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Got tripped up by the place names towards the end, font size is a bit small when playing on the embedded version. The pacing felt good for the increase of difficulty","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":936349,"author_name":"Tul Games","author_uid":"tul-games","epoch":1682941833,"text":"This is one of the, possibly the, most fun game I played during this game jam! :smile: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":936410,"author_name":"hacktic","author_uid":"hacktic","epoch":1682942823,"text":"Thank you everyone for the feedback! I know the UK place name things is a bit unfair, I just found the concept of trying to decide if these insane place names are real or not really funny. And I will for sure take the other feedback on board and release a 1.0.2 patch at some point.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":937294,"author_name":"LDJam user 258850","author_uid":"258850","epoch":1682954340,"text":"Awesome! ^^ every time I play I get a worse score.. haha\n\nmy best was 60 something","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":937996,"author_name":"TasakaSama","author_uid":"tasakasama","epoch":1682963268,"text":"0.57 I was lost with UK cities, but it's very well done","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":939978,"author_name":"robobarbie","author_uid":"robobarbie","epoch":1682986476,"text":"LOL like the other commenters i died in the actual uk places part, but i had a lot of fun with this! loved the simple graphics and the building ruleset -- very papers please, in a very good way! 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Side note, it took me way too long to realize I could drag the instructions out of view haha","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":954375,"author_name":"RNGames","author_uid":"rngames","epoch":1683086088,"text":"\u2714\ufe0f Simple and intuitive gameplay with non standard mechanics.\n\n\u2714\ufe0f Good progression system.\n\n\u2796 I got a bit confused when we were asked to find real UK place names :P\n\n\u2b50 Overall: Nice little game!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":958414,"author_name":"PerfectSquare","author_uid":"perfectsquare","epoch":1683137037,"text":"Great game! I thought I was doing so well until the UK place names part :joy: It would have been neat if there was a map of the UK on the desk or something to give you a reference for ones you didn't know.\n\nNice job on the graphics too. The fake stamps were hilarious and I actually laughed out loud the first time I got one","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":959571,"author_name":"MercilessCult","author_uid":"mercilesscult","epoch":1683147466,"text":"Almost perfect jam game in my opinion! Love the art, sound design is just right, difficulty seems perfectly balanced, the only downside is you guessed it the UK names, but it can easily be changed! Ended with 0.70$, and I would definitely be hyped to play it again!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":963806,"author_name":"arya-s","author_uid":"arya-s","epoch":1683218225,"text":"Great game! Perfectly scoped, well executed. I wish it had a simple audiotrack but not a biggie.\n\nI like how the pressure scaled, I also liked that the tutorials kept sticking around cluttering up your workspace. I thought I wouldn't like that at first but it worked out well.\n\nWell done!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":969642,"author_name":"Proutymat","author_uid":"proutymat","epoch":1683343359,"text":"Oh interesting we had the same idea! \n\nBut your game is much more polished than ours, it's funny you implemented all the features we didn't have time to do, urgent letters, wrong addresses, infinite incoming letters, etc. And even then we still have a few bugs, but we're still happy with the result considering we're just starting out in game dev (and unfortunately we're only programmers, graphics is an obscure skill for us haha)\n\nAnyway, it's impressive that you were able to do this in only 12 hours, there is a very good sound design and pixel art. It's very polished and fun to play. I like the fact that we're literally on a desk (as we tried unsuccessfully to portray it too). It's also fun that takes place in a foreign country (at least for me), you get to see what the letters are like and learn about new cities (seriously I love England but Barton in the Beans, really?). Very good game :clap::clap: \n\nBy the way great devlog, I came here after watching it :)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":973003,"author_name":"grid96","author_uid":"grid96","epoch":1683471074,"text":"Very unique idea! I like the increase in difficulty. Determining what city actually exists in the UK kinda killed me though :D","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":974723,"author_name":"LDJam user 283449","author_uid":"283449","epoch":1683556954,"text":"Nice little game! The sound when a new mail arrives destroyed my ears at first but still fun to play :D","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":981131,"author_name":"LDJam user 364744","author_uid":"364744","epoch":1684299546,"text":"great polish on display here & perfect complexity ramping. UK one got me as others have pointed out but otherwise love all the increasing challenges","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":981371,"author_name":"Roka Josh","author_uid":"roka-josh","epoch":1684333670,"text":"Really nice entry and fun spin on a papers please-like. Would like to see this be developed further as it could be a really fun and difficult game. Great job!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":981378,"author_name":"StormCat","author_uid":"stormcat","epoch":1684334463,"text":"Great game! It was a lot of fun quickly checking everyone's letters. 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