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A jam submission

SoulStormView game page

Explore floating islands, traverse treacherous paths, recollect souls, and escape the Storm.
Submitted by Alessandro Ferrari, busmis, Garreth Botha, Capmare, Fracture034 — 7 hours, 34 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Game Design#493.9243.924
Fun#623.8793.879
Overall#643.7503.750
Graphics#814.1974.197
Audio#1613.5153.515
Theme#2063.6213.621
Innovation#2283.3643.364

Ranked from 66 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
The player will calmly explore the world and then the Storm will spawn and chase the player in a frenetic escape sequence

Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
We wrote all the code, made our own music&sounds and made the animations. We used an asset pack just for the graphics and UI

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Submitted(+1)

Astounding graphics and good idea with walljumping, but the controls felt too janky. I'd frequently miss where I'm aiming.

Developer

Thank you for playing our game! Have you managed to beat all 3 levels? We are working on a fixed build with improved input :)

Submitted(+1)

This game is surprisingly well polished for a game made in less than 7 days, I only got some difficulty jumping in walls, I'd fall too often, but overall is a good game, good job! :v

Developer

Thank you for playing our game! With the wall climbing mechanic you can stay attached to the walls as long as you want, so you can time your jumps better this way :)

Submitted(+1)

This is one of the most polished entries I've seen this jam, and it's really great to see more Unreal games!  Graphic options are a nice bit of polish.  I loved the squash and stretch on the text boxes and the tutorials in game are fantastic.  When I finished the first level I was ready to put the game down and write a positive review.
I didn't expect the second level.
I definitely didn't expect the third level.  
This feels like a well polished, well play tested MVP with an appropriate difficulty curve.  In level 2 I looked back and noticed the souls on top of the buildings I already passed and got sad I missed them, but was pleasantly surprised when the route back from the storm naturally lead me to collect them.  I think for most jam submissions I would suggest slowing the storm down a tiny bit to make the game a little easier, but I feel like the difficulty curve is good enough that this speed is appropriate.  You've taught the mechanics well enough that speed running the level backwards feels great. 

I think the only piece of feedback from me would be I'd consider putting in jump input buffering.  You've already got coyote time, so I think you're just input buffering away from having a great and responsive feeling parkour game. 

Outstanding job!

Developer (1 edit)

Thank you so much for the in-depth positive review! :) We are already addressing the things you mentioned in a polished build that we will release after the voting period ends :) especially the difficulty of the storm!

Submitted

Pretty cool game. Except for the two things: I just can't make the last jump(unless it's just skill issue from my part) and the storm can be easily avoided by not activating it lol.


Hope you'll also rate mine :) https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-12/rate/2973690

Developer(+1)

Hello, yes the storm can be avoided by not activating it, but you are also avoiding the next 2 levels :)

Submitted(+1)

This was a fun game. Although I made some mistakes, I still enjoyed it. I believe the game offered a fair challenge

Developer

Thank you for playing our game! Have you managed to find all the secrets and beat all 3 levels? :)

Submitted(+1)

yes  except last level)

Submitted

Check out my submission, hope you will enjoy it)

Submitted(+1)

This was a very fun parkour game, very forgiving with the climbing mechanics, too! I messed up often, particularly when collecting the purple orbs. Escaping the storm was really hard though, could use some more leeway there.

Developer

Thank you! Have you managed to find all the secrets and beat all 3 levels? :)

Submitted

Nope, couldn't get past the first storm.

Submitted(+2)

DAMN those are some good looking graphics

really cool game!

Developer

Thank you! Have you managed to find all the secrets and beat all 3 levels? :)

Submitted(+2)

It's a nice looking game and I appreciate that there was some forgiveness with the wall grabbing mechanic. I'm not the best at first person platforming, but I was able to get up to the top and then head back down during the storm. I think the mechanics like the sliding and the multi jumps were nice, but might need a bit of tweaking, as it was quite sensitive for the movement. I couldn't figure out what to do at the end once I collected enough souls. I thought I might have to go back to the start area based on the path, but nothing happened there. Was there something I missed?

Developer(+1)

Hello, once you collect 10 orbs you have to go to the big glowing statue to initiate the storm monster, when you are getting chased you should go back to the beginning area.
There are 3 levels in total, enjoy the rest of the game :) and come back to give us your opinion again, thanks!

Submitted(+2)

The graphics are *unreal*(get it ;D) and optimization is so good. The movement is so smooth and the wall running is soo good really enjoyed.

Encountered 2 bugs with movement

1. In the first level, after falling off the level a few times, it seemed like there was no friction in movement made it so difficult.

2. In the third level after falling off a few times, only jump seemed to work WASD  was not working.

Apart from these the game was soo good and simple and mainly very fun to play. I will repeat, genuinely impressed with the visual design. Some music would have really elevated the feeling.

Kudos!!

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much for playing, it looks Unreal to have so many reviews :D We have to try to replicate the 2 situations you mentioned and see if we can find the bugs and fix them :)

Developer

I was just re reading your review, the music is in the game, what you meant here?

Submitted

Sorry my bad :D

There was music but it was so slow for the calm phase and my volume was low so didn't realize it was there. Compared to the chase music the volume was low I think..

Submitted(+2)

Loved the character controller for this. The wall jump reminded me of a first-person version of the wall hang from Warframe. Super fun to just double jump around parkour off obstacles. The soul placement throughout the levels was really good. The amount of optional routes and small hidden areas you can jump to is insanely motivating, and its incredible y'all were able to make so many in such a short time. 

Developer

Thank you so much! Have you managed to beat all 3 levels? We are working on a final build that improves many little things, once the jam voting period ends we will release it if you are interested :)

Submitted(+2)

Love the airy feel of the atmosphere. The music and sounds are awesome and the animations look great. Nice job on the game!

Developer

Thank you so much! Have you managed to find all the secrets and beat all 3 levels? :)

Submitted(+2)

Finished the game, man that last level was a real ride. Thoroughly enjoy it, could use a couple tweaks here and there just to make the controlling feel good and some better way of telling how far the storm is rather than turning around? Idk maybe that's part of the charm, enjoyed this one!

This is the only game I played twice now lol

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Thank you so much for playing our game already twice! We are working on a final build that improves many of the things people found, once the jam voting period ends we will release it if you are interested :)

Submitted

I'd be happy to play more :D

Submitted(+2)

that was a fun one. I loved the climb which was like an upward wall jump. that was a pretty fun mechanic that I haven’t seen done that way. and collecting things is fun. great game

Developer

Thank you so much! Have you managed to find all the secrets and beat all 3 levels? :)

Submitted(+2)

Great game! The controls felt crazy some times but the look and atmosphere of the game is amazing, great job :)

Developer

Thank you for playing our game! We are working on it to improve them! Have you managed to find all the secrets and beat all 3 levels? :)

Submitted(+3)

Really fun 3d platformer, movement feels great and I liked a lot the climbing mechanic, though sometimes it was a bit difficult to land on platforms after performing this ability. Visuals are great too! Good job :)

Feedback:

If the storm kills you on your way down, then never respawns again (or at least that's what happened on my case)

Developer

Thanks for playing the game!

To respawn the storm you need to go to its spawn point again and collide with the spawner.

Submitted(+2)

This was so much fun omg, why did I not see this earlier.

I think you can expand this with some extra speed, using slides and stuff to go fast and also do something like Neon White where you have multiple options to go for a single level, I think you kinda did that idea already.

I would pay for a full game no kidding

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much hahaha! Have you managed to find all the secrets and beat all 3 levels? :)

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Oh not yet, I had to leave on the 3rd level

I'll get to it

Submitted(+1)

damn, the game is so fun and i really liked the game mechanics good job :D!! 

Developer

Thank you so much! Have you managed to find all the secrets and beat all 3 levels? :)

Submitted(+1)

Well made platformer. Performance is slow because UE. But on low settings it was playable. Character movement is quite good, no issues. Game design follows all generic FPV platfomer parts without adding anything new. Game and level design are well done, it is easy to understand where to go and what to do, not too easy, so there is no boredom in exploration. 

Developer

Thank you for the feedback! Have you managed to find all the secrets and beat all 3 levels? :)

Submitted(+1)

Really like the art in the game, but the movement (especially the slides and the climbing) felt quite buggy. Otherwise the game seems really promising. For me the difficulty was quite high (but thats probably a skill issue on my part hehe)

Developer

Thank you for playing! Have you managed to beat all 3 levels anyway? :)

Submitted(+1)

Great looking game.  Nice variety in game mechanics.  Was really fun to play.  Fits the theme nicely.

Developer

Thank you so much! Have you managed to find all the secrets and beat all 3 levels? :)

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