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A jam submission

Starry SerenadeView game page

When stars and moons align
Submitted by pke1029, Cyberleaf Studio (@bluegestalt) — 14 hours, 23 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Graphics#214.4554.455
Interpretation of the Secondary Theme#334.3184.318
Overall#353.9913.991
Soundtrack/SFX#413.9553.955
Gameplay#923.5003.500
Gameboy Soul#1383.7273.727

Ranked from 22 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game match the theme?
Starry Serenade is a celestial-themed puzzle game with procedural levels and background.

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Submitted(+1)

I enjoyed the game a lot! Was a really chill game, the music track and the palette added a lot to the experience, and the puzzles were fun when I figured everything out.

Outside of a bug mentioned in another comment where I was unable to return to the game after clicking at some point, one thing I noticed was that some of the slots in level 3 at times overlapped at similar speeds and covered each other at some points. It made it hard to tell what slot I was hovering over at times.

Besides that though, I really liked this game, great work!

Submitted(+1)

love how the game looks with the color palette and design, it was hard to understand how the game worked but after a minute or two of experimenting and looking at the gifs of the game I understood how to play and honestly, it was really fun! Not too hard but not too easy neither ; I dare saying the music is a serenade to the gamejam...

Nice work!!

Submitted(+1)

That was really cool! It took me an embarrassingly long time to determine what "bounded" meant, but the gameplay is solid, the art is gorgeous, and the atmosphere is quite somber. Great work!

Submitted(+1)

Loved the art style and colours, cool idea for a puzzle game. The instructions confused me at first, so it would help if they were a little clearer. Great game!

Submitted(+1)

very original, feels good to play and has a gorgeous style, the color palette was a very good choice, very nice puzzle game :>

Submitted(+1)

Super chill puzzler! Quite enjoyed that and what a great tie into the jam theme :)

Submitted(+1)

This game's just really cozy and adorable! I love the palette and concept and the simple yet beautiful spritework. I would definitely play this on a real gameboy! Though honestly, I went in blind, so it felt like half the puzzle was navigating to the right spots. XP The controls are rather unintuitive - once I looked up how they worked (after beating the game) it got easier, but they still feel fiddly and I have to consciously remind myself how they work.

Unfortunately, on level 8 of endless mode I alt-tabbed to answer something on Discord, and clicked outside the game window when returning ... after which I couldn't re-focus on the game at all! No amount of clicking on it, pressing keys, or trying to tab back into it got the game to respond, so that's an issue you might want to look into?

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Beautiful and polished graphics and music. It could be annoying trying to select slot i wanted but aside from that it's a great puzzler! : )

Submitted(+1)

It took me way too long to figure out what you meant by "no two bounded bodies share the same essence".

But, when I figured out that the bodies in a straight line were not considered bounded, even though they have a line connecting them, I could appreciate the game.

It's a unique puzzler, very challenging! Cute art design! Great work!

Submitted(+1)

It's beautiful, sounds great and the gameplay is quite nice - a lovely little puzzle. Cycling through the slots was a bit annoying but that's a minor issue.

Submitted(+1)

Amazing puzzle game you have here. Took me a while to figure out, and the puzzle is very thought provoking, interesting, and fun to solve over and over. I played all of Standard and did 1 level in endless. The music, while only 1 track and could easily get repetitive, was very interesting and easy to listen to for extended periods of time, which is great for a puzzle game, although I would have preferred the occasional different song for different levels etc. 

Anyways, my biggest critique would be the controls for cycling orbital bodies, as they felt very difficult to navigate which comes with a constant moving option to select etc.... I don't have a solution to how to handle this, but yeah it felt very annoying trying to get to a specific body and not being able to, because it was hard to predict where the cursor would go after each input.

Overall,I thought this was a very fun experience and very polished for a jam game, so great work here!

Submitted(+2)

Beautiful art, this should be an app game so my girlfriend can play it. she loved it.

Submitted(+2)

Absolutely gorgeous presentation on all levels. This is the kind of game you could sink a lot of time into on a portable system.

Submitted(+1)

The game's art and presentation in general is top-notch, loved the puzzles too! I had a bit of trouble figuring out what I needed to do at the beginning, but it was smooth sailing once I read the description

Submitted(+1)

Really cosy puzzle game! The controls were a little unintuitive, and it was difficult to move to the specific slot I wanted, I think I would have preferred that Up/Down cycles through orbits and Left/Right cycled through slots on that orbit. Overall though the game was super pretty, and I’m planning on checking out your Pixel Perfect Dithering Shader since the effect looks really nice!