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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #9 | 4.338 | 4.338 |
| Overall | #10 | 4.400 | 4.400 |
| Presentation | #29 | 4.538 | 4.538 |
| Originality | #185 | 4.092 | 4.092 |
Ranked from 130 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
One often finds that a freshly-raised skeleton is... uncontrollable. Thankfully, as a practitioner of magics most profane, you are able to manipulate the very walls to steer your wayward minion to safety! For those looking for "controls" or a "tutorial," seek further instruction on the game page. There, your thirst for knowledge will be fulfilled.
Did your team create the art for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
Yes
We created all art during the game jam
Did your team create the audio for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
No
We used pre-existing audio
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Pretty much everything about this game was perfect. The couple small bugs you warned about in the description are totally forgivable given the limited time we had. The concept was awesome and the game play was really fun. The puzzles were well designed so that there was always more than one way of getting where you needed to go. Great work, and awesome game!
Oh man, you have no idea how happy it makes me to hear that you checked out the game page! The invisible spikes were an oversight on my part during development, and I've tried so hard to let people know that they're in the game. We're thrilled you enjoyed the game regardless of its faults; thank you for the feedback!
Wow. Such a beautiful game. Level design is incredible. (Completed all the levels!) The concept is so cool and unique. I really want to play more.
We're so glad you enjoyed the game so much! And hey, congrats on beating all the levels!
I really liked a lot of this game and had a great time, very polished, and think that there's really potential to be a full game of some sort, so an feedback, not looking as a jam game, but what it can became: while I was playing, felt more like a "ok let the skeleton running and then I can see where it dies and I insert an block", I know there is the skull rating system if you die less, but still don't seen to be enought to just try withouth doing this way. Maybe if you guys put some reward shop in exchange of the skulls or something, I really hope if you guys do some more with this, great work.
Thank you very much for the feedback! And yeah, we all agree there's definitely a better way to puzzle out the solution rather than just placing down one tile at a time and seeing when the skeleton dies, haha. As for rewards,
myour current idea going forward is that getting a three-skull rating on a level would unlock a filter or chroma players could use to change up the color palette!Thank you, really. I always enjoy reading comments, but comments like these really make my day. We're so happy to hear that you enjoyed the game, and thank you very much for the feedback.
This is such a fun and original mechanic that is well executed and has to be a winner! Extremely well made, great job! 5/5
Aw, thank you so much! It makes us real happy to hear how much you like the game. We hope it's a winner too!
SO this is the one fine take on the puzzle game with character out of control
Oh man, that's great to hear. Thank you!
Very nice puzzle game! It's a bit tricky to estimate the timing of the different actions. This makes it a more trail and error rather than strategically placing of blocks. If the actions where shown in a grid maybe, it would be more fun and achievable to reach high ratings for a level. But I don't know if that was intentional. It is a very nice concept and the art is well made. I really enjoyed playing it!
Hey, thanks for the feedback! Yeah, the current iteration of the action bar doesn't do good enough of a job at timing out the skeleton's actions for players. We're currently exploring ways to improve it, so thank you very much for the ideas! I'm definitely going to
stealadd these suggestions to our notepad file of changes, haha.I wasn't sure about the trial and error nature of the gameplay at first but by the last level I was absolutely hooked! I reallly, really like this concept, seeing your route to the end slowly come together was really satsifying!
I hope you've got plans to expand on this after the jam as I really want more levels! :D
Great game, good work!
Edit: Meant to say I love the art style and music as well, really works well with the theme of the game!
Awesome! That's real good to hear that you enjoyed the gameplay loop. Thank you for feedback! And yes, we're totally gonna work on this once the jam is over (maybe even develop it into a commercial release, who knows!). And we've got a ton more levels on the way; our level designers think they've got enough ideas for about 50 more!
Excellent, will keeping an eye out for sure! :D
Really interesting concept with well executed mechanics. I also like the visuals a lot, very good job!
Thank you very much! We really appreciate the kind words.
This is great! I really liked how you managed to even make a world map. My only complaint is that the music gets a bit annoying after a while.
Sorry to hear that! When we were choosing music, we had it narrowed down to two options: one fit the overall theme real nicely but was on the shorter side, and the other was a couple minutes long but a bit too high-tempo for our liking. I'm sure you can guess which one we picked, haha. But thank you for the feedback! Composing original music is something we're absolutely going to consider while working on a post-jam release.
Nice job!!! but im finish all the levels and I dont know If I win?
Hey, thanks! Ah, yeah, there's nothing at the end right now, sorry about that! We definitely were working on a win screen, but we couldn't find a good way to implement it without affecting players who wanted to replay certain levels.
Nice well polish game. Good ideas and mechanics.
Thank you very much! And thanks for leaving a comment, the team loves hearing from players, haha.
This was a lot of fun. I really liked the progression of difficulty, and it took me a while to solve the final level, which was great.
That's so great to hear! Thanks for giving the game a play!
Looks and feels great to play! I love the art and the music (even if the music is premade). All the levels had a good level of difficulty and built on the previous. I was a bit confused after I finished what I think is the last one, since there was no end screen and I expected the building at the end to be a final level. Also, there was one spike block in the second-to-last level that exists but didn't show up, so I died there and couldn't figure out why immediately, until I realized I couldn't place a block there.
Oh no! We're sorry about that. Unfortunately there isn't any sort of fanfare for completing the game right now, but we're definitely going to address that in our post-jam release! Argh, that invisible spike! That little guy's caused so much trouble... Thank you for the feedback though, it's always appreciated!
This game had top notch art style, presentation, and especially level design.The single nitpick I had with the game was that a "jump command" on the last level was hard to see, but overall this game had me enthralled to the end!
Thanks for the kind words! Ah, yeah, that one seems to be a recurring issue. Apologies! I'll go and update the game page to include it in our bugs section. Appreciate the feedback.
Art style and presentation is incredible. Great job.
Aw, thank you! Much appreciated.
how did you make such a great game in two days ?
We couldn't have done it without our great team! Thank you very much for thinking of the game so highly, it's much appreciated.
Great take on the theme! The difficulty of most of the levels was spot on, except for level 3 and the last level (probably #10). The solution to #3 is shown in the trailer, so I was able to beat that level. Maybe you could add a tutorial in the game, but that's all the remarks I have.
Ah, shoot. We're sorry about some of levels being a bit off, difficulty-wise. There was definitely a lot of shuffling the levels around during development, and there was always the possibility we could've ordered them better. Thanks for the feedback!
Really interesting puzzle/platformer game :) only last one took a bit but it wasn't frustrating. pretty polished and visually interesting. after the last level i was a bit confused if i finished the game or i was missing something, but other than that the game is pretty cool. well done! :D
Aw, thank you for the kind words. Sorry there wasn't any feedback for completing the game! That was something we originally planned for, but it got cut during the last couple of hours in the jam.
Such a fun puzzle game! Really liked it. I thought maybe having trails for where the skeleton was last might be interesting, a bit like in Mario Maker? And there is a level where there's a sneaky jump at the very end, it appeared off the staff for me... I really liked how clear the art was, and the music chosen was really good to keep me in the puzzle-solving trance. On top of that, the main mechanic is a strong one and an interesting take on the theme, and the levels are really well designed. Great job!
Oh man, that's an interesting idea! I'm totally gonna
stealadd that to our notepad file of potential changes for our post-jam release, haha! And apologies for that jump, we didn't quite have enough time to make the action bar scroll if there were commands off-screen. Real glad you enjoyed the game regardless, thank you very much!Oh wow, the game felt so cohesive that I didn't realize it was made by a team; great teamwork!