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A jam submission

iFD: iFD Fractal DescentView game page

A short philosophical puzzle platformer about the butterfly effect, unseen intelligence, and the self.
Submitted by Danilo Segrt, danvld, Compech
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Story#943.2353.235
Theme#1743.8243.824
Music#3083.1763.176
Aesthetics#4113.1763.176
Overall#4382.9412.941
Sound#4712.3532.353
Mechanics#5002.5292.529
Fun#5742.4122.412

Ranked from 17 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 in total?
3

Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
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Comments

Submitted(+2)

Fun, game I definitely be playing it again.

Submitted(+2)

Love the concept! I'd like a little more distinction between tiles that are in the background  and in-line with me so I can tell what I'll collide with or not. Great work :)

Submitted(+2)

Cool concept, good job on the music, effects and platforming feel

Submitted(+3)

nice game, liked the platforming. But getting to the tree took way too long. Also the text is very small and had to strain my eyes.

Submitted(+1)

I really liked the game! enjoyed it, great job!

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted(+2)

Nice game play experience. Good job!

Developer

Thanks a lot!

Submitted (1 edit) (+2)

It's pretty impressive how you managed to make the levels playable for both normal and bug sizes, good design job there. Still, I think that there a too few checkpoints given how much you have to walk in this game.

Developer

Thank you very much!

Submitted(+1)

Really cool concept, I loved the dialogue, that was great and I got really engaged in the game! However when I reached the tree top I couldn't seem to progress any further, and I kept getting killed by some big flying things to which point I had to end my run. I hope that the main character managed to return to his original size and that the A team didn't run away with all the revenue! But a really fun concept nevertheless!

Developer

Thank you for the feedback! Yeah, there is a big bug in the arena currently, which will get fixed after the jam...

Submitted(+1)

Really cool NPCs and concept but it is a lot of walking with few checkpoints. Was a lot of running around until I got somewhere. Also, is the main character Rick haha?

Developer

Thank you very much! Yeah, we will tweak checkpoints after the game jam ends. Also, sometimes there are checkpoints in the grass. 

Submitted(+1)

That is a really interesting game! It took me awhile to figure out I needed to go left instead of right in that first room. Well done!

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much! Yeah, we will make it more clear after the game jam.

Submitted(+1)

Congrats on your submission!  I thought the story was cool and then went through a maze of an area and fell into a pit with a bunch of flies and it killed me and I had to start over.  I went back through the maze and the game crashed on me.  I didn't have it in me to go through a third time.  I think the level might be a bit too large.

Developer(+1)

Thank you! Can you elaborate on the game crashing? We haven't experienced any crashes in our testing...

Submitted(+1)

I took a screenshot of it, just in case.  It looked like it was lagging for a sec and froze.  It was while I was trying to get back to the area with the flies, but I was trying to make sure I didn't fall, so I was in the area where it's like a blue bar and up jump up and jump onto a white square.  I did that about 3 or 4 times and each time, I was looking under to see if I could get to the flies a different way.  When I jumped down that's when it stopped responding for me and had this crashed image:


Specs:

1 TB free HD
6GB nVidia Graphics card
32 GB RAM
Intel Core i7-9750H 2.6 Ghz
Win 11 Pro

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Hmmm, I don't actually know what is causing this issue... I will try to look deeper into it. Thank you for providing screenshots!

Submitted(+1)

Great story, bit confusing on where to go. Overall really good.

Developer

Thank you very much! We will try to update it after the game jam...

Submitted(+2)

Good game! I liked the story, theme, and platforming! Hard to tell what to do once I got out to the grass area, it seemed to loop but I must have missed something.

Keep up the good work

Developer(+1)

Thank you! Yes, the game is a continuous loop, because it's the world of fractals. Yeah, the grass area is a bit confusing...

Developer(+2)

Thank you for the compliments! At the end of the grass area there is the Hollowtree, which is the next area of the game, but as the position of the Hollowtree is randomly chosen, it could potentially take quite a few minutes to get to it. We might adjust the difficulty of the game once the voting phase of the jam is over.

Submitted(+2)

This is a great game! 

The story was great, and the music was great.

Really good job, you guys!

The only thing is I found it hard to tell where to go, it was really confusing

But overall, a great game, one of the best, if not the best, that I have tested so far!

Developer(+2)

Thank you so much for the kind words!