Now We're Clickin', Team

Like Andrew’s previous entry in the jam, this one is again about you being a fan of a game, and wanting your team to do well in the tournament. You get to pick your rituals before the season starts and pray to the Basketball gods the RNG is on your side.

Then starts a lot of clicking, to go through each result of games your team plays in the knock-off stages. Even if the title of the entry warns you, it is still a bit tedious… I think a one passage per season, where each game result appears one below the other, with a timer, would have been a bit nicer?

I did like the name of the college team you are following (which is randomly assigned at the start of the game) and the strange rituals and superstitions from your eating habits to your cleaning schedule. Quite humourous!

This is a short game about 350 words, written for the Neo Twiny Jam.

It has two parts. In the first, you pick from several sports superstitions like food to eat or clothes to wear.

In the second, it tells you the results of several randomized playoff games. This is repeated over multiple years, although you can skip a bit if it takes too long.

The randomization is impressive. At first, though, I was not a fan of the interactivity, as there's not really any indicator that your superstitions do everything and my teams usually didn't win.

But then I reflected and realized that that's actually the real experience with superstitions. It doesn't matter if you wear dirty socks on game day. And in play-offs with 16 people, 15 will lose, so losing is a standard experience.