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A jam submission

Adventures of XanderbopView game page

Escape the evil capitalist dystopia before its too late
Submitted by yanniboi (@lockdownpatrol) — 4 days, 11 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Overall#14.6674.667
Audio#15.0005.000
Art#14.6674.667
Game Design#14.3334.333
Polish#14.3334.333
Narrative/Mood#33.6673.667

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

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(+1)

A very nice platformer with very well fitting music! The pitch change when jumping/colliding was really awesome.

One thing I'm sure you could easily add would be some sort of highlight of the obstacles. Sometimes these are a bit too blended into the background.

However, the general look of the game was appropriate and went well together.

Nicely done!

Submitted(+1)

Everyone had some great entries but lets face it... clear winner here lol

I absolutely LOVE the sounds with the player jumps... and the music is perfect. 

Id maybe like a tad more goal achieving if this were a finished game... like collecting parts for something... donno... but a larger goal than to survive. That is not to say it's not fun how it is, just reaching for some kind of decent feedback other than gushing lol

Really excellent polish on loading and UI type things. Love the logo too! 

Submitted(+1)

This is a seriously cool game, especially the sound!

The jumping pitches (that follow the harmony and change depending on if it's the first, second or third jump) is really inspiring, as is your solution with different parts that follow how well your doing.

I kinda like the laid back drum beat, it's a cool contrast to the fast pace of the game. Perhaps you could either increase the tempo slightly faster the game goes. Or make the drum track play sliiightly more "on beat" the further along the player gets.

The mechanics are very simple, innovative and work really well. Like MurphysDad said, I don't really see when I should choose which character. So perhaps something could be done to the game design to make the characters shine in different parts.

The graphics are solid and look really professional. The one thing I had wanted at least when I started playing was some sort of running animation for the characters.

Submitted(+1)

Nice!

Visuals were great! Very simple but consistent and colorful. I think the parallaxing background was particularly appealing with the little details.

And the music was great too! I thought it worked well, especially with the little musical chimes the characters made when you jumped - I thought they added to the relatively simple background theme.

Gameplay-wise, I thought it was a clever way to mix up the endless runner. Having several runners with different attributes, but being advantageous to switch it up and use several runners instead of just sticking with a favorite. It reminded me of the Pokemon Trainer in Super Smash Bros Brawl.

Also, I really liked the character switch. You very easily could've just swapped a character in but it made it that much better to slow the game down and visually swap the characters with an animation rather than just replacing them.

Couple of thoughts:

  • I felt the long-hold for switching characters was a little too sensitive. I found it switching frequently when I didn't mean for it to.
  • I think one interesting thing that could be done to encourage switching characters is switching up patterns in the platforming for periods, where the obstacles are easier to maneuver with one character over another.

Excellent work!