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A jam submission

Mechanical WizardView game page

A project for Butterscotch Shenanijam 2019
Submitted by P2ND — 3 hours, 59 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun Factor#503.1113.111
Overall#583.1113.111
Music and Sound#622.7782.778
Visuals#702.8892.889
Overall#702.8102.810
Balance#812.4442.444
Weirdness/Charm#862.8892.889
Polish#862.4442.444

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

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Comments

Submitted

Fun platformer. Cool idea to use the nails as platforms. Sprite art is great, but everything looks really tiny. Some zoom would be nice. Cool game.

Submitted(+1)

Lovely little game! Great idea to have the nails be platforms, although it took me a while to realise :p Would probably benefit from larger borders because I kept clicking out of the window!

Developer(+1)

Glad you liked the concept! A good tip - I'll keep it in mind for next time, thanks!

Submitted(+2)

It was challenging. Very cool you could jump on the things when you shoot them in the wall! 

Submitted(+1)

Being able to jump on the arrows was a nice touch!

Submitted(+2)

I wasn't able to kill the blue flames... was I supposed to just avoid them or was I doing it wrong? Was definitely a fun challenge. I tried it probably 6-7 times and dropped some spacemen into some nail traps. I liked the animation on their helmets too!

Developer(+2)

The flames should be able to die with three hits, may be some odd collisions or some misplaced clicks. I'm glad you enjoyed it, especially the animations. I cranked those out a few hours before the deadline and I was really happy with how the robots' animations turned out - those are my favorite too!

I actually never thought about leaving traps, I assume you dropped some nails at the bottom of a pit and had the enemies chase you into it - that's a great idea! It's really cool to see people using a mechanic I thought of in a way I never intended, nice going. Glad you got some fun out of the submissions.

Submitted(+1)

I couldn't kill the flames either, sat and put in dozens of nails but no luck. Maybe a bug?

Submitted(+2)

The wrench nail bow was cool to use, good job!  (I wanna learn how to do bow coding too!) Things looked a little small on my laptop so a bit hard to aim, but still cool game! Please check out my game 'Puma Cat' if you have time.

Developer

Thanks! I thought it would be a cool mechanic to make your own platforms as the only way to get around.  I'll give yours a look!

Submitted(+2)

being able to shoot nails into the walls and then jump on them was pretty dope.

Developer

Glad you think so, I really like the idea of not having a double jump/massive ground jump, and only be able to really move around a level with platforms that you create. Thanks for the feedback!