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GMTK Game Jam 2021

Hosted by Game Maker's Toolkit · #gmtkjam

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A jam submission

Telestick ManportView game page

A puzzle platformer game about portals. Made for GMTK Game Jam 2021.

Submitted by yanb — 1 hour, 54 minutes before the deadline

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Results

Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Fun	#929	3.347	3.667
Overall	#1151	3.367	3.689
Presentation	#1375	3.347	3.667
Originality	#1402	3.408	3.733

Ranked from 15 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?
The portals in the game can be joined together (or not)

Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?

Yes

We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam

Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?

Yes

We created the vast majority of the music during the game jam

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Comments

Mystical_PigeonSubmitted2 years ago

Glitchy, but I loved it. With some cleanup, polish, and more levels this would be absolutely amazing. The physics of moving portals definitely needs to be reworked, it was just so slow cause the character would get bumped away. And the duplication mechanic was tricky cause too many clones was causing a loop and then I'd arbitrarily lose the level.

10/10

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yanbDeveloper2 years ago(+1)

Thank you very much!

WahooneySubmitted2 years ago

Cool entry. The doubling is pretty smart, and I like the visual style.

The physics can get a bit janky at times, I’ve knocked portals through floors and had teleportations that didn’t launch me out completely so it just goes in a loop.

That issue aside there’s a seller in here.

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yanbDeveloper2 years ago(+1)

Thanks! I think the problems with physics are because the game is running too fast or too slow.

theoratkinSubmitted2 years ago

Awesome art style! Cool and challenging levels, maybe even a bit too much, haha, I got stuck on C+. I think it’s a good idea to include the .pck file with each executable next time, I’m sure Itch.io has enough space on its servers. ;-)

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chtulhuistSubmitted2 years ago

Fun little platformer) The only problem - a 3-clones limit, that became absolutely infuriating on c+) Maybe deleting clones would be better mechanic, than just resetting)

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Chained by Glory

JD2895Submitted2 years ago

I was able to finish the whole game and really enjoyed it! The other comments had me worried, but it all really was possible! (though I think I might have 'cheated' for B+, i just jumped over the teleporter completely haha. And yeah it seemed like there was a limit of 3 clones? I don't know if that was intended or not?
But apart form that, this was a great game! I loved that you let the player just infinitely get smaller!!! I swear I got Antman-quantum-level small at one point ahahaha. And the clones were really fun! I enjoyed some of the later level design too! Very tricky!
The music, art and animation was great too! Good job!!!

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JD2895Submitted2 years ago

Oh! And for anyone else playing, I don't know if you have to, but I downloaded all 3 of the linked files for the game to work!

yanbDeveloper2 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

Thank you! Yes, the 3-clone limit was intended, because the clones could multiply too much and lag if you don't stop it early. I also thought about deleting clones if there are too much of them, but, sadly, I don't know how to decide what clone to delete.

GameJunkSubmitted2 years ago

it doesn't want to launch. :(
getting the following error: "couldn'tload project data at path"

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theoratkinSubmitted2 years ago

You need to download the .pck file and place it alongside the executable.

KRis67Submitted2 years ago

It was pretty good. The final 4 levels (except the final one) were brutally hard, though. The mechanic where you become 2 when coming out of 2 teleporters was fun, but when you go through again, the game resets, thinking that's too much clones. That caused a lot of frustration in the last actual level, and it took me at least 20 tries to beat it. Also, you couldn't decide if you wanted to name it Telestick Portman or Telestick Manport? 6/10

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yanbDeveloper2 years ago

There was also a level that had different colors of portals: like the blue ones teleport you into the other blues, green ones into the other greens, and so on, but I didn't post it because it was the only one level like that; also I tried making changing colors (connecting and disconnecting) portals, but I hadn't enough time for it.

ragirSubmitted2 years ago

I couldn't beat the later levels, starting from B+ (I think). Good thing you can still click on the level tiles and play later levels, but those were also kinda buggy TBH - multiple teleporters were spawning hordes of clones and the game decided arbitrarily that that is too much - I got the one you need to stack 2 of you, but the next one was impossible to me.

Other that that - awesome work, cool mechanics and also looks good!

Submitted

Blinding Lights

yanbDeveloper2 years ago(+1)

Thanks! Sorry, I made those levels in the very end of the jam, so they weren't fully done.