Impasta by Jozef

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made by Jozef for Ludum Dare 53 (JAM)

Play online at itch.io, link below

Play peggle, write jokes, get booed!

A recipe for a good joke contains setup, punchline, and, of course, delivery. In our game you'll get the setup, but can you come up with a good punchline and deliver it?

Master bouncy ball, unlock letters, come up with a good punch line and captivate the audience!

Share your best jokes with us in the comments!

The game utilizes GPT-4 API to rate the jokes. Even though we've spent considerable amount of time adjusting the prompts to get appropriate responses, due to the model's nature it's still possible that your good jokes won't be rated highly. So don't get discouraged, you might still have a chance to become a comedian for a live human audience!

Because of the API usage the game requires internet connection for the best experience.

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To comply with GPT-4 API terms of use and for internal analytics we store the following data: joke setup, punchline, game level, unlocked letters, rating and game session ID. We don't store any sensitive data or other personally identifiable information. By playing our game, you consent to this data collection and usage.

Ratings

Overall 198th 3.974⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Fun 508th 3.526⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 10th 4.447⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Theme 569th 3.936⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 400th 3.974⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Audio 358th 3.579⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Humor 156th 3.872⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Mood 395th 3.75⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Given 37🗳️ 67🗨️

Feedback

BartekDe
02. May 2023 · 00:26 UTC
Very creative take on the theme.
Peggle game works without flaw, although after writing my bad punchlines there was always an error when connecting to server. Shame this part of the game didn't work as intended. Curious how is the punchline rated on the server.
🎤 Jozef
02. May 2023 · 07:30 UTC
Hey, thanks for playing our game! It turns that out games hosted on LD website can't communicate with external servers. If you're still curious give our game a try on itch.io!
Ollyfields
02. May 2023 · 17:43 UTC
Extremely creative. very well done
Obe Dot
02. May 2023 · 17:43 UTC
The sound effects were great! I liked the premise of the game, it was very original. I wonder how the punchlines are scored!
CodeForJoyCaro
02. May 2023 · 17:47 UTC
Interesting idea.
PartySquadMember
02. May 2023 · 17:47 UTC
Unique and effective. The game works well and requires thought to come up with a punchline!
Jona Scheidig
02. May 2023 · 17:48 UTC
Same as @obe-dot I like the idea of the game very much, and I wonder too how the punchlines are scored ^^
In any case, well done!
Red_dino
02. May 2023 · 17:49 UTC
Really cool game idea and take on delivery! Wonder the same thing as Obe Dot. :)
LDJam user 97711
02. May 2023 · 17:51 UTC
Interesting game! Really liked the twist on the theme, and its impressive that you've managed to implement a joke rating system, i'm super curious to know what tech you used for that! It would be interesting to know more about why the joke was funny or not, with some sort of feedback from why a joke succeeded or failed. Nice entry!
Lascif
02. May 2023 · 17:54 UTC
I really like the unique take on deliver and the way peggle coincides with getting letters you cna write jokes with. I just wish there was more of a hint what would score higher.
TofuCat
02. May 2023 · 17:54 UTC
Note to self... "don't give up your day job to go into comedy". Really creative and unique game! I had a lot of fun playing it.
Kylene
02. May 2023 · 17:55 UTC
"What kind of music does a tree listen to? Oakestral" 10/10!

Very fun spin on having to make joke delivery and peggle, though it is really hard to think of good jokes, mostly got 4/10, but still very fun.
Tugaryn
02. May 2023 · 17:57 UTC
very interested idea, are you rate joke with something like gpt? i check, game send request, cool idea
art also are satisfyed
hammerfrenzy
02. May 2023 · 17:58 UTC
Really enjoyed the sounds & feel of the peggle portion. Also curious on how the jokes were scored because some truly terrible ones ranked in the 7-8 range while most others were 2-3 haha.
Level design was also good and kept things fresh, but unfortunately I ended up softlocked at this part:

![Screenshot 2023-05-02 at 12.55.12 PM.png](///raw/563/14/z/5ac0b.png)
indigoninja
02. May 2023 · 18:01 UTC
Tough crowd, but fun game!
BmanStudio
02. May 2023 · 18:02 UTC
Definetely one of the best I've seen this jam! So creative, simple and such a great execution! well job guys, you made an awesome game which made me want to keep playing it to see if I can come up with better jokes! reached about 20 points
Spacespytv
02. May 2023 · 18:03 UTC
Really impressive, the idea is insane, can't believe you thought this all up in a weekend, peggle sections were really fun, and the harder levels had me actually thinking about what keys to type. Well done.
Nozomu57
02. May 2023 · 18:05 UTC
Combining peggle and delivering jokes with limited letters is... unique, to say the least. Can't say that it was engaging, but at least fun for a while. Too bad the actual score is obscured by some "server magic": I didn't feel like I was in too much control over the resulting score. On average better jokes were scored better, but most of the time it didn't feel... "fair"? Even if the server logic is better that random scoring.

Moreover, I usually expect the game to make jokes for me, not the other way around: I don't get happy neurons activations when I joke "into the robotic void" :D

The peggle part was pretty fun and worked flawlessly, though, props to the team!
LDJam user 356534
02. May 2023 · 18:09 UTC
Really creative and very entertaining, I did not think of this interpretation of the topic! Well done :)
k8n
02. May 2023 · 18:10 UTC
The idea is defiantly interesting, but I am bad at jokes and since there is no feedback on the quality of a joke it got a bit tiresome for me.
OmriLahav
02. May 2023 · 18:12 UTC
Very clever idea, and really well done, too! Good job!
Swen
02. May 2023 · 19:55 UTC
I love it! It wasn't too hard to get all the letters in the beginning but it got increasingly harder. On the second try GPT stopped responding sadly. On the up side, I got to see to 0/10 outcome because of the random output generation (because of course my jokes aren't that bad... right?).
Really well executed, it felt polished there was a satisfying scoring build up and finish, and it was fun to play!
Erlioniel
03. May 2023 · 17:21 UTC
An interesting take on the theme, however I was never strong in jokes to really enjoy it :smile: Got as much tomatoes as was possible probably, there should be an anti-rating :smiley:
paulhocker
04. May 2023 · 03:40 UTC
peggle part was good and nice take on the theme. i could not figure out the jokes. i think it would have been better to give the player options for puchlines instead of typing it out? thanks for making the game.
Nicso
04. May 2023 · 13:26 UTC
if you knew my level in humour you wouldn't make me write jokes with a challenge on top 😅

Excellent concept and really nice execution 👍
Najimi
04. May 2023 · 22:25 UTC
Very very unique game and idea, even though I am terrible at finding punchlines, the game still had mercy with me. I enjoyed playing it, keep going :)
jitspoe
05. May 2023 · 01:00 UTC
I got 67. Just a couple point short of a nice score. Super clever entry! Had a lot of fun!
Wendel Scardua
05. May 2023 · 01:30 UTC
Although an AI may not be the best judge at comedy, at least I liked the idea of mashing two wildly different things :)

BTW, for some reason it gave me 75 out of 10 once:

![Impasta.png](///raw/bdb/1/z/5b56d.png)

Oh, also you may add a notice about the computer time on the description (I couldn't play it properly before because my PC time was wrong, now on the laptop with the correct time it's working just fine)

PS: Got a score of 54 :-)
Diego Escalante
05. May 2023 · 07:05 UTC
Pretty unique and fun entry! The game felt complete and well made. No big criticisms, I had a lot of fun! My final score was 68 (so close!).
Tyrannas
05. May 2023 · 22:32 UTC
Really original idea ! Definitely a high contender on innovation category ! Some small criticisms:
I understand the need to add some gameplay with the minigame but it was kinda frustrating (especially for non native like me) to be bereft of some letters, it was hard enough to try to find a joke in another language ! And also for me the music was really stressful (thanks for putting a shutdown button <3). Overall, had fun playing this and again, very innovative !
Skel3ton
06. May 2023 · 15:52 UTC
it was really fun. I did not have many letters so I wrote "your mom" reply and I was imidietly boomed that I was offensive. very funny entry. very original
Somnium
13. May 2023 · 15:33 UTC
The "delivering a punchline" was a unique take on the theme, and the concept of having to come up with a punchline for a given setup was a very interesting idea. Though it did feel like the peggle segments sometimes hamstrung the possibilities too much - perhaps duplicating the most commonly used letters as extra targets could make it easier to avoid ending up being unable to construct meaningful punchlines with the unlocked letters.

The art was good too, the audience reactions were especially funny.

Interesting game!
DaveCo
14. May 2023 · 21:34 UTC
Always love a game that leverages LLMs. Hope this inspires more people to see what's possible with OpenAI!
LDJam user 189270
14. May 2023 · 23:01 UTC
This is one the bizarrest and cleverest games I've played from LD ever. Really interesting use of AI