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A jam submission

Building Upon ThemView game page

Jump, die, and use your older bodies to get over obstacles to help SCIENCE! Entry for the GameDev.TV 2022 Game Jam.
Submitted by Armagdo (@ArmagdoGaming) — 4 days, 12 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Story#5131.9253.333
Theme#6082.1173.667
Fun#6322.1173.667
Mechanics#7381.7323.000
Sound#7571.1552.000
Music#8940.5771.000
Aesthetics#8971.1552.000

Ranked from 3 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How many people worked on this game total?
1

Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
One sound effect from FreeSound.org.

Link to your source?
https://github.com/ArmagdoGaming/Building-Upon-Them

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Nice game with beautiful graphics and story. To me, the game was very difficult, to be honest, so I couldn't continue playing but I think it will appeal more to the fans of this genre. 

My advice though is to make the difficulty more gradual because I think I would have played more of it if I didn't get stuck that early.

I think everything in the game was well made and it looked really beautiful and polished. Good job :)

Submitted(+1)

This game was pretty fun. It was really all about the mechanics. I almost quit a few times but muscled through it and finished every level. The only real issues that made it more difficult were:
1. I guess I didn't realize the red triangles left your corpse, so I was suiciding either immediately before touching them or right after, which meant I would waste a guy. But after seeing what was happening, I stopped using the suicide. 

2. The mechanics start to build, but at the end you don't use the suicide. It would have been cool to have a level at the end where you could use all of the mechanics you learned throughout the game.

One other strange thing was that a controller worked for movement, but not for jumping. So get the jump and suicide buttons and I think it would have been more fun to play with a controller.

I could see this being expanded to a bunch of levels for fun.

Well done!!!

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much for your review!

I'll take a look at the controller issue ASAP, and I'll try to make the mechanics of the game more clear.

Creating levels was definitely a struggle, I admit. But I'll definitely try to create more when I get the chance. I most likely am also going to rework the last level, as this level was definitely rushed.


Again, thank you so much for your review and your constructive criticism! Really appreciate them.