lot

ilprinny 2020-04-21 02:35

Man been playing for a while now, im working my way up to first (mainly cause im just having alot of fun). When Javascript came up it bounced between JS bad and JS good until “Jack Skellington's nature is to not be evil, I do declare” came up which was amazing

edit: so you can grind score REALLY easily if you are in every channel i have learned, since you just create new channels and can always guess correctly

purrseus 2020-04-21 03:04

This is incredibly polished and accessible for everyone worldwide. Amazing. I might send the link out to friends who otherwise would not get much out of LD entries.

Awesome job!

no-grapes-games 2020-04-21 03:08

Really interesting and unique idea. The aesthetic is nice too. Can't imagine what a nightmare it must have been to test in such a short time too!

myalias 2020-04-21 03:13

omg what have I done... Question 5.png

Pretty cool game! What do you use to process other lanauage? NLP algorithms?

funisfun8 2020-04-21 03:22

I think this is the best game I've played yet... My first round I just started cackling like a maniac. I then immediately grabbed my sister and her Fiance so they could try the insanity. I think the game could use more phrases (I saw a couple repeat which took the fun out of guessing) but this is just about perfect already. Expand and polish this and you have a viral social game on your hands!

kromeboy 2020-04-21 03:27

Simple idea. Great execution.

It was a while since I played some sort of telephone game online

Great job!

sophiemae0 2020-04-21 03:38

I had so much fun playing this game! I could never get the answers right but loved coming up with sentences

rodel77 2020-04-21 03:42

omg, this game is so amazing, apart from being very polished the concept is very unique and interesting.

horus 2020-04-21 04:12

This game has such a simple concept that I absolutely adore. The theme is nice, the music chill, and the group think everywhere. Super polished, very stylized, I love it in all respects. Gonna hold onto this one.

james-kusardi 2020-04-21 04:41

fun in a nonsensical kind of way!

echo-team 2020-04-21 04:50

Damn, son!

Only issue I ran into was that when I failed to encrypt a message (i r slow) the mission summary would never show up and it was F5 or the highway.

ianteo 2020-04-21 05:26

Very innovative game, with great execution. I had a lot of fun changing up the sentences and guessing the codes from other people

owl-skip 2020-04-21 07:40

This is a really cool game. Great tone and mechanics. I love that it asks the player to think creatively and come up with their own conclusions. Would make a great online party game.

jayesstee 2020-04-21 09:50

Really fun and original idea especially for someone who loves words!

effarek 2020-04-21 12:58

Really smart game idea, fun and original, I liked it a lot !

ryan-jung 2020-04-21 16:54

Loving all the messages everyone is putting in here! I'm playing the game right now (trying to get some fun ones for you all to rephrase).

Full disclosure, asking for responses in a different language *may* have been a questionable idea but we're rolling with it!

Good luck! Can't wait to see how crazy some of these messages get!

bar0net 2020-04-21 17:19

A really fun concept. It made me realise I might need some english review lessons to come up with alternate ways of saying things faster.

tobiasw 2020-04-21 17:22

I'm a bit sad when I make especially nice sentences, but get "message invalid" :'(

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elmos-minion 2020-04-21 17:24

Great game, great concept, great execution!

connie-liu 2020-04-21 17:44

@tobiasw I think you need to phrase it more than six words instead of exactly six, hope that solves the problem!

tobiasw 2020-04-21 17:47

That seems a bit arbitrary, @connie-liu, but good to know. Thanks!

tobiasw 2020-04-21 17:55

Alright, played a bit more now. I love it! It's quick, it's funny and it works well. It's also the first game that I have bookmarked and will probably open multiple times in the next days!

(And thanks for the inspiration! Now I want to try to make something with chains where players build upon each other next time. Probably a better idea than my game for this LD, where the timing is too critical for this distributed community.)

ryan-jung 2020-04-21 18:12

@tobiasw I played your game and it was amazing! Can't wait to see what you make, hopefully you have a (slightly) less chaotic time than we did making ours. Admittedly the word limit *is* a little long :sweat_smile:

zennith 2020-04-21 18:21

This is pretty neat! I'm clearly not cut out for this game since I failed after only a few turns in but I had fun either way. I think it really sets the mood right into making you feel like a true spy and it's rewarding when encoding and decoding the messages. Great job!!

kiln 2020-04-21 18:25

This was fun. I'm not too sure how it fit the theme, but regardless the concept is neat and not one I've seen done before as an online game. I remember playing this in middle school drama class, so it definitely brought back some memories.

saadsirius 2020-04-21 19:57

The concept is really cool but i a tutorial or an easier starting phrase(maybe im stupid) would be an improvement

venitherich 2020-04-21 21:28

Really innovative concept. Simple yet really good, it shines through it's simplicity. Keep up the good work!

ryan-jung 2020-04-21 21:36

@saadsirius Im sorry your starting phrase was difficult! Sadly we didn't have enough time to make a short tutorial with a starting phrase, so its very possible that the first phrase was undecipherable.

doritolord 2020-04-22 09:25

this is a really creative concept, i was confused at first because the phrase didn't look like anything, but later on i got the hang of it eventually.

noirdrive 2020-04-22 11:24

Wow, this is the most creative concept in the event with a great execuiton. Well done!

tobiasw 2020-04-22 11:34

@ryan-jung I'm glad you enjoyed mine too! Yours definitely has much more solid gameplay. And likewise, can't wait to see what I'll make, haha.

And when is a game jam ever not chaotic? I'd be disappointed to be honest :D

danielcmcg 2020-04-22 12:50

Wow, nice idea, that old kids game reviewed for good. Thank you!

dane-tesla 2020-04-23 20:49

Lol I loved it! It was fun and entertaining. Really creative. If I was to correct anything about it, I'd give maybe a few seconds before the timer starts for the first time so the player can read the tips on the bottom first and then proceed to the game ^^ Amazing one, definitely one of the best ld46 games I played so far :D

kevin-prehn 2020-04-24 01:52

very interesting idea! It's a cool pseudo-multiplayer game

hypermania 2020-04-26 05:21

The only game I've given five stars across the board to this jam. Amazingly fun concept, execution, and general tomfoolery. The only real suggestion that I have is to give greater rewards the further down the telephone line the guessing player is due to the significant difference in difficulty between a five man line and a twelve man line.

emmyoop 2020-04-26 16:07

Took me a bit to get the game but ended up fun. Like how subtle the music is.

angelina 2020-05-04 02:02

@hypermania glad you enjoyed our game!!

tobiasw 2020-05-15 01:48

Congrats on your innvation rating, folks! It's good to see fellow online games do so well in LD :D