Hivemind by Antti Haavikko

In Hivemind you are presented with a semi random Reddit post and one top level comment from it. Your goal is to guess whether the shown comment has positive or negative karma. You get points equal to the absolute value of the karma but you will lose the same amount if you fail to answer correctly.
How well do you know your Redditors?
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Unfortunately I couldn't make a web version because Unity doesn't allow changing of user agent on web version, Reddit limits the API usage based on it and obviously the default browser ones are under some heavy use. Also, there was the CORS issue with loading images on the web version.

đ ī¸ Tools used
- Unity 2018 (with Post Processing and Anima2D)
- Adobe Illustrator
- Bfxr
- Garage Band
- SunVox
đī¸ Gameplay video
đĨ Dev timelapse
đĨī¸ Screenshots

Ratings
| Overall | 111th | 3.8â | 27đ§ââī¸ |
| Fun | 197th | 3.54â | 27đ§ââī¸ |
| Innovation | 14th | 4.25â | 28đ§ââī¸ |
| Theme | 723th | 1.833â | 26đ§ââī¸ |
| Graphics | 42th | 4.14â | 27đ§ââī¸ |
| Audio | 44th | 3.761â | 25đ§ââī¸ |
| Humor | 57th | 3.56â | 27đ§ââī¸ |
| Mood | 70th | 3.652â | 25đ§ââī¸ |
| Given | 18đŗī¸ | 34đ¨ī¸ |
My only complaint so far is that post with "neutral" karma can be too hard to guess, but they still deplete your bonus bar if you guess wrong, which is pretty frustrating.
Well done !
It could be a lot of fun if ported as a mobile game, I'm sure plenty of redditors would enjoy doing this on the train for example.
@dries-vuylsteke Yeah, porting it to mobile would be even more of an escapade of "running out of space" with the limited screen estate.
Btw, I managed to get to 3rd place in highscores.
Cheers!
- The Koala Squad
@koala-squad Oh I see, that's an evil filter. But it's not quite true that nothing could be done about it. I at first thought I'd make the connection to Reddit from my own server so I could make a web build (would get rid of the CORS issue and default browser user agent). Then the game client would just communicate with my server. Obviously I didn't go that route because it would have been quite a lot of extra work for just the web build. But yeah, never say "there's nothing you can do" because there pretty much always is a solution in software development if you put enough hours behind it...
Personally, though, I hate reddit and sites like that so this was painful for me. I had to quit after a post from the gore subreddit.
Really nice polish though!
:point_right: You could argue some use of the theme.... maybe. It still feels like we got cheated out of the theme in this game though.
:star: Overall good job, and thank you for making this.