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A jam submission

Mindless RunnerView game page

Brainteasing endless runner. Don't lose focus!
Submitted by Charu Tak (@charu_tak), runvarunrun, devanshutak25 — 6 hours, 28 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Overall#123.8293.829
Fun#153.9253.925
Game Design#293.8003.800
Innovation#313.7253.725
Audio#363.8253.825
Theme#643.7503.750
Graphics#793.9503.950

Ranked from 40 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted(+2)

PERFECT GAME! I rated all 5 Stars. Graphics were nice and simple, Audio wasent annoying and it matches the theme perfectly. 

Developer

Thank you very much NotTofuFood!

Submitted (1 edit) (+2)

Really fun idea, I would love a difficulty select or tutorial area to get acclimated to playing it. It's tricky to get good in the moment. Good job overall though, and great presentation :)

Time to rest my brain though.

Developer(+1)

Thanks for the feedback Mystical_Pidgeon! A difficulty setting would have definitely been a good thing to have.

(+3)

it's intersting, but speed is too hight for me ^^. 

Developer

Thanks for playing our game Kayugames :)

https://itch.io/jam/cgj/rate/476046
perhaps you will try our entry ? 

Submitted(+2)

Loved it! rate^^

Do consider playing my game too!

https://itch.io/jam/cgj/rate/476600

Developer

Thanks!

Loved your game too! Really cool interpretation of the theme! Rated!!

Submitted(+2)

My brain hurts :D Highest score was 9. It's quite fun to play!

Developer(+1)

Glad to hear you enjoyed it Tharky :)

Submitted(+2)

a really nice game thats super hard to play!  my best score was 3 xD 

Developer

:) thanks for playing thedarkmagi!

Submitted(+2)

Very fun and well executed game and idea. Even though it's hard and frustrating as hell it still is fun! Beautiful graphics and nice audio

Developer

Thanks for giving it a try kovalok!

Submitted(+2)

A really fun and innovative game with a weird but fun addition to a normal endless level. Quite addicting when you get used to it!

Developer(+1)

Thanks Game Genesis!! I love how clean and simple your game was. The gameplay is so perfectly balanced and sound effects were really good! Well done.

Submitted(+3)

Wow, a unique game! This game's difficulty level is Dark Souls but once you figure it out it gets easier to reach higher score. Graphics are wonderful and everything plays well together, well done!

Developer

Thank you for the wonderful comment Phantomcry :) 

We wanted to make it difficult but I'm not sure if we wanted to make it Dark Souls difficult 😆

Submitted(+2)

It's a good unintuitive experience ! Musics and graphics are both minimalist but so smooth ! Great Job !! (°u°)/

Developer

Thanks for trying it out Oxalotte!! 

Submitted(+2)

It is a pretty challenging game. It took me awhile to figure out the twist and even once I knew it it takes a surprising amount of mental work to eliminate and figure out the right path. I like the aesthetic quite a bit too. You could port this to mobile as a fun time waster haha.

I can't really think of any ways to further improve the simple concept other than a better music and more visual effects. It's pretty good for what it is already. I guess it's not colorblind friendly but oh well.

Developer

Thanks ClementineFruity :) 

You are totally right about the game not being colourblind-friendly! We should have thought of an alternative mode or something.

Submitted(+2)

Wow, really original and funny idea, loved it :) Would you mind checking my game? :) Any feedback would be appreciated

Developer

Thanks Aklom! Rated and commented on your game on your page!

Submitted(+2)

Love the UI. Simple but really cool!

Developer

Thank you! Rated your game. The art is really cute.

Submitted(+2)

The way he confuses us is brilliant

Developer(+1)

Thanks Leonardo! Your game is sooo cool! Especially love the menu animation :)

Submitted

Thank for playing! :D

Submitted(+2)

Wow really great use of the theme!!  That menu layout is a masterpiece too.  The text bubbles are great how they say and color but the font color is different, fried my brain at first lol.  So tricky to not follow the text at first.  Gave me awesome F-zero nostalgia too.   The graphics where clean and the music/sound are nice!  5 stars~

Please check out my entry if you have time~  Good day!

Developer

Thanks for the kind words NeatGames! 

Your entry looks interesting, will check it out for sure.

Submitted(+2)

Very interesting psychological experiment. I found myself developing tricks to get my mind to dissociate text from colour and viceversa. I really enjoyed playing it as I felt it was training my mind, which makes the title very well fitting, because you're trying to develop a reflexive thought process, if that makes any sense. You have to BECOME mindless with some practice, in other words.

Graphics are coherent and well executed. Animations are cool, models are cool, emissive materials are futuristic and cool. Well done. I even liked the font.

Innovation: never played anything like this. Reminds me of SET (the card game), or other mind bending stuff. Thank you for the experience.

Theme: best use of the theme I've seen so far.

Audio: Liked the music and subtle sound effects, however, the song doesn't loop properly, which is a small blunder.

There are two things I didn't like:
1. There is no way to quick restart. The R key would have done nicely.
2. The game becomes pretty repetitive over time. I don't have the time to play past my top score now (38), but I suspect the game grows shallow once you've become mindless.

All in all, my favourite entry so far.

Developer

Thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed comment :)  A quick restart button is a great idea, we should have thought of that!

Flatout Drillin' is a really nicely polished game by the way, well done for making this in a week! It is a lot of fun to play and really quite unique. You could easily release it for mobile, I think it would do really well :)

Submitted

Thank you for the kind comment. I still show your games to others when they pop into my stream as a great example of how it's done well. I've reviewed 130 games so far, and I think yours is the ONLY one that actually takes the theme and bends psyche based on it. Truly an excellent job. I've found another fantastic game, less strictly adhering to the theme than yours that you should try out. I think this is the best in the competition so far: https://sobad.itch.io/jimposters.

Developer

Thanks for the recommendations!

Also thank you so much for pointing out  jimposters - what an amazing game. Definitely the best in the competition so far!!

Submitted(+2)

Completely solid title and MAD tough to get a hang of!  I SUCK at this lol!  Thank you for the game!

Developer (1 edit)

Thanks Angelbait! Your game was really funny! Loved the picture in the main menu :)

Submitted(+3)

My favorite submission to this jam.

Developer

Thanks snoutfroth! Thats really kind of you. 

I really liked your entry, what a good idea!

Submitted

Thanks! We spent a bit long getting there, after first making a fps prototype which used the same predictive input algorithm we ended up using in this submission. So with only about four days of actual dev time left we just had to bite the bullet and get it as good as we had time for.

Submitted(+2)

It's a really great game, maybe the music was a bit too repetitive but overall a really nice game and a really good mental workout :D Loved it!

Developer

Thanks HawKyre! I had fun playing Lost. Would have been great if I could use the arrow keys too cause I'm not used to playing platformers with wasd but still managed to finish it!

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