| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #12 | 4.333 | 4.333 |
| Overall | #56 | 4.130 | 4.130 |
| Originality | #97 | 4.111 | 4.111 |
| Presentation | #179 | 3.944 | 3.944 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Weird concept, turned out fun!
Hey, thank you for the kindness! On this level I put the stash under that thin hole with spikes to signal that you can throw grenades down, and hopefully it would've hinted that that's the same thing you have to do to climb that wall you speak of. What you gotta do is jump, throw a grenade down and it will bounce back up and hit you, giving you a double jump. More like an infinite jump actually because you can keep doing it ad infinitum and never touch the ground again, hahaha! But yeah, if you didn't got the hint I should've eased in or make better levels, I try to teach the techniques through level design but it's very hard to do, you fail once and the player is gonna get stuck and feeling lost. But hey, thank you for checking my game out!
Ah! I see, I blew up that stash by throwing two land mines lol. I knew I was missing something XD Yeah, level design is very hard, specially for puzzles. Just until that level was when I got stuck. If I may add a suggestion, you could do something like this:
Instead of a free fall, make a little turn so mines get stuck in the first turn, but grenades can bounce. Use the inclined surfaces to direct the bounce to the stash, which will be achieved only if the grenade was shot straight downwards. There is still the problem where the player can understand they can actually shot downwards, but this could be an option. Awesome game <3
And that's why playtest is important, even better when the playtester is a level designer. Love the suggestion, thank you very much!!!
Hey, thank you for playing! Yeah, the bouncing grenades made it difficult to hit the gnomes with, but the bouncing mechanic was important so I had to make do with it. While I played I relied mostly on landmines to kill them but that's why you need playtesters, right? I could have easily solved this problem by making the gnomes taller, or tweaking the arc of the grenades. Oh well, lesson learned I guess. Thanks for bringing this to my attention!
Hey, I'm glad you liked my game, thanks for checking it out! And yeah, you're right about the losing progress part, funny thing is that looking back now the system I implemented to change/restart levels would have been almost trivial to also implement a checkpoint feature for when you die. Lesson learned, I'll keep that in mind in my next game, thanks for bringing that problem to my attention!
Hey, thank you for playing my game! Yeah, I needed to improve the learning curve of the game. In particular I wanted to have the whole game be a bit like a tutorial, you know, Portal style, where I don't teach it directly I just use level design to make people realize how each mechanic work but doing that effectively requires a lot of playtesting and I just didn't had this luxury on a game jam schedule. I'll get good eventually, I hope, hahaha! I'm happy you enjoyed it!
Thank you so much for playing! I'm happy you noticed the variations in the bombs and explosion sounds! Personally I'm just bad at art, so I tried making up for it by adding these small polish details and I'm happy someone noticed. And don't worry about being bad, there's been quite a few people saying they got stuck at some point too so maybe I'm the one who's bad at level design, hahaha! I really wanted the game to not be too hard but I also don't wanted to give away the answer to the puzzles instantly, so I had to just ease them in with good level design which is pretty difficult.
But hey, if you wanna know the answer to that pole on the 3rd level, try not landing straight into it, instead of getting height to land on it, get height to put a landmine on top of it.
Hey, thank you so much for playing! I'm glad you liked it! Yeah, I tried to polish the mechanics to the maximum, it was necessary for the puzzles to work. If you want a tip for beating that 4th level, try using the grenade to do a "wall jump". If you throw a grenade when you're right next to a wall, it will bounce into you and explode instantly.
You have to use the grenade to jump over that chasm, the landmine sends up while the grenade sends you diagonally, but requires a wall. You don't need to retry it of course, I'm already grateful to you for playing it, just saying cause you seem like you wanted to see more of it ;)
But yeah, the game can be a little difficult but solving it is mostly a puzzle, it's not so much about precision actually. But yeah, thank you for playing my game!
Wow, thank you so much for the kind words! No, that thing you described was 100% unintended, thanks for bringing this to my attention! It was important to me that whatever replaced jumping shouldn't work too close to a jump, for example, I thought about letting the player throw a grenade down even on the ground to instantly be sent up, but that's just jumping except you have to push two buttons instead of one. What you discovered is literally the same thing, hahaha!
Thank you for playing my game, glad you liked it!
Thank you for being so nice! I'm sure you're gonna do well in the game jam too, everybody seems to be loving your game from the comments you're getting. You're pretty good too, you know what's important in your game and you executed it pretty well. It's the only game in your profile, if it's your first game jam you're leagues better than me, hahaha!
Hey, thank you for the kind words! Also thanks for bringing the landmines getting stuck in the walls to my attention, I saw this happening during development but wasn't really looking at it for some reason, I was just too worried the game was too difficult, especially that third level. And yes, the game kinda turning into a puzzle game was nice too, I felt it happening as I was making it and decided to lean into it, "listen to the game" as some folks say.
I'm happy you liked it, thanks for playing it!
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