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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #156 | 4.005 | 4.005 |
| Presentation | #235 | 4.178 | 4.178 |
| Originality | #255 | 4.027 | 4.027 |
| Fun | #261 | 3.808 | 3.808 |
Ranked from 73 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 bow Aquila uses is joined to the arrow it shoots.
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?
No
We used pre-existing audio
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Comments
Nice idea and a lot of fun! If you're going to update it: the falling rocks for the eye boss could be a little more obvious, and I ran into a bug where sometimes when resetting, it wouldn't properly reset my health bar (or properly reset the number of hits the boss had taken).
I really loved the dual purpose design of the bow and arrow, very inventive way of joining two game mechanics together!! Found the traversal and swinging and combat all very fun - would have been nice to have a few more juicy sound effects or hitflash or screenshake when doing things like hitting walls with the bow, but I really liked this! I enjoyed the open-ended feeling design of this. Great work :D
Thank you so much! We are glad you enjoyed the mechanics, we will make sure to add extra J U I C E in a upcoming update! :)
Neat game! The swing mechanic felt pretty good, although it did take some time to figure out how to properly use it.
The puzzles were a bit lacking in my opinion, but the swinging was more than enough.
I think this is a great submission!
Thank you very much! Also yes, we kind of forgot to add the way to get momentum in the actual game tutorial but we hope it didn't cause you too much trouble! :)
Loved this mechanic and it was presented very nicely too! My one complaint is that if you missed in the boss fight I think you were boned as you couldn't jump to the roof the get your bow back. That's literally it though. Great job!
We are so glad your enjoyed! And you are not wrong with the boss room haha, we where throwing that room together in the last 10 minutes! :)
I really enjoyed this game. It was like a slower version of tower fall and I loved that game. Great job!
We're glad you enjoyed it! Definitely going to check out tower fall now!
This is really cool! A nice mechanic, explored pretty well.
I could totally see this becoming a pretty unique metroidvania, with new abilities with the bow opening new paths!
I think the combat and platforming felt a little floaty, which is a shame given how cool the slow-mo when you aim a shot is. But, it didn't feel too bad, and the swinging on the rope felt great.
Great job, keep going with it!
We're super glad you enjoyed out game! Also speaking of "keep going with it!" we are actually thinking of working on this concept for the next few months to hopefully have a steam release! Thanks for the feedback :)
Really impressed by the whole package - feels like a complete game with a realized mechanic. The grapple swing physics feel great.
One critique/suggestion is that the tutorialization/controls are best learned with a bit of experimentation to get the feel of the game. Could be more streamlined with early targets/environmental hints to shoot at similar to the first R-click tutorial throughout the early sections of the game (for example could help at the first cliff jump be less vague).
Game was stylistically amazing and easy to understand. I loved the attention to detail, especially in the grapple physics. I never found myself getting confused by the control scheme and it was an allaround fun time.
Only criticism I have is the propensity to accidentally yeet the bow off the screen, only to be murdered by a skeleton as soon as you attempts to retrieve it. If the bow bonced off the edge of the screen transitions instead of going to the next screen, that wouldn't be a problem.
Great game, would love to see more.
Supper happy you found our game enjoyable! Also that is a great idea on how to fix the bow as we do see how it can be problematic haha! :)
Absolutely superb, a bit buggy but amazing still!
Thank you very much! :)
In the beginning, I thought "what the hell, why did I lose my bow? what an annoying bug ?!" But then....! This is awesome! Played it for a while. It was fun)
Thank you for playing and we are glad you enjoyed! Now let me show you a real bug haha!
This was patched thankfully.
I mean this, this is the best entry I've played so far. The visuals, polish, the very satisfying physics, its perfect. And of course, cute dog :D
Wow we appreciate that a lot! Also yes d o g g o
Very original! I liked the platforming possibilities opened up by grabbing onto the bow after shooting.
Nice game i really like the mechanic,and i like that you stop the player when aiming at mid air
Incredible! Super smart concept, great execution and very complete game. Great job!
That game was so so good in so so many ways. I loved the graphics, but my favorite part of the game was the feeling of grappling and shooting, and the little details to add to that like particles, camera shaking, and zooming in during bullet-time. There was also a sense of resource management because you have to shoot an enemy close to you so you can pick up the bow and shoot an enemy that was farther away by the time he gets to you. Also, the menu screen showed me right away that I have to use the mouse and that the core mechanics are centered on physics and the bow without having to tell me anything about that.
Love this game. Well done!
The cliff part is little confusing. I thought I should use the wall on the right to swing but not. Sometimes I accidentally shot the arrow out of the camera area (or on the spike) and was unable to get it back. Then I had to restart it.
We're glad you enjoyed the game! We agree that losing the bow is a common problem in the game so to combat this in coming updates we hope to add a recall for when your bow is lost / stuck. Hope you still enjoyed your playthrough! :)
Very cool game! Amazing!
Thank you!
I really like this game! The art is great and it feels super polished! This is one of my favorite games I've played so far this jam! Amazing work overall!
Thank you so much!
Looks beautiful and has a good core idea, feels polished.
It was a bit strange, that enemies did not recover after loading the checkpoint, I basically killed the boss by shooting it once, then dying. xd
We're glad you liked it! Also yes the boss is a little bit glitchy as we where adding it in the last 5 minutes haha
I guess it turned out to be pretty good then. :p
amazing, unique and fun. Amazing work!
We appreciate it!