Not even critique, just post-alcoholic ramblings.
I don't think I can test this to its full potential as I have no shooting buddy but I like the artwork and music. I am guessing you kinda have to walk away from each other and shout DRAW! to make it a competition.
I enjoyed the music for this. It reminds me of the starting area in Anachronox <3
I think this is my second favourite submission. It is reminiscent of a Cybiko game I used to play (Game of Hawaii) where the subject was fishing around the islands of Hawaii. It had a similar narrative and crazy random events also. I think the best part of this was where my empire starved to the extent that I ended up with a population of -1, which when you consider it, it means that my final commander must have self-consumed.
I think I passed comment on this earlier but holy balls you two are a match made in heaven. I hope that this is a continuing thing and that you go on to make another great export of SW/GW. To me it doesn't really matter that it didn't end up a complete "experience" for the jam, it is art in its own right. Let us know how you're doing.
This was my fave submission by a long shot. It sort've reminded me of a game of similar mechanics called Power Pete, which I used to play on Mac CD-ROM as a kid. I loved the sarcastic dialogue from the NPCs and the way the game started off as a traditional game/bomberman setting before breaking out into a world map. I got very Pokemon-y vibes from the tiles you've made and I thought that even though some might consider the task of blasting the way through a map that size a little repetitive - I found it to be therapeutic. It would be cool if you made some sort of RPG using the same art style and mechanics in future because I would buy it. I liked the colour schemes relating to the bomb-skill level and the statues.
I could only get so far in this game. It is one of the more complete games (in terms of gameplay) from this jam. I was put off by two things: the music restarting each time I died and the input delay that denied me a quick double-flip but I guess this adds to the retro charm of the game anyway. A retro "game" isn't a game unless the input controls are half the challenge, right?
I spent a long time trying to kill dad and I failed. I did make some progress by jumping at the right time once or twice. I often wondered if the purpose was to slam dunk myself through the b-ball hoop but alas, I failed. Loved the sound clips, would love to know whether you harvested them from the internet or did the voices haha. I was left wondering what the whole thing symbolised.
So in summary:
1. Dale
2. Gempire.html
3. Whiskey Weather
Regarding jam-politics:
I think it is pretty unfortunate that SW went down when it did, for as long as it did. I would like to thank Neuro and Earl for the effort they put in in organising this jam and to also thank the people who actually submitted something. We should definitely be tweeting links to the OP on this page to get people playing the submissions and perhaps next time we will get a few more creative new members out of it. Perhaps the itch.io main page could feature a minuscule banner of sorts to funnel people into the next jam, featuring the current competition phase in the link e.g. "SW Jam: Sign up phase", "SW Jam: Review and voting phase". We could try again at Easter?
must be workplace blocko
