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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Innovation | #1 | 4.316 | 4.316 |
| Audio | #6 | 4.053 | 4.053 |
| Overall | #15 | 3.886 | 3.886 |
| Graphics | #25 | 4.193 | 4.193 |
| Game Design | #29 | 3.895 | 3.895 |
| Theme | #69 | 3.684 | 3.684 |
| Fun | #198 | 3.175 | 3.175 |
Ranked from 57 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 theme of the Game Jam was “An end is a new Beginning”. In our approach we brainstormed around the idea of the theme, while eliminating from the beginning the obvious rebirth concepts with different abilities and/or controls. In the matter of video gaming “An end is a new Beginning” theme, represents mainly Dungeon Crawlers types of games as well as the iconic Baba is You (if the theme is read appropriately). In our approach, we concluded upon the full-stops which define an end in a sentence and the beginning of a new one. As the game evolved during this one-week development journey, we included as mechanics for all three options for punctuating the end of a sentence; a period “.”, an exclamation mark “!” and a question mark “?” . Each punctuation mark devoured by our protagonist, the centipede, acts as a new body - a new life or a dangerous obstacle. Reading the monologue the player has to decide upon eating the punctuations. The UI implements the idea of the theme as continuous Experience, with smooth transitions between the Main Menu, the Game and back.
Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
All the code has been written from us.
Most of the assets have been created from us, the one not created from us, are mentioned within the game in the Credits Section.
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Thanks for the nice words, it was intentional to be dificult as we wanted the game to be an "impossible" game. A lot of people though from the community think it's too difficult so we might add some helpful mechanics to help in progress. Also, there are secret mechanics that have been implemented that let you finish the game without toooo much effort ; )
Thank you for your kind and warm comment! It is very encouraging to get that kind of feedback!!
Respecting the community that spent time playing our game and wanting to continue the development we take into consideration your feedback regarding the checkpoints and will brainstorm around it, in order to find a cool mechanic to make it work and let the players enjoy the story as well. Thank you for mentioning it to discuss with the team. We are super excited to create a unique experience that people do love to play and care to leave constructive feedback!
If you may come back to play it during the game jam, I could also give you a small hint; there might be an alternative way to progress...! (heh) What could maybe trigger the story to advance? (the answer is within the theme...) If you find it, let us know in a discreet way to not spoil it for others!
Thank you again, your comment charges us with energy to continue the game to Chapter 2! Birbilitsa will be cuddled tomorrow in the office :))
1 year ago (+1)
hey there, we are together in a university lab that focuses on VR/AR technologies and we are all doing our thesis or masters / phds and we decided that it was a cool idea to participate all together :3
1 year ago(+1)
hey, seeing that you are interested in teams, here are some tips, a. try to find people who are passionate for what they have to do, mainly when there is a deadline, b. look within your close circle of people; friends, work, school environment (I'm a boomer hah), c. let everyone respect and trust everyone's opinions and give time in discussing ideas, implementations and designs! d. working from the same environment helps to speed the production and creates a great and magic atmosphere! I hope these help, I could share more if you are interested. I'm closing with a relevant quote from a professor "if you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go with a team". cheers!
The basic mechanincs (movement and return to main menu) are included in the text, while also the goal of eating dots. We did not provide hints on other mechanics as we wanted the player to find out! There are no more buttons, just extra mechanics on the punctuation marks...or is there a secret that noone have found yet?
Thanks a lot dude, we put a very big effort into brainstorming. One good thing to have a large team is that many ideas can come on the table and the mixing of these can achieve great and unique things. Try to play the game reading the text or by using some of the secret mechanics if you really wanna progress further. Peace!
1 year ago(+2)
Thank you for your words! If you were scared it means we succeded in our goal of making it a scary experience for the user haha. For the content maybe there will be more in the future. stay tuned ;)
Thanks for the input. Yea but you need to try to consume the dots (and not only maybe) in order to get points and grow. so most of the times you need to go through the words and risk your life haha. also at some point there are words at the end so you cant always follow the hover near the end of the page patern
1 year ago(+1)
hey super thanks! a narrator reading the text would be awesome, but if not set with the correct voice would ruin the experience. so we went without narration (or is there narration somewhere?... )
here's a quick tip on reading while playing, just smash the right-left or up-down, till you read the part you want in order to continue! yet there is another way, but we don't want to spoil the fun of finding out. :)
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