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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Graphics | #7 | 4.500 | 4.500 |
| Innovation | #13 | 4.186 | 4.186 |
| Overall | #28 | 3.884 | 3.884 |
| Audio | #45 | 3.744 | 3.744 |
| Theme interpretation | #62 | 3.907 | 3.907 |
| Gameplay | #90 | 3.372 | 3.372 |
Ranked from 86 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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https://github.com/athenadai27/GithubGameJam
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Loved the idea of turning a word to an item! I enjoyed playing it surrounded by cute graphics and friendly tutorial :) BGM adds a calm and mysterious taste to the game nicely.
The only thing I could mention would be some of the tutorial text was, as a non-native speaker, a bit fast for me to finish reading it (I'm Japanese).
Overall great concept and cute atmosphere. Nice work!
Thank you for playing and we're very glad you enjoyed the aesthetics of the game!! We'll definitely look into pursuing more accessibility options when it comes to text following the jam. Thank you very much!
A very cute and interesting game! Really like the mechanic to grab words and turn them into items I can use. I went out of the map though and cannot get back :< (I jumped onto the top of the right wall and kept going right then I fell down.)
Say it ain't so...I thought I blocked that area off. What a world. But thank you for playing our game! c:
Nice game! I really like the cute graphics and unique mechanics to the game. It's also really inventive of a way to use the "bug" theme. A piece of feedback would be to automatically lock the mouse to the centre of the screen (keeping it invisible) in the game, as my mouse often reached the boundaries of my screen and got stuck, limiting the range of the flower. Other than that, the game has a lot of potential to be expanded upon. Great job!
That's true I should add that in next time. Honestly if I learned how to do that it'd make any kind of game with an invisible cursor work better so I'll have to look into that. Thank you for playing!
Great game! The graphics are awesome! I have difficulties with the mouse controls though. It was really hard to use it. But overall it is a great game!
Congrats
Thank you for playing our game! I'm sorry that you had difficulties with the mouse controls. Hopefully we can take all this feedback people are giving us and maybe polish the game in the future.
Amazing and wholesome arts and animation! Had trouble keeping up with the sentences (maybe because I'm a slow reader :D). Great game though!
Tbh I can't even read so I feel you. My boon is that I have the fastest hands this side of the rio grande so I just see yellow and I zoom. Thank you for the compliments about the art and animation. That's always one of the strong suits when you've got Yazzy on your team.
First of all, the graphics are gorgeous! Everything looked so smooth.
At some point I got stuck, I think it was the same issue Allison Liem had.
The plant drawing mechanic was very innovative and fun, though I missed the words often by a few pixels as my cursor got outside the game window (I think it would've worked better if I played in full screen...).
I also had a bit of a hard time reading, because it was a lot of text and it wiggled around. Would have loved to have an option to turn off the text moving (though it looked great to be honest :D).
Last but not least, the sound was very relaxing and set a great atmosphere!
All in all a great entry. Well done!
Thank you so much for such a detailed reply. I think there's definitely a lot of fine tuning that can be done and some accessibility options that can be added to make things a bit smoother, and we appreciate such constructive comments c:
Amazing gameplay concept, soo creative! I bet it was really fun to code that!! The text dynamics is just perfect too
So happy to hear you enjoyed our game! Alot of effort was put into the dynamic text, our two devs are goated c:
The visuals on this are so good! I love the grabbing ability but I just wish I could see my cursor though so I could move more easily. And I think you could lower down the amplitude of the wave a bit when a dialogue appears. I can't read the dialogue well when they collide against each other. Overall though, I think you have a great game!
Thank you so much for your feedback! I definitely agree about the mouse, there’s actually a sensitivity setting if you press on ‘esc’ to adjust it. I know I had a bit of hard time until I adjusted it!
We’ll look into fixing those issues with the dialogue, thank you so much for taking the time to play our game. c:
Amazing art, and a really interesting mechanic of drawing with the mouse movement!
So glad you liked it! Thank you so much!
The art is beautiful! I loved playing the game, but I think I encountered a bug (hehe) after the ant stage, where I went up a high platform, then went off the screen and couldn't get back..
The mechanic of using words was wonderful and innovative!
Thank you so much for taking the time to play our game! Looks like a few people have come accross that bug, we’ll try to patch it up post jam, ty again! c:
Really nice graphics and unique game idea!! Really well done. I had a bug where my sword dissapear and I could not do anything more :(
So glad you love ou art and game idea! The minute we came up with it we just ran with it hehe. Oh no, sorry about the bug! We’ll try to get that patched up post jam, ty for letting us know, very appreciated.c:
Super lovely visuals. I can see how much effort being put into this. The mechanics also pretty interesting.
Thank you for your kind words and for taking the time to play our game!
This one belongs to the top games, amazing graphics, really innovative with the stem drawing and a story to be told. The game unfortunately completely bugged out on me at meeting the ant where I just could not move, just crouch and use my stem.
Really appreciate your kind words! Yeahh we’ve got a few bugs in the game unfortunately we’ll try to patch things up post jam, thanks for letting us know and thank you so much for playing our game C: I’ll make sure to checkout your game tomorrow!
Wow! Dope entry! The controls were a little overwhelming at first but the game did a good job of explaining. I found the amount of movement with the text to be very difficult to read .... even though I loved the design of the effect haha.
I wonder is there a way to still allow player control when things are being explained to you, I felt I was kind of stopping and starting at the start too often. Minor gripe but thought I'd share my experience!
The art and the sound design were *chefs kiss*
Keep up the awesome work!
That's some good feedback you're givin there, mr. greggles. We've received a few comments about the text, and if we iterate on this game further, that's for sure gonna be one of the things we tackle. Making things easier to process visually would go a long way. Thank you for such a detailed response.
I really love the stem grabbing system, I've never seen anything like it before, very unique! I also found the hiding mechanic unique, rather than just hiding out of line of sight you go into the object itself. I liked the way the text looked, how it bobbed up and down, the little things like that really brought the whole game together. The artwork is really nice, the audio is great, overall a great and refined game! For me, I would have preferred the crouch keybind to be Control or Shift, but that's just my preference; it could be bound to both. Excellent job on your game though, it's very impressive!
Thank you for taking the time to play our game and leavig such a thoughtful review. I agree with your suggestion, we will definitely get that in a patch post jam!c:
Amazing stuff, creativity on the stem system was so good. It was unique and made me think about of fun possibilities. Art, sound, and gameplay, all top-notch. Loved it, good work guys!
Thank you for your kind words! So happy you love all aspects of our game, we put alot of effort into it. Played your game and it was absolutely lovely, beautiful artwork, great concept and overall fun puzzle mechanic. Hope to see more games from you soon!c:
A really nice game with an innovative mechanic. The art is so beautiful and the SFX and music tie the world together.
Some constructive notes I had during gameplay:
- Crouch would have been easier to press if it was tied to E or S as a WASD player
- The speech coming out of people would be even better with a cute sound effect (cute little meeps and stuff)
- The jump felt really harsh, and it would be nice if the player had squash/stretch during landing to really sell the cuteness
- For some reason the stem power would sometimes not let me go past a certain section of the screen? I think it was because my original window size was smaller or because my mouse was offset from the window. So I was reaching the end of my monitor but not the game world.
Great job team!
Thanks for playing our game and for the constructive feedback. I'll need to look into that last bug. I always appreciate feedback like this cause it shows that the person really paid attention during the whole thing.
Really tight mechanics, definitely feels polished and also great concept, Really enjoyed this one !
Thank you for the kind words, charles
Simply spectacular... Lovely art and music. Marvelous gameplay. Keep more coming guys! Please dont forget to check my page and rate my game as well!
WOW thank you Mimzy, your relentless support always keeps us going. We APPRECIATE you <3
amazing art style, loved the mechanics holding the words and turning into the thing itself.
congratulations
Thank you for playing our game! I’m glad you like it - I’ll be sure to play your game tonight!