Nice level of polish to this one. Unreal games tend to look really professional. But yeah, just having to pick up identical gems and see whether they kill you or not isn't a very fun mechanic. (A memory game where the whole goal is to remember which is which would be fine, but you don't want to combine that with jumping puzzles. It's frustrating to get all the way through a tricky jump and then find out that the gem is fake!)
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Gem Guesser's itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Graphics | #459 | 3.455 | 3.455 |
Game Design | #587 | 3.091 | 3.091 |
Theme | #614 | 2.955 | 2.955 |
Fun | #753 | 2.773 | 2.773 |
Overall | #779 | 2.758 | 2.758 |
Innovation | #866 | 2.500 | 2.500 |
Audio | #1215 | 1.773 | 1.773 |
Ranked from 22 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does you game fit the theme?
The goal of the game is to find the real gems, the "not real" gems, will end the game.
Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
I made all the assets. The code came from a lot of tutorials, but was changed to fit the game.
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I like the environment. I'm not sure if just having to guess which gem is real is all that fun though, perhaps giving the player more clues to work out which one is real would be more fun. But it looks nice and the platforming controls feel good :)
Also just wanted to mention a small technical issue. A lot of unreal engine games have this problem so it's probably just a setting you have to change (I don't use unreal) but if you have a VR headset plugged in, the game will try to launch in VR. I had to use a small workaround to play this but it would be good to look into making the game not VR.
Visually very appealing game. Although I think the platforming could be improved upon. Otherwise, nice job!
the environment was really well designed together with the feel of how the player moved
I can only repeat the complaints others have already said, (un-)fortunately(?) So yea there's a lot of potential here from chainging the visuals of the "fake" gems to some other way to have the player distinguish between them instead of purely "guessing" (and getting frustrated after doing the jumping puzzle only to get immediately booted to the game over screen x3)
the environment was really well designed together with the feel of how the player moved
I can only repeat the complaints others have already said, (un-)fortunately(?) So yea there's a lot of potential here from chainging the visuals of the "fake" gems to some other way to have the player distinguish between them instead of purely "guessing" (and getting frustrated after doing the jumping puzzle only to get immediately booted to the game over screen x3)
The idea is interesting but I do feel unfairness whenever I get the "not real" gem , good game btw.
I just rated your game mind doing the same for me
I think it would be more fun if there was a visual difference between real and fake gems, or some hint that the player could get to find which ones are real. That and the lack of sound are probably my two biggest complaints.
That said, I have to compliment your level design. It seems like you know what good levels look like, and how to reward players for putting in effort (putting rewards at the end of challenging platforming puzzles and in hidden corners, for example). I think this could be a lot of fun if you flesh it out. If you decide to do that, let me know - I'd love to play it.
Great work!
RATED!, can you help with mine too?, I'd really appreciate it!, Thanks in advance!
here's mine: https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-7/rate/1415313
Controls great, but you are evil putting a fake gem at the end of a tricky jumping puzzle?
Really well made, Great Work.
Very pleasant game. Nice although simple graphics made the environment fit the game.
Nice platformer, well done! However, I was unable to figure out how to distinguish between real and fake gems. So it was a bit frustrating when I collected a gem and it was suddenly game over.
Hey, cool game. I actually submitted a game with a similar concept, where you need to find the real gems.
Decent platforming. I'm still not sure how to tell the real from the fake gems though.
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