| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #523 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Fun | #642 | 2.960 | 2.960 |
| Theme | #774 | 2.840 | 2.840 |
| Overall | #786 | 2.820 | 2.820 |
| Game Design | #802 | 2.840 | 2.840 |
| Graphics | #830 | 2.920 | 2.920 |
| Innovation | #1016 | 2.360 | 2.360 |
Ranked from 25 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?
We have a gem that will give you either a special ability or a handicap. The randomness of what you get makes it feel chaotic.
Did you write all the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
All code was written from scratch. art and music were used from unity store or itch providers and credited.
Haha, love the level going down when the time runs out.
I had a little bug where the continue button send me again and again in the game over screen so I had to start over.
And I could not reproduce all the time but sometimes, all the effects I had wore off once one effect finished.
Nice concept :)
Thank you for playing!
The level going down was actually part of us forgetting to set the physics correctly the first time around, so we figured why not have that happen when the timer runs out. You are the second one to mention the continue button. Sorry for the inconvenience. I think I know what is going on with it, but will have to wait until the end of the jam to address.
All of the affects are supposed to wear off when you change levels. I will test to see if I can reproduce this affect.
Thank you for the wonderful comments :)
Other than the art cohesion problem from using art from many different styles and mixing them, Fun game. The timer made it so you had to get the gems in order to continue playing. The music you chose fit the game very well. The option to continue was great because it meant you didn't have to restart the whole thing. Overall, great game. The only thing holding it back is the art mixing. Good job!
The movement is a little janky but otherwise this is fun to play. Good job!
Such a cool and fun game. I really enjoyed playing it specially the different powerup parts. It takes hard work to pullout such a polished game in 7 days. keep it up :)
It felt nice and polished for a game jam entry. Good job!
This is a really good game. The art and music is cool and it was fun to play through. The game idea was cool and easy to understand :)
This game is so cute! I love your interpretation of platform shooter, the sprites and art is so well done. I enjoyed this game a lot!
Great game, but the dying animation was painfuly slow for me!
PLS rate my game too - https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-6/rate/1168778
Heyo~
I think this is a really solid platformer, I had a lot of fun while playing it. I liked the risky element there was to picking up gems and how much it changed how the user must interact with levels.
I do have a couple suggestions. The first one is a pure style element, which is to allow the user to replay levels by walking through the portal in the game over screen. I took a little bit of issue with blackout, I don't think the effect is necessarily bad but I think it lasted too long and ended up being more frustrating than challenging. Finally, I think that the user could use an easy introduction or do with more visual clarity as when I encountered them for the first time I didn't know they were spikes and died.
Like I said, I think that your take on 'powerups' was really fresh and added a lot to the game and that it matched the theme in a fun way. Well done :)
Thanks for playing our game!
We appreciate your suggestions. I think after hearing all of the feedback on the blackout affect we may decrease the time after the jam. Thank you for your input on it also.
Allowing the user to walk through the portal to replay would have been a good addition. We chose to implement it this way because of a previous jam we did where some were confused on how to start the game. This time around we thought a button with continue on it was a little more straight forward than the arrow we used last time.
I think an introduction to all of the elements of the game in the beginning would have been great. I will keep this in mind for the next game jam.
A nice little game. I like the addition of the gems which add risk on whether you should get it or not. Makes the gameplay very interesting. I also like your choice of art and music of the game. A good, fun little game overall. Good luck on the jam!
Cool Game! I personally would jump with the Spacebar instead of shooting with it, but thats just personal preference :) Anyway cool game!
Fun little single screen platformer that reminds me of the Bubble Bobble series.
The levels are well designed.
I really appreciate the infinite continues.
It's a bit annoying that so many of the things I'd need to shoot are at awkward heights for which I have to very carefully time my attacks during certain parts of my jumps. The amount of precision required is possible, but it doesn't feel good. It would feel better if the apex of the jump matched the heights at which the player needs to attack. It would also help if the player's projectile was larger to be able to hit without being so precise in timing.
The blackout is a very annoying effect and I suggest it be removed, since it just stops the player from playing the game for a while.
Overall, the random benefits of the pickups aren't very useful, while the drawbacks may waste the player's time. That means I'd rather not ever touch the pickups, which is a pity because it's content created that the player doesn't want to experience. I suggest whenever the player gets a drawback, it should also gain a benefit, and make the benefits better so that player should usually want the pickups. Invincible and destroy enemies are the only benefits currently worth suffering a drawback for. If you don't want to go into creating better benefits, just pair every drawback with invincible or destroy.
One useful benefit to add would be spread shot, especially given how awkward it is to shoot targets at necessary elevations.
One effect that could be useful or harmful is slow fall.
The player seems to have trouble standing stably on the moving platforms, which may be realistic, but feels bad for this game.
Despite how many things I found annoying (in a bad way), I really did enjoy playing this.
Thanks for playing!
We appreciate the feedback. We are glad that you enjoyed the game. During the design we were trying to come up with as many random affects that we could think of. Originally they were all negatives. Destroy enemies and Invincible were then added. And then we added Freeze, Mass slow and Rapid fire. The point of blackout was to make you feel lost on the level and to run out the timer, and we thought this was a good chaos element. I think we can all agree that the affect lasts a tad long.
Cool game, but blackout is too long and sometimes I cant continue when i die. But overall a good game, good job!
Very cool platformer, love the sfx and style. Not that chaotic to be honest but its still very fun. Great job!
Random effects are nice although blackout was too long for me haha. I can see this being very challenging if portals had more health and/or are spawned on more difficult to reach places. Then I would probably rely more on random effects instead of sometimes avoiding them. Overall nice one, well done!
It plays nice but I wish there was a limit for maximum limit for enemies on screen. Random bonuses are fun.
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