Meta Jammer by pschichtel
Hey everyone! This game is about collecting ratings for your game by playing and rating other peoples games... like what you are doing right now, but with more swag.
Have fun with your entries, Team Banana4Life
Controls
- Right-Click & Drag to Move about
- Left-Click on a Tile to Select/Discover a Game
- Games that are not yet placed with better vote balance are more likely to show up
- Mouse-Wheel to Zoom in and out
- Use the Top-Rated / Awarded Games Buttons on the Top-Left
- Your ratings (made in our game) can be clicked to jump to that game
- If you mistyped your user-name you can change it on the top-right.
- We need the correct user-name to collect your game info.
- Once collected your game will spawn on a free tile near the center
How to "Play"
- Play the Game - Opens the selected game in a new window
- only available when playable in Browser
- if the game has no browser version you can visit the LD-Jam Site with the "Rate & Comment" Button to get it another way
- Let us collect your Rating.
- automatically shows after closing the game
- or by clicking the stars (you did play the game right?)
- Rate & Comment on LD-Jam
- commenting may be cooler than just rating
- Give out cool Awards 🏆
- They show up as particles on the tiles
Tools
ThreeJS: Typescript Frontend
Play Framework: Scala Backend / Website
Jetbrains: IDE
Audacity: Recording and post processing of all sound effects
External Assets
Font-Awsome for some SVGs
AI-Generated: MetaJammer Logo
Oh and also all of your Cover Images... Thanks
Post-Submission Changes
- configurable higher max-zoom level
- bigger awards particles
- top ratings is global now
🌐 Website: https://banana4.life
| The Game | https://banana4life.github.io/MetaJammer |
| Frontend Code | https://github.com/Banana4Life/MetaJammer |
| Backend Code (+Website) | https://github.com/Banana4Life/website |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/58/meta-jammer |
Ratings
| Overall | 311th | 3.618⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 700th | 2.703⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 2th | 4.538⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 302th | 3.816⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 622th | 3.026⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 499th | 1.786⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 458th | 2.824⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 702th | 2.847⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 51🗳️ | 57🗨️ |
It will be placed on a free tile near the center.
e.g. https://api.ldjam.com/vx/node2/get/419397
to get data about this entry
I personally wish the camera could go a little higher so that I could view more games at a time
Also crashed at some point and panning around stopped working due to it but could still click on the games that were visible.
I would like to see a modified version that will also show games from previous jams.
I was a bit shocked when the game reminded me of my game from the jam before last :)
we already had that functionality for testing as not a lot of games were published yet
just add a query param to the url with
`jam=<Jam-Name>`
e.g. https://banana4life.github.io/MetaJammer/?jam=56
We did reset the database for release so almost nothing is placed.
The "game" part of it is the awards and ratings, we had some more ideas to collect more information (dialogue style) but couldn't fit it in.
The "Game not found ..." error is a caching issue that we could not completely get rid of.
But it should only prevent the tile that game is placed on to load temporarily, until the cache is invalidated.
Do you mean the panning itself?
The grid does not generate more empty tiles that are too far away from any placed game tile.
Currently only 204 games where placed on the hexgrid.
Yeah it blocked panning completely, couldn't even move back to where I had come from.
I sort of wish you took it one step further, and made it into more of a game with clearer objectives and somehow using the ratings or other metrics as resources - but that's certainly a tricky minefield to navigate, as you don't want any gamification to create an incentive for people not playing and rating games fairly and in earnest...