| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Design | #86 | 4.264 | 4.264 |
| Overall | #399 | 3.907 | 3.907 |
| Adherence to the Theme | #606 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Originality | #964 | 3.458 | 3.458 |
Ranked from 72 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Remember what i said on discord! Less respawn delay! Otherwise it's fantastic.
Although, sometimes i did fall into some holes that give you no time to jump again (which can be quite frustrating)
adding some coyote time would be perfect, IMO! just a few frames!
Thanks again for checking out the game, and I'm glad you enjoyed it! And I appreciate the feedback, too - less respawn delay is totally reasonable and doable, and apologies about the holes with no time to jump again. I knew about those, but no matter what pattern of platform length and spawn timing I tried to set up, there were always holes like that. And also about coyote time, I tried to add that! But... uh, spaghetti code refused to let it work, so I'm sorry about that, too. Thanks again!
Although simple, it was really well polished and responsive (many games like this mess up this one basic concept). Got 0.96 volts, so close! Nice main menu tutorial.
Thanks for the drawing! :)
Really great game, simple but satisfying. Got a lot of good game juice, could definitely see this being a mobile game on the market.
Well done :D
Fantastically addictive game! The game mechanic is deceivingly clever; I thought it'll be easy to beat, but I spent quite some time trying to get to that elusive 1 second. Even though I failed multiple times, I thought it was fair... I get panicky as soon as the bars get shorter, and I have to resist the urge to press the space bar at the end of every bar, because sometimes one just wants to fly off in the same direction. The graphics are clean, and emphasizes the gameplay. The thud sound, particle effects, and screen shake gives the game oomph! The music sets the ambience just right. You've got a winner here buddy! Well done! :)
You've got all my stars.. all the stars...!! :D
What an addictive game! Mechanics are juicy, music is catchy XD
Leaderboard will make it even addictive XD
If you're going to update the game, we think it will be great to have more obstacles as well as power up & collectibles
Hey, I played & beat this game both by surviving and by gathering 100 volts! Here's my feedback:
I absolutely love the attention to detail in this game. Each time you hit a tile, the screen slightly shakes, everything (including the background) shifts color to match the charge, and the little cube changes charge sign as well. This is a nice twist on classic phone games, like Gravity Guy (and could actually make a pretty good ios/android game). Also liked the error messages like 404: electrodud not found (nice twist on a common error haha). Oh, and the background is very simple, but quite awesome. It'd been nice to also see other electroduds jumping up & down in the background tiles. Would've made sense with the game's theme and would've been a nice detail for someone to realize.
I think moving the volt count and the survival timer to another part of the screen would be way better. While playing, I was kind of bothered by how much of the center of the screen both of them occupied. I understand that you want the top to be free, but perhaps having a top bar for this would be better. On the timer: I really think there should be a way to tell the time without having to explicitly look at the number. I'm too busy focusing on not dying/maximizing my score while playing, so I had a rough time gazing away to see how much time I had left. I think speeding up the music or changing the color/making the timer blink faster and faster when running out of time would be way better.
Oh, and I found a slight bug: the music won't loop in games that take place after the player wins (won by timer the first time and this happened).
Overall, amazing job, I had a very good time playing your game!
Thank you very much for the detailed feedback! And I'm real glad to hear you enjoyed the game! Believe it or not, I was going to add other electroduds bouncing around in the background, but simply ran out of time to animate it with the background. And that's a completely fair and valid complaint about the UI block. Even I didn't like where I placed it, but I couldn't think of anything else to do. I also tried to make it slightly transparent, so it wouldn't be as much of a focal point (y'know, compensating for an already bad choice), but my code was so filled with spaghetti that it didn't work. And fair call on there needing to be more indication of how much time is left without looking at the timer. And finally, thank you for pointing out that bug - I know exactly what caused it just from thinking about the code, and am now internally face-palming.
Thank you very much for your time playing this game!
A pretty simple, but fun game wich is very polished. Sounds, "character" movement, chamera shaking, they're perfect, the only thing I don't like is the window with timer.
This one is one of my favorites for sure! Very simple challenging and satisfying!
It took me WAY too long to realize this wasn't called "Flight of the Electrodude" haha! I was really digging the music and the gameplay is super addicting! I kept wanting to try again to see if I could go smoother! Really fun game!
Would love if you could check mine out too! Or not, no pressure ;) https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2019/rate/462672?after=20#post-876644
I have to confess something: I have feelings for Electrodude, the most cutest of the electroduds.
I don't know how you managed it, but you made the cutest game I played this jam without putting a smiley face on anything. Just purely through music, sounddesign and your writing.
At first I focused on getting that voltage win, but it proved too difficult for now so I placated myself with the clearly inferior time win. I'll keep this little gem on my computer so that I may beat it one day.
You don't know how many times I almost called this game Flight Of The Electrodude, buddy (and how many times I've almost accidentally called it Electrodad...). But thank you very much, my bud, I'm glad to hear you like the audio and my weird, excessive writing style! And I totally believe in you to get that volt victory. If it makes you feel any better, I didn't get my first volt victory until more than halfway between when I made it and the end of the jam. :D
This is really fun. I tried going for the 1 volt win even before reading the description just cause I was curious what would happen if it fills up. Haven't managed to do it though. But I might try again tomorrow cause it's really late now.
Very nice game :D! Loved the description, too :P. And of course the great graphics, music, sound effects and feedback :D!
Some points:
Good luck with this game (if you want to continue making it) and with future projects :D!
Thank you very much for the feedback, I really appreciate it, and I'm glad to hear you enjoyed playing! Apologies for the issues with very long single platforms, I didn't quite code the platform generation the way I would've done it ideally. And apologies again for it not being very original - I was aware of this from the start, but couldn't think of another way to manipulate the environment that I could make in the time given. And those are good suggestions for gameplay changes - I'll keep them in mind if I do expand on the game in the future!
This was way better than i expected it to be! The color swaps, audio and screen shakes etc. sold the game feel. The only thing i would wish for is slightly longer coyote time so my slow reaction speed would feel so bad.
Thank you for the feedback, and I'm glad you enjoyed the game! And I'm genuinely really sorry about the lack of coyote time - I actually did try to program that in, but my spaghetti code was so bad that it just refused to work. If people care enough about the game, I'll definitely try to get coyote time working, because the game is very unforgiving on that front right now, and I want it to be more accessible.
Quite a fun little game, really enjoyed it. Short and sweet.
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