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A jam submission

Minotaur MazeView game page

Evade the Minotaur, navigate to the exit, and escape the maze!
Submitted by Jmassaro7 — 4 minutes, 45 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Originality: Your game presents very fully original concept.#113.0923.188
Theme: The game creatively uses the Jam’s Theme.#113.4563.563
Emotion / Mood: The game has an emotional impact.#122.4862.563
Gameplay: The game is fun to play and engaging.#122.8502.938
Environment: Art, level and enemy design, placement and pacing of challenges.#123.1533.250
Overall#122.8802.969
Determination: You clearly challenged yourself. Not an easy game to make.#123.3353.438
Game Feel: Feels good to perform actions. Controls responsive and satisfying.#132.3042.375
Personality/Narrative: Characters, dialogue, plot, and other story elements.#132.3652.438

Ranked from 16 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Sources Cited
https://assetstore.unity.com/publishers/27610 For monster roar sounds
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/characters/humanoids/minotaur-62219 For the minortaur
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/characters/humanoids/humans/spartan-warrior-143676 For spartan player
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/historic/greek-low-poly-pack-lite-136606 For the Greek architecture
Dall-E 3 for start and end screen images

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Comments

Submitted

I was able to just walk right outside of the map... like the walls didnt exist, i was trying to stay inside but i would also drift to the left without pressing anything. also made the minotaur a non issue as i could just walk straight through walls.

Submitted

I really liked the idea for this game, but I found it hard to see where I was going with the camera angled behind the player's head. Also colliding with walls was pretty much an instant game ender. But still very cool :)

Submitted

good game! it gave me "back room" vibes and a urgency to run away from the minotaur. This would be a nightmare to be up against. i also liked the camera perspective that you chose.

Submitted

the game was very fun! there was some minor issues i had with the Minotaur where he would get stuck, and that made it a bit of an issue but other than that it was fun, good game!

Submitted

Very fun! The animations were really cool and gave the game life. The sound effects were cool and the maze was pretty difficult. When bumping into walls the character would occasionally change directions which would get me killed, thats my only gripe. Nice job!

Submitted

The art and maze looked nice. It was difficult for me to control the player and the scale of player and enemy did not match well on my screen. It could be because of the Jam platform. I had the same issue with my game. It does not show the whole screen of my game either. I wish you had instructions in the first screen, the same as "Press Spacebar to Start" you could add the control buttons.

Submitted

The art and maze looked nice. It was difficult for me to control the player and the scale of player and enemy did not match well on my screen. It could be because of the Jam platform. I had the same issue with my game. It does not show the whole screen of my game either. I wish you had instructions in the first screen, the same as "Press Spacebar to Start" you could add the control buttons.

Submitted

A maze was a cool idea, although I am glad that you can just walk straight to the finish almost immediately. The walls all look the exact same, so its less of a maze and more about trying to see where you are going more than anything. A second problem that I saw was that the minotaur just gets stuck on any wall and then you can just walk around him.

Submitted

I like the idea of the gladiator helment, although it makes it hard to see. My camera likes to magnetize to walls in narrow walkways, making it very difficult to escape.

Submitted

I like the idea of a maze. The controls are a bit slow but manageable enough to evade the minotaur. I love the cover art!

Submitted

Love the concept of a maze puzzle, did take me quite a few tries to finally make out alive. The Minotaur can be pretty unforgiving at the beginning there. Although the controls seemed a little wonky in that at times it felt like I was being pulled towards the wall. When turning while stationary, like when you get stuck in a dead end, its painfully slow.

Submitted

The cover art is awesome!
I got the doom vibe from playing it, the game wouldn't start(drop the coverart?) for me, took a few reloads to get  space bar to work to start it and every time it would actually start take a several times of hitting space bar to get it to finally start I would immediantly die I think the minotaur is already hunting at the start.  

The camera angle is akward, I feel you wanted the 3rd person view  so you could see the character but need to be offset to the side if you want to see the character but also see the screen.  We just see a big helmet that takes up the camera space.    I like the concept 

Submitted

I liked the idea of using Greek Mythology for the game, but the Minotaur was not ever really a threat if you knew how to properly kite it around, and the camera felt a bit too up close, other than that it was a fun game! 

Submitted

Love the art used for the cover and game over screens. The camera angle felt a bit too close to the player, which by itself isn't so bad, but the controls weren't very responsive for me which made it a bit frustrating to navigate the maze.

Most of the time I didn't really feel like the minotaur was much of a threat, but I think that if there was some music, or ambient sounds that played every once in a while (like minecraft when you're in the caves), it would have brought an extra level of tension.

Overall, I liked the classic mythology vibe and I could see this being a fun, slightly spooky game with some more polish on it!

Submitted(+1)

I clicked through on your link, thanks for sharing that. Sorry to hear about the late submission. :-(


That maze was elaborate! I liked the sense of dread outrunning the minotaur. I think at one point it gave up on chasing me, but then I became my own worst enemy: I think bumping into walls was messing with my rigidbody and I slowly started rotating. X-D

Developer(+1)

Thank you for your feedback! It is much appreciated :) Yes, I have encountered that same issue while testing the game, I am not sure what was causing it.

Submitted

No game to play ;(

Developer(+1)

I know, unfortunately I learned of this issue after the deadline was up:(

However, if you still want to check out the game, I have a corrected version here: https://jmassaro7.itch.io/minotaur-maze-web