Really creative level design, that's something I enjoy in platformers, clever and interesting levels to walk through. The damage mechanic could have some more polishing, with a health bar or something else to give visual feedback to the player, aside from the flashing sprite. Some of the hazards are really hard to evade, but I think that seems intended, to manage the damage you take along the way. That game of 2048 is great, but really hard to get through, I had to give up on it lol
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #140 | 3.963 | 3.963 |
| Story | #151 | 2.889 | 2.889 |
| Aesthetics | #219 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Overall | #253 | 3.407 | 3.407 |
| Mechanics | #256 | 3.148 | 3.148 |
| Fun | #389 | 2.963 | 2.963 |
| Music | #391 | 2.926 | 2.926 |
| Sound | #467 | 2.370 | 2.370 |
Ranked from 27 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.
I didn't
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I'm really glad you think that! Designing the levels was a real headache, especially with no preview experience, but in the end, something halfway decent came out of it. As for the health system, it's true it needs improvement, I wanted to try something a bit different from the usual, but it definitely needs to give more information. Regarding the hazards, you're right, though I lacked the experience and time to place them more balanced. And 2048 definitely needs to be nerfed haha, thank you so much for the feedback!
165 days ago(+1)
Thank you very much! It's good to know it's not too frustrating for different types of players, but yes, the 2048 definitely needs some proper balancing, it's becoming hellish for everyone who manages to reach it xD Thanks for the support!
165 days ago(+1)
Thanks for the feedback! I'm glad you enjoyed it. We're currently working on improving several of those aspects to turn it into a bigger project based on this prototype, your comments are really helpful ^^
We would have loved to achieve our goal of including the other puzzle we had planned, but at least it seems like the 2048 one was well received. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us! And creating the checkpoints was definitely a good call, even if it took a bit more time, I’m glad to hear it was helpful for quite a few of you ^^
I'm really glad you liked it! The idea was to alternate more puzzles between the platforming levels, but since we couldn’t reach that goal in time, we at least added one at the end. Regarding what you mentioned about being able to stick to some walls without the usual indication, that's not intentional. If you could give us a bit more detail about where happened, it would really help us in future development. Thank you so much for the feedback!
* About the health bar, it's something I gave a lot of thought to. I felt a classic bar was a bit cliché and wanted to try something a bit different, so I went for a more visual approach with the blinking and bubble system: the faster and more bubbles appear, the less health you have. It's true that it's a bit ambiguous and could use some improvement, so if you have any ideas to make it clearer, they’re more than welcome!
166 days ago(+1)
Thank you so much for the feedback! I'm really glad you liked the virus animation, it was a tough battle to get it looking a minimum natural. We're currently working on improving the controls for a future extended version
166 days ago(+1)
Thank you very much for the feedback! I can understand the feeling of slowness, it was partly intentional, as I wanted to simulate being in an underwater environment. However, I'm aware that, for example, the jump might feel too slow. It's something that was left pending to polish further in order to provide a better overall feel
166 days ago(+1)
Thank you so much! It's an honor coming from your team. I would have loved to make a parallax background like yours for our game, but unfortunately things got complicated :( The intention was actually to create another mini-game and have it alternate with the platforming levels, but there just wasn't enough time and we had to cut it
Yeah, I feel you. We also wanted to make a much bigger game, but it took us a long time to figure out the right idea, something we felt we could actually finish in time and still make fun to play. Sadly, we also started running out of time, so we had to drop a lot of planned stuff like enemies, the story, and fixing the parallax so it would loop properly and not look like the background was getting cut.
I’m really glad you and your team managed to release your game in time for the competition. I was already freaking out trying to finish ours 2.5 hours before the deadline. I can’t imagine what it was like finishing yours just 2 minutes before!
166 days ago(+1)
It's a compliment that you gave it a try even if you're not very good at platformers! Thank you for your kind words ^^
167 days ago(+1)
Thank you so much! It's such a huge compliment to have it compared to Celeste, honestly, you're going to make me cry with such kind words. I'm really happy you enjoyed it :')
I'm really happy that the wall mechanic was so well received :') these kinds of feedback truly make me happy. I agree that I should have used a different font for the rest of the text, it worked fine as title, but with the rush I didn’t have time to find a second one for the rest. As for the music, I’m sorry about that, our teammate is still in the learning process
167 days ago(+1)
Thanks so much for the feedback! I definitely ran out of time to implement the game over screen, it was something I had in mind, but completely slipped away due to the time constraints. However, if you ever get stuck, you can press R to restart the level. Congrats on making it so far in the final level! :)
168 days ago(+1)
Yeah, I know :( At first, the wall climbing mechanic was okay, but after adding more complex shapes, something went wrong, when you climb a wall on the left, it loses contact. I was trying to fix that at the last moment, but I couldn’t. As for the spikes, they’re not supposed to kill you, just deal damage and push you away, so that’s okay. Thank you so much for your feedback!
168 days ago(+1)
I'm glad you like it! I put so much effort into just that one mechanic, but it totally paid off, thanks for your feedback!
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