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A jam submission

Family TiesView game page

A game about guiding your family through a ruined city on water. Team Ninobi's entry for the Brackeys Game Jam 2021.1.
Submitted by Team Ninobi — 17 hours, 7 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme#1933.9004.111
Audio#3723.2683.444
Game Design#5363.2683.444
Overall#5913.1973.370
Graphics#7123.1623.333
Fun#8682.8463.000
Innovation#9302.7412.889

Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

In what way does your game fit the theme?
In Family Ties the player must make use of the unique strength of each family member to safely reach their destination.

Did you write all the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
All code was written by the team. All voxel assets, effects, and 3D models were created by the team.
Free assets were used for the audio, water texture and skybox.

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Comments

(1 edit) (+1)

Nice puzzle game! I was a little frustrated at first trying to figure out how to use the bridging ability effectively, but once I figured it out it was fun working out the puzzles.  A few minor bugs, but they don't impact the gameplay at all. I like the art style and the music (though the music did get repetitive for me). Would be great to see this developed further.

Submitted(+1)

Really good game! Once you understand the abilities of each character, the puzzles just click together. The art style and music work really well together and seeing these big land masses moving around is really cool. After I got to the ending I still wanted to keep playing. I could see this being a really good full-length game similar to something like Journey.

The main issues I had were:

- The characters have difficulty jumping when near edges of things.

- If you try to move a land mass while the yellow/blue bridge is in use, it will become invisible and the characters cant move.

- The music became a bit repetitive after a while.

- The camera jumps badly when changing elevation. Some smoothing would have helped a lot.

Submitted(+1)

Everything is good except the mouse sensitivity. It's too high for me. But the gameplay itself is good and suit with the theme very well. 

Submitted(+1)

Love your visual style, and music is very calming. Had some difficulties with bridges, but idea and implementation is very nice, good job!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Played so many games in this game jam with switching player mechanics, got bored playing these type of game without more interesting  premises. I liked the graphics, is pretty well made. 

Submitted(+1)

Voxel graphics as well as level design are amazing!

Developer

Thank you for trying our entry out, and for the kind words!

Submitted(+1)

Nice game! liked the variation of jumping heights 

Developer(+1)

Thank you for giving our entry a try, we're glad you enjoyed it!

Submitted(+1)

The concept was great!!!! :D There were times when it was quite difficult to control the player.. especially when near walls and structures. The  floating animation was so cute! Hahaha!

Developer

Thanks for giving our entry a try! We're not very experienced with 3D camera movement so this was indeed a bit of a new challenge for us. Definitely something we could work more at for a better player experience!