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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Concept | #14 | 2.915 | 3.222 |
| Use of prerequisite | #20 | 3.116 | 3.444 |
| Overall | #27 | 2.312 | 2.556 |
| Enjoyment | #28 | 2.211 | 2.444 |
| Use of theme | #33 | 1.910 | 2.111 |
| Controls | #34 | 1.809 | 2.000 |
| Presentation | #36 | 1.910 | 2.111 |
Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Oh cool, someone else who took “mouse controls” literally :D
This was surprisingly enjoyable! Controls felt a bit awkward and while I like floor hitboxes being this lenient, I feel like it made ceiling hitboxes a little too restrictive at times. I also think the game should capture the mouse and make it impossible for it to leave the screen. Not entirely sure why the cheese snaps to a grid, but fine enough.
Having the cheese be blocked by walls was a neat little idea that set this game apart from other mouse-based platformes I’ve seen in this jam. I also really want to commend the level design here; I thought the difficulty curve was pretty much perfect. Fell down a couple of times which was frustrating, but never enough so to make me give up.
THe mouse sprite is pretty cute and I liked the idea of the cheese being nibbled away if you’re not careful. The other sprites could maybe use a little more work, but they were legible enough. Some sound would have also helped.
All in all, though, I’m pretty impressed by this entry. Definitely my favourite of the rage platformers I’ve played so far.
The cheese doesn't snap to a grip, it moves depending on the computer mouse's position at a speed of 18 pixels per second, I know it's weird, but that's the best I could come up with, with the little time I had haha. I know the cheese movement could be smoother. And yes, graphics could be better, I made them all too quickly. Glad you liked the game, what was your reaction when you saw what happens when you eat all the cheese? haha
Probably the best game concept out of all of these!
I do feel like controlling the cheese was a bit difficult though, I know the point of rage games is to make you rage but I feel like the rage element should come from the gameplay itself, which would in this case be controlling the player correctly while keeping the cheese away from it. If you look at something like Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, the hammer mechanic can be mastered and used as a very effective tool for moving around. Wouldn’t be very fun if the swinging hammer had a 1 second delay and it would be simulated in 5FPS.
I just didn't find a way to make the cursor not go through walls, it looks like the cheese is the cursor, but in reality the cheese follows the cursor at 18 pixels per second, that's why it feels like the cheese is unresponsive. I'll try to make it so that the cheese moves more smoothly, but that's a future update. Glad you liked the game. Did you eat the cheese completely or got the end of the game? I am curious.
Making the cheese blocked by the pipes was a creative touch. Definitely requires some precise timing to beat this!
I wasn't able to finish the game but I had a few comments. First off, I really like the idea of using the mouse (cheese) to guide the character while trying to avoid it being eaten. The thing is I don't know if this game is a good fit for it. I found the cheese getting stuck on platform really annoying which lead me to fall many times. From what I was able to see I thought that the maze part made good use of it since you didn't have a lot of space between the cheese and the mouse so it was more likely to get eaten. Anyway good job on finishing the game jam!
it's a rage platformer, so it is intended to be hard and to be hard to control the cheese. But yes, I know a lot of people will hate that xd. also did you let the mouse eat the cheese?
I actually did a bit which made it a bit easier to control but it was still a bit annoying
let he mouse eat it completely, I want you to see something funny xd
Brutally hard, clever and fun. Wonderful concept of using the cheese to control the mouse. Also, I appreciate the clever pun.