Super cool concept! I love a platformer with a twist like this, I made something not too different for a game jam years ago, but you had us doing some really cool tricks in this game. I unfortunately couldn't make it to the end, the room with the high vertical part and the skeleton underneath was too much for me :( I would say the main drawback is the extremely high precision you need sometimes. Otherwise, good stuff!
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| INNOVATION | #6 | 3.732 | 3.732 |
| ENJOYMENT | #22 | 3.293 | 3.293 |
| OVERALL | #25 | 3.463 | 3.463 |
| MOOD | #44 | 3.049 | 3.049 |
| AUDIO | #52 | 2.927 | 2.927 |
| GRAPHICS | #52 | 3.317 | 3.317 |
| HUMOR | #80 | 1.927 | 1.927 |
| THEME | #107 | 2.366 | 2.366 |
Ranked from 41 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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It's a littly bit tricky to throw a crown at times, but overall I liked the concept. Good job!
Creative movement mechanics! It turned out difficult, but not impossible, I like it. Somewhere stuck in the textures
very very very strong use of one mechanic, love it, well explored, game doesn’t drag until it would overstay it’s welcome.
super strong entry (though I’m not super sold on the theme usage)
I HAD to finish it and couldn’t put it down.
felt clever to discover the diagonal throw.
my main feedback for improvement:
- hitboxes felt unfair at times, maybe make the enemies slightly smaller than the actual sprite
- “tutorial” text could go away forever after the first screen, it’s just annoyingly there afterwards
I don’t like platformers but I was locked in for this. I really wanted to finish it and put in some good time but got bugged inside of the level twice near the end RIP. Won’t effect my rating though. Great innovation on the crown I think that was awesome and I super unique. Visuals were awesome, appreicated the cutscenes too. Crown SFX was a tad annoying but other than that music was nice. One of the top entries I have played so far, great stuff.
Fun game and cool art! I think a fullscreen button would be great but that's just my personal preference
Very solid game! Really creative gameplay idea, and also a cool story. The ending was a bit sudden, but cool nonetheless. The only thing I would change is the annoying click sound each time you throw your crown, really jarring. Other than that, good stuff!
Took me a little bit to figure out but it was a great game to play! One of the best I have played so far!
Wow, actualy managed to beat this one.
I liked the puzzle elements of diferent ways you can use the crown, very clever. But the level with 3 skeletons was straigh up hell, tried it like 20 times till i finaly got it, the last skeleton alwayss got me. Final level took me a while to figure out, but I got it in the end.
Great game! The mechanics made this platformer a bit puzzle centric and fun. I'd like to see how you'll be building up on this already good game. I feel like there's a lot of potential for this mechanic and can be explored quite a bit.
The game is good. maybe throwing the crown with the mouse could've been better but its a very nice game!
Game is good and controls are feels challenging and interesting, but the section shown in the screenshot became difficult for me to pass because while you are in the air and falling and throwing the crown up during teleportation, your falling speed is not reset, which is why you don’t even have time to throw the crown to the right. But even that, I like the game.
Nice game, I like the mechanic, I don't think I ever seen something like that before (I don't play a lot of platformer).
Did you try to switch the controls to the mouse? I think if you click where you want to throw the crown and click again to teleport it would make the game easier (but you may not want that, I don't know)
At first I ignored the big bold text at the top of the page as it looks like a title so I was confused when trying to throw the crown.
Thanks for the feedback! Tbh I'm not sure if my mechanic is original or not the only platformer I've played recently is Celeste. Also If i had more time I would've liked to have a more detailed tutorial cause I know it's confusing at first. I did think about the mouse but I had already done the controls so I didn't wanna go back but it might have been a good idea.
Quite hard for me (maybe I have skill issue) but I love this challenge. Interesting game GG
great work for your first game , i had some issue with Q not being registed few times , please take a look at it sometime
Interesting mechanic that makes what would be normal platforming challenges into a more puzzling experience, good work! One thing I think you could experiment with is making the thrown crown affected by physics/gravity and instead break if it were to collide with a wall, and also throw infinitely. This could turn the game into a more chaotic and fast-paced experience that you could do some funny level designs with lmao. Anyways, nicely done~
Cool mechanic it turns the platforming into a sort of puzzle. Was pretty enjoyable to play.





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