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King's Sandwich by HexStart

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made by HexStart for Ludum Dare 53 (JAM)

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Ahh, the new courier! Welcome. His Majesty is right over there. Go and deliver what he needs to know about his kingdom. Beware, you do not want to test his patience! Pay attention to his mood. And remember to mix up the good news with the bad. Like a sandwich!

King's Sandwich is a narrative strategy game where you play a royal courier bringing news to their king. Your goal is to present the news in the right order and combination for the king to spare your life. You never know what new problems will befall the kingdom or how the royal mood swings this time, so each day is a brand new, deadly puzzle.

NOTE: the windows build offers a slightly better audio experience with dynamic pitch adjustment.

NOTE2: the embedded web build and the additional windows build include a typo fix. The original upload remains available.

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Created by

Together we create Tano Collective - Twitter, Itch

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Attribution & Resources

Midnight Tale by Kevin MacLeod

incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0)

Gameplay music, Act starts, Act endings 1, Act endings 2, Next day

Additional sounds from 1BITDRAGON library

Fonts: Orotund, Kingthings Exeter, Encode Sans

Link https://tanocollective.itch.io/kings-sandwich
Link https://tanocollective.itch.io/kings-sandwich
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/kings-sandwitch

Ratings

Overall 127th 4.079⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Fun 69th 4.132⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 46th 4.197⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Theme 121th 4.368⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 354th 4.039⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Humor 82th 4.095⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Mood 199th 4.014⭐ 39🧑‍⚖️
Given 18🗳️ 27🗨️

Feedback

elysiagriffin
02. May 2023 · 14:50 UTC
Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my stream!

If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1809503221?t=14m13s

Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D

💜 Elysia Griffin AKA Button Feedback Lady
https://www.twitch.tv/elysiagriffin
Andreadbx
02. May 2023 · 16:02 UTC
Great game! Loved the retro-style graphics and the faces on the characters :D (not so much the skybox), the game is engaging and fun, the only thing i find unnecessary its the deadline mechanic! great job!
Tomáš Selmeci
02. May 2023 · 19:54 UTC
Wow very well put together, somehow the faces merge wit hthe graphics and the reactions are awesome! gj
nobiy
02. May 2023 · 20:09 UTC
This is a creative take on the theme! I had fun playing it and trying my best to keep my head.
The one thing I struggled with is understanding what the king's mood means. I think if you can hover over them and look up what their effects are, it'd make the game more puzzle like and less trial-and-error.
Good work!
ghodan
02. May 2023 · 20:33 UTC
Had to play this one after watching it on a stream, love these kinds of social deduction puzzles a-la Reigns. Also, first game I noticed using "Delivery" in this sense- brilliant!
Jackaljk
02. May 2023 · 20:36 UTC
Absolutely loved it! Great take on the theme, very fun and strategic. This can be turned into so many different situations, like talking to your boss, wife, patient, ... it has a lot of potential. I love how meme-like the graphics are but if you want to turn this into a hit for the general populace you might want to rethink the presentation :P Great job guys!
LDJam user 248473
02. May 2023 · 21:31 UTC
this game was really interesting! really cool take on the theme and fun gameplay loop! Wish it was a little harder (i only died once on the final act) still really creative!
Augmotic
02. May 2023 · 23:54 UTC
Thanks for hanging out in the stream and bringing your game!

Here is a link to the VOD that starts at your section.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1809875425?t=05h43m06s
MallanSandan
03. May 2023 · 06:28 UTC
I loved the storytelling through the different messages :D very neat way to balance his different moods!
RookRules
03. May 2023 · 07:39 UTC
HOLY KING's SANDWICH! I still have my head 4/5
Bauke Regnerus
03. May 2023 · 12:05 UTC
Absolutely my type of game. Great little narrative worked really well and I felt like my choices mattered. At the start there's some sense of figuring it out. The face mappings on the model are brilliant. XD
DanielShershnev2Game1
03. May 2023 · 13:37 UTC
It seemed to me that I am this guy who brings messages to the king! When the king was angry, I was scared, when I was happy, I calmed down! A very well thought out game! Thanks!
SvenErik
04. May 2023 · 15:09 UTC
Well that was quite the experience, a really great submission, standing out a lot. I loved how the narrative and the game overall worked and the faces.. they were great haha. Marvelous overall aesthetic going along with it, this would be really fabulous to see if fully polished out and some content added~ Awesome work!
Igor Minenko
04. May 2023 · 15:14 UTC
one of the best game I ever played on this jam, good job guys! this aroused great interest!
Lomby
04. May 2023 · 21:39 UTC
Thanks for submitting your game on the stream!
Here’s the stream if you wanted to re-watch initial thoughts (timestamps in the description to jump to your game!) [youtube link](youtu.be/7zAPBeiWuqA)
sergilazaro
05. May 2023 · 11:49 UTC
I love when games try the non-obvious interpretation of the theme (unlike my game 😅). The fool/joker is my spirit animal 🃏
JanUres
05. May 2023 · 13:10 UTC
This is wonderful.
dxk2294
08. May 2023 · 22:03 UTC
What a fantastic submission! We had a similar thought of a delivering news to your king during our early ideation on Friday night, but we couldn't figure out a way to make the idea engaging and fun. But you folks nailed it perfectly! I unfortunately had bad RNG the first time I played and (as far as I could tell) was doomed to failure with nothing but bad news from the start. But after that first game, things seemed much better balanced and I had a great time playing through the acts. I really liked how all of the pieces fit well together, and it felt like the order in which you delivered the news really mattered. I hope you get a lot more ratings, you deserve it!
MateusBoga
08. May 2023 · 22:14 UTC
Such an interesting take on the theme, and really nice execution as well! I enjoyed playing it on stream ^^ here's the VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1814982163
Wolfier
08. May 2023 · 22:27 UTC
I told the king the weather was nice so he chopped my head off. Alright then.

I kinda think that its not clear what news will proc with which moods
Austin Sierra
09. May 2023 · 01:25 UTC
King had the most stressful life ever!
I enjoyed timing the news with how he felt each day.
I never came close to running out of time though.
Rodrigo Denúbila
09. May 2023 · 04:01 UTC
I really liked your interpretation of the theme! And it's really well executed. Good job!
PoshDan
18. May 2023 · 15:23 UTC
This is a fairly unique concept! Initially I had a bit of difficulty anticipating the effects for the news I was delivering, but I improved with time. It was very funny to withhold the news of an invasion from the king for several days!
I had a lot of fun sticking my thumb into royal drama, well done!