Very nice idea, simple to understand, satisfying to solve.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Adherence to the Theme | #50 | 4.633 | 4.633 |
| Overall | #74 | 4.311 | 4.311 |
| Originality | #107 | 4.400 | 4.400 |
| Design | #297 | 3.900 | 3.900 |
Ranked from 30 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Comments
5 years ago(+1)
Thank you! I'm happy the design is delivering. Making sure your game is simple to understand is important, because the player has more time to focus on actually enjoying the experience rather than learning how the game works.
I played this yesterday and had my coworkers at the office play it too but I forgot come back and rate it :b
The game is quite fun and original and I was honestly very impressed.
Good job guys this is quite amazing!
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Hey, we made a godot game too. Check it out!
5 years ago(+1)
Thank you very much! Always happy to help other Godot users, it's the first engine I'm using and learning with regularity and I'm having a blast!
5 years ago(+3)
Thank you very much! The difficulty ramp is between the 3rd and the 4th; I planned a level between those two to make the shift less dramatic but I couldn't make it because of the tight timeframe.
Of course I'm willing to divulge, I love talking about these things! I think I used the least elegant solution possible, but basically I gave four 1024-pixels-long raycasts to the player, with directions right, up, left and down. Then to the moving objects (enemies), keys and doors, I gave an additional Area2D with an expanded CollisionShape2D, so the raycasts can collide with these additional areas (in the enemies' case, the areas cover their path), while the player collides only with the physical object. I could go in more detail, but I think a private messaging system would be better (also I would need time to recollect ideas and explain in a decent way the details :'D)
As for the tweak you're suggesting, I don't know why I didn't thought of it before. Thanks for telling me, if you're okay with it, I will update the game with it in the future after the Jam is completely over!
5 years ago(+1)
Thank you very much!
Don't worry, it makes sense! I had to make a choice early on. If, using your example, the player could see the key when the enemy isn't in between, I thought the player would feel safe to just go right to grab it, when in reality there's this bad boy that could intercept them. This could cause the player to feel the game "isn't fair" and just abandoning it in frustration. So I decided to let the player see the whole enemy's path, so they could deal with it in a "fair" way, even though you're right that this means there's no thinking ahead. This "I don't know what's next" feeling plays well too with the mildly unsettling atmosphere that I was trying to convey.
I'm really happy you liked it! Thanks for playing and giving feedback! :D
At first I kind of thought the same thing, but that's a bit of a double edged sword. If the player can see past an enemies path, then they would have no knowledge of an enemy being there unless they were directly in front of the player, significantly increasing the difficult to a potentially unplayable state, all while making the player feel cheated when they die seemingly randomly.
5 years ago(+2)
Thank you very much! It was a real challenge doing it (and making the level design too!)
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