compasslg 2023-10-03 02:23
Minimus Brainius, you are a genius
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD54 → Minimus Brainius
By hulien22, iminsoftware, JosephlDooley and Frunkleberg
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 114 | 4.08 | 30 | |
| Fun | 299 | 3.76 | 30 | |
| Innovation | 14 | 4.51 | 30 | |
| Theme | 120 | 4.32 | 30 | |
| Graphics | 383 | 3.91 | 30 | |
| Audio | 212 | 3.77 | 29 | |
| Humor | 68 | 4.11 | 28 | |
| Mood | 232 | 3.92 | 30 |
Minimus Brainius, you are a genius
My tiny brain can't figure out what makes a better argument, but the game is great :laughing:
A interesting one. Though the interpretation of theme is not super unique, the gameplay shows innovative thoughts there. Nice to see that you succesfully convey an abstract idea into playable gameplay. Wondering how does the scoring works.
superb very at lose feel! I didn't fully understand what was going on, but I really loved the music and the vibe
This is really really great. I'm quite curious to know how the scoring works. Seems like a nightmare to program a system to figure out what the player is trying to say but it seems to work well as sentences that make sense and/or have the right convincing words in them seem to score better consistently. Very neat.
First playthrough ended abruptly right after the first boss debate. I think maybe I clicked skip on accident and was supposed to do something with my new expanded slots? Next one went fine until my ego was shattered by poor word choices.
Very fun, great entry. Looks good, plays well aside from the aforementioned bug, and has me 'intrigue' as to how it works under the hood. Probabaly gonna go poke around the repo and find out
I love the mixture of managing your words and actually using them. I restarted the game but got some very bad words, so the words available at the begining should be better so your run is not ruined.
Very challenging, clearly my brain isn't big enough I like the music and the visuals a lot, feels very polished. Great job guys
Very interesting game. It would be nice to see what causes what scores, it feels like I'm making sentences at random. Also the overworld map generation seems quite unbalanced.
Thanks for the feedback!
Re: Judging @compasslg @andrew-michienzi @trifectuh @nathmate
Judging is done based on a mixture of persuasiveness, logic, grammar and some dark magic (aka asking a large language model to pretend it is a judge for a children's debate contest).
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Some tips for getting better scores - Try to use words like "Because" or "Since" to add explanations. - Use the free words to help add more structure to your argument. - Use the oracle to help give yourself a step up in the boss debates. - Use the forges to help get yourself those missing words.
@trifectuh Thanks for the bug report, that bug should be fixed now! Turns out the map could generate more combat nodes than we had questions for on some of the acts...
Great take on the theme! First time around it was hard to know what words to keep since some are quite thematic and ended up being useless. The judging is a bit mysterious but I did much better on second try after making actual sentences - still lost though haha.
Birthdays is fun since people and holidays not bad.
Took me a few runs, but eventually got past the first boss fight thanks to the oracle. Great execution for a jam. The music and art were nicely done. I never managed to get a score above 6 though. Back to the word forge with me!
Very stylish and polished game, love the visuals, the music and sound, the atmosphere. But I also had problems to find out what makes a good argument. But maybe I try again with your hints. Definitely a nice game. :smiley:
It's like a significantly better version of that one Jackbox game. Which is really impressive, because Jackbox is a multi-million dollar franchise and you guys made this in three days. This is also a decent competitor to Twitter, as the people you argue with in this game are far more coherent and logical.
Anyway, have some stars. Five of them, in fact.
This is a really fun concept (and possibly a good use of LLMs) but I really couldn't tell what made for good arguments at all, in fact by the time I got to the boss I was already at 1 ego and lost on the first argument.
This is my favorite one for LD54 ever. Love the idea of limited brain and the battle mechanics. I'm a bit curious about how the sentences get rated, will check the source code later. Thank you for making it open source, great job!
It's an interesting concept, but I just didn't understand the debates. What are you scored on? How much should you say? Does it matter what order they are in? The rest of it was pretty straight forward, but the debates.... I kept trying to make sentences and had "limited" words to use so nothing made sense.
I go the way to Zeus but I brain to not big and big fail. Amazing game, the only thing I can add is please add a volume slider, I'll probably be coming back to play this more.
Ah this is brilliant. Stuff like this is why I love Ludem Dare. I'd love to know more about how you use the LLM API. What specific prompts you used.
I LOVE THIS GAME! It's so good! I love the concept and how it fits the theme. Most importantly it is super fun!
I'm not sure what the scoring system is based on, though, because I consistently scored less than 5 with life-changing philosophical arguments such as these:
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This was hilarious! I liked the wide range of prompts and how I could always manage to make something work. I think being able to use words multiple times would have been good (I wanted to compare goat's cheese to sheep's cheese but could only use cheese once.)
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Really neat concept. LLM based? Would be nice to get more feedback on how the argument is being processed.
I liked the background music, and the 'world map' - I enjoyed solving the basic puzzle in the beginning. I got confused when it was time to start 'debating'. And, I didn't make it too much further beyond that. Which is too bad, because I can feel that this game is oozing with intention and hard work. Solid work team :)