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A jam submission

The Room of FoolsView game page

Try to Escape from these Rooms!
Submitted by blek — 1 hour, 3 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Graphics#1163.7863.786
Audio#1513.3393.339
Overall#1573.2413.241
Theme#1583.4293.429
Innovation#2732.8932.893
Game Design#2783.1253.125
Fun#3532.8752.875

Ranked from 56 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted(+1)

I'm not sure i understood the treasure room riddle, i think i kinda did, though i found how to reach the end of the level, but for the next step i had to try like 4 times before the first door would actually let me through.

Anyway i reached the end of the story, which was cool ;)

The music loop is a bit short like some people said but it is sufficient i believe, it gives a good atmosphere to the game. The SFX could use some more work but they sure are of decent quality.

The graphics are really polished, good job !

If I were to give some advice i would say to work on the level design primarly, especially since the playable area is not what you see, i kinda played all the levels walking against everything i could.

Also the hitbox of the player against spikes is kinda huge, maybe consider reducing its size.

Overall you did a great job, congrats !

Developer(+1)

Wow, you really played the hole game till the end. I appreciate it a lot because I noticed that the treasor room might be too hard. But now I know thats possible ! thanks man.

thanks for your constructive feedback about the game design. I am currently updating the game so you need to interact with the mouse to get further in the story.

I dont really know the problem with that last (first)door. maiby I set the hitbox a little bit too high.

I will improve my music and sfx for sure!

Overall I startet the hitboxes wrong, normaly in a topdown game the player has just feedcollider and the rest of the map have normal collider, but in this game its reversed: the player has a fully body collider and all the objects have headcollider . example the spikes.

thanks about the graphics! 

really appreciate it your feedback, thanks a lot!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Cool game! Although I couldn't even get past the room in the beginning, The Music was very good and the footsteps sound real good with type type of game that it is presented with. The pixel art is super cool and it compliments the type of game it is and it's SFX . Overall good job! Also for the rating a gave you the benefit of the doubt for the theme since I din't go all the way through.

Developer

thanks! really appreciate it!

Submitted(+1)

Hey There!

First of All, I really loved the sound track..The graphics, especially the player animations are amazing.

However, I could not interact with anything(maybe a glitch on my side idk)..I just kept pushing buttons xD..

Other than that you should definitely keep working on this game.

Cheers!

Developer(+1)

thanks for the review! You just need to walk around and go trought stuff that doesnt make sense. srry about that. I should have add more help or something. 

Submitted(+1)

The presentation of the game is nice, but I don't know how I can discover with which objects I can interact. Which button do I press? Do I just try to interact with everything in the room?

Developer

im very sorry but I tried to hide the cursor because at the time I disnt now how to hide it. you cant you anything with the mouse. you just need to walk around and go trought things.

Submitted(+1)

Amazing graphics, very nice music and sounds, it fits the theme really well, the puzzles are challenging but not impossible, it's overall pretty fun and the story is pretty cool as well, great game!

Developer(+1)

thanks dude I very appreciate it!

Submitted(+1)

The art in this game is amazing! A lot of these puzzles got me and then I was like, "How did I not see this..."

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

i mean you couldnt see it XD because it was a big lie :D

thanks for the review thought !

Submitted(+1)

Loved the music! It was really similar to C418's songs, was that what you were going for?

Amazing pixel art and interesting story too.

The game felt really polished, well done!

Developer

yeah thanks dude! maiby I have should made the quests easier but whatever thanks fore the review

Submitted(+1)

Nice Game I love the aesthetic of it ! Nevertheless some of the puzzles are weird (that's not the problem ) so you die often and having to restart from the beginning is pretty annoying. It would be awesome if the game could get a checkpoint system ! 

Keep it up !

Developer

thanks dude, yeah my plan was to implement checkpoints, problem: I hadnt enough time AND not enough knowledge to do this. next update it would be implemented

Submitted(+1)

Nice Game! 

Developer

thanks dude :D

Submitted(+1)

Nice game

Developer

thanks dude

Submitted(+1)

If you get rid of those lines between the tiles, this would almost feel like a polished game.

Developer(+1)

I can explain you: at first I could fix this, but then I had a blue screen and the material I put on the tilemap just did id worst, but at first it fixt it. I didnt want to quit the jam just cause of this. srry for that :(

Submitted(+1)

No no, don't worry. I liked the game, those lines are one of the only drawbacks I could find :)

Submitted(+1)

love the puzzles

Developer

yeah? you did it till the end? :D thanks btw

Submitted(+1)

Really great game overall, the graphics and music are incredible and the puzzles were great, my only complaint would be the re-spawn, but i guess there wasn't enough time or something like that.

Developer

thanks dude, yeah that with the respawn...

Submitted(+1)

Really great game overall, the graphics and music are incredible and the puzzles were great, my only complaint would be the re-spawn, but i guess there wasn't enough time or something like that.

Submitted(+1)

ah the art is too cool! Rated

Developer

appreciate it!

Submitted(+1)

The music is good but extremely short so it gets annoying after some 30 loops (still, I see it is quite common among the jam entries, and I understand it is hard to find the time to compose a piece of music that is both long and good).

Restarting every time from the first room gets tiresome, I died a lot of times. Consider having the player respawn in the last room he reached.

Also, just moving a short distance away from where a dialogue is triggered and coming back will repeat it. You could add two lines of code to avoid repeating the dialogues too often, for example until the player dies, or until a certain time has passed.

The pixel art style works well. You doubtlessly beat me in graphics, and by far. I see you have made 9 different animations for the character and the result is very nice.

Good job.

Developer

thanks you so much for the honest feedback!

Submitted(+1)

Another awesome game! Game design and music really stood out for me.

Developer

thanks a lot! did you get till to the end? 0.o

Submitted

Not(yet), I have to study for this test I got tomorrow but I think I'll try to finish it!

Developer

would be very nice :D if you cant reach the end I will spoil you on discord :D

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

First of all, you did a great job on the pixel art, I know how much work it is to animate a 8 directional character. I love the music and your game idea overall, definitely fits the theme, but I have to admit, that I did not manage to get through the treasure room. Here you have constructive feedback (like you wanted):

- diffrent kinds of gameplay elements would be great, like some interactables, for example buttons or swiches, that activate something. That would courage you to search for more then fake walls and spikes.

- checkpoints (I've read below why you could not inplement that)

Don't have anything else to say. great work :)                                                                                              

(a hint on the treasure room would be nice)

Developer(+1)

thanks you very much, I appreciate it a lot :D great idea with the buttons !

Submitted (3 edits) (+1)

I couldn't figure it out how to solve the treasure room, I tried to look at the walls but that didn't help.

EDIT: I got to the end with a little help from the developer and the last riddle was actually clever, hard but clever.

It's a bit frustrating that you have to start from the first room every time, I don't want to go through the same room that I've already solved every time.

Also the dialogue with the kidnapper pops up every time you're near him and in a game where you have to check everything in the room it's annoying.

Speaking of the music, it's Gymnopédie N. 1 from Eric Satie without the melody part, I love that chord progression but you could have come up with something original.

The sound fx sound good but they are out of place sometimes, the walking sound it's like a woman in high heels on a marble floor whereas the player looks barefoot, also the door sound triggers every time you reach the end of the level even if you collide with a human or the void.

I liked the pixel art, very solid.

Rated!

Developer

thanks for the honest review!

I understand that the treasure room where a bit too difficult. And this with the restart after every death wasnt my plan, I had planned to respawn in the current room but hadnt enought time cause a bluescreen. The better way to use the dialoge were: when klick on him then he speaks I know.

With the effects of the foodsteps I tried to immitade with barfoot to walk on hally stone or somesthing like that.

Thanks about the art :D

Developer(+1)

if you want that I spoiler you the treasure rooom so you can get to the end then whisper me if this is possible :d

Submitted

Yeah I am curious but I don't know how to write to you in private ahah

Developer

you have discord? then we can write there

Submitted(+1)

Yeah you can contact me here on Discord Abastefano#2621

Submitted(+1)

Yeah I know that most of the flaws here comes from the short development time, we barely had time to build our game.

If you could give our game a rate/review it would be awesome https://itch.io/jam/cgj/rate/477069

Developer

yeah sure

Submitted(+1)

The pixel graphics is neat, and the music is quite soothing too, pretty nice there! However I'm not sure what to do in the first room lol! 

Developer(+1)

you need to escape from this room to go to the next one. BUT it isnt what it looks like, the door isnt what it looklikes and the walls to :D was this a good tipp? thanks by the way

Submitted(+1)

Oh i got it, it was indeed a fool room :P 

Developer

;D

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