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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Game Design | #517 | 3.080 | 3.080 |
| Fun | #575 | 2.960 | 2.960 |
| Innovation | #607 | 2.800 | 2.800 |
| Audio | #669 | 2.760 | 2.760 |
| Overall | #717 | 2.780 | 2.780 |
| Theme | #768 | 2.640 | 2.640 |
| Graphics | #941 | 2.440 | 2.440 |
Ranked from 25 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 game has easy levels which familiarize the player with gameplay (calm before the storm) followed by the final level (storm).
Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
The code was original. We have used some assets from the internet:
1) Main menu background - https://opengameart.org/content/oil-painting-landscapes
2) Intro story background - https://opengameart.org/content/simple-map-tiles
3) Main Menu Font - https://www.dafont.com/blacksword.font
4) Main Menu music- https://opengameart.org/content/un-d%C3%A9sert
5) Levels BGM - https://opengameart.org/content/desert-calmness-and-fighting-orchestral-141
6) Level Assets - https://opengameart.org/content/inca-tileset
7) Button SFX - https://opengameart.org/content/87-clickety-clips
8) Character Assets - https://opengameart.org/content/temple-run-free-sprite
9) Box Assets - https://opengameart.org/content/pixel-box-1
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Nice game! I like the idea of being able to teleport boxes around. Wish you were able to grab and pull boxes so they don't get stuck against a wall.
In my opinion, the game would be better if the levels were more compact - using fewer space to convey the same puzzles.
Nice submission
Thank you for playing ! We originally planned to lift the box but it was causing some issues. We will improve on it in the future! Cheers!
Great puzzles. Got to around the fourth round. The gameplay is great and fun
Some suggestion from my side would be just making him pick boxes or just giving more room to move the boxes. in the this round where you transport boxes I was stuck at the end and did a lot of thing to pass the level. For this you could just parent the object to the player and make it move along with the player(which has its drawbacks but shouldn't be a problem for this game)
And also would suggest the player collider to be a bit small as it really pulls out the 3d kinds feel when you push the box up with your head.
Apart from those no complaints, music was great, click sounds were satisfying.
Kudos!! :D
Thank you for the detailed feedback! A lot of people have mentioned the same. It was our first puzzle game so it is kind of buggy. We will certainly improve in the future! Thanks for playing!
Fun!
Glad you liked it! Thanks for playing!
Great choice of main character name XD, font is a bit hard to read, but that is minor, the character sprite looks a bit odd in a top down, and the movement/pushing of blocks is a bit too slow. Maybe you could make it such that Dave picks up the blocks, so that you won't have the issue of pushing the blocks against a wall, and not being able to use them anymore. Great job.
Thank you for playing the game! We originally planned to lift the box but we are not that experienced and couldn't figure it out. Hope you had fun playing!
Like the game. Graphics and the story are very nice. I notice that there were some object that you just used shapes. But I was still able to differentiate them and understand that they do different things. Would be nice if the box were the same size as the player or maybe reduce the player size a bit. It felt like the player was a bit too big for the levels. I had good fun playing it. Like the Africa theme you picked and the music too. well matched!
Thank you for playing! We will improve in future :D
nice entry!
it had some bugs that were a bit frustrating to navigate through, but overall its puzzles were cool and werent too hard for a normal player to navigate through!
Thank you for playing! It does have some bugs, we are sorry if it was frustrating to navigate; the puzzle designing took most of the time so we couldn't improve player experience but we will improve on it in future :D
will definitely try it again when its improved!
Very cool, love the intro!
As others have said, the graphics are a big disjoint and I did get softlocked by a box once, though I restarted and got it the second time. I am glad that the boxes move slightly towards a diagonal direction and aren't locked only to horizontal or vertical movement--it allowed for more efficient movement.
Thank you for playing! Yeah, sorry about the boxes we will take care of it next time :D
A game that has a lot of potential when worked out more. With more polish it could been amazing!
I would try to implement a way to pick up boxes cause it's very easy to softlock yourself where you cannot move the boxes anymore.
Overall it's a interesting game that has a good fundation.
Yeah, originally we planned on creating a pickup mechanic but we ran into some other problems (like boxes going out of the level) so we dropped that, but I agree dragging the box is not ideal.
Thank you for taking time to play! Your feedback is valuable and we will improve on it in future :D
I really liked the puzzles with some more polish i feel like it could be great game!
Thank you for playing! I am glad you liked the puzzles :D
I liked this! Perhaps to improve it I don't know if it's the clearest right now that you should move away from the lever and go back into it to effectively press it again. Also, it's possible to randomly go off the edge and it doesn't go to the next level. Other than that I really liked the puzzles and the game felt very unique.
Only other thing I can think of is this game feels like it's almost more relevant to some other theme I saw on the theme voting page when I quickly saw it once, not sure which one it was but this game felt right away like it would have fit that theme really well. It was probably a theme I would have found easier as well is all I know.
I think it works OK for the current theme as well especially due to the story you have in the beginning, but that's also another thing that stuck out to me right away about this game.
Overall really nice job on this game!
Thanks for playing and giving a detailed feedback!
Neat game, I liked the puzzles!
Thank you for playing! I am glad you liked it :D
Nice puzzle game,I enjoyed figuring out the puzzles the mixure of different style sprites were a bit weird but overall solid game, nice job :)
Thank you for playing! We will try to improve on the sprites in the future.
Hee-ho. Cure puzzle, interesting mechanics
Thanks for the feedback!
Nice Game Cool Pixel art, nice puzzles had fun while playing
Thank you for playing! I am glad you had fun :D
Nice game! I liked the player sprite design!
Thank you for playing! I am glad you liked it :D
Really enjoyed the puzzles and the music! The art was fine but since it was a lot of assets it felt kind of disjointed in a way. It didn't take away from the gameplay at all though. Great work! Congrats and good luck!!
Thanks for the feedback! We would try to overcome the shortcomings in our future games!
Yeah I'm sure with longer development time, it'd be way easier to come up with original asset but it's totally fine! The ones you chose worked great and served the game well. Cheers!
Very fun game with some neat puzzles! Really good guys.
Thank you! I am glad you liked it :D
The last puzzle was quite a doozy, had me running in circles for a long time trying to figure out where to put the boxes in what order. Well done
It is always a challenge to balance the difficulty of the final level in a puzzle game, thank you for a positive feedback :D
Epic game! has nice puzzles. i enjoyed it a lot!
Thank you! I am glad you liked it :D
Pretty cool game overall!
Thanks!